![]() ![]() These bookends actually protected the 100 block from most of the neighborhood’s nightly commerce dealers found the short stretch claustrophobic, and they were slightly wary of Frances, who never hesitated to march outside at any hour and tell them to get the hell out of her sight. Chapman Street was about a hundred yards long, dead-ending on South Center Street to the west and Hickory to the east. ![]() They were parked outside their home within two minutes. Mary’s Hospital was indeed less than half a mile from 181 Chapman Street, where the Peace family lived. The last of the neighborhood children had been called inside to clear the way for the hustlers who governed much of the greater Newark, New Jersey, area, and particularly this township of Orange, during the wilderness of the nocturnal hours.Īs Frances had noted, St. The street outside the car was dark and empty on this swampy late-June night in 1980. Now, outside the hospital for the first time, he felt nearly weightless. When he’d first been weighed, the number had sounded husky to her. ![]() He was a day and a half old, eight pounds, ten ounces. Robert DeShaun Peace, the baby in question, lay sleepy-eyed and pawing in Jackie’s arms. You’re a brand-new mama and that’s why you have no idea.īabies are strong. And then, when her mother chuckled: What’s funny? It wears the engine, her mother, Frances, replied from the driver’s seat. WHY IS THE AIR NOT ON?" Jackie Peace asked from the back of the car. Rob with his father, Skeet Douglas, in 1985. ![]()
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