Bergen County
Newspaper Stories

On the return of the sporting fraternity to New Jersey, 71 of them were arrested at the Hoboken ferry, and taken before Justices Whitley and Pope, who committed them all to Bergen jail. [Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 30, 1863 - C. Horton]

New York, Jan. 5 – Joseph Gibson, a well-known citizen of Bergen Point, N. J., married a prominent lady on Christmas day, 1883, and a few months later a middle-aged woman and a girl 20 appeared and claimed Gibson as husband and father. Gibson finally arranged for the support of wife No. 1 and a daughter, while he continued to live with wife No. 2. Early last week wife No. 1 died and was buried by him. Yesterday wife No. 2 reported to the police that Gibson had absconded to Scotland, taking with him the daughter and every dollar he could secure, leaving her penniless.

[Source: The Quincy Daily Journal; Jan 5, 1886; Page 1 - Transcribed by Debbie Gibson]

RESULT OF A QUARREL
Mrs. Ida Hock Poisons Both of Her Children and Herself.
BROOKLYN. N. Y., Jan.. 27.—Mrs. Ida Hock, forty years of age, who lived with her husband and two children, at Ridgewood, N. J., committed suicide today by swallowing a large quantity of paris green after administering the poison to the children, William, aged ten,, and Otto, aged eight years. The husband, who is employed as a salesman for a New York coffeehouse, left home this morning after quarreling with his wife, domestic difficulties between the couple having been of frequent occurrence. On his return home he found his wife dead and his two children suffering in agony from the poison the mother had given them. The children were taken to a hospital, but the attending physicians say they cannot recover. [Weekly Indiana State Journal January 29, 1896 - Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]