Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-05-27

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sought to escape liability on the ground
that Bausch was riding on a pass, but
he claimed that the pass was part of
| the consideration for which he had
paid the rent of the hotel.
The house occupied by Mrs. Aumack,
near Vineland, the woman who COM
mitted suicidea few days since, was
burned to the ground one day last
week. Soon after the tragedy Mr.. Au
mack vacated the place and it has
since been tenantless. The fire is sup
posed to have been the work of an
incendiary.
DR.. Elijah w. Lawrence and his
bookkeeper James Buckley, of Newark,
are held in So, 500 bail each, charged
with conspiring to cheat Mrs. Nichols
of her money. 1t is claimed that they
induced her to sign an agreement
which, if carried out, would release
the doctor from liability to pay So, 500
Mrs. Nichols was patient of DR..
Lawrence, and after her husbands
death says she was induced to sign
papers which, without her knowledge,
conveyed to the doctor her husbands
property.
Peter Tolly, who lives near Farm
ingdale, attempted to murder his wife
a few days ago. He first attempted to
shoot her with double -barreled shot
gun and then attacked her with a
butcher knife, but the children sue
ceeded in saving their mothers life.
The man then drove his wife and
children from the house and destroyed
everything indoors. The woman and
children hid in the woods until night,
and then went to a neighbor's house.
Tolly has been lodged in Jail at Free
hold. He is believed to be insane.
The burglar known as dutch Fred, :"
who was arrested at Long Branch a
few days since. after breaking into a
store, has confessed to being a member
of the gang of burglars, led by John
Darbey, which robbed about fifteen
cottages at Long Branch during the
Winter Darbey has also confessed,
but says that Dutch Fred was the
leader of the band, planned all the
burglaries, and afterward got rid of
the spoil to a New York fence" !"
Both men have been indicted for
burglary in the first degree on about
a dozen counts.
A monument of white granite has
been placed over the remains of the
late Secretary of State Frelinghuysen
in Mount Pleasant cemetery, Newark.
1t is an obelisk 40 feet high. The
lower base is feetsquare, surmounted
by three more bases, in form of steps.
The inscription stone bears an inscrip-
ton giving the date of the death and
birth of the Secretary and announcing
that from 1861 TO 1867 he was Attor-
ney General of New Jersey, United
States Senator from 1867 to 1869 and
from 1871 to 1877, and Secretary of
State of the United States from 1881
to 1885.
Thomas Bloomfield, property man
at Waldman's Newark Theater, died
recently from injuries received by a
fall from the stoop of his residence.
The stoop is very high, and one night,
about two weeks ago, when he returned
from the theater he mounted the steps.
He dropped his night key and bent
down to pick it up. The banister on
one side had been taken down. AS he
was feeling about the steps for the key
cat jumped from window and
landed on the step in front of him
This frightened Bloomfield and he
took step backward and tumbled
headlong over the side.
Lewis T. Applegate, Treasurer of the
New Brunswick Fire Insurance Com
pany, has been found to be short in
his accounts to the amount of $4,000.
The directors do not accuse Applegate
of criminal intent. He says it is due
to clerical error. A certain number
of hours were given him on Wednesday
to make good the deficiency or secure
lndorserS to the personal paper ne has
offered to give. He has long been a
prominent citizen, and is Treasurer of
the New Brunswick Gas Company and
of the Board of Education. He is over
60 years old, and "a leading member of
the First Reformed Church.
The Low bill, which has been the
subject of much anxiety to the mem
bers of the National Guard, has be-
come law, Governor Albeit having
affixed his signature thereto. The bill
provides for the payment, while in
camp only, of the officers and mem
bers of the organization as follows:
Privates and musicians, $3.50 per day;
duty sergeants, $1.75 first sergeants
and non commissioned staff, So; lieu
tenants, So. so; captains or acting COM