The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-13
INCA CAMPS ROMANCE.
YOUNG GIRL TARRED
FEATHERED By RIVALS.

Servant-Com1ng County
eral News of the State.
The New Brunswick FredOniGn is re
sponsible for this remarkable yarn
Minnie and Alice Halsey, and Louis
Granger, with several young men were
encamped on Saecoon Island near Orange
in charge of Samuel Halsey. The girl
are pretty, and range in ages from hfteer
to nineteen years.
A party of young men from Plainfield
who styled themselves '"The Night Owls
were encamped near Byram Cove. Brady
was a member of the might Owls" The
girls from Camp Inca seemed never happy
except when in Walters company. They
were plainly in love with him. :,
Three lays later, while he was out sail
ing in a catboat with Alice Halsey and
Miss Granger. and a young man named
Hoffman, q storm arose. The boat proved
seaworthy, and weathered the gale easily
Suddenly as the boat emerged from the
cover of Bertrand Island, a small boat
dashed into view and directly across the
bow of the other boat. A collision FOL
lowed, and the small vessel came to gr1ef.
A young girl wa the only occupant OF the
water. Brady left the management OF
his boat to Hoffman and dived into the
lake. He seized the young m and
placed her On board.
The girl proved to be Miss Kurtz. She
was tall and pretty, with a. wealth OF
light brown hair and a form of matchless
beauty. She thanked Brady for the SER
vice in her behalf and said that she was
stopping with her mother and aunt at the
Ogden House.
From that night Brady was smitten
with Maggie Kurtz and she reclprocated
the feeling. The Halsey sisters, Miss
Granger. Miss Kurtz, Brady and the boys
of Camp Inca were together frequently,
however, and apparently enjoyed each
others company.
The Halsey girls invited Miss Kurtz to
them on a trip for pond lilies.
This was on July "a. Miss Kurtz accepted
the invitation, N the party went toward
Woodport. They landed two miles from
the starting point.
The Halsey sisters and Miss Granger
threw Maggie to the ground and tied her
hands. Then they, clipped off her tresses
and tossed them into the lake. Remoy-
ing her clothing they besmeared her body
with tar procured from q boat builder,
and applied the feathers. Louise Granger
worked the India nike design. 1t is that OF
a goat il a belligerent poise.
The victims pleas for. mercy were met
with insult. She was told that her con-
duct toward Walter Brady was response
BILE for her treatment. Maggie was allowed
to land near the Ogden House.
Her friends were Mortified at seeing her
condition, n insisted upon knowing the
names of her brutal assailants. The girl
refused to make any disclosures until
after the coating of tar and feathers was
removed, WhenS she informed those about
her that she was vas waylaid by a party
of men dressed in female attire.
A search was made for the miscreantS,
TQraIu hairn toparnO oct in thu HINT t
On the following day Camp Inca broke
up and the members returned to their
homes.
After assuring herself that her enemies
had gone Miss Kurtz revealed the whole
story and asked that the matter be allowed
to drop. Nothing was done in the case
until DIR. William Mackneff assured the
victim and her friends that she would be
disfigured for life by the India ink design
on her forehead.
1t appears that Walter Brady and Mag
gle plighted their troth at the lake. The
girls parents consented to their marriage
some time ago.
Brady says that he will assist in the
prosecution of Miss Kurtz's assailants.
A Professional Servant Girl Thief.
On July 80, Charles A. West, of Brook
1yn, who has a summer residence at
Avondale, called on Chief Hopper to
report that a servant girl named Libby
Watson entered his service on July IS.
During his absence OF business in New
York Libby left the house with about
$500 worth of jewelry and clothing.
Chief Hopper turned the case over to
Detective Ward, who detailed Detective
Stainsby to work it up. The detective
worked along up till Saturday, when he
got some information indicating that the
party was identical with q who
had worked in East Orange, the United
States Hotel and elsewhere, and was
known by other names than Watson.
Twenty or thirty people were seen, and
then Stainsby located the woman at a
house on Bank street. Even then his
work was not finished, because the
woman is unusually skillful and cum
ming. He went to the house between
eight and nine o'clock yesterday morn
ing, but the woman was absent. He
learned that all the goods were in her
rooms. He examined them and waited
until a quarter past twelve, when the
woman returned. Having arrested and
locked her up Stainsby found he had all
the goods wanted, and he will be able to
have them returned.
The prisoner was defiant and would
give no satisfaction, but Stainsby was de-
termined to get at the bottom of the mat
ter, and suspeeting that she was an old
timer, he wanted her record. He took
Deputy Warden johnson to Police Head
quarters and the latter recognized the
woman as Dora Connors, aged about
twenty-three, who was sent to State
Prison for three years. for stealing, from
Orange. She was only released last Feb
ruary. Seeing that she was cornered the
woman asked Warden johnson not to
.'give her away" She has been known as
Dora Connors, Eliza Redmond, Libby
Watson and Tillie Richards, and her
picture will be taken today.
Fairs for s
The following is a list of the prominent
fairs, with their dates, to be held in this
vicinity during the present year,
Cumberland county, Bridgeton, N. j., Septem-
Der 2 to s.