A man named Slavin keeps a liquor store at the corner of Bergen and Court streets, and in his absence generally commits the custody of the premises to his wife Bridget. On the 18th instant Mrs. Slavin was at her post and serving her customers to the best the house afforded. At about eight o'clock in the morning a man named Francis Connelly entered the store and asked for a glass of ale, and at the same time asked the proprietess to take one; this she did and a general conversation ensued. In a short time Connelly called for another and asked Mrs. Slavin to take one also. She refused and withdrew to the rear room; while there Connelly went around the counter and robbed the till of $3, and also succeeded in purloining a bottle of liquor. Mrs. Slavin rushed out and held him until help came, and the fellow was arrested. Justice Delmar sent him to the Penitentiary this morning for sixty days.
Brooklyn (New York) Daily Eagle, March 26, 1873.
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