New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-16
HOBOKEN ITEMS.

MURDER AT NORTH HoBoKEN.-A man
named Albert Blum, carpenter, who resides at Union
Ill., North Hoboken, murdered on Saturday after
noon last by Thomas c. Pierce his neghbor under
the following circumstances ascertained by one of
our reporters who visited the spot and fully Invest
gated the facts appears that Blum, whose carpenter
shop not far from Plerces residence had been In
Pierces house, in his ABSENCE insulting his family
When Pierce returned home he was somewhat In
liquor and went to Blum's shop to demonstrate with
him for such conduct The deceased shook his fists In
Pierces face and threatened to strike him with stool.
This so offended Pierce that he took up an and
struck Blumon the cellar bone the bit of the enter
ing bis breast and cutting OH the top of one of his lungs
The deceased 70 yards after he was strn OK
and fell TO the ground and expired in about three min
utes after Pierce Immediately gave himself up TO
Mr. Gardiner resident there, who detained him until
the arrival of Officer Francis who conveyed him TO the
cells at Hoboken Pierce although addicted to drink
bears a good among his neighbors being peace
able He is also carpenter, 81 years of age and has
wife and three children. Blum is a German, and was
born near Hamburg in Germany He Is about 30 years
OF age, unmarried, and owned property In that
neighborhood. Coroner Spear held an inquest yeser
day at which the following evidence ELECTED
mary Ann RdmSoy Delng duly sWOrn edld: IL was
52 o'clock in the after noon; put my head out OF the
window as | heard the two men talking loud saw
the deceased shaking his hst In the face OF the other
man saw the other person. Tom Pierce run for bis
AK which stood at the side OF the house he got hold
of the ak, and then the deceased seized chair which
also stood against the house, and he going to
strike Pierce, the latter raised the and told him TO
stand back, and then he struck him with the AK saw
the blood saw no more
l.. ~ Elder, physician being sworn, said ! am a
physician, and reside at loboken made the pest NOR,
TEN examination upon the BODY OF the deceased found
wound located upon the right side of his neck, Az
inches length deep, ucised wound dividing the skin
and muscles also dividing the cavicle coarbone and
cutting portion Of the sternum or breast bone, pas
sing into and wounding portion OF the right lung; in
my opinion, this wound and the subsequent loss OF
blood caused death.
The jury, after hearing the above evidence, came to
the following verdict
ALBERT Blum to his death by wounds INFLICTED
upon him BY Thomas c. Pierce on the 18th day of Au.
gust, 1852, at Union HILL Township OF North Bergen
Hudson Co, N. j."
The Coroner then made out a commitment, and the
prisoner was taken to Bergen Jail, by Officer Francis
He will there await the action of the Grand Jury.
Union Hill, or rather North Hoboken as ii is some.
times called is new settlement about three and half
miles north of oboken and Is peoped almost entirely
by Germans.
Y A trunk was picked up on the shore
at Elysian Fields, on Saturday morning, by man
named Jesse FASH The trunk he said had been broken
open and rihed. There nothing in It but letters
and papers le all addressed to w. q. Eaton. The
end of the trunk marked CIV G. E. and In chalk
"Phils' The trunk was probably from the Inflated
steamer Henry Clay. The owner hear OF 1t by sp-
plying to D. Z. Gayit Dasuerreotypist, No. l92 Broad
way, EewYork.
NEARLY DRowEED.-Last night. as one
of the Bsrclsyst boats was going GU, lrenchmsn
name unknown, Jumped after the moving boat, and
after hard knock the deck, landed IN the water
With effort and by the aid Of the valuable hoa,s
RECENTLY put there by the eLrY CnmnanY be aaEad