The New York herald., 1879-03-09
RIDING TO HIS DEATH.

FATAL EXPEDITION oP wATERcREss GATH.
ERERs-oNE MAN KILLED AND ANOTHER sERI.
oUsLY INJURED.
In the small hours Of Friday morning heavily
laden freight train tong up the steep gradient
that overooks Berys CreeKa lonely strip OF meadow
land about seven miles down the Erie Railroad
when the head light fell on . mans bleed
ing face. upturned to the moon. The
gineer stopped the and alighting. found
the senseless body of q stalwart young Frcnchman.
with his legs overhanging the ditch. Thirty yards
along the track discovered. stone dead another
Frenchman. of some sixty years of age. The bodies
conveyed to Rutherford Park. and there recog-
nized. The dead man Jacques Traloup. the iiv.
ing Augusta Dufour. both being from West Hoboken.
where they made their living during the season Of
early spring by gathering watercresses.
Trialoup one of the most noted watercrea
thieves in New Jersey. He had twice been imprisoned
Hackensack for plunderng beds which farmers had
carefully nurtured and flooded during the winter.
When farmer came down to his spring in the MORN
ing to find his torn up by the roots and his
bed ruined he generally suspected that Trialoup had
been ut work during the night The stolen
wares OF the poachef were sold at
high rates. In the first weeks OF March no
could command from 81 TO 81 80 for Q small basket
tributed salads to the French kitchens Of New
York and New Jersey than any of the regular pur.
veyors Of the market. When crosses scarce
Traloup caught frogs. For this occupation. though
his aptitude was great. his liking small mainly
because it was honest; but his enthusiasm for
stolen watercresses keen that it
infected his young companion Auguste Dufour.
who, having been wild and having separated from
his wife, joined Trialoup very readily. But this
poschng expedition of Friday to have been their
last. Dufour had been offered employment in .
large oil mandatory, and meant 10 amend He was
TO have signed bond on Saturday morning. promis-
ing to reform. and the veteran Triaoup himself had
sworn To poach no more. One Of these penitents
upon . bed. muttcrng incoherently with his head
bound up. The rcporter attended the funeral OF The
other.
now DID THEY FALL,
These two men left Hoboken at four In the after.
noon. They were discovered ON the track at three
in tho morning and Dufour's watch, which he had
just wound. stopped at twenty minutes past seven.
His head was gashed horribly, his hands and wrists
were enormously swollen. and there was every ree-
son to believe that he fell from The and struck
the gravel with his face On Trialoup's face there
were no other signs of hurt than .
stream OF blood that tricked from boneath his
hair The theory that they drunk and that
evidence Dufour had short lucid interval yester-
day and said they had been forced from the train.
the old man first. he next. They stealing ride
after while he returned to his senses and called
"How are you, Jacquess" and faint sound came
crushed. blinded by his own blood, he crawled .
little way beside the ditch and called again, 'How
are you. Jacquesy There was no answer.
RURAL DOGBERRIES
Hitherto nothing definite has been ascertaincd ~
TO how the man rraloup came to his death. After
much bickering AN inquest was held, and adjourned
as soon ~ the bodies had been identhed II seems
that feud RACES at Rutherford Park between the To-
cal Justice and the local editor. The editor tele-
graphed to Hackensnck Tor n coroner to sit on the
body, whereupon the Justice seized the body and de-
clared that nobody should sit II but himself. He
had been reused up from bed in the carly dawn; he
had expended divers sums OF money ON the
dead mans account and dead by
no means too common at Rutherford Park. The
he AL IN upltpO nod N
the Coroner, aud the result of these amenities was
the collapse of the inquest. Meanwhile. the wounded
man has twice asserted that he and his companion
were thrown from the by some unknown brake
man. His cause Is being warmly espoused In the
village, aud amateur detectives starting the
trail of all railway officials who In the neigh
borhood OF Bery q Creek ut ~ p N