The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-17
SANDDAGGING A Child.
The Desperate Crime of
Highwaymen in Kear-
ney Township.
THE STORY OF AN ALL-DAY HUNT.
Annie Green Robbed of Sixty Dol
lars and Left Dripping Wet
and Unconscious in Her
Parents Yard.

A mysterious tragedy that will engage
the best detective skill of the country to
unravel was brought to the notice of the
East Newark authorities late last night.
Yesterday morning at eight o'clock
Annie E. Green, aged thirteen years,
daughter of William H. Green, a well to
do carpenter and builder living at No. 60
Walnut street, Kearny, left her home to
go to the Office of L. L. Carlisle, at the
foot of Clay and Ogden streets, to pay
bill of $50, which her father had agreed to
pay on an order of Mr.. Armitage The
money, two ten and two twenty dollar
bills, was pinned in the girls pocket. 1t
Is but short walk from their house over
the Erie Railroad bridge to Mr.. Carlisle's
office and the child should have returned
TO her home by half-past nine O'clock
The mother became alarmed when she
did not return and at eleven O'Clock she
started for Mr.. Carhsle's Office to learn
whether her daughter had yet been
there. She found she had not.
THE MISSING GIRL.
Mrs. Green returned to her home and
her husband, who was working on Davis
avenue, was summoned. The Kearny,
Harrison and Newark police were noti-
fled and an alarm was sent out. During
the afternoon the father drove to the
search of his child. He supposed that
she had lost the money and feared to go
to her home. Finding no trace OF her In
this city he returned home again. The
child had not put in an appearance at
Mr.. Carlisle's Office at five O'Clock, and
the father and mother were nearly crazed.
Harrison and Kearny were searched, but
no one could be found who had seen her.
Shortly before nine o'clock last night the
mother had occasion to go into the yard.
There Is a long board walk leading to the
stable, and as she neared the stable she
saw black object lying on the walk.
She stopped to see what 1t was, and the
first thing she touched was the head Of
her child. The mother gave q shrek,
which startled q number of neiRhbors
who were in her house. When they
reached the spot the mother had tainted
and lay beside her child.
Both were carried into the house. The
girls clothes were wringing wet and
were immediately taken off. Her shoes,
hat and coat were missing. DrS. Sguires
and Prinden were summoned, but the
child did not regain consciousness. The
mother soon recovered from the shock,
and everything possible was done to
bring the girl around. Once DR.. Squires
thought she was coming to all right and
he asKed:-
s'Who did it, Annies"
The only reply he received was.-" Blue
shirt; blue shirt and then she went of
i'll stupor.
SHE HAD BEEN SAND BAGGED.
The physicians examined the girl
closely and felt of her head which, when
they touched it, caused her intense pain.
They both arrived at the conclusion that
she had been struck with a sand bag.
The pocket in which the money had
been pinned was torn and the pins had
been pulled from their position, and tie
money which had been placed in an d.
velope was missing.
A reporter visited the child at twelve
O'Clock. She was lying ON q lounge in
the dining room.
Her wrist is bruised and the skin torn
as if she had been dragged or thrown
down. She had evidently been lying on
the board walk for some time, as the
boards and ground were quite wet from
the water which had dripped from her
clothing.
Mr.. Green's property extends from
Walnut street to John, depth OF about
one hundred and fifty feet Walnut
street is about twenty feet higher than
John street, and in order to get up on
the Green property one must climb
steep bank. The girl could not have
climbed the bank alone, and the theory
now is that she was carried to the place
where she was found by her mother.
Except on the wrist, no bruises are
visible, and the theory that the child was.
stunned with some soft and heavylweapon
seems plausible.
The father was nearly crazed. last night
and came to Newark at midnight to
| notify the police. He suspects no one Of
the crime and knows of no one who
knew that the child had the money in
her possession.