NEWS..1878
Brooklyn Union Argus

2 January 1878
EASTERN DISTRICT

LEAD PIPE STEALING
A number of property-owners have suffered considerable loss lately by
thieves breaking into their unoccupied houses and cutting away lead pipes
and gas fixtures without regard to resulting damage. Two persons alled to
have in this way done great damage to a house in Livingston street were
arrested a day or two ago by the police of the Tenth Precinct, and yesterday
afternoon Officer McCAFFREY, of the Thirteenth Precinct, captured two
fellows in the act of leaving the vacant house No. 54 Taylor street with
lead pipe to the value of $20 in their possession. The prisoners gave their
names as John McNALLY, aged eighteen, of Grand avenue, near Myrtle avenue,
and James HUNIGAN, aged twenty, of No. 37 Taylor street. The owner of the
premises, August C. HOCKEMYER, of No. 302 1/2 Livingston street, says he has
sustained $75 lose in the destruction of property.