The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-01

IA RnrIinpton Sensational Rich Uncle OF
% General Grubb Dies-..Dr." Thomp-
son, of Trenton. Ellis a Patient-Gen
eral News of the state.
Since the death of Nathaniel Lane,
which occurred at his home on East Peafl
s street, Burlington, on Sunday, umor OF
N probable foul play have been CIRCULATED.
4 Lane was a member OF the Parker GruDo
Grand Army Post, and his comrades de,
cided to have an lnyesJlgabloh hlaue "
By their request Coroner Naylor held
an investigation last night III Andrew
Longstreet's little shoe shop, a few doors
from the Lane house.
Longstreet testified that in March last
Mary Vansciver, a married daughter OF
Lanes, died suddenly and mysteriously
and there were suspicious that she had
been poisoned. Lane told Longstreet that
shortly after his daughter died he was
taken suddenly i'll and thought he had
been poisoned. He said his wife fire.
quently threatened his life, and he made
Iongstreet promise that II ne died dur
ing Longstreet's lifetime he would have
an investigation made as to u OF
death.
Mrs. Hannah Hayward often heard
Mrs. Lane wish her husband was dead
and if he didn't hurry up and die she
4 would have to put him out of the way.
/ VII OItt OICdolO Jill oSt 4tsf1% A
dinner home from the foundry where ne
worked ~uneaten, and placing some fried
eggs filed with finely pounded glass on
the table said to his wife:-What are you
| trying to do with ME, kill mes',
A day or two before he died Mrs. Hay
| ward was present when Mrs. lane was
giving her husband his medicine. Mrs.
Lane remarked:-sI gave a dog a dose
once" and as she passed out of the room
she gave a knowing nod OF her head to-
wards Mrs, Hayward.
Mrs. Webster, who lives with the Lanes,
testified that three weeks before a doctor
was called Lane was taken violently i'll
with cramps in his stomach, vomiting for
several hours and for some days after act
ing like an insane man.
The Coroner then visited the Lane
house and made a search for bottles OF
medicine, and also scrutinized the corpse
which lay in one of the rooms.
He presented the case to Prosecutor
Hendrickson at Mt. Holly yesterday
morning, who advised an investigation to
he made. DIR. Joseph Snreve, who at
tended Lane during his last illness, made
an examination. He claims there were
no signs of poisoning and the funeral was
permitted to go on.
politan and United States Industrial In-
surance Companies. the policy for the
last-named company being taken u a
few days before he died.
she's No Common Pensioner.
Mrs. Marcia H. Fay, widow of William
Ii Fay, made an application TO Vice
Chancellor Bird, at Trenton yesterday,
for an injunction restraining General
James r.. Rushing from mailing, dis
tributing or publishing certain hand bills
or circulars containing u list Of pension
ers who are alleged to have obtained their
pensions through the Generals agency:
Mrs. Fay is employed at the Office OF the
Real Estate Title Company. In her bill
she states that General Rushing has is
sued a circular for advertising purposes
containing a large number OF pension
cases allowed through his agency and
that the name Of Mrs. Fay is on the cir
cular as a pensioner. The petitioner as
serts that she has never been en-
rolled upon the government pen
sion rolls and has never. obtained a
pension through General Rusling's
agency. She believes that such publica-
ton will injure her by causing = to be
believed that she has received and is in
possession of means for the maintenance
Of herself and her three children. Il is
consequently not in need of employment.
She has already been spoken to about the
.naatter. She 9~lsofears that the circnla