Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Deaths from Pneumonia

New York, 1895

Leander Anderson died Friday at Ocean Side, near Rockville Center, of pneumonia. Three deaths have occurred in the family, the mother and two sons being the victims. The peculiar feature of the case is that all three died of pneumonia, and within a week of each other.


A Youth Beats His Mother

Charles Gerrity, of Patchogue, made a brutal attack on his aged mother Friday afternoon, beating her and throwing her out of the house. Constable Merrich tried to arrest him, but he escaped and took to the woods.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 19, 1895, p. 1.

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