The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1873-12-10

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A HUSBAND ARRESTED AND COMMITTED FOR
wrrE-MuRpER---rnE CASE, BEFORE TIE
GRAND JURY.
On Friday evening, Now 21st. Edward
Brennan, of High Bridge summoned DR..
Alpanglpt to attend his wife, who. had burst
a blood vessel he said. Tie Doctor found
herdcad, lying upon the aoor in her. house,
and with marks of profuse bleeding around
her. He did not feel authorized to make any
examination; but Immediately called upon
the Justice of the Peace and urged a legal in
vestigation. This the Justice declined to
make, on the ground Of want of authority
And on Sunday Catharinc Brennan, aged
about 80, was buried in Clinton by her
friends. s {5f1i
Suspicious circumstances have meanwhile
como to light, and after the woman's burial
the excitement in tho neighborhood incrcas.
cd, until prominent citizens called in the
counsel of I. j. Hoffman, Esq, under whose
advice Justice VIM. J. Tiff instituted Cor
oner's inquest, and on Saturday last the bod,
was disinterrcd and examined by competent
geons-Doctofs Field Todd and Alpaugll
who were all positively of opinion that the
! death was caused by n brutal wound inflicted
! In the abdomen by some sharp and Jagged
instrument.
warrant for the arrest of Brennan was
issued. butit WAS found that he had gone to
New York, and detectives were sent hi search
of him but on Monday evening he volun-
taiily returned, aud was Immediately arrest
cd, much to his surprise apparently.
The following were the Coroner's Jury
summoned: A. NJ. Trimmer Bloomfield
Leigh, Henry NJ. Kline, Frederick Apgar,
VIM. Perry. WIN. Waters, james l.. Apgar
David Eagle. They continued their investi-
cations until Wednesday noon, sitting at
jDcvlinis Hotel, and examined many Witness
es, by whom frequent quarrelling between the
deceased and her husband was proved and
it,was. learned that on the day of her death
sliewa washing in tho basement, and about
6 o'clock in the evening within a few min
utes of her death, she had been seen in com
pany with her husband ascending to the floor
where she died. No instrument which could
have made the wound was found about the
PREMISES. Inc inquest closed Win u verdict
that G Catharine Brennan came to her death
by stabs, cuts, and other Wounds and that
the Jury believed the same, to have been in
fictediby 81 her husband, Edward Brennan"
Brennan was taken to Pennington Jail on
Wednesday, and eighteen witnesses were
summoned to appear before the Grand Jury
on.Thursday ssr s~r
Much censnre ispublicly Expressed against
the local magistrate at High Bridge for neg
lect to take prompt action when notified Of
the ease by thc-Doctor, and urged to inyesti-
gate it by other citizens. An immediate in
quest would have saved the County some
hundreds of dollars, which tho disinterment
probably cost; and il would doubtless lave
brought ont the evidence more easily and
more completely. Clinton Democrat
John NJ. Voorhees,, Of Pennington, and
Mercer Beasley, Jr., of Trenton, were select
ed by the prisoner as his counsel The trial
will take place a week from Tuesday next
The affair is a shocking one. and the people
of the ncighborhood are ina wonderful state
of evaporation over the diabolical Decd