D. Phillips - NY-BAHA26
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Title
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D. Phillips - NY-BAHA26
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Identifier
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NY-BAHA26
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
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Source
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Long Island farmer, and Queens County advertiser. (Jamaica [N.Y.]) 1826-1862
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Date
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July 18, 1838
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Trade
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Barber
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Gender
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Male
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Home
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72 Centre Street
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Home Location
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New York, New York
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Item Type
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Article
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Notes
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Pg. 3, Journeyman Barber
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Transcription
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From the [N.Y.] Commercial Advertiser of Monday.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
A colored man named D. Philips, a jour-neyman barber, residing at 72 Centre st. next door to the corner of Walker street, cut his wife’s throat with a razor, at about 3 o’clock this morning, in such a manner as to cause her instantaneous death.
He next attempted to make away with his child, but his mother-in-law, who heard the noise occasioned by the commission of the homicide, came into the room, rescued the infant from the murderer’s grasp, and es-caped with it to a place of safety.
Finding himself foiled in his second dia-bolical attempt, the murderer completed the catalogue of his crimes by cutting his own throat. He was removed to the hospital, where he died shortly afterward.
