Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-27
wIFE-MURDER IN NEWARK.
fhe Murderer Chased by the Enraged
People-BlOodhound on His Track.

''Lottie, so help me God, will kill you
| and your mother vet for sending me tc
JAIL" said John Chisholm week ago last
| Monday, after he had knocked down and
cruelty kicked his young and pretty wife
IN the front yard Of her mothers resi-.
dence, No. 103 Boyden street, Newark,
n. j., and then with an oath he ran
away.
He had just been released from the New
ark jail, where he had been imprisoned
one month for neglecting to support his
FAMILY. He was released by order of City
Attorney Fish, on his promise to pay So a
week to his wife, but he never paid it, for
he was too idle TO work, and he spent his
time in saloons.
AT $50 O'Clock last evening he carried
his threat into execution. His wife, who
was only twenty-one years old, was sit
ting IN rear bed room ON the first floor
OF her mothers house with her younger
sister, Ella MOcOmber, the wife being near
the open window. Suddenly she said /;
There he comes. John Chisholm is COM
ingr'
He strobe up to the window and said.
''Say, Lottie, you made charge against
me, and she said, sob. do go away from
here Her sister hastily Quilted the
room and ran to the rear OF the house to
call for help, and she heard Chisholm saw
to his wife, 81 will fix you yet, and then
l VIII see where your mother comes in :"
Mrs. Chisholm sprang to her feet and
shouted, "El1a, Ella, he has pistoIv' and
that instant he fired one shot from his re-
Volver, the ball entering her mouth and
passing out back of the neck. She stag
gered 10 rear door, and he cOolly put the
revolver in his pocket and started out of
the yard. At that minute Ella Mocomber,
who had ran around from the rear of the
house, caught him by the coat and
screamed for help, but he shook her off
and ran up JOurer street, followed bv a
crowd of boys. Ella shouted to the neigh
bors, ''Come in, for Gods sake, for Lottie
is shot," but nobody answered her cries.
Then she ran back and found her sister
lying on the bricks in the areaway with
blood streaming from her mouth.
She looked up, said "Oh Ella, dear,v
gave one long gasp and died.
John Woodward, friend, carried the
body into the house and left it in the front
room. Soon after Mrs. Chisholm's
mother arrived. She entered the room,
and seeing the dead body of her daughter
there, game one long scream and tainted.
other women hurried in, and presently
over one thousand people gathered in and
about the house. Two little children
one two and half years and the other
eighteen months old-were kept in the
basement so that they could not see their
murdered mother.
Several hundred men were chasing the
murderer along the bank of the Morris
canal while the mourners We're CRYING
over his wife's body, and all the reserve
force from the First and Second Precincts,
under Captain ReYer and Detectives Nc
Manus and Stainsly, followed in six
coaches.
1t is estimated that fully 5000 men and
boys were running after Chisholm when
he took refuge in Bathgate Woods in
Roseville. Chisholm shot at the crowd
and then they ran back.
Finally the pursuers obtained a blood
hound and after letting him smell CHS
holm's tracks cut the fierce dog loose.
lie bounded into the woods and the crowd
followed, but Chisholm had escaped.
Meanwhile the police and detectives
had gone on another scent, and at s
o'clok Detectives Stainsly and McManus
captured Chisholm and took him to police
headquarters, where he was locked in a
cell. Stainsly caught him on Bloomfield
road, clapped his pistol to his head, wrest.
ed the revolver from him and then put
the nippers on his wrists, Chisholm has
been in Jail twelve times, His father is
influential and respectable,
Mr.. Mocomber was opposed to his
daughter marrying Chisholm, but the
wedding took place secretly. He had a
bad reputation from childhood. Two DO
licemen were always sent to arrest him
for any offense, as he was considered a
desperate man. His mother got him out
OF Jail two weeks ago. After he beat his
wife the next day she asked Police JUS
tice Miller to arrest him, and also COM
planned to Justice Nettleship, but they
neglected to capture him, although he had
threatened to kill her on sight, as well as
her mother.
''He was sober when he came here"
said Ella to reporter of The World, ''but
he had determined look in his ewes that
made me afraid. Lottie was frightened,
but she did not show it, Her object was
to get behind the door, but he fired too
quick, He often beat her and threatened
al OF us. She was never happy with him,
for she had to leave him four times. She
went back to him in the hope ofreforming
him and to please his mother. She was
too kind and good to him and she loved
her babies"
Chisholm was in his cell last night act
ing as ifhe was drunk and initiating in
sanity. He was sober when he shot his
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