New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-19
KILLED AT HIS HALL DOOR
STABBED AT MIDDAY IN HUDSON STREET.
oN-LooKERs THOUGHT THAT THE MURDERER AND
HIS VICTIM WERE SHAKING HANDS.

oN-LooKERS THOUGHT THAT THE MURDERER AND
HIS VICTIM WERE SHAKING HANDS,
Policeman MARS Of the Prince-st. squad. who has
been member of the force on'y few days, heard
cries of murder" in Huisoa-st. a few minutes De,
fore p. III. yesterday and found man lying on
the sidewalk in front of the cigar store az NO o4
Hudson-st Two young men, who $1,000 near sa,i
that the man was George JolIie t the. piT he
a0er of the cigar store, ana that ne
had been stabbed by James Hardie o carpenter Nv
ing i'm the upper part of the building; hardle mas
gone up stairs" said one youth, and yon can eaten
him there" Mars entered the building and tonnd
that fIardle hal gone ont of rear door lie traced
him through an alley to Charlton-st wa ruere saw s
policeman called TO him Hardio stopped and sur
rendered. He said that he was about to give HIM
self up. When the policeman returned to Hudson,
ST. with his prisoner he learned that the wounded
man was dead. Two other policemen carried the
body to the police station on stretcheri =.
and Charles f. Nedhardt. of No. 642 Broome-st.,
said that the dead man was called George Jollle by
his friends, but his right name was George Ammer-
man. lie had been employed as clerk for MT
Geoghegan who lived in Jersey City and owned
the cigar store. He occupied furnished room IN
Dominick-st. zimmerman was standing at the hall
out and shook hands with him. There wasn0 quar-
rel, but zimmerman suddenly fell on the sidewahLa
body showed that he had been stabbed twice III
the right thigh. The kuife with which the WOUNDS
were inflicted was found in HardIe's p9oke'. Gu nn
the same pocket were $239 AZ, two certlhcales IoI
200 shares of the SutrO Tunnel Company ana some
articles of ewery Hardie said that he was thirty
eight years old, and unmarried. He occupied
furnished room over the cigar store and worked
every day at his trade. There had been no quarrel
between him aud the dead man, but In explanation
OF the stabbng, he SAID that as he was leaving
the house AmTuerman met him In tne nan
and struck him in the face. He Thought thaV
zimmerman and his companions meant to rob him
and he used the knife In self-deience He had been
carving the money found in his pocket about with
hun for some time and George knew 1t. AT the Jet-
ferson Market Police Court, in the afternoon;
HaTdie asked for examination on sunday, ana
he was committed until that time. VeImi yea ana
Neidhardt were placed IN the custody OF the ponce
until to-day, when the Coroner is expected 10 ne
gin an investigation. Late in the afternoon TWO
women went to the police station and recognized
the body of the murdered man. One woman, VINO
was ole and feeble, said that the body was that OF
her son George zimmerman. He was tmrty-twO
wears old and was born in tins city. Her nome,
she said, was at No. 56l BrOome-st. The other
woman was Young and pretty. She wept over the
body aud nearly tainted when the police took heI
away from it. She said that she was the wife OF
the dead man. and that he had been known to her
as George Anderson. Their child two years Oh,
was chrlstened III that name. They bad lived TOT
three wears in "a furnished room at NO. . DOM,
nick-sf but about five months ago her husband
had said that he had lost his situation and she was
Obliged to take employment as servant m private
family in order to support her and her child