"The peddler of hot sausages at the corner of Fulton and Sands streets, was folding his tent, when he was accosted by James Kenny." (Image by Berenice Abbott.)

A nineteenth-century sausage peddler and some random nudnik decided to have a battle royal in the street, as chronicled in this January 18, 1887 article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“It was nearly 2 o’clock this morning when Robert Henry Moore, of 67 Nassau Street, the peddler of hot sausages at the corner of Fulton and Sands streets, was folding his tent, when he was accosted by James Kenny, of 91 Orange Street, who accused the peddler of refusing to drink with him on New Years Eve. Moore repudiated the accusation and offered to produce a cloud of witnesses to testify that he was constitutionally unable to refuse such an invitation, but Kenny clinched with him and the two men writhed in a debris of hot sausages and cakes and hotter charcoal. Bridge Officer Courtney separated the combatants and Justice Walsh further separated them this morning by sending Kenny to the Penitentiary for sixty days and putting Robert Henry Moore in jail for one day. Moore is a favorite with the bridge officers, who say he is peaceable and very generous with his edibles.”