Evening journal., 1889-11-16
TIE WHOLE FAMILY SHOT
A Negro Fires Through 3
Window.
FIVE PERSONS WERE WOUNDED

And the Desperate was Himself Fatally
Wounded by Chance shot in ths
Dark-He Was Found Dying in u Hay
Loft.
HAcKENsAcK, N j., Nov 16--News Of
dastardly attempt by Robert Sutton, fI
Shraalenburg IN. ~ negro, 70 Kill his wife
hannah, and the probable death of the
would-be murderer has just reached here
Sutton if in jail with load Of shot in the
right side OF his chest aud his lungs cut al
most 70 pieces. He Is o desperate character
well known 60 the authorities OF both Berger
and Passaic counties, and has served time II
both the Hackensack and Paterson jails, and
though only % years old, he has lived viii
a dozen different women in a shanty neal
Closter. He beat the last woman OF his
choice Monday night and drove her out Of
the house. He learned later that she wat
stopping with Henry Sisco, a colored man
who lives IA tho house Of David b. Blauyelt
OF Schraalenburg, a member of the Berger
county board Of freeholders, and armed him
self with q shotgun.
He Shot the whole Family.
Henry Sisco and his family, consisting oi
his wife, her mother, William jackson, Il
years old, and Susie Bakepan, aged "A years,
were sitting in their home with sutton's VIII,
at about o'clock, when the report of gun
outside was followed by a shower Of broken
glass and shot, which struck aud cut evory
person in the room. The shot came through
west window. All the occupants fell C
IA. al.... a
second load OF shot came through a south
window and hit them again Two or three
more shots followed that did no damage,
however. Mrs Sisco seized a gun which
stood in the corner OF the room, and handing
it to jackson she said; '0o shoot them
A shot In the Dark.
jackson took the gun and rushed out OF
the house, and firod at what he took 10 bc q
man, but it was rnining and as dark as
pitch. Il proved afterward that his aim
was good The bombardment OF the house
ceased and the people inside hurried out &c
search the premises and call assistance.
Neighbors came with lanterns. but the only
sign of the assailants was a single barreled
gun found in the grass about fifty yardi
from the house
The Desperate Captured.
IL was decided 70 Keep the TACT OF thi
shooting quiet until Sutton, who was sns
/ pected Of the crime, could be found. Tn
county constables were started out TO fin,
him, but mo trace Of him was DISCOVERIES
until last night, when Tony Robinson, al
old colored man who lives about a quarter o
a mile from Sisco's, found him in his hn,
NOW, faint and probably fatally wounded
Constable John ". B. Westervolt was not
fed and the wounded man was carried int
the house. He admitted thnt he flred tw
shots and said no crept into the barn be
cause he was not able 60 travel an,
further. The persons who were injured b.
his shots were taken before Justice WeEter
welt, of Bergen Fields, and swore 70 a com
plant against the prisoner, charging hin
with atrocious assault and battery with in
tent TO kill All of the occupants of th
house were hit, and it is feared that some o
the shot lodged in Henry Sisco's stomach.
jackson Arrested Also.
jackson, who shot Sutton, is wounded 4
the back, near the neck, but as IA formalit
a complaint OF atrocious assault was mad
against him. Freeholder Blauvelt gave Oh
necessary bonds and the hero Of the occasio
received his freedom.