The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-26
SCOTT WORKED In VAIN.
Monmouth's Grand Jury Throws
Out The Detectives Evidence
in the Farrell case.
Special to the Jersey ctr Nev,.

RED BANK, Oct. 26, 1893 The Mon~
mouth County Grant Jury. after two
days of investigation. IN which nearly
fifty witnesses were examined, failed to
find a bill 10 the Lizzie Farrell murder
case. This evidence presented yesterday
and today had been gathered wholly
through the efforts of Eben Scott.
Scott was born a affective, but circum-
stances made him a grocer. When poor
Lizzie Farrell was found In this place
one evening In April. 1892. with her
skull crushed, Scott saw an opportunity
to display his talent and he has has been
working on the case. which puzzled the
county ever since, and has spent d great
deal OF money In his Investigations, ALI
though he is a poor
John Delaney who was engaged to
marry Lizzie Farrell, was under suspic-
lon ior the murder of the girl, but was
released on proving an aloi. Delaney
swore that OIL April IS, the night of the
murder, he was In Eatontown, four miles
from here, aud this Statement was cor
roborated by the evidence of Frank Nc
LauRhlin, who swore that he slept with
Delaney on the night In question.
WHAT SCOTT TRIED TO PROVE.
Scott has been trying TO secure evidence
against Delaney and a colored map
named "Gusn Croker, who is now serving
a sentence in the Trenton Prison for
killing u man named Young.
Scott said last evening: Tho criminal
is safer In Monmouth county than the
man who tries to follow him. That
Grand Jury treated me in a dirty man
ner, and Prosecutor WINS is just as bad"
Mr.. Scott was a great deal excited. He
showed a written statement containing
several Thousand words presenting his
case against Delaney aud Croker, The
pith OF 1t was that Delaney had bean seen
in town the night of the murder by
George Fl. Brand, Thomas Oakes and
Edwin Griggs; that John Yanzey and
Jim" Drum. staolemen. who lived
in the same house in Eatontown
with Delaney. had not seen nor heard
him the night Of the murder. although
! their room was separated from his only
by a thin PARTITION; that Young Nc
Laughlin had declared in the presence Of
witnesses that Delaney had not got to his
room on the night of the murder until
half-past twelve O'Clock, and that he was
then dripping with Precipitation and had
walked the floor the rest OF the night,
and finally that two men had seen Ia
negro, who answer to the description OF
| Croker, near the scene of the murder on
the night the girl was killed.
WINS SAYS HE HAS NO CASE.
Prosecutor Charles Iyins says that the
difficulty with SCOTS case was that
nuue of his witnesses would swear
positively that they saw Delaney, but
only that they thought they saw him,
while Mclaughlin aud Haslitr swore
positively that Delaney was not out of
Eatontown on the night Of April rs. AS
for the other important witnesses their
testimony before the Grand jury, Mr..
Twins said, was Irectly contrary to what
Scott supposed It would be. I
why, Scott came to see me every day,
and sometimes twice a day, for months"
said MIR. WINS. she took up all my
time. and yet | had every clew that he
gave MT followed mp and none amounted
to anything. The trouble IL that Scott
has a mania for this sort of work, and
jokers in the town. knowing this,
'iollied' him. They told him he was OIL
the right track and that he should go
ahead. as it would lead to the discovery
Of the murderer aud make him (ScoSt)
famous. haven't the least doubt oil
Scott's sincerity and entire honesty in
the matter, and l am sure. IN spite OF the
Grand Jury's failure TO indict Delaney,
that he won't drop the case until he's
spent all his money or gone crazy"
Scott lmpresses ME with the sincerity
of his efforts. He is acout thirry-six
years old, of medium height, with gray
hair and rather sharp features. He dis
plays a photograph of himself ia u show
case in his store, AMI talks TO all his GUS
toners about the corruption OF the Mon-
mouth County courts.