Essex County, New Jersey Newspaper Items

Oct. 19, 1881 - Paulme Broos, a child, was whirled around a shaft and killed in Starrs & Co’s factory, Newark, NJ. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

January 8, 1882? - Irvington is excited over the alleged kidnapping of two sons of John Connolly, aged respectfully nine and twelve years. The two boys were playing in the street with a comrade, when two men seized the three, threw them in a wagon, and drove off. The third boy, Harry Osborne, leaped from the wagon opposite the Grand Opera House, in Newark, and escaped. Detectives have been investigating the case since Wednesday, but without success. [Submitted by Shauna Williams]

Jan. 15, 1882 - Coroner Reed, of Newark, began an inquest on Wednesday, in the case of Lena Fritz, a cook employed in Charles Maurer’s hotel at Montclair, who was burned to death in the destruction of the hotel by fire on January 19th. Two witnesses testified yesterday that just previous to the fire they heard cries of “murder” in the house. Maurer, who was arrested on Tuesday night, was present at the inquest. He was committed to jail pending the results. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

March 1, 1882 - William Leet, aged twelve years, employed in Crable & Co’s needle factory, on North Third Street, Newark, was working at the rollers Saturday morning passing a coil of wire through, when the wire broke and coiled around him, cutting him in two and killing him instantly. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

March 1, 1882 - Judge Titsworth, counsel for the condemned murderer, Martin, of Newark, made a last effort on Monday with the Governor for a reprieve. The entire Essex county delegation to the Legislature accompanied him. They had previously signed a petition to change the sentence to imprisonment for life. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

March 1, 1882 - The arrangements for the erection of the gallows for the hanging of Robert Martin, at Newark, Thursday, have been completed. It will be the same gallows on which Kinkowski was hanged in Hudson county last January, and on which Meierhoeffer and Lammens were hanged, and will be erected in the eastern hall of the jail tonight. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

March 8, 1882 - Conrad Treber was recently discharged from the Essex County Lunatic Asylum. While alone in his house, at Newark, last Thursday morning, he cut his throat with a pocket knife and ended his life. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

April 5, 1882 - Michael Nihil, a veteran of the late war, died at the Newark Soldiers’ Home, Tuesday week, from heart disease. He weighed 342 pounds. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

August 23, 1882 - An elderly woman, almost entirely nude, was found dead in the meadows, near Newark, Sunday. The cause is involved in mystery. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

January 24, 1883 - A woman was found burned to a crisp in her apartments in a Newark, NJ, tenement. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

February 7 1883 -- In Newark, NJ., on Saturday, a man, name unknown, saturated himself with benzene, set fire to it and was burned to death. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

May 30, 1889 --Death of a Presbyterian Divine.
Newark, N.J., May 24-The Rev. Dr. James T. Wilson is dead at No. 41 Spruce street, this city. He was for thirty-six years pastor of the South Park Presbyterian church, Newark, and was very successful in his ministry. He took an active interest in home and foreign missions and was wide and favorably known in the Presbyterian church throughout the country. The Rev. Dr. Wilson was 80 years of age. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

December 16, 1891 - Fell Down a Coal Schute
Newark, Dec. 11 - Abram Parks, of 98 Cutter street, was killed by a fall down a coal schute in Woodside. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

January 6, 1892 - Hydrophobia Killed Him
Newark, Jan. 4-Edward Ball, four years old, died of hydrophobia Sunday at his home in this city. The little fellow was badly bitten by a mastiff owned by Campbell Clark, a prominent citizen of this city, on Dec. 11. A younger brother of Ball was also bitten at the time and the worst result in his case is feared. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

January 6, 1892 - Death Ended Her Sufferings
Newark, Jan. 5-May Turner, a seven year old girl, died here after suffering terrible pain since Christmas. On that day half of a hickorynut lodged in her throat, which the surgeons could not extricate and which finally caused her death. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

January 13 1892 - No Hope for Mrs. Quackenbush
Newark, Jan. 12-Mrs. Charles S. Quackenbush, who was shot by her husband just before he took his own life, is reported slightly better, but the doctors entertain little hope of recovery. The body of Quackenbush was shipped to Albany. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

