The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-19
ONLY A FAMILY AFFAIR.
THAT'S THE Description OF A
NEWARK SHOOTING ARRAY.

Riff Range-A Razor Found in a
Murderer's CeII-New Items From All
Around the State.
A mysterious shooting affair, which IL
was impossible to find out much about on
account of the reticence of all the parties
concerned, occurred last night at the cor
ner of Pennington and South Broad
streets, Newark. Shortly before eight
O'Clock pedestrians on Broad street and
people sitting in the park had their atten-
tion attracted by a man and woman, VINO
were talking e~xcitedly.
They stood there but a few moments,
when they heard the sharp report of a PTS
toll and saw a man dart down Pennington
street. A citizen hurried to Police Head
quarters and notified Lieutenant Ashley
Of the affair. Detective Walker was sent
to investigate, but what that gentleman
discovered could not be learned.
Captain DAILY smiled q don't know
anything smile when asked o the
affair and referred the reporter to Police
Headquarters.
sent to you from Police Headquarters"
"Well," replied the captain, lit is only
q family affair, but there was some shoot
ing. Mr.. Miller and his wife had an alter
cation on the corner of Broad and Pen
nington streets. Mrs. Miller whipped u
a 22-calibre revolver and fired at her bus,
band, who, fortunately, ducked his head
and the bullet went through his hat.
Miller agreed that discretion was the bet
ter part of valor and fed to his home. 1
arrived there shortly afterwards, but Mrs.
Miller had not returned. l saw that no
damage had been done and consequently
made no arrests"
If a small boy or citizen had discharged
a revolver in the street, however. he
would nave been arrested for violating a
city ordinance and would have been fined.
Why the police were so reticent in this
case it is difficult to understand. =
Liquors on the Rifle Range.
An officer of the Seventh Regiment, on
Saturday, criticised the action of the
ladies of the Temperance Union who
went to Governor Green to get him to
stop the selling of liquor on the State
rifle range at Sea Girt. The officer says
that before the sale of liquor was per-
mitted on the range, it was the custom of
the men to go off to Manasquan without
an officer, and there were several in
stances when they got drunk. conducted
themselves in a ~disgraceful manner and
several times got left by their trains.
This disorder was remedied at once when
the sale was permitted on the range, for
the men were under the eyes of the Gov
ernor and their officers, IL this had a re-
straining influence.
AS soon as the Governors attention
was called to the matter by the ladies, he
of course stopped the further sale OF
liquor on the range, which was pract1-
cally, by its results, a temperance meas
ure. 1.-THE Governor" concluded the
officer, Determined that if the ladies
wanted theoretical temperance instead OF
~ nna%fnaI law 1OnH ha xryNJ1ld ciUn II IN
them, but the lamentable state of affairs
of which l have spoken will surely be the
result"
A Razor in a Murderer's Cell.
Austin E. Myatt, who is serving the
first year of a ten years. sentence for the
killing of James E. C%avanaugh, has be-
come very morose and respondent, and
there Is q suspicion that he is losing his
color to the theory that he anticipated
suicide, when taken into consideration
with the following facts
Myatt has been running a machine in
the shoe shop since his incarceration and
at times did service in the prison barber
shop. He became dissatisfied with his
work and said he was not going to run
the machine much longer, that his wife
had said he did not ave to do it.
Significance for this remark is supposed
to come from the subsequent happening
of n of the keepers finding a razor which
he had evidently distracted from the bar
Der shop, under his pillow in his cell.
Owing to his conduct he had been under
surveillance for some time and had been
put as q cell mate with Jonathan Hughes,
the Camden forger, who has earned a
reputation for making perverse prisoners
tractable by his companionship and in
f1uence.
Tha Dr;sor o-+bor;+;as bova 1it+la do,,bt
that Wyatt contemplated making way
with himself.
Arresting a Passenger.
When the Pullman parlor car. Eliza
beth, on the Atlantic City Railroad, rolled
in at Kaighu's Point Ferry the porter
told Policeman Painter to arrest a pas
senger who had just stepped from the
car and was on his way to The ferry. No
explanation was made, and the prisoner
was taken to the City Hall and locked up.
He was seen in his hotel by a reporter,
and said he was Edwin Walker, No. 1854
Vanderbilt avenue, New York. With his
brother-in-law, Walter Savi,le, of East
Falls on the way up from the seashore
they occupied seats in the parlor car.
When the fares n tickets were col
lected Mr.. Saville paid for both seats.
The porter afterward came and de-
manded twenty-five cents, claiming that
Walkers seat was not paid for. Walker
says he gave the porter half a dollar and
received no change.
Chief of Police Dodd released Walker
on SO security furnished by the prisoner.
He will be given a hearing tomorrow at
ten O'Clock by Recorder Braker. He says
he will enter suit against the Reading
company for false arrest.
An s. p. C. A. Suit About a Horse.
Suit will be brought against DR.. Werner
Runge or the Newark Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, of which
the Doctor is superintendent. About two
weeks ago the Doctor was called by a citi-
zen to look at two horses which had been
left OF a lot on Springfield avenue. The
horses were unable to walk and were suf-
fering great pain, and the Doctor assassi-
mated them. He claims that the owner
of the horses could not be found.
The horses, according to his story, had
been traded off a number of tunes, each
time their owner having made the best of
the bargain, as the animals were worth
less.
Counsellor Abner Kalisch claims that the
horses were examined after death by DIR.
Sherk, who claims that they could have
been cured and were only afflicted with
thrush. He denies that the horses were
neglected and claims that they had an
owner. One of the horses, he says, was
worth $3.50. The case will come up in the
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