The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-25
Glue 70 THE WHITE Gaps
They Are Thought to Be
Near Neighbors of
August Blach.
NOT CARRYING OUT THEIR THREAT
Black Tells of His Wife's sickness,
and Her objections to Help
Their Home.
NOT CARRYING OUT THEIR THREAT

A reporter for THE NEWS made a per-
corning the notification of Mr.. August
Blach that he must vamoose his ranch.
under peualty of being tarred and fsath
cred by infatuated n~eignbors because he
had Ill treated his wife.
M, Blach does not live at No. so
Carlton avenue, as has thus far beel re-
ported. Mr.. Black ves~difectly across
the street from No. So. aud the sign, an
iron Que. with raised letters and figures.
bears the inscription. mo. So Carlton
avenue"
IL is a two story frame building mrne
diately adjoining a corner saloon. 1t has
a portico III front and handsomely, carved
cornices as roof decorations. Thetstreet
extends for about two blocks from The
stone wall of the reservoir to the mead
ows and is reached by the Summit avenue
ears. Along each sid of the two blocks
are two story frame structures, homes OF
industrious workingmeu.
MR.. BLACH'S STORY
Mr.. Black was seated III the dining
room of the q smoking a long stem
pine, when the reporter called upon aim
this morning, to ask him what he knew
about the "Aissouri White Caps" Before
him was q half emptied goblet of beer.
Mr.. Black could only speak IN broken
German dinlect aud 1t was somewhat
difficult for the reporter to understand
him. ALI The reporter could gather from
Mr.. BlRch amounted to this:-
Mr.. Black believed that the letter was
written By one mao. q near neighbor, no
for some nknow reason had disIiked
i'm.
The envelope in which the letter wts
received bore the date New York, Oc-
tober %. one A. NJ, 1898, aud read as
follows:-
October %.
SIR. Having heard that you we're i'll treating
your wife we send you notes to leave town
Immediately as we are going totar and feather
you. We remain,
THE MISSOURI WHITE CAPS.
HIS wIFE's SICKNESS.
"AIi l know" said Mr.. Blach, us that
my wife was sick for some time with
face and was unable to tske care of the
house. don't understand the nature of
her disease. but she was covered with
vermin. Everything she touched
became covered with vermin;
Although ont of work nired
and declared she would ave no extra
hello, aud would fight whoever I brought
in to help her, AS to my reputation, I
would simply mention the fact that !
worked as q fancy wood worger
for Louis Pattberg in Franklin street for
O4 J. &ht q 4uW ooAA4b "
indus trlous citizen. AS such Mrs.
Nicholl, of Summit avenue, built this
house for me, with the understanding
that / was TO pay her $25 a mouth until
the house was paid for. lost my job and
WAS unable to pay the amount I had
agreed upoa. The first thug I knew the
building was in the hands of the Mutual
Building aud Loan Syndicate. the Office
of which ~ located at No. II Montgomery
street. Jersey City. / have been obliged
to pay the Sis per month. alth ough | could
secure but Two or three days work IN q
week. | am at present employed at
Zour's photographic establishment In N ew
| York, and as soou as l can remove my
wife's dead body to a family plot l will
do So"
H ROOMS NEAT.
The reporter strolled from the dining
room into the parlor, An elegant up
| right piano stood near the east wall aud
above 1t hung oil painted portraits OF the
man who stood beside him and OF his
dead wife, He said he was a native of
| Vienna and these portraits Were paiated
in Vienna, In the middle of
that ROOM, on a mar~ble-topped
cd edD'r With 'ae aa tm Mss bou vase nt Of
autumn flowers gathered from the ar
bored gardeu in the rear Of the house by
the eldest son, whose pictura in his shirt
sleeves at the piano was IA among
many that adorned the walls. =
NFIGHB0RS RETICENT.
The ~neighbors were all ~reticenb when
interviewed by FHE NEWS reporter this
morning. The saloons, the grocery sJores
and other public places were visited aud
Information as to who was or were the
author or authors OF the letter was
of no avail. It. 10 believed
that q neighbor who works in New YORK;
City is the author of tue letter. One
elderly woman WHO wa intervie wed by
the reporter. said:-
II had passed the home of the Blach's
a number Of times aud noticed a woman
seated in front whose eye was
blackened."