MESSENGER BOY MISSING

collected $600 for Kohn & Company

before he went

Brooklyn Daily EagleSept. 12, 1897

Peter Coughlin of 334 2nd st, Brooklyn, a messenger boy f toor Kohn & Co. of 44 Broad St. New York has been missing since Friday noon with about $600 in his possession. The boy was in the employ of the bankers and brokers messenger company of 46 new street. He had been entrusted by the Kohn firm with the collection of some bills and should have returned in the afternoon with the money. No word was received from him and inquiry at the boys home, where he lived with his sisters, disclosed that he had telephoned to them saying that he would not be home until late, because of duties in the office. He did not return. The boy has a good record at the messenger office. It is said that he is an Orphan and that he received a considerable property with his sisters at the death of their mother.