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Source: Cincinnati Daily Gazette - Ohio
Dated: November 3, 1881
DIED.
THROOP - On Monday afternoon, October 31, Everett S. Throop, 45 years of age.
     Funeral Services at his late residence, No. 353 West Fourth street, on Thursday afternoon, November 3, at 2 o'clock.  Burial private.
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MR. INGALLS PREDECESSOR.
Death of Mr. Jonathan Chapman, of Boston, Mass.
From the Boston Advertiser, Oct. 31.
     Jonathan Chapman (H. U., 1856), son of the former Mayor of Boston of that name, died at Brookline, Mass., October 28.  His mother, Lucinda Dwight Chapman, is of the well known Dwight family of Springfield, Mass.  He was born in Boston March 11, 1836, was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School in part, and chiefly at Phillips Academy, Exeter, and graduated at Harvard in 1856, where his father had graduated in 1825.  In 1862, while in the business house of J. C. Howe & Co., in Philadelphia, he was appointed Acting Assistant Paymaster in the United States Navy, and served as such until March, 1865.  He then settled in Cincinnati, where he was Treasurer of the White Star Valley Railroad of Indiana until 1870, when he became connected as clerk with the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette Railroad, and so remained until his last illness.  He married, November 5, 1867, Miss Ellen Irvin, of Campbell County, Ky., who, with a son ten years of age, survive him.  His honored mother, residing at Brookline, Mass., also survives him.  Mr. Chapman had been very ill for over a year with an abscession the walls of his chest, and was removed last May from Cincinnati to Brookline in the hope of his improvement.  His death will be mourned by a large circle of friends, both in Cincinnati and Boston, and with especial sadness by his Cambridge classmates.  His funeral takes place at Mount Auburn Chapel at noon today (Monday).
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PARRICIDE
CONFESSED BY A DRUNKEN SON IN NEW YORK,
Whose Story the Police are Not Inclined to Believe
A Tragedy That Wound Up a Long Course of Wholesale Dissipation by a Drunken Family - A Father's Death During a Quarrel with His Son Over the Getting of Means for Drink.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette,
     NEW YORK, Nov. 2 - The presence of the Coroner at 126 Monroe street was demanded this afternoon by the police of the Seventh Precinct, to hold an inquest on Francis Weiligman, aged fifty-eight, a tailor, who the brief announcement sent by the police said, "had been killed by his son Henry this afternoon."
     Henry Weiligman was a prisoner at Madison Street Station, self-accused of the murder, and, despite his confession and acknowledged bad character, there is some doubt as to the correctness of the statement, especially as the young man is in a state closely bordering on delirium tremens.
     The Weiligman family consisted of four persons, father, mother, and two sons, of whom one, the only sober member of the family, is employed in a Division street pawn shop.  The other three are in a state of constant intoxication.  Henry, the youngest son, twenty-three years old, has been arrested and sent to Blackwell's Island more than once for theft and drunkenness.  The father at one time had been a cutter in the employ of  Brooks Bros., but was ruined by drink.  His wife also drank.  The family is said to be of Danish descent.  But the name suggests German nationality.  Weiligman found employment in a Brooklyn clothing store of late, when not drunk, bur for more than a week had not been at work.
     Monday the family were ordered to leave their rooms on the second floor of the five story tenement house at No. 126 Monroe street, as they had not paid the rent.  The Weiligmans began to move their scanty effects but finding the labor too burdensome, Mrs. Weiligman on Tuesday sent for a junkman, and sold him all the belongings for $10.  With his sum she went away to call upon some friends up town.  The tailor and youngest son, finding themselves alone, and without means of obtaining more run, quarreled all day.  That night they slept on the bare boards of the room, from which the junkman had removed all the furniture.
     This morning Henry Weiligman was dispatched to Brooklyn to collect $3 by the tailor.  He returned empty handed, and the quarrelling was renewed.  No sound of a struggle was heard, but at 2 o'clock Mrs. Daly, who lived on the first floor, was accosted by Henry Weiligman, who was walking leisurely down stairs, who remarked as he passed her, "I have just killed my father."  The woman in consternation, sent for the janitor, Mr. Brady, who ran into the tailor's room and found him dead on the floor, with a cloth wrapped around his neck.  Starting after the son he overtook him at the corner of the next street, and asked him where he was going.  "To the police station," answered the young man.  "I have killed my father.  I strangled him with a string."
     The two went together to the station, where the young man repeated his statements.  He said he wanted money which his father could not or would not give him, and in the quarrel that followed he strangled his father with a rope.
     The young man was taken to the Essex Market Court and committed by Justice Flammer to await examination and the Coroner's inquest.  In court he was seized with an illness that resembled the early stages of delirium tremens.
   The police do not believe that Weiligman killed his father.  There was no rope around the tailor's neck, and no mark of one or any evidence of a struggle.  The old man had had a stroke of paralysis, and it is not improbable that in the quarrel with his son he had a fresh attack and died.  The hallucination of the son would be easily account for by his condition.
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DIED OF LOCKJAW.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.
CAMDEN, Nov. 2 - Eddie,  a nine year old son of Mr. William Pearson, living above town, hurt his hand while cracking nuts, and died from the effects of lockjaw that set in soon after.  His remains will be interred in Fairmount Cemetery to-day.