Sept. 19, birthdays for Jimmy Fallon, Trisha Yearwood, Columbus Short
Brooklyn Today
Good morning, Brooklyn. Today is the 262nd day of the year.
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ON THIS DAY in 1910, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Plucky Woman Traps Two Burglar Suspects.” The article focused on a Brooklyn woman who spotted robbers from her window and plotted to capture them.
“It was the pluck of a woman — Mrs. Marguerita Brachold of 893 Willoughby Ave. — that brought about the capture of two alleged burglars early this morning after a sensational chase, in which one of the men got a pistol bullet in his thigh that may yet be the death of him,” the Eagle reported.