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Brooklyn Today
Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 309th day of the year.
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ON THIS DAY in 1910, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Fired at Face in Window; Blood Traces in Yard.” The article focused on an engineer shooting a burglar near his McDougal Street home.
“Charles Ortman, an engineer, last night shot a burglar who was in the act of breaking into his home at 274 McDougal Street,” the Eagle reported. “The shooting was witnessed by his 12-year-old son, Charles, and by his wife, who had followed him out to the dining room where the thief’s face had appeared pressed close to the window pane.”