August 12, ‘Bissert Gets 5 ½ Years With a Fine of $1,000’
Good morning, Brooklyn. Today is the 224th day of the year.
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ON THIS DAY in 1901, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Bissert Gets 5 ½ Years With a Fine of $1,000.” The article focuses on George Bissert, a Manhattan “wardman” at the time, being sentenced to jail time after being convicted earlier of receiving bribes. “‘Bissert, the crime of which you have been convicted is one of the most heinous which can be committed against society,’” the judge said in the Eagle article. “‘A sense of humiliation must be felt by the people of the city of New York at the spectacle of one of their police officers being convicted of receiving bribes… .’”