STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A pair of handcuffs chained to the bar offers a glimpse into the stories that live inside Doc Hennigan’s.
Over a beer or cocktail, owner Dr. Craig Campbell will explain that the cuffs once belonged to Capt. Walter M. Murphy, a Staten Island native and U.S. Marine Corps military police officer. Murphy left them behind at McSorley’s Old Ale House shortly before deploying to Vietnam.
That was in late 1966. Murphy hung the handcuffs on the Manhattan bar’s foot rail and told the bartender he would return for them…