Essex County, NJ
Crime News
Newark, N.J., Dec 11 (1811)
At a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, held the two last weeks at Newton, in and for the county of Suffex, the following persons were convicted under the late act of Assembly of receiving and having in possession a number of counterfeit bank notes of the Manhattan Bank knowing the said notes to be false and counterfeit, with an intent to order and pass the same, to defraud the said Manhattan Bank, viz - John Cox, Esq., Samuel Potter, Samuel Wade, Crowe Adams, William Butler. Cox was sentenced to 5 years solitary confinement in the state prison at hard labor; Potter to 3 years and Wade to 2 years. Butler was sentenced to 5 months confinement in the county jail; and Adams to pay a fine of seven hundred dollars. We understand that the difference in the punishments inflicted, arose from a difference in the degrees of turpitude manifest in the conduct of the respective persons convicted. [January 9, 1811, The Centinel, Gettysburg, PA - Submitted by Nancy Piper]
January 8, 1882? - Irvington is excited over the alleged kidnapping of two sons of John Connolly, aged respectfully nine and twelve years. The two boys were playing in the street with a comrade, when two men seized the three, threw them in a wagon, and drove off. The third boy, Harry Osborne, leaped from the wagon opposite the Grand Opera House, in Newark, and escaped. Detectives have been investigating the case since Wednesday, but without success. [Submitted by Shauna Williams]
March 1, 1882 - Judge Titsworth, counsel for the condemned murderer, Martin, of Newark, made a last effort on Monday with the Governor for a reprieve. The entire Essex county delegation to the Legislature accompanied him. They had previously signed a petition to change the sentence to imprisonment for life. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]
March 1, 1882 - The arrangements for the erection of the gallows for the hanging of Robert Martin, at Newark, Thursday, have been completed. It will be the same gallows on which Kinkowski was hanged in Hudson county last January, and on which Meierhoeffer and Lammens were hanged, and will be erected in the eastern hall of the jail tonight. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]
August 23, 1882 - An elderly woman, almost entirely nude, was found dead in the meadows, near Newark, Sunday. The cause is involved in mystery. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]
January 24, 1883 - A woman was found burned to a crisp in her apartments in a Newark, NJ, tenement. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]
January 13 1892 - No Hope for Mrs. Quackenbush
Newark, Jan. 12-Mrs. Charles S. Quackenbush, who was shot by her husband just before he took his own life, is reported slightly better, but the doctors entertain little hope of recovery. The body of Quackenbush was shipped to Albany. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]
May 4, 1892 - Fatally Stabbed and Clubbed
Newark, May 3-During an altercation in a saloon at the corner of River street and Pennsylvania avenue, Frank Vincent, an Italian, fatally stabbed Harry Shaw. Office Wriggins endeavored to arrest Vincent, when the latter attempted to stab him also. Wriggins fractured the Italian’s skull by a powerful blow with his club. The injured men will die. [The Hopewell Herald - submitted by Shauna Williams]
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