Officer Cornelius D. Wynkoop Makes an Arrest.
Officer Cornelius D. Wynkoop
Makes an Arrest.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

    Walter Lee and Hugh Kelly, arrested by Officer Cornelius D. Wynkoop, of the First Precinct Police, on a charge of stealing 50 cents worth of liquor, were found guilty, and sentence suspended.


Source:

Unknown, "Law Intelligence," New York Times, Wednesday, 2 September 1857, pg. 3.


Notes:

    The Officer Wynkoop mentioned above is Officer Cornelius D. Wynkoop of the Mayor's Squad, New York City.

    Richard Wynkoop, in the 1904 edition of the Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, has this to say about him on pages 203-204:

    1450. Cornelius De Witt Wynkoop, (Genl. Cornelius E. 896, Evert C. 517, Maj. Cornelius E. 295, Capt. Evert 112, Cornelius 28, Evert 4, Cornelius 1,) born April 6, 1830: died January 9, 1899, in the Seney Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., after a surgical operation: married, 1st, April 4, 1858, Harriet Pook, from England, who died October 21, 1889. He married, 2d, April 10, 1892, in Brooklyn, Mrs. Mary Annie (Miller) Scrymser, widow of Charles Arlington Scrymser.
    He was, at one time, on the police force of the city of New York: and he was afterwards a printer, and, at the time of his death, was a member of the printing firm of Wynkoop & McKay. He was a teacher in the Sabbath School of the Tabernacle, Brooklyn.
    Children of Cornelius D. and Harriet Wynkoop:
1703. Cornelius Evert: b. June 14, 1859: m. Emma Frances Walker, known as Frank. They live at Rhinebeck, N. Y.
1704. Mary Elizabeth: b. June 1, 1869: m., Apl. 15, 1891, in Brooklyn, John Duncan Duff, who d. in New Haven, Conn., in June, 1902.

    Chris

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