The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-03
JOHN E. DUMMIES STORY.
What He Had To Do With
the Famous StoCker
Tragedy.
CARDS AND WHlSKEY RULED.
Stocker Drank, But He Threw a
Pitcher at His Wife Before
Getting the Pistol.
ARDS AND WHISKY RULED.

Coroner Parslow and a jury commenced
an inquest at the Assembly Rooms in
Hoboken last night into the death of Mrs.
Catherine NJ. Stocker. The little roo nj
was densely packed and hundreds stood
in the hall unable to gain admittance. and
after a couple of witnesses had been e
amined, the crowd became noisy, and
Constable Reese cleared the room of
those who were not directly interested in
the case. John E. Dunno and George
Bremner told their stories for the first
time since the shooting. Counsellor
Salinger, counsel for Stocker, was pres
emit and made copious notes. Carsten
Pope, a well known liquor dealer of Ho-
boken was foreman of the jury, Mrs.
Minnie Tierney, the mother of the de-
ceased, was the first witness. She is a
short, stout woman and was attired In
mourning.
'Last Wednesday night" she testified,
"Katie, Mary, Tillie and myself attended
the Dunno ball. AT a quarter past six
O'Clock in the, morning Mr.. Dunno In
vited us to go home in his carriage. Katie
and George Bremner walked home and
the rest of US went in the carriage with
Dunno. At the house l invited Mr..
Dunno to go inside aud have some coffee.
He went it. Bremner and Katie came
along a few minutes later and we all sat
down to breakfast. 1 called Ar
thur Stocker, gave him some
lunch, and he went off to work.
About half past eight o'clock he returned
and said it was too cold to work. I saw
he was hungry. He asked Katie, his
wife, to dress their child, as he wanted
piled that if sit vas too cold
for him to work it was too cold to take the
baby for a walk. They began TO quarrel.
| said, Arthur Stocker, every time we
have company you want to quarrel
THE FATAL WEAPON
"Then Stocker ran out OF the kitchen
with q pistol in his hand. Mary was
right ahead Of him. She said to him:-
For Gods sake. Arthur. don't shoot
He shot Mary ind then ran up the
street aud shot his wife. Then
the mother fell over the body OF Kate. In
answer to questions by the Coroner Mrs.
Tierney said the couple quarrelled. Since
the day of their marriage Arthur was
cranky and unsociable and abused his
wife.
''The last time they were separated"
Mrs. Tierney testified, twas about four
months ago. Stocker told me u week be-
fore the tragedy that hs had asked Katie
to live with him again. Katie told me
thai Arthur said, 'Ill make life sweet
for YOU He also said, 1ll have revenge
on you and it won't take long,"
John Tiernev, the father of the de-
ceased, testified that when he left the
house to go to his employment in New
York last Thursday morning, Dunne.
Bremner, Mrs. Tierney and his daughters
E,to a-1 Many tUara MT tina hpauK-
fast table talking o the
ball. Stocker came down and
bid them all good morning pleasantly.
Stocker left the house about ten minutes
before he did. He did not hear of the
tragedy until late in the afternoon. He
also says that Stocker was insanely jeal-
Gus of his wife.
TILLIE TIERNEY'S STORY.
Tillie Tierney, a pretty t~hirteen-year-
old sister of the deceased, who was in the
house at the time of the tragedy, very
earnestly tried not to tell all she knew,
and was successful: She renem.
bered attending the ball and
with Dunno, her mother and sister Mary.
She prepared breakfast for the party.
After that she saw them playing cards.
She did not hear any Quarrellng at all.
She did not appear to have seen or heard
anything. Finally she said she was
asleep Wleu sue uGuEu IuC SHUOClu2 duu
saw her mother lying across Hates body
on the street.
BREMNER'S STORY.
George Bremner was the next witness.
He testified that he went to the Dunno
ball with a lady and look her home at
half past four O'Clock a. m. He then re-
turned to the ball. As he passed through
the refreshment room Miss Tier
ney called him and he sat down
at the table with her, n
her family. Then Dunno came along
and they all went home together and had
breakfast. When Stocker came down
Mis-. Tierney asked him how he had en-
joyed himself at the bail and he replied
chat he had u nice time. He wen away but
came back. Then they played car IS. Then
Dunne and Miss Mamie Tlerney wentiuto
a side room. Mrs. Stocker went in laugh
ing and called me. They had blackened
DUNES face. Then witness lay down
on a cot ana took a nap. The sub
sequent events were as narrated by the
other witnesses. Then Bremner went
home. Stocker called him back to take a
parting drink, as he had been drinking
with them all the morning. There were
no angry words at that time.
JOIN Z, DUMMIES EVIDENCE.
John L. Dunno VAS the next witness.
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