New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-29
THE 4rLsyrIc HIGHLANDS MURDER.
ARREST OF THE FARMLAND SUBJECTED OF KILL
ING MRS. LEONARD.

ARREST OF THE FARMLAND 81 tFfIl VI hAASb
ING MRS. LEONARD. %
Atlantic Highlands. n. j., Nov. % (SpeciaD-Ths
only tonic for conversation throughout this part Of the
country to-day is the brutal murder Of Mrs Charles I.
Leonard Yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Leonard with his
wife and three children, living in a large new
house on the high bluff Of the bay shore, about one
mile west of here. lie owns farm. and Is IN COM
Portable circumstances. Yesterday Mr. Leonam "ehs
away and left his farmland Louis Harlot at work
cartnc manure. When Mr.. Leonard came nome AZ
4 O'Clock he saw the team and Hariot had been
using standing near the barn. The man was not TO
he seem and Mr. Leonard put the horses In the stable
and attended to the animals he had been using himself
and went 10 the house. where he found his three
children hut not his wife. The children were crying
for their mother. whom they could not md. Mr.
Leonard questioned them found that they had left
home lust after dinner and gone to play WIN some
children who live near by, and had left their mother
at home
Mr. Leonard was not as yet uneasy, for he Thoughts
his wife must have gone with some Of her res-
lives who live in the neighborhood and who cften drove
In and took her away TO make calls Annie, the onest
child a girl Of fourteen. had by this time got supper
ready and they sat to the table, but Mr. Leonard
could not eat lie became nervous, and went out I'd
the nearest negbbors u ask IL they had seen anything
Of his WIFE lie learned nothing ana came
home Taking lamp he searched the houSe
He opened n door that led into an unfurnshed room
IN the lower part Of the house ana the hgh. ici oA
the body of his wife lying the floor Her face was
covered with blood. and her neck encirced BY hVs
turns of a clothesllne. There deep cash on ths
temple.
Mr. Leonard called nelghbors and all suspected inc
farmland IIariot. In few minutes the news
reached this place and parties were soon SCREENING iVr
the supposed murderer. IIarot had been seen near
here and his hands bloody, and he had eApainea
II by saving they had been killing hogs at tho
farm IIarIot 4, Il native Of Lorraine, twenty-one
yeor. old tail and muscular. lie was tsken
nv Mr. Leonard from the employment agency OF Fred
erick Barandcn. in Greenwich-st, New-iork, ON
November 49, lie was not found last night but every
officer available was notified 10 look out for him ana
This morning Officer james Wallng OF keypott' ar
rested him as he was boarding the steamer Minnie
Vorpeil which was about sailing for New.fork city.
In Iron fish plate used In connecting railroad fnils,
,ras fnund near the Leonard house ana II supposed To
bsve bern the Instrument with which the murderer
inacted the wound on the wOmanS forehead. me
nsooer was arfagncd before Justice Warner. Of Key
rort And committed TO the county jail at Freehold 10
await the action Of The Grand Jury In January Mrs
Leonard was thsrty-hve years old aud hneloohng
woman we'll educated ard refined Her maiden name
was Annie Grover and her parents lived near Red
Bank.