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Fire Commissioner John J. Scannell is fiftytwo years of age and was appointed by Mayor Gllroy to fill the term of Henry D. Purroy in the Fire Board in January. ... In 1872 he shot and killed Thomas Donahue in revenge for the killing of his brother, Florence Scannell. He was acquitted on the grounds of emotional insanity.
Edward A. Scannell, brother of John J. Scannell, the Tammany leader, and ex-Fire Commissioner, feels badly over the discovery of the box full of old indictments, found a week ago yesterday by attaches of the District Attorney's office. It developed yesterday that among the indictments was one against Scannell for a deadly assault committed Christmas Eve, 1875, on an inoffensive stranger named Henry Wilson.
John Jay Scannell, ex-Fire Commissioner of this city, an intimate of Richard Croker, and one of the picturesque figures in New York Politics for many years, died yesterday in St. Mary's Hospital, Jamaica, L. I. from pneumonia. He was 78 years old, and his
Commissioner Scannell And Marks Indicted. They Are Accused of Conspiracy to Defraud the City. Fire Commissioner Also Charged with Willful Neglect of Duty. Says Investigation Will Justify His Actions
To-day Gen. Duboist Brinckerhoff, a veteran horse owner and trainer, is thankful that ex-Fire Commissioner John J. Scannell of New York chanced along through this part of Dutchess County just as his home was about to be sold.
John J. Scannell, the Tammany politician who recently bought a stock farm here, pays occasional visits to inspect the many improvements he is making on the property. He made one of those visits yesterday, and paid a hurried call to his newly acquired farm, which includes a well-laid half-mile track.
Ex-Fire Commissioner John J. Scannell of New York, owns Chateau Ophelia, one of the finest country places about Saratoga, has purchased a lot of land on Clark Street ... for $53,000.