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16 May 2014

COOGAN story 

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appearing in "Brooklyn Eagle" (22 FEB 1898):

YOUNG COOGAN ALLEGES CRUELTY AGAINST HIS GUARDIAN

Edward Coogan, 9 years old, a homeless boy, was taken to the
Greenpoint police station last night by a citizen who found him
wandering in Manhattan, near Greenpoint avenue.  The boy, who
was poorly clad, was shivering from cold and complained of an
injury to his left foot.  At the stationhouse he informed the
sergeant that he had been brutally beaten by a woman who had
been acting as his guardian and with whom he had lived since the
death of his parents, some years ago and that the injury to his
foot had been caused by a blow from a broom stick.  The police
turned over the case to Agent Meyer of the Society for the 
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, who will investigate and
make a report to Magistrate Lemon in the Ewen Street Police
Court to-morrow.

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