The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-01-10
SUSPECTED MURDER.
4 RICH H0A0KEN MIN FOUND
DEAD IN NEW FORK.


Ly ing mt the Foot of Stairs on Hous-
tom street, with His skull Crushed
ina Brother OF q Director Of the
Hobsken National Bank.
By Associated Press 10 the Taaier.l
New YoRK,, Jan. 8 Conrad Baude, a
waiter in the coffee saloon at No. SO East
Houston street, went to his work about
five o'clock this morning, but found that
his employer had not yet opened the
place. He then stepped into the hallway
of the house to shelter himself from the
storm. The hall door was open. He saw
man lying on the floor at thesfoot of the
stairs. and found that he was dead. A
policeman was then summoned. The dead
man was in his shirt sleeves. His sack
coat lay under his head, and his overc0at
was across his legs. His head rested in a
pool of blood, and there were several cuts
on his face The body was removed to
the East Fifth Street Station-house. The
man was about thirty-five years old, five
feet eight inches high. with sandy hair
and moustache, and blue eyes. When his
clothing was searched there was found
S188.28 A gold ring and scarf-pin were
also takeu from the body. On the lining
of the watcn pocket in the tronsers was
written in indelible ink the name of Alex
ander Strob.
Later in the day friends from Hoboken
visited the Morgue and Identified the body
as that of Alexander Stobo, wealthy resi-
dent of Weehawken. No light has been
thrown, up to this writing, upon the cir
cumstances attending his death. Police
Captain Mccullough says that he believes
the man fell down stairs. If he had been
assaulted with the design of robbery, his
money would not have been left. woman
on the top floor of the building says, ho5-
ever, that she heard men quarreling on the
street early in the morning, and it is sus-
pected that the man may have been made
the victim of parasite of woman with
whom he may have been.
The TATTLER learned last night that
Mr.. Stobo was the son of wealthy resi-
dent of Weehawken. Mr.. Stobo, ST.,
amassed large fortune in the laundry
business which he carried on in Weehaw-
ken for number of years. The old gen.
tleman died several years since leaving a
widow, two sons, the eldest, Robert, being
one of the directors of the First National
Bank, of Hoboken, Alexander, the dead
man, and one sister, who resided with
Alexander at his handsome brown stone
residence at 401 Bloomfield street. Alexan-
der Stobo was born about thirty years ago
in Weehawken. where he spent his boy
hood. After his fathers death he removed
to Hoboken, where he owned property.
He was always "a great favorite with most
of the young men of Hoboken, as he was
quite free with money. Some weeks since
his mother and brother went to the South
with the hope that the change would
restore her health. The sister went away,
which left him to his own devices.
A gentleman told the TATTLER that Stobo
was in the habit of going off for several
days alone. and no one knew where he
went the last seen of him by Hoboken
people was on Friday afternoon, when he
was met in the lower part Of the city by
Police Commissioner Doab about P. NJ.
He was taken to the morgue. An inquest
was held in New York last night. Several
parties said last evening that Stobb was
worth over s1,0UO,0Oo. The strange part
Of the whole thing is that his gold watch
and chain were gone, but scarf pin twas
found on him and 1886 in pocket of his
DantalOOns