Shot Himself After a Spree.

New York, 1895

Fred Saxton, a well-known bay captain of Babylon, committed suicide Sunday evening by shooting himself with a rifle. The bullet passed through his head and he died instantly. He had been drinking heavily. Saxton was 35 years of age and leaves a widow and several children.


Found in the Lake.

The body of John Wisocke, a Polish laborer, employed by the National starch company of Glen Cove, and supposed to have been accidentally drowned in the lake, was recovered Monday. The man had been missing since Saturday.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 31, 1895, p. 1.