New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-10
A BROKER PROBABLY KILLED
oh. BENEFITS MYSTERIOUS WOUND.


SPEAK TO TELL WHO WAS HIS AssAILANT
One more mystery in the New-Jersey criminal
calendar was brought TO light in Jersey City
yesterday. At about o'clock in the morning DE
James Wilkinson informed the Chief of Ponce
that man who WIS probably dying from the
effects of blow on the head was in bed Mt No.
1901 Forrest-st Tho man was Daniel H.
Bennett Of the firm OF H. @ Bennett & Co., No.
&C Wallst, brokers' He WAS covered with blood
and the bed was soaked with IT. when at 6 a. M
his son Augustus called to a mill1man and asked
him to 60 for physician The milkman declined
but young man named Barnes heard the son and
said he would seek the doctor The messenger
brought back Dr. James Wilkinson, Of No. 27s
Bergen-ave., who at once pronounced the case a
critical one.
Mr. Bennett is seventy-four years old, hale
and hearty His wound was three inches
in length and was on the left side of the head,
Just above the temple II cut into the bone ana
bled profusely. The blood flowed in such quanti-
ties that DR.. Wilkinson subsequently said that ne
thought that not less than two quarts had been
lost DR.. Wilkinson called again at a. n ana
found the condition Of his unconscious patient so
desperate that he sent for his father, DIR. George
Wilkinson, of the oldest practitioners In Jersey
City. The two held consultation, and agreed
that the chances were much against the injured
man.
The cause Of the unfortunate condition OF Mr.
Bennett is mystery. No one but himself ana his
Augustus slept in the house on Saturday night
The cOlored servant girl, Julia Cummings, left the
house at about 6 o'clock in the evening and did
not return until after the discovered the con-
dition Of his father. The was away from home
during the early part OF the night and did
not return until l o'clock He says that
when he came home the front door was
locked, and after he entered the house he again
locked it. Nothing attracted his attention until
he heard his father vomiting, and then he ran to
bis assistance and called the mlkman. He
positively assured Chief Of Police Murphy that
he knew nothing about the cause of his fathers
injuries The Chief and his detectives made
careful search of the premises and were unable to
find any weapon that would cause such an IN
jury. Whoever committed the deed did not USE
or at least did not leave, any burnt matches or
candles in the house. The gas has been turned
off for several weeks and no evidence that any
of the kerosene lamps had been used could be
found
Mr.. Bennett slept in o front alcove room on
the second foor. The police learned that window
in the Of the house on the same hoor had oeeh
raised and that a wire mosquito net had been re-
moved from the sash and placed against the wall
here were no marks on the window sash that would
indicate that jimmy other instrument had
been used TO open il, although, when tried yes
terday, it opened only by much eXeruon because
Of its swollen condition; The police iutther
learned that chair bad been overturned near
the window, but from the position IT was in they
concluded that II had been done By some one
in the house, and not by any one entering the
window To enter this window II would be neces-
sary TO climb grape arbor that joins the house.
Not the slightest indication could be found that
this had been done. The only article missing
was a gold watch, valued ot $3.50. |; had a
Watham movement and was marked A. /. IL
on the case. The house is Il twc-story one, ana
is the third in a between Bergen end Jack
son aves. The police were unable to find SIN
gle thing that indicated forcbe entrance 10
the house and. although they are working hard
on the case no arrests have been made.
Dr. George Wilkinson was asked last
pght about bout the said condIGn tb5, he pTHb. Mr
aSIT nsTne''' would qd' die he lie lie added: There
are no indications that the skull is fractured but
Mr.. Bennett is suffering from conGgsslon 9 Of the
caused by Jimmy. or policcman's club, or any
similar weapon. Mr.. Bennett has a wife and
daughter, who are now at Grahamsvllle, and
three sons, Augustus being the only one living at
home lIe has been West lately with brother.
understand he has bad habits, and he and
his father were more affectionate toward each
other than father and son usually are
When Augustus, the son, was seen by Tribune
reporter last night he said am twenty-five
years old, and am the one who first discovered
fathers injuries lie is now conscious, but cannot
speak, although he understands what IS said to
him. II about S a. m. when / first heard
father vomiting, and, after seeing his condition.
asked milllman to 60 for doctor When the
servant g1rl returned this morning she discovered
the open window and the overturned chair. |
think some one climbed up the arbor and entered
the window in that way" Young MIR. Barnes, who
went for the physician, corroborated the statement
that the servant found the window open His
mother said that she thought she heard the voice
of young Bennett talking 70 his father. She was
not positive, and said, If il were fact Bennett
might have been trying to arouse his father from
his unconscious condition