The Jersey City news., 1892-06-15
STOCKER'S SENSATION.
The Defence Alleges Direct Grim
inal Acts by Bremner and
the Dead Woman.

the Dead Woman.
When he opened the case for the de-
fense this morning, Alderman Salinger
said among other things that he would
prove that Stocker was insane at the time
he shot his wife, and that for that reason
he should be acquitted. The defence
would prove that Stocker was fond of his
child and wife, and that from his
marriage he had been good and faithful
husband.
Alderman Salinger said the vicio Gus
life led by Mrs. Stocker had made the e.
tendant morose and morbid. He fo und
Bremner and his wife conducting them
selves in a guilty manner. The lawyer
said he would prove this. 1t was this nc t
of the faithless wife that berefU the injured
husband of his senses. While he was in
that insane condition the tragedy was
enacted.
Counsellor Salinger said he would
prove also that Mrs. Stocker was a vic
tim of loathsome disease, which her
husband and child contracted from her.
sToCKER's STORY.
Ex-Judge Hoffman called for the first
witness Arthur Stocker, the defendant.
Stocker looked to be in bot
ter trina than yesterday. but
his voice was very low. He said: 81 was
born in New York, | was 29 years old Nav
5. last, l was born on Avenue A or B,
| lived there five or six years and moved
with father and mother to West Hoboken.
Mother is alive now. father Is dead. l
went to work when / was between
9 and 10 years old in Givernaund's silk
| factory, worked there several years and
| then went to the Heck street factory for
year and then went to Paterson Overall
H. horr thau
| worked number of years for the Giver-
nauds. / also worked at Homestead
station. ! worked with George Bremner.
| the witness who testified yesterday, a
good many years. l also worked for my
brother-in-law for four or five years. l
| was then about nineteen years old He
was tipsmith. worked as tinsmith
until was arrested.
II was married the year of the blizzard
in Bowers street. Before that l boarded
with Mrs. Tierney. / married her daugh-
ter and then lived while opposite l
Mrs. Tierney. My child was four years
old June 6.
AN ABSENTEE WIFE.
THE night of the ball my wife was not
home: she had not been home for three
days. She told me she was going to New
She was gone until the day
before the ball. She went away
on Friday and returned Tuesday
and "Wednesday she went away again.
She stayed home Tuesday night and went
away Wednesday, and when 1 saw her
next it was Thursday at the ball. She
told me two weeks before the ball that
she was going to attend. l told her she
could not get in without an invitation, and
Mamie, who was present, said, i am going
out with Jack-Handsome Jack Dunne) }
tonight My wife and mother and |
yyn kpGGIpr'S that niOht and
after Dunno and Mamie came in; had
never spoken to Dunno but once before.
He sat with us and treated, and he gave
me an invitation for myself, father-in-law
and mother-in-law.
THE NIGHT OF THE BALL.
"The night of the ball went to Odd
Fellows Hall. ON Eighth Street. New
York. | went alone, but the Noble
Grand of the lodge l belong to came back
with me. | went to Pohlmann's, and
after while saw my wife dancing with
Arthur O'Neill. After while Tillie
came to me, and said Mrs. Tierney was
acI oss the room. l went over there, and
my mother-in-law said:-
Jack IS treating Mamie awful nice
tonight, but that is the way with young
men, they treat the girls nice till they get
the best of them and then they can go to
| hell"
| Here Stocker became excited and stand
| ing up he raised his hand over his head
aud earnestly said:-''That is the truth.
Judge, as my life is at stake"
| Being quieted, Stocker continued his
| story:-"I was talking to n reporter, who
| said who are those two girls in redf "
"Oh, object said Mr.. Winfield.
"Was there anything said to you about
your wife behaving badlyT asked eX-
| Judge Hoffman.
eyes. after what my mother had said to
| me. A police sergeant said to Adam
| Smith in my hearing:-'They are cutting
| a hell of bluff tonighJ?"
Stocker said another reporter made q
lewd remark TO him about the girls.
This reporter asked me to take a
drink, and did So. l was in his COM
pany more than half an hour. When
| left the reporter went back to the ball
| room, but when heard people talking
went in another part of the place. Arthur
| O'Neill took my wife to supper. After
supper, she and O'Neill drank togeth-
| er Afterward my mother-in-,aw asked
\ me to drink with ner and some others
| who came up to the table. / went home
| about Two hours after my wife had sup
| per- l saw her dance and drink with
| O'Neill. He was the only man saw her
| dance with. / danced with little Tillle
| while my wife was at supper. When
| went home | saw no one but my child;
| she slept with me always unless l was
| out late, and then when | came home
would take her from Titles bed or M
| wife'S into my room.
THE MORNING oARoUsAL.
"When | came down stairs the morning
| after the ball | found Dunno. Bremper
| mother-in-law. wife, Mamie and Tillie
While l was eating breakfast, BremneI
said: Come, Jack. let us go home Ther
went to work. 1t was too cold to work
| and / went to my brother -in-law's anC
then returned home. l got home abou
nine O'Clock. There was a bottlS