Friday, August 8, 2008

His Body Found in a Sewer.

New York, 1895

Joseph Silioni, an Italian boy 9 years old, who lived at Long Island City, was found dead in a sewer that runs under that street Monday evening. He had been missing since Saturday. He is thought to have fallen into the sewer and been drowned.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 14, 1895, p. 1.

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