Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-17
STATE NEWS.

ing slaughter case WAS heard yesterday,
aud the jury decided to visit the scene
of the disaster before rendering n YER
dict.
Sunday night as Mr.. Owen Keenan,
was driving home from church at Mont
vale. Bergen county, his horse becom-
ing frightened ran off. Mr.. Keenan,
was thrown out Of the wagon, and .sus
tanned fracture of the skull, and dyed
on Monday afternoon.
As Central ferryboat was entering
her slip at Communipaw this morning a
man attempted to jump ashore. He
missed his calculations Ivy about three
feet and landed into the cold waters of
the bay. He WAS rescued after con-
siderable difficulty. Runner says that
man wouldn't jump again if the fute OF
nations depended upon his doing so.
At the opening of the Passaic county
courts at Paterson yesterday Judge
Bedle charged with particular reference
to tho recent failing of building at
Passaic. which caused the death OF two
well known citizens He also called at
tention to the crime of embracery, or
corrupt influencing Of juries, which has
been practised here lately.
In the Hoboken savings bank case,
Judge Nixon yesterdry decided that
that corporation is bank of deposit, q
named institution. aud therefore subject
to the thirty-seventh section OF the bank.
rupt act. The judge, after careful re-
view of the facts, was not able to discov-
err that the Hoboken bank for savings
had committed any acts of bankruptcy.
| He held that no acts of bankruptcy have
been proven against the institution by
the petitioners. The court left the conn
sci to say, when they came into court,
whether the petition should be amended
or dismissed.
The trial of Edward Bremen on
charge of numbering his wife vt High
Bridge, on the evening of Nov. 81, was
begun in the Hunterdon Oyer and Ter
miner yesterday. The testimony showed
that the prisoner, his wife, and four
children occupied the lower part of
small tenement and kept drinking Sal
loon in the basement The upper floor
WAS occupied by his brother in law,
John Brady. Abont seven o'clock on
the evening of the 21st the Bradys
heard cries for help coming from their
apartments. They ran ill and found
Mrs. Bremen on the upper hall floor
in poo of blood. A physician was
summoned, but the woman died before
he arrived. Believing the story of the
husband, that the woman had ruptured
blood YES sci, the authorities took no
action. and she was buried. Soon after
ward Bremen fled, and suspicious were
aroused, The body was disinterred,
and at the Coroner's inquest deep cut
in the groin, severing main artery,
was found also bruises on different
parts Of the body.
Last night at half past ten o'clock as
the ferry boat Weehawken of the Hobo
ken line was on her way across to New
York, the fog being unusually he Wy
she came in contact with steamer of
the Inman line, then at anchor in the
stream, and was badly damaged. There
were but few passengers on the Wee
hawken, who were all terribly frighten-
ed, but none were injured. The boat
entered her alp at the foot of Barclay
street, landed her passengers. and start
ed on her return trip to Hoboken to be
laid up for repairs. She had hardly
retched the middle of the river when
she in turn was run into by the boat
from Hoboken, which increased the
damage already done to the Weehawken
| by carrying away part of her hurri-
cane deck and staving in the larboard
life boat.
1t does not seem that either of the
ferry pilots was 10 blame in either case.
the accidents being due entirely to the
dense fog which prevailed. It was so
thick on the North river at the time of
the accident that it was impossible to
distinguish light through it at the dis
lance of forty feet. The Hoboken ferry
boats were run with extreme cauticn,
taking from twenty to thirty minutes
for each trip while the fog lasted.
Later-Mr. L. Ruheder of New York
was reported killed.
The trial of Alonzo E. Kimball, who
is charged with completely in the Ida
W. Vail malpractice case, was continued
in the Hudson county quarter sessions
yesterday. The greater part of the
morning was spent in examining Mis-.
Mercells X. Metzler, who denied that
DR.. Comins had taken any part in the
operation, and said that her affidavit
charging him with having done no upon
which he was arrested, was made under
the excitement which followe her own
arrest. Mrs Bailey, who lives in the
same house with Ida's mother, testified
that during the absence of the Vail
family Kimhall called to see Ida, saving
that since she had left the Office on the
previous evening feeling sick he was
anxious as to the state of her health :;
he saw her and remained fifteen minutes
with her.
Mrs. Margaret Marsh testified that
Ida sometimes remained at her honse
over night, and that Kimball once called
there fer Ida, whom he intended, he
said, to take riding with his wife.
Jacob Fussel, who keeps an ice cream
saloon under the rooms in which Kim
ball employed Ida. testified that Kim
ball fitted up room as a sleeping room
over the hall on the 18th of September !;
on the 23d witness took the room and
bought the furniture from the defend
ant This closed the case on the part
OF the state, and Dr. Avonia @. Hal ht.
Joseph e. Burnham. and Mir. Marshall
testified to the previous good character
of the defendant. Messrs. Moore, Arm
strong, Schimp, and Wilcox, who had
been in the employ of defendant, testi-
fed that his conduct towards them had
always been that of gentleman. The