Jaws Broken at a Beer Table

New York, 1895

Louis Merkenthaler, of College Point, was seriously injured in a fight that occurred in Turn Hall Sunday night. He was sitting at a table drinking beer when a brewer entered and without saying a word drew a piece of iron from his pocket and struck Merkenthaler in the head. His jaw bone was broken and he was badly cut about the head.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 15, 1895, p. 2.