From the August 18, 1886 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“Mrs. Frank Kennedy, who had been informed that her husband had eloped with Maggie Maugels, the young daughter of a Wallabout marketman, visited the residence of the girl’s parents, 12 First Street, this afternoon to learn if anything had been heard of the missing couple. While seated in the house a man rushed in and said:

‘Your husband is across the street working on the ice deck.’

Mrs. Kennedy ran out and catching sight of her husband beat him about the head and shoulders with an umbrella. Then she took him home.”