"What! Cows in Brooklyn?"

This astonishment was registered last week in a King's County Court by Magistrate Thomas H. Cullen Jr. Although he is a native of the borough and received most of his education there (save for four years at Dartmouth) the 41-year-old magistrate could not conceal his surprise over the case of a Brooklyn dairy farmer whose cows had endangered traffic by wandering along Linden Boulevard. The farmer, who promised it would not happen again, was fined $5.

New York Times, July 20, 1941.