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Case File: 2840 Kensington Ave arson (1888)
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SHOOTING AND STEALING.
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Arson, Malicious Mischief and Other
Charges of Crime
Patrick Madden, who is charged with wounding Edward Donnelly, was committed to prison by Magistrate Baird yesterday to await results. Madden claims now to have fired the shot in self defense. He says Donnelly called to see his wife, who is Madden’s cousin, and had taken refuge with his parents, and not finding her threatened to kill him. He ran away, and being pursued, fired at Donnelly, who is now lying in a precarious condition in the German Hospital.
Magistrate Smith had before him yesterday Margaret Hopkins, charged with setting a fire to her house, No. 2840 Kensington avenue, immediately after which she skipped to Camden. On $30 worth of furniture, as Detective Geyer showed, Margaret had an insurance of $600, and pans containing rags saturated with coal oil were found in the ruins of her burned dwelling. She was committed to answer the charge of arson.
Edward Foley, a pickpocket, was held in $800 yesterday by Magistrate Smith on the charge of trying to pick a lady’s pocket in a street car. Mr. H. Pennington, who happened to be sitting opposite, observed his maneuvers and had him arrested. Foley told the magistrate he would talk to him like a brother, but Magistrate Smith peremptorily denied the relationship and the prisoner then pleaded softening of the brain, but failed to soften the ‘squire’s heart and was carted off in a van.
Frank Keim and William Evans were bound over on a charge of malicious mischief in hurling a stone through a window of Madden’s saloon, Seventh and Market streets, because the bar-tender, seeing that they had already too much, refused them any more.
Eulogio Fernandez, No. 433 Vine street, was held yesterday for a further hearing by Magistrate Smith, charged with robbing the room of A. F. Alterhouse, No. 933 Race street, and stealing an overcoat at the Academy of Fine Arts on Christmas day.
