New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-11
SHOOTING DOWN A BURGLAR
vo,,rR ". cHoArBs MIDNIGHT ENCOUNTER
.,r.r SHOT or NETWORK BANK CA'niEH ~
tAiAh rgr OUTSKIRTS OF NEWARK.

.r,r SHOT or A NEw-Yokh bANA 'N
sAi"N rgr OUTSKIRTS OF NEWARK.
-xt Cboate. cash Ter of the SeabOard Bank
al No IL Broadway, VINO hveo At W IN hr0in r
~ no ayaTk shot and instantly killed burglar
ave. Ne"t nrcsS an entrance into his house early
NIFTY morning. The district where MI thoate
lives is Known as Woodside IL ~ on .io II has
~ - Tho scene of number OF audaclous roDOeT!es
" dwsllinrs Mr.. Choate and other gentlemen Nv
ing there have always Kept nreaFIhs III 'n'i' A0
20 nse in case of emergency. c.
I" ". TpIRJJyE reporter saw Mr.. ChOate at the sea
hoard Bank in the afternoon, and optalneu hum
lin fine following account of the shooting: NJ
MN Our sieening rooms are on the second floor MY
ifejs hedroom is in one of the house. az tIe
rear; next to it is the bathroom, ana DeyOhu Hnen
a room where sleep F. L. Gunther and ChaTles hi ond
two vonuQ men who are clerks In the oa I a. ~
Who live with us. The bedroom in 'front.' adJoil,,
my yife occupied by myself :oH tb s bathroom
door On Friday night three OF my cL !h bnnse 10
i'm my wife's bedroom. In the rear Oh t tbe second
an extension whose roof rises heaiS Ioced against
story windows and grape arpor rs tannaTentlv
one end of the extension. Inc puL ~ arhor and
climbed upon the extension rooi 9y te onen win
ol;,nbed into the bathroom through the open I'll
J I'M 'nrD o vn' awakened at about ! O'clock
by noise like the shutting OF dQoai 18th her
my wife through the door conf the noise Mas. She
anSwcTa1 that She guessed 1T was caused Ny tho
wind I law still few moments anu ny ls'0t 90 T
Recovered that there was no WIND surfing 90
Use tool nv revolver and went out into the en-
a., ~ III the gas | could see nothing strange
and so walked from the Jan INTO my b wttT
room, through the hal-dOOr. Meantime the ouTgl5u
had cone from the bathroom into my wlte'b DeG-
room and had hid himself behind her bed Whi WHO
stood little distance nom tHe 9Gch az and She
called ont to me when entered, telling me WneIe
he was As she did so | saw DARK form rise iVn III
The floor and move toward the window, Whlch
nneped from the bedroom out upon the rear exten,
sion Standing near the foot of the ped ralSeu
my revolver and fired across the pea az tle al
Nv wife saw the flash pointing above ms head;
Shoot again. she cried, sitting up, ana ann IOM
By this time the burglar had reached the WIN
dow, and had one leg ont hred @gnn, s'l bo ny
lie got out the roof of the extension ana "a
himself toward the aTbor, where he 1el "a anu 49,
ran into the room of Mr.. Gunther ana MI, Aiiei
who had been aroused by the second shOt' anu 'ol3
them to go out for the police Ihey Tent plV ai,u
brought two policemen WHO o an fbe extension
roof and found the burglar dead Inc po9y maS
not disturbed until the County Physician, VINO Was
sent for had arrived. He summoned an uIhouT
Lane aud The BODY was taken to the Morgue. |
was placed under arrest, and released on nomhai
bail: ,.. .,o,u ,,bo tho man was
continued Nh ChOate. He was five feet ten lhc1es
i'm height and looked to be about thirty years 3iu,
lie was dressed in dark brown check sui NIL MI,
black woolen jacket under his coat inJ J :
were no burglars tools abOut him, but ne nad
self-cocking Smith IL WesSOn rev LIVER OF 3l-cahDrc,
My wife says she saw him feeling Tor II as lie Wa
climbing ont of her bedroom window. MY
weapon was q Colts revolver Of 44-callbIe. ne
ball entered his back, and penetrated MS hSart,
dark-brown curly hair. His face looked something
like that of an Opium-eaters. Inc chldreh VINO
were sleeping IN my Wles room VIZ nt sa, noT5
Nv wife naturally was hystencal Tor Whlle alOeII
the shooting was over There nave Defh seHeIdi
eases of attempted burglary In our nelghOoIhoOd
recently. No nelghoOr was arouscu " '4-o '"00'
ing" ,,
During the day the Morgue, where the body lay,
was visited by many people. Among th'h was tx
Coroner Vreeland, OF WoOdslde, who recognized ne
dead man as one of two men whom he bad met me
night before ON Broad-st. car. lie described the
burglars companion as short, with req VIM heIs
and mustache aud having on dark clolHihg; Ohe
of the men asked Ike conductor where LlncoIn-aye.
was and said they wanted to take z tram on the
MOntclair and Greenwood Lake Railway. They
got of near the station and walked toward the
gully road aud then turned and proceeded III inc
direction of LmCOln-aNe. ,
In the morning MIR. ChOate was taken to the
Court House IN Newark. lie was accompanied
Depue after the Court of Oyer and Termincr was
opened, of the circumstances OF the sho0Jng ana
said that he knew OF no reason why MI Choa5e
should not be admitted to bail. Judge Depue sara
" If the facts are as stated Mr. ChOate was lustl-
fed in shooting and the court will admit HIM to
bail If he had no other security the court would
take his own recOgnizancc."
Bail was fixed at $500 Mr.. ChOate to appear on
the first Tuesday in December. Judge Depue d.
reced the Prosecutor to use every possible eHOr 10
discover and arrest the burglar accOnplce, and to
send for New-York detectives to identity the dc@d
man. =. II, .
recognized the burglar man who visited MS
house on Friday evening and asked for help Oh The
plea that he was lettcT-caTrler and had been Ill.
1t was Mr.. .Boylons opinion that the man was beg
cling in order to gain some knowledge of the house
with q view to robbery.
Mrs Cboate is about f0rty-fve years old OF stout
build and matrOnly appearance. She was ahorIng
under some excitement when a reporter visited her
house. She showed round hole In one OF the Tour
panes OF glass III the window, which had been made
by her husbands first bullet, and explained how
the burglar had climbed up the trelis and entered
the house through the bathroom window just
before her husband was aroused.
Coroner Reed impaIelled jury for an inquest to
be held tomorrow afternoon.