March 23, 1892 - Monday, March 21-James Parker, of Newark, was found on the street with his neck broken. Probably he fell on the ice. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

April 20, 1892 - She Took Paris Green
Newark, N.J., April 19 - Mrs. John Becker, of Newark, committed suicide by taking paris green because her husband passed too much of his time in a saloon kept by a pre----ing widow. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

Thursday, April 14-The body of the man found in the Passaic river at Newark has been identified as that of Charles Dolan, thirty-five, of Harrison, N.J. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

May 4, 1892 - Fatally Stabbed and Clubbed
Newark, May 3-During an altercation in a saloon at the corner of River street and Pennsylvania avenue, Frank Vincent, an Italian, fatally stabbed Harry Shaw. Office Wriggins endeavored to arrest Vincent, when the latter attempted to stab him also. Wriggins fractured the Italian’s skull by a powerful blow with his club. The injured men will die. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

July 13, 1892 - Died in His Cell
Newark, July 9 - John Kosta, aged fifty years, a prisoner in the Essex county jail, died in his cell of heart disease. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

July 13, 1892 - Drowned in Morris Canal
Newark, July 10 - Ano Morabo, a little boy of ten, was drowned in the Morris canal here while swimming. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

August 31, 1892
Tuesday, Aug. 30-Garret Fitzsimmons, of Newark, NJ, while smoking at an open window, fell on the ground and was killed. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

October 19, 1892 Rocky Hill -
Dr. D.H. Mount died at Newark on Saturday. The funeral services were held in Trinity church, this place, Tuesday morning, the interment at this cemetery. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

November 23, 1892 - Suicide While Is----
Newark, N.J., Nov. 23 - Demented Henry Becht hanged himself in the caller of his home here. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

February 9, 1893 - His Head Smashed in.
Newark, N.J., Feb. 8 - Henry E. Mooney, a well known expressman, was instantly killed on a Springfield avenue electric car. While stepping from the front platform his head struck one of the skeletonlike trolley poles on its sharp edge, cutting his throat, splitting his ear and crushing his skull. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

February 23, 1893 - Mrs. Frances Titus, relict of the late Enoch Titus, of Pennington, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Emma Davenport, at Newark, on Monday, the 13th inst., aged 86 years. The funeral services and interment took place in Pennington on Thursday. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

March 23, 1893 - Mrs. Clarence LEONARD was found ill with smallbox at 54 Spruce St., Newark yesterday.

[The Philadelphia Inquirer - submitted by Candi Horton]

May 18, 1893
May 17, 1893-George Springer, a mason, was instantly killed in Newark, NJ., by a live electric light wire. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

June 1, 1893 - Carrie Vogt’s Body Found
Newark, N.J., May 31-The body of 14 year old Carrie Vogt, who has been missing from her home since Saturday, was found in the Passaic river. When last seen alive the girl was detected in a Broad street store ordering goods to be sent to her neighbors in order to annoy them. It is supposed she drowned himself. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 24, 1902
In Almshouse; Heir to Wealth
Orange, N.J. Aug. 23, 1902
In the Orange Poor House lives George LAFFLER, a pauper cared for at the expense of the State. Carrying himself with stooped shoulders that deny his age, he is in many respects like numberless others equally unfortunates. The one reason however, why he is prominent at this time is the fact that he is the brother-in-law of Charles L. FAIR, who with his husband was killed in the automobile accident in France. LAFFLER's wife, who is dead, was Mrs. FAIR's sister. About four months ago he found it necessary to apply for support. When a reporter saw LAFFLER at the poor house to-day he admitted that he had been forsaken by his own flesh and blood, but said that he was not looking for sympathy. "I don't want my name in the papers, said he. Even if my relations were possessed of millions I would not expect them to help me." When asked whether he expected to participate in the division of Mrs. FAIR's estate he refused to answer. His Children are mentioned in Mrs. FAIR's will.
[Submitted by C. Horton.]

Engaged. Theodore M. Edison, of West Orange, N. J., son of Thomas A. Edison, famed inventor, to Miss Anna Maria Osterhout, of Cambridge, Mass. Her father, a Professor in the Botany Department of Harvard, precipitated wide discussions in 1918 by averring that food could be obtained from sunlight, air, water. Monday, Jul. 21, 1924

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