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05 July 2010

COOGAN story appearing in "New York Times" [NY], [15-30] NOV 1876:


Thomas Coogan was placed on trial yesterday in the Hudson County
Court of Quarter Sessions on a charge of assault and battery on
William Auspeck.  In April last, Auspeck, who is white, married
a colored woman and took up his residence in First street, Jersey
City, in a neighborhood thickly populated by white people.  The
neighbors objected to the presence of Auspeck and his dusky bride,
and made the place too hot to hold them.  On one occasion, 
particularly, they assaulted and beat him, and Coogan was 
arrested, charged with being the leader of his assailants.  The
Jury acquitted the prisoner.

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