The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-08
. MOTHERS SAD STORY.
FELLED WITH Il FIAT IRON ron
TRYING TO STEAL HER CHILD.

them is concerned. Hester Madden, the
younger, a woman of tw~enty-three,
buxom and handsome, is at the City Hos
pltal in a very precarious condition. Her
mother-in-law, Ann Madden. of No. 252
Ferry street, is held at the Third Precinct
pending the result of the younger
woman's injuries.
hester. who is separated from her hus-
band, lives with friends at No. 1867
Chapel street. Her husband, John Mad
den, is a bartender on Mulberry street,
and they did not live happily together,
the wife having been discharged from the
County Jail for drunkenness only Tues
day. During her husbands absence from
home yesterday she went there with the
Intention of stealing her two children.
She succeeded in getting her little
boy, aged four, away safely and 1t
IS presumed he is with her friends.
Then she went back to get the
little girl, aged five, but in the meantime
her mother-inlaw heard of the first abb
duction and was on the lookout. When
Hester returned the older woman met her
on the stairs and a fight ensued. Mrs.
ode seeing that the younger woman
could beat her ran into her apartments
and seized a heavy f~latiron, Rushing out
In the heat of passion she began to be-
labor the daughter about the neck and
body, finally striking her on the head and
skull: The young woman fell to the floor
shrieking and bleeding. The neighbor-
hood was aroused and a great crowd as
sembled at the entrance.
While some one went for the police DR..
r. NJ. Knight, of No. 152 Lexington ave
nue., New York city, who was passing,
entered the hallway and attended the
injured woman until the ambulance
arrived. He said she was very badly in
1Y1Pn6 HaT 1ff1n doI1ohfot uraTnf n1mnCt
into Mysteries on seeing her mother SO
badly hurt,
Policeman Smith and Driver Owen
Smith took the woman to the City Hos
pital in m unconscious condition. The
house surgeons said that her skull had
been fractured just above the left ear.
Camden Excited Over a Dyke.
The decision of the Acting Secretary of
War, concerning the building of the
Fishers Point Dyke, at Camden, has
caused considerable commotion among
the city officials and residents as to where
the city will secure it's water supply in
the future. The officials are of the opin-
ion that the wording of the decision
meant that the dyke would be built at an
early date to Petty's Island. In that case
the supply would be entirely cut off, and
the city would necessarily be compelled
to secure another place to get the water.
A visit was made yesterday to the MEM
bers of the Board of Health, Water Com
mittee, of Council, and several members
of the governing body of the city. They
all agreed that the city was placed in q
predicament, but there was no remedy.
The decision had been rendered unfavor-
able to the wishes of the Board of Health,
but as the courts had sustained the action
of the government they considered it
would be a useless task for the city to
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the Board of Health stated that they
would take no further action, and the
Water Committee would leave the ques-
ton of supply for the city for future mem
bers who will be elected to decide.
Differences About a Church Plan.
The vestry of Christ Church, East Or
ange, are in considerable difficulty over
the plans for the proposed new church on
the site of thestructure which was burned
last Christmas, Two architects submitted
plans for what it was understood should
be a $50, 600 church, One-plan submitted
was for a plain church and another vas
for a very elegant edifce. The latter de-
signs We're submitted by Architect Rob
ertson, of New York, and they We're
accepted. Bids were then advertised for
on Mr.. Robertson's plan. A meeting was
held, the bids were opened, and the low
est figure was found to be nearly 100000,
just aboutseventy-tiyepe per centhigherthan
the approximate estimate, Although
subscriptions for the church had poured
in bountifully and the vestry was inclined
to be liberal, for they are ambitious to
have a grand church, this was entirely
beyond the uttermost limit of it's lib
eral imagination. An entirely new set of
plans viii now be drawn up.
A Murderer's Attempt to Escape,
Charles Aeker, the convicted murderer
of Jacob fash, at Princeton, attempted to
break Jail at Trenton on Monday. 1t was
found out that he had been engaged for
several days in digging through the wall.
Iron hooks about six inches long We're the
only tools used, and they were pulled out
of the wall. The hole when found was
about six inches deep and eighteen inches
long. During the day Aeker filled the
hole with pieces of mortar picked out of
the wall with the hooks, which were COW
cred with brown soap SO that they had
the appearance of a spot on the wall where
the white was knocked off, Ackef is now
in the cell occupied by Murderer Wyatt
last winter.
A Grand Ball at the Beach.
The Beach House at Sea Girt will be
the scene of a brilliant military ball on
September 2. Governor Green has invited
GIlH Observation-Disclosures IllG bSttLh, WulCA HAS
achieved such a series of victories in
England, to visit the State camp at the
end of the month, and the dance is to be
given in honor of the marksmen. Several
Governors of other States, each attended
by q glittering suite of staff colonies, will
be present, as well as the officers and a
selection of the mel of most of the New
Jersey and Pennsylvania regiments.
General E. Burd Grub and the City
Troop of Philadelphia will, it is expected,
take q leading part in the ball, which
will be in every sense a military one, even
to the extent of guard mount on the
piazza and grounds of the Hotel.
Big Boiler shipment,
The National Iron Works, of New
Brunswick, have just completed the ship
ment of six large water tube boilers, of
their manufacture, to Trien Factory,
Georgia.
Eight of the large Pennsylvania cars
were required to transport the boilers,
the aggregate weight being over $4,000
pounds.
The National Iron Works are receiving
orders from nearly every section of the
country, n have their boilers working
successfully as far west as Kansas City
and St. Paul in the Northwest, They have
Just finished setting up one in Nashville,
Tenn, and they have a large business in
the Eastern States as well.
Couldn't Stand Being Called a aseab..
Patrick Hamilton, of No. los Morris