The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-15
Exciting elimination of a
South Jersey Scandal.
HE is "a SOLE SURVIVOR. .
Romantic Story of a Young New
arker Charged with Robbery
News of the State.
special 70 the yerseu citg Netes.

mothers cottage.
Mrs. Harmon is clever and well con-
nected. About year ago. when she laid
aside her widows weeds, she hired a
pleasant little cottage at Bakersville,
where she and her daughter lived.
Immediately afterward Frederick
Hinckle, a well known Philadelphia
folks, and became such a familiar figure
at the cottage that people looked upon
him as the head of the house.
Louise HannOn, for her part, however,
was very sensitive and held apart from
the girls of Bakersville, while all the
mothers said she was "a very good girl
and what a pity" This went on until
last Sunday, when the tale in Bakers
vile was that Hinckle became jealous of
young wal" Yates attention to Mrs.
Harmon, and finding him ut the cottage
upon returning after short absence he
flew in rage and turned the widow and
her daughter out of doors. However, this
was fixed up, the mother and daughter
regained possession of their home and on
last Tuesday evening Hinckle was seen
about the cottage as usual.
The firefiies and the moon made the
only light in Bakersville that night at
eleven o'clock, when swiftly fleeing over
the tracks and across the sand fields went
Louise Harmon crying "MurderI' Her
dark hair flew in a thousand strands and
her face was white as she ran straight
way to Lon Emily's cottage, q quarter Of
a mile from her home, and breathlessly
lifted the gate latch and braved his watch
dog as she stood painting and knocking at
his door.
''Mr. Emily Mr.. Emily!' she cried to
the startled Villager, Hes trying to kill
mother"
Mr.. Emily was down stairs in jiffy
and learned from the frightened child
hot Ill hn1 yn1 So n1 NJ
the cottage and had attacked the widow,
while she escaped
With lighted lantern they hurried
together to the house of William Bois,
the village blacksmith, and he willingly
joined him. Then the two men with
cottage. When they reached it it was
dark and still and the only living object
abroad was old Mrs. Grisley, who heard
the Cry of alarm.
II wonder if she's dead" sobbed the
child.
The enquiry filed the others with sud-
den fear
There's only one thing to do" whis-
pered one of them. $50 to Squire Bates,
at Absecom, that's five miles of. !"
They had the girl accompany them, and
by midnight the h1acksntth's bay mare
was rather surprised to find herself in the
Dearborn shafts, trotting sleepily over
a
mare got the whip, and thoroughly awak-
ened went spinning through the sleeping
town, with her name in the sea breeze,
straight for Absecom, where Squire Bates
lived. Squire Bates nightcap was tipped
with moonlight as .,I1 he leaned out OF his
He admitted the blacksmith, the villager
and the girl, and after hearing her state
ment issued a warrant at one a. M charg-
ing Frederick Hinckle with crime. Two
O'Clock found the old Dearborn ratuling
up in front of Constable Rainer's house in
another village, and he was handed the
warrant and taken aboard.
1t was three O'Clock in the morning
when the party returned to Bakersville.
Constable Rainer entered the gate of the
widows cottage and the others watched.
His knock was answered by Hinckle him
said the officer. He obeyed and was told
he was under arrest When the warrant
was read to him he called the widow to
prove that she wasn't hurt.
But the warrant charged more than
that, and he was straightway taken to
Absecom and locked up. The next morn
ing Mrs. Harmon refused to appear
against him and the magistrate was COM
PEELED to release him.
Louise Harmon didn't return to the
cottage, but after remaining at Emily's
all night, went to Atlantic City to make
hef own living, She sald.
The Romantic Story of Young New
arl1er Charged with Robbery.
Special to the Jersey City Ne,cs
NEWARK, July Is, 1ss9.-Thomas Han
ley, twenty-seven-year-old boy of No
2S6 Halsey street, who was arrested here
last night for series of fanlight rob-
berries, has had remarkable experience.
His parents came from England to this
country twelve years ago.
They desired to have the boy with them,
and sent money to purchase his passage
by the ill-fated steamer Atlantic of the
White Star Line. The latter company
entered into active competition with the
Cunard Line for the best class of ocean
trade. The new steamers were models of
beauty in ship craft, and they sailed the
ocean as speedily as any vessel afloat.
When on her way to this country the
good ship Atlantic was wrecked, and but
one soul on board out of hundreds was
saved. That one was young Hanley.
The boy crawled through portfolio and
managed to escape off q rock near New
found1and. For a while Hanley was
lionized He was the hero of the hour,
owners of the White Star Company
offered to educate and adopt the boy, with
view to making him an officer in their
service, but his father declined all offers
and Thomas was kept home. where he
ran the streets neglected.
He has been arrested several times and
was once sent to Caldwell for year. He
escaped. was rearrested and sent back.
Officer Hill arrested him ON Friday on
suspicion, but now he is accused of break
ing and entering.
A Jersey City Man Becomes the Victim
in Newark.
A man who said his name was Strauss,
and that he resides at No. 100 Wickliffe
street, this city, secured the arraignment
in Newark this morning of Nellie Ray
mond on charge of having robbed him.
Nellie gives her residence in New York,
but she is in reality an inmate of no
torious place on Spring street, Newark,
kept by Maud S. Conant. On Saturday
Strauss and Nellie fell in with each other
and at night went to hotel near the
depot and engaged a room.
Sometime during the night Strauss be-
came aware of the fact that he had been
robbed, and Immediately had her ar
rested Yesterday morning the pro-
prietor of the house appeared in court
with $50 in small bills all crumpled up,
which he said he had found under the bed
in the room that Strauss had engaged.
Nellie was sent to the Special Sessions
to have hearing at later date on the
oharoa of larcenV from the nArSOn