the assault. Gleason grabbed him and threw him against a cigar stand, breaking the glass. Because Gleason was the mayor, police declined to arrest Gleason without a warrant from a judge. Gleason was eventually arrested and indicted for assault in the third degree. Gleason was convicted and sentenced to five days imprisonment in the county jail, with a fine of $250. The following year, Gleason dislocated the shoulder of a man at a meeting of the Board of Health. Gleason was arrested and charged with assault in the second degree. Legacy The school later called P.S. 1, the largest high school on Long Island when built, was Gleason's legacy to the community's children. When Gleason died bankrupt and discredited a few years out of office, hundreds lined the route to his interment in Calvary Cemetery. Gleasonville, a former neighborhood in Woodside, Queens, north of Northern Boulevard, was named after him. Notes References "Rumors that Gleason’s Ramshackle Railway Has Been Transferred to the Steinway Syndicate." Long Island Daily Star-Journal, January 11, 1895. External links The Political Graveyard Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online Greater Astoria Historical Society 1844 births 1901 deaths Politicians from County Tipperary Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) People from Long Island City, Queens