Brown / Fillmore / Fogarty / Herman / O’Roukyn / Sands / Sobetzer /
Stephany / Wight
Mr. Brown of New York, and forty ship carpenters,
have arrived at Buffalo, where they went to construct a new steam boat,
about to be built by the Lake Erie steam boat Company. She is to
be completed by the 10th of May next, and is to be of 294 tons burthen.
[Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) Page 4. January
23 1822. SRC 5.]
Ex-President Fillmore, who has been absent since
the death of his daughter, returned to his residence in Buffalo on
Thursday last, accompanied by his son. He has suffered extremely under
the affliction of his successive bereavements. First his wife, then his
only daughter, next his brother, taken from him in rapid succession,
seemed to destroy almost every bond of union in his family, and left him
in doubt about his future domestic arrangements; but he could feel
satisfied no where but at home, and he has returned with his son to his
house in Buffalo. [The New York Times. 23 August 1854.SRC1]
Sentence of Fogarty at Buffalo – On Saturday, in
the Special Term of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, at Buffalo, Justice
Ira Harris pronounced sentence upon Lawrence Fogarty for the murder of
John Brown. This act closed the labors of Judge Harris. In the course of
his remarks to the doomed man he said:
“It was an atrocious
murder – committed with a coolness of purpose, and a degree of
deliberation, rarely equaled in the annals of crime. When that
unoffending old man left the cars on his way to his residence, you saw
him, and, believing he had money, resolved to take his life and rob him.
And, as you went, you provided yourself with the weapons of death.
Unconscious of danger, and feeling, as every man has a right to feel,
that the invisible yet mighty arm of the law was sufficient for his
protection, the old man pursued his way, until he reached a spot
sufficiently remoter from observation, and then, with tiger-like
ferocity, you sprung upon him and struck him to the ground. Another blow
and the work of death was done. The spirit was sent, unwarned to the
eternal world. Oh, it was a deed of fiendish cruelty. For it you must
die, for it you deserve to die. The law demands the sacrifice. Your life
alone can make atonement for your crime. We should have you feel that
your condemnation is just. There is no one to blame but yourself. No man
ever had a fairer trial. You are a stranger and a foreigner, yet neither
wealth nor influence could have secured for you a better defence. We
would have you feel, also, that it is not the Court or the Jury that
condemn you. It is the law – that law which you so grievously violated –
that demands your life. We are but its humble ministers. And now, your
days are numbered, you must die. In all kindness of heart, we counsel
you - it is the last and best advice we can give you – to abandon
all hopes of escaping the doom that most certainly awaits you. In this
world, there is no mercy for you. Justice must have its way. But it is
delightful – in Christ there is mercy, even for a murderer. To that
mercy we commend you.”
The 26th day of August was named for
execution.
[The New York Times. 8 July 1853. SRC1]
While Silas Herman, a linesman, was on the
cross-arm of a telephone pole in Buffalo Thursday the pole broke off at
the curb throwing him to the ground and inflicting probably fatal
injuries. [Olean Times. Saturday, April 30, 1910 Olean, New York.
SRC1]
Petitions in bankruptcy were filed Thursday by Catherine O’Roukyn Lackawana general merchant, and Edward
Stephany of Rochester, a tinner and roofer. [Olean Times. Saturday,
April 30, 1910 Olean, New York. SRC1]
Jamestown
Four Are Injured, One Likely
Fatal, On Way to Dance
Jamestown Girl is Among Dead, Dying On Way to
Hospital After Machine Goes Into Ditch
Buffalo, N.Y., May 22 –
(I.N.S.) – Three persons are dead, one is dying and three others
suffering from severe burns as the result of an automobile accident in a
ditch eight miles outside Lockport on the Campbell Boulevard.
The
dead are: Kathleen Fairbanks, 20, of Jamestown, N.Y., living at the
Y.W.C.A., Kenmore, Melbourne Gooding, 23, of Lockport, and Wesley
Krinkle, 20, of Lockport.
The injured are: Blanche Sobetzer, 19 years
old, of Buffalo, who is in a critical condition from a skull fracture
and internal injuries, John Rouse, of Lockport, burned and bruised.
Edwin Sands, 21 years old, of Buffalo, burned on the face, head,
shoulders and arms, and Lyman H. Wight, 35 years old, of Buffalo, burned
on the hands and arms. All four are in the Lockport City
Hospital.
The machine, driven by Rouse, fell into a ditch while the
party was enroute from Buffalo to attend a dance at Olcott Beach. The
gasoline tank was punctured and the car caught fire immediately. The
three men who survived were burned dragging the others from the
car.
Gooding was killed instantly. Krinkle died while on the way to
the hospital and Miss Fairbanks lived only a short while after her
arrival at the Lockport institution.
[Olean Times, Saturday, May 22,
1926 Olean, New York. SRC1]
