Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Married to Escape the Jail.

New York, 1895

John Kaissen, a Bohemian, who has been wanted at Islip for some time to answer to the charge of breach of promise preferred against him by Mary Stranarce, a Bohemian lass, was arrested and brought before Justice Griffith on Saturday. The couple left the court room man and wife.


Sold to Satisfy Judgments.

The property of the Amityville agricultural fair and driving park association was sold by Sheriff O'Brien to satisfy judgments amounting to about $4,200. There was only one bidder, S. P. Hildreth, who secured the property for $525. He acted in behalf of a syndicate.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 28, 1895, p. 1.

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