Patrick Morrissey, NY, 1872 September 6

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~ Source? Grover Cleveland by Allan Nevins, page 61.
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| Morrissey, a Buffalo, Ne Ye, drunkard tempprarily out of
fuyids went to the SHB home of his aged mother in 1872 and
demanded that she give him money. ‘hen she refused, he
struck her to the floor and stabbed her to death with a
butcher knife that she had been using to slice bread,
Convicted of murder, he S hanged in the jail at

~ Buffale on September 6; ~ by Sheriff Grover Cleveland
who later became President of the United States,

~ Source+ Grover Cleveland by Allan Nevins > page 61.

BY THE -NeCK by August-Mencken; —Pages—.09-L3.

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Morrissey, a Buffalo, N. ¥., drunkard tempprarily out of
fupds went to the BHR home of his aged mother in 1872 and]
demanded that she give him money. ‘then she refused, he
struck her to the floor and stabbed her to death with a
butcher knife that she had been using to slice bread.
Convicted of mrder, he y.as hanged in the jail at
Buffalo on September 6, by Sheriff Grover Cleveland|
who later became President of the United States.

WOK by August-Menckens —Pages-109-113.
House, Publishers, 1, ¢

Source? Grover Cleveland by Allan Nevins, page 61.

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