It was bad enough that Patrick Fox was drunk and out of control on the Green. It was worse that his buddy, John Hunt, also interfered when the cops showed up to arrest Fox.
Maybe there was a reason for this disorderly conduct, which unfolded on the New Haven Green one dusky night in 1864. The Civil War was raging, and upstanding young men in New Haven were assembling to train as new recruits in the Union Army. Is it possible that Fox had one or two for the road before he signed up or joined other army volunteers and just got carried away? Is that what he explained to the arresting cop, one Officer Darrow?
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Bring back the stocks.