The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-22
THEIR FAMILY TROUBLES.
The McFarlands Waive Examina-
tion en- the Charge Of Grand
Larceny.

Robert Mcfarland last night waived
examination of the charges of grand lar
ceny preferred against him and his wife
by George Schwoerer, the supposed
matricide. Neither George nor his sister,
Mr.. McFarland's wife, were present when
the case was called by Justice McCabe.
Mrs. Mcfarland has been very ill ever
since the death OF her mother Both Nc
Farland and his wife were placed under
$500 bonds to appear before the Grand
Jury. and the two colored Gardens, In
whose rooms Mcfarland and his wife
were found when examining the box con-
tanning the money and will left by Mrs.
SchWoerer, We're also held in the sum of
$500 on the charge of receiving stolen
goods.
Counsellor Black represented Mr.. Nc
Farland and advised this mode of proce-
dure. Mr.. Mcfarland said he only
wanted the earliest chance to put himself
straight in the eyes of public opinion
George and his sister had already ex-
amined the box before he reached the
house. They had searched for deed for
the mothers burial plou. Neither could
relock the box, and the sister, as was in
yariably the custom o. the mother when
about to leave home, sent the box up into
the Garden apartments for safe keeping.
The house at the time was full OF
strangers
When her husband arrived Mrs Far
land asked him TO assist her in the search
for the burial plot deed, as she thought
her brother was too intoxicated to have
recognized the deed among so many
other private papers. They We're engaged
in this occupation when Young
Schwoerer appeared upon the scene with
officers OF the law and ordered the arrest.
No one seems TO know the amount of
money left in the box Schwoerer claims
there were nearly $500, but Mr. McFar-
land claims he counted but $S5, which he
did not count until after he was sur
prised by young Schwoerer and the Off
GERS.
III the meantime much interest is man
ifested in the neighborhood over the
arrest of Schwoerer on the charge of
poisoning his mother. Mr.. Mcfarland
mad nothing to do with this, and notwith-
standing the heartlessness displayed by
the brother in dragging off the sister at
midnight TO the Office of Justice of the
Peace TO charge her with grand larceny,
it is SAID the accusation against her
brother of poisoning her mother has
much to do with her present serious I'll
ness. She does not believe a word of it.
The arrest of young Schwoerer was
made at the instance of the police author
tiles when they ascertained that Dr. Nc
Laughlin refused to issue q burial per-
init, because the mother in her death
struggle showed symptoms of poison and
accused the son OF poisoning a bowl of
soup which he gave her to drink. The
people who know George. snap their
fingers and say there is nothing in the
charge. The stomach of the dead woman
is now in the hands of experienced chem
lists for analysis, and they will not report
for several days.
The examination in the case
of George Schwoerer. accused of
having poisoned his mother
was postponed, this morning, by
Justice Stilsing until tomorrow at ten
a. m. The report of County Physician
Converse is not yet ready.