The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . sion, the destruction of the Harper building onFranklin Square, and the burning of the Tribunebuilding on Printing House Square. The destructionof the World building (on the site of the presentPotter building), and the shocking loss of life there,are well remembered. Scores of murders have happened in this neigh-borhood. We have mentioned a homicide amonggentlemen, the Richardson and MacFarland murder,which may serve to represent one extreme; and theother may be exhibited bj the
The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . sion, the destruction of the Harper building onFranklin Square, and the burning of the Tribunebuilding on Printing House Square. The destructionof the World building (on the site of the presentPotter building), and the shocking loss of life there,are well remembered. Scores of murders have happened in this neigh-borhood. We have mentioned a homicide amonggentlemen, the Richardson and MacFarland murder,which may serve to represent one extreme; and theother may be exhibited bj the butchery of the poorold hag Shakespeare, and the conviction thereforof the witless foreigner Frenclw, who, though be-lieved by many to be innocent, was expressed toSing Sing on a life sentence, which vindicated thereputation of our detectives, who had been tauntingScotland Yard with its failure to catch Jack theRipper. In a brutal murder occurred in alow resort on Center Street opposite the victim was stabbed seventeen times. There wasan element of pathos in the case, which eventually 364 Tl!11.
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