An Old Man in San Francisco Becomes Enraged at a Young Lady who Teased Him and Flings Her from a Fourth story Balcony. 

It is well known that young ladies and misses have an inordinate propensity to tease persons, especially those of the other sex. Sometimes they are made to pay dearly for so doing, as was the case of a young miss in San Francisco. She was enjoying rare sport in teasing an old man, who suddenly became enraged, rushed from his room to the balcony where he was standing and seizing her, flung her over the railing to the ground in spite of her struggles. She was badly injured and the pugnacious old man is under arrest.

Weekly Varieties, February 27, 1887.

A woman is murdered, then thrown into the streets, where she is partially devoured by hogs; Hunter’s Point, N. Y.

While playing near the public school in East Fourth street, Hunter’s Point, last week, a party of children noticed a number of hogs rooting at what appeared to be a bundle of old clothes. The boys drove the animals away and found that the hogs had been eating the dead body of a woman. The police were notified and the body was removed to the Morgue. Pieces of flesh had been torn from the arms face and legs of the body.

The corpse was identified as that of Jane Irwin, a woman of forty years of age and the mother of six children. Her husband, James Irwin, is a mason, and the two lived at 1432 Second avenue, New York. On Thursday afternoon the deceased left her home to visit some friends in Hunter’s Point. She called on her friends and aided in consuming a large quanity of beer.

It is believed that on her return home she was outraged by a pack of roughs, who had murdered her for fear she would divulge their names. An investigation has so far failed to reveal anything in connection with her death.

The National Police Gazette, December 4, 1880.