A regular feature looking back at what was being printed more than 100 years ago in the Bristol Daily Courier. This week’s entry comes from the April 16, 1921 edition of the newspaper.
Officials Deny Brick Thrown At Cardinal
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A report circulated yesterday by Philadelphia newspapers to the effect that a stone had been hurled through the window of the special car bearing Cardinal Dougherty, as it passed through Bristol Thursday night, was emphatically denied today by railroad authorities and local police officials.
The story of Cardinal Dougherty’s trip from New York to Philadelphia was described at length in two Philadelphia papers, in which it was states in one that a stone was hurled through the window of the Cardinal’s car as it passed Bristol, while in the other newspaper it was stated that the stone was thrown through the window at a point about a mile below Bristol.
Local police authorities which had several officers stationed on the station platform on Thursday night had no report of any such incident occurring.
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Pennsylvania Railroad’s own police department which had met, all along the line from New York to Philadelphia emphatically denied the report and Mr. Ennis, head of the rail-road police of this district states that no such report was made to his department.
E. T. Winders, superintendent of Passenger Traffic of the New York division of the railroad., with office in Jersey City, today informed the Courier representative that a report of any such thing having occurred had not reached his office. Mr. Manders stated that if such an incident had occurred his office would have received a report of it.
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