Reported in  The Brooklyn Daily Eagle published in Brooklyn, New York on April 29, 1854.

John Karch, was arrested on the charge of stealing daguerreotypes, from the gallery of Lewis Applegate, in Myrtle Avenue. Several counterfeits of the “human face divine” were found in the possession of the accused, who was brought before Justice Smith, and sentenced to imprisonment in the Penitentiary for six months.

Applegate has previously not been recorded and no other advertisements or articles have been found.