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03 October 2011

COOGAN story 

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appearing in "Trenton State Gazette" [NJ], 01 NOV 1877:

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A man named Coogan has been arrested at the Episcopal Hospital,
Philadelphia, on suspicion of being the burglar who was shot on the
night of the 18th instant by Mr. Joseph Potts, of Three [Tons], near
Florence.  Coogan has several gunshot wounds in the head.  He was
given in charge of a Burlington constable and conveyed to the County
Jail.

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appearing in "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" [NY], 24 NOV 1877:

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James Oliver Coogan, a burglar, who has just died [NOTE - this later
turned out to be incorrect!] in Bordentown, N.J., made a confession 
that he was on of a party of five men who attempted to murder and 
rob Joseph Potts, a deaf and dumb man, living three miles from that 
place.  Coogan said that one of the party had been instantly killed 
by a shot from Potts, and buried in the woods near by.  He named a 
person in Burlington, who had been one of the party, and the police 
at once arrested the man, who proved to be William Brotherton, a 
truck driver.  The grave of the dead burglar is being searched for.

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