The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-30
DUMMIES DISGRACE
Won't Talk About the
Stocker Tragedy, But
is All Broke Up.
THE MURDERER IS HOPEFUL
Sentiment on the Heights Favors
Him-His Sisters Untimely
Marriage.

All day yesterday the body of hand
some Kate Stocker, who was shot to
death by her jealous husband Arthur,
rested on marble slab in a rear room of
Coroner Parslow's undertaking establish
ment on Washington street, Hoboken.
Mrs. Stocker was, perhaps. as well
known in Hoboken as she was
on The Heights. and when the
fact that her body was at Parslow's be-
came known, crowds poured into the
dingy rear room and were permitted to
view the remains.
The woman was handsome even in
death. The features had calm, peace
full expression, and it looked as if smile
fingered around the prettily formed
mouth. The only evidence of the violent
death which the young woman met was
slight abrasion of the skin below the
right ear.
Physician Converse appeared and the
rear room was cleared. The autopsy re-
suited in the finding that death was
caused by bullet which entered beneath
the left shoulder blade. The bullet
plowed upward, severing the spinal cord
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statement that the deceased was shot In
the head was erroneous, the County
Physician said
About six O'Clock morbid crowd had
collected in front of the morgue. None
was admitted as the undertaker'S as
sistants were placing the body in an ice
box preparatory to removing IL to The
bereaved parents home.
An undertaker's wagon stopped In 'front.'
of the door and the body was placed
within, and the wagon started for the
home of the sorrow stricken parents.
AT THE TIERNEY HOME.
The Tierney home within and without
had before the terrible tragedy an air of
comfort and happiness about IL. The
house No 80 Zabriskie street is not similar
to the other houses in the block. 1t lies
back from the street and there Is small
garden in front The house is a frame
building and is two stories in height. 1t
has basement and there is also spacious
piazza in front.
The scene at the house when the body
of the murdered girl was brought home
beggars description. Undertaken Pars-
lows assistants say that seldom have
they witnessed such grief. The mother
threw herself on the crude Ice box which
contained all that was mortal of her loved
one and her means unnerved all who
heard her.
MY Kate, my handsome girl" she
walled, "speak to me. Tell your dear old
mother that you are not dead"
Then she would walk up and down the
| floor moaning and wiring her hands. Oc-
casionally she would stand in front OF the
ice-box and look longingly at the fea-
| lures of her dead child. Finally some
sympathying neighborS. who had arrived.
induced her to leave the room in which
the body lay.
The father was too deeply moved for
tears. For some time he aid not look at
the features of his dead child. Then he
walked over to the ice-boX and just
glanced at her. He reeled away like a
| man in stupor and would have fallen
| but that several neighbors caught him.
THE DEAD WoMAN'S CHILD.
But by far the most touching scene was
when the four-vear-old child of the dead
woman entered the parlor. The child
| is girl and inherits her mothers dark
eyes and beauty. One OF the neighbors
| lifted the little one up to gaze at the body.
"My mamma isn't dead" the child
| prattled. "She's only sleeping. Aren't
| you, mammal"
The little one kept up its innocent
prattle until there was not one in the par
| lor whose eyes were not dimmed with
| tears.
Tomorrow morning the body will be
| taken from the ice-boX and placed in a
| handsome casket, on which will be a sill
yer plate inscribed with the name and age
of the murdered woman-twenty-on g
years and five months. The casket will
| rest beneath the large bay windows in
| the front parlor. The funeral will not be
| held until Monday.
| The Tierneys profess to be Catholics,
| but it is said that they have not lived up
| to the faith and it is thought possible that
| the body will not be buried from ST.
| Nicholas r. @. Church, as was the inten-
| tion. If not, services will be held at the
| roIxr al iv, pran ylxyn md hn In
| terment will be in Calvary Cemetery.
This morning Coroner Parslow empan-
| elled jnrY. The jury is composed of bet
| ter material than The average coroner's
| jury. The inquest will be held on Mon
| day night at the Assembly Rooms in Ho-
| boken.
The terrible tragedy still continues to
| be the all absorbing topic in the elevator
| district. In saloons, on the street, in the
| horse cars and wherever persons congre-
| gated, nothing else was talked off.
TALKING OF MIR. DUNNE.
| As the details of the tragedy became
| known John E. Dunno appeared in an un-
| envable light. They made him and his
| friend Bremner appear arrant towards
! and public opinion was that the men
would find it hard to prove that they
| were anything else. There has been a
| great revulsion of feeling against Dunno.
| Before the ball he was one of the most
popular young men in the district.
| Although some of the best people on th g
| Heights attended the ball and the stand
| ard bearer should have been on his good
behavior a great many were shocked
| when they saw Dunno making advances
| to Mrs. StocKer almost in The very pres
| ence of her husband. There was a great
| deal of talk about the way he was acting
| at the time, and 1t is said that several of
| the members demonstrated with him. He
| did not heed their remonstrauce, how
| ever and went to Stocker's house, where
| his obnoxious presence goaded the hus-
band beyond endurance. THE JERSEY
| CITY NEWS reporter spoke to several
| members of the Dunno Association last
night. They all agreed that Dunno had
| acted despicable part throughout, and
| they said it would undoubtedly lnjure
| him, 1t is not at all unlikely from what
| the members said that the name of the
association will be changed.
| DUNNE WAS AN ACCIDENT.
| Because of the prominence of several
| members of the Association" said one
| member last night, "Dunne should never
| have been selected as the standard bearer.
| Ii was only by the merest accident that
| Dunne's name was used. He never held
! any political office and was generally
| known as rounder.
"Dunue always paid marked attention
to the young married woman, and he has
| been threatened many time by the en-
ragged husband.
'Au the time that Kern was about to
| desert the Jetfersonans there was
an insignificant social club named
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