Monday, May 26, 2008

Found Half Frozen in the Snow

New York, 1895

Mrs. John Casey, of Oyster Bay, was found half frozen in a snow bank near her house Wednesday night. The woman left her home about 8 o'clock upon an errand, She did not return by midnight and a searching party was organized. It is thought that her mind has become unbalanced.


Sheriff Norton's Son Hurt

While Sheriff Norton's son was riding horse-back through Glen Cove the horse slipped on the ice and fell. The boy was thrown under the horse and had one leg broken and a foot crushed.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 22, 1895, p. 1.

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