‘Pretty Little Mrs Cassell Honorably Discharged’: what happened next in Hoboken, 1893
Yesterday I posted about Agnes Mills Kosel’s arrest on her wedding day, as reported in the 8 March, 1893 New York Herald. The incident was covered in more than one paper, and the next day this follow-up appeared in New Jersey’s Evening Journal. Note the Anglicized spelling here of Agnes’s married surname, which was actually Kosel; I’m inclined to wonder whether this was deliberate, as other newspapers – less local to the events – got it right. Read more


