. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . Theyvevo the rendezvous dI* many a timdcr assignation, and many a love matchvas arranged whue the family pail or kettle was being replenished from liespring. A tragedy which for a long time tilled old New Yorkers with unmixed with horror, was enacted at one tit those wells, the remembrance>f which still lingers in many an old New Sork family. Juliana K\more Sands,i beautiful and accomplished young girl, lived with her uncle on the southwest•orner of (ireenwich and
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . Theyvevo the rendezvous dI* many a timdcr assignation, and many a love matchvas arranged whue the family pail or kettle was being replenished from liespring. A tragedy which for a long time tilled old New Yorkers with unmixed with horror, was enacted at one tit those wells, the remembrance>f which still lingers in many an old New Sork family. Juliana K\more Sands,i beautiful and accomplished young girl, lived with her uncle on the southwest•orner of (ireenwich and old Provost (m>w Franklin) St reel 9. Her youth ahd>eauty. and the mysterious nature of her disappearance, had combined to giveo her fate a thrilling, romantic interest. She was described by a neighboru a letter to the papers at the time of the sad occurrence as uniformly•hecrful and serene, and on tin; day previous to the murder was remarkably?jo. Her expectation of becoming a bride on the morrow was the natural cause>f her liveliness. Her temper was mild and t ranquil : her manners artless and. RESIDENCE OF MISS SAXDS.[Southwest corner of Greenwich and Franklin Streets.] tender; her conversation ever chaste and innocent. She was one of those vir-tuous characters against whom the tongue of slander never moves. Miss Sands left the house of her uncle on the evening of Sunday, December1799, to go sleigh-riding. Nothing more was heard of her until the after-noon of Thursday, the second of January. 1800, when her body was found in awell dug by the Manhattan Company. The well was located in Spring Streetnear Greene. A coroners jury rendered a verdict of wilful murder by someperson or persons as yet unknown. On the evening of her disappearanceshe, as her relatives had supposed, left the house with a young man named1-evi \\ eeks. to whom Miss Sands was engaged to be married. Suspicion atonce rested on him. He was arrested and brought to trial. His trial came onbefore the
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