The evening world., 1888-09-13
BROKER BENEFITS LIFE WAIVERS


Broker Daniel Benefits life is wavering.
The old mans home on Forest street, Jersey
City, the scene OF the robbery and possible
murder Of Sunday morning, is darkened
by the shadow of death. and although DIR.
favorable, the wife and children dread the
worst and hardly leave the sufferers bedside.
The relapse which set in yesterday at noon
continued to bear him down Until at 10
o'clock he found rest in sleep; The
symptoms Of paralysis had become
hourly more manifest. The old gentle
man found it difficult to speak or swallow
and his he ring finally began to fail. The
wound on his head grew worse also. and evil
dences of blood poisoning and intlammation
of the brain decided in DIR. Wilkinson's
mind that the family must prepare for the
worst.
The old gentleman slept until 4 o'clock
this morning, and after a few restless minutes
sank again into a deep slumber. from which
he did not awake until long after daylight.
AT $50 Dr.. Wilkinson cal ed and found
him brighter. his throat more free and the
wound in q better condition.
He then became more hopeful, and said
that the crisis would come in forty-eight
hours.
Young Augustus Bennett remained with
his father oil night, and was sleeping soundly
when The EVENING WORLD reporter called at
the house this morning. Chief Murphy and
Capt. Smith arrived with the reporter. They
remained only a short time, and found moth
ing new;
iety for her husband, as are also her daugh-
tiers, Misses Kate and Marvel. She il highly
indignant over the insinuation Of her sons
guilt, so widely circulated. and refuses to
read the papers.
The young man Augustus is beginning to
feel the effects of the double strain imposed
by his fathers trouble and his
own. Suspicious fingers are point
i iRs at including a,m t iIo@ Of fV', several S're Of
the police on the case. He meets their sus-
picion by vowing that he will devote his life
time and every cent that he may control to
the discovery of the assassin.
He declared to the reporter that he could
n sver live quietly under such a stigma and
that his one object in the future will be its
removal.
The police are still investigating his past
life and associations, but as Chief Murphy
says. "They fail to find any vestige of a
motive, au essential element of such q crime"
The stories of a sensational nature concern
ing his engagement are received with disgust
by the chief, who does not hesitate to de-
nounce as preposterous the idea that his
relations of this nature may be connected
with the case.
The young lady to whom Augustus is en-
gagged called at the Bennett house this morn
ng. Old Mr.. Benne is very fond of her,
and the stories of his objections to the match
are ridiculous.
TIL reporter who called AT the house this
morn ng earned an important point from the
colored girl. Lucy Flemming.
"One thing is certain" said she. When
1 left the house. Saturday night, that parlor
window was closed. l looked in the room be-
fore leaving.
But, then. Mr.. Benefits very restless and
he may have come down after he went to bed
and opened it,"
1t may be that Mr.. Bennett was mistaken
in his statement to Chief Murphy concerning
the window.
The Chief has no new clues, but Is dill
gently working OH the old ones. He says
that there are not likely to be any develop
ments of importance to day.
The case still furnishes Jersey people with
food Tor wonder and is. without a doubt, the
most mysterious and inexplicable that has
been brought to the notice of the police III
years.