New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-21
4 roy SHOT By an OLD NAN.
DELIBERATE MURDER N NEWARK.

DELIBERATE MURDER N NEWARK.
HOW LAMPNGHTER WAS KILLED BY Man
WHOM He Is ALLEGED TO HAVE ANNOYED.
While Market-st Newark was thronged WIN
working people returning home from their WORK
shortly before o'clock last evening, pistol-Shot
startled the people in the neighborbood Oh the Az
gle IIous.. No. PIT Mar>et-st., and boy VINO was
engaged in lighting lamp in front OF the place
staggered TO a stoop and sat down. An o!d ana shap
bly, dressed man was seen to place pistol III MS
pocket and walk up the street He was polh'en ou'
TO two policeman who arrested HIM ana took nun 10
Police Headquarters. Anew navy revolver was
taken from his pocket all the chambers bH' ono
were loaded He said his name was James Graves
and ms place OF residence at No. l33 ComlAcrce-SC
When lie was arrested he remarked: I've fixed
him. guess he won't trouble me again, and hci'hcr
wi ! his father"
Meantime the boy who was shot was taken TO a
drug store at Market and Mulberry Sis WhcIc ne
was attended by two physicians. 1t was ionha'
upon examination that The ball had penctratcI ms
back and pierced several vital org9nN J ne phlsl,
cIanS pronounced the wound fatal The boy was
Edward Soden. age thirteen, con of Daniel Sndeni a
! lamplighteT, Of 10. 1873 COmmercc-St; NheA the
mother reached her son she exclaimed; % thal
old villain! lie has threatened my boys ne Tor
over a year" She SAID t3at she didn't know why
he had made the threat but that lac had Threatened
the whole family. Three years ago. MIS-. SodeB
said, Graves drew n pistol on her husband ana
! Deaf her son, lie was alftSltu AZ 'Hht
| Graves lived in the same house WI the SOden
| family bat lately he has been living WITH an oIu
woman in Markct-st Mrs. Soden declared that she
| knew OF no provOcatIon that Graves had ever re-
! ccived from her family. The police ambulance was
sent for but when 1t arrived to take the boy 10 the
| hospital he was already sinking The boy died at
! z O'clock. and the body was soon atteT"ard re-
moved 10 the house Of the parents, Before hc aleh
the lad could give no ineligible reply 10 questions
| asked.
| The anim0sity Of Graves grew out OF his daiiy
contact with the children Of the todrn family. he
has the reputation in the IeghbOrhood OF being an
| exceedingly quarIelSOme man. The woman VINO mas
| been living with hmIs nearly seventy years OF age
Five months ago when annoyed by one OI the Sodtl
! children, she sand that ii was only question OF
| time when the Soden boy would be killed. ne boy
! has helped his father in his work OF lampl2huhg
| for 1--WE years, and was quiet and iuoienSVe. lie
| left hIS home only an hour before he WAS shot.
Shortly after 5 O'Clock the murderer was aTihrn-
| ed before Police Justice EcoId. The charge was
read TO him, and he asked how he would plead:
! He answered, wIt1Out hesitation, Guilty ana
! then added: Murder in the second degree. JUS
tice RECORD asked the prisoner If lie had anything o
| say and he res Ondcd. had great pr0NCcaiioh.
| They brought II on themselves. They did ali they
| could for several years TO bnng IT on
! themselves. They tantalzed me and |
| others TO tautalizc and annoy me, and dld
all they could to trouble me-" The prisoner was
committed 10 await the action Of the Grand jury.