The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-02
JUSTICE WEEDS TABLE WARE.

Found In the House of Airy Ferry
~illian-some Money Recovered.
Lillian Ann Ferry and her husband,
Luther Jonn, the colored couple arrested
for the robbery committed at the resi-
dence of Justice W. s. Weed, No, 2Ss
Grove street, on the morning of January
26, were this morning before Police JUS
tice O'Donnell for examination, Detec-
| tive Mcbride testified TO finding a large
| number of articles stolen from Justice
Weeds in the home of the Ferrys. No.
1854 Grand street, d valise full or which
was produced in Court. De5ectiTe Dali
ton related the particulars, of the robbery
as gathered by Investigation.
From appearances it was assumed that
| the house was not broken into from the
| outside, but that the robbery was COM
| mitted by some person familiar With the
| house and having access to IL. suspicion
| at once rested upon the woman Ferry,
| who was employed in the Weed family as
a servant n who went home every
| night. 1t was ascertained that soon after
| the robbery she spent considerable money
| and also that her husband had showed
q large amount OF money aud said
he was going to deposit s100 In
the bank and his wife Intended
to buy a watch. The articles found In
the Ferryhouse comprised ware
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kins. or the money found i'll the trunk,
| there were three $50 bills. one of which
was identified by Justice Weed. by an Ink
| spot which got on it the night before the
| robbery. He also identiied all the other
goods as being taken from his house. and
| they were also identified by Miss Rebecca
| Budden. his sister-in-laW.
Kate Quales, u colored woman, of whom
| Mrs. Ferry said she purchased the stolen
property, was placed on the stand and
| ~emphatically denied that she had ever
| sold the prisoner anything, or ever a
the goods or knew anything about them.
She formerly worked for Mrs. Weed, u
had never seen Mrs. Ferry ba* onca.
Justice. Weed read a list of the property
| stolen. the total value of which including
the money is $1,400.
Ferry stated that he knew nothing
| about the money or articles found In his
| house, but could give no explanation as
60 where he supposed his wife got SO
much money, when he WAS only making
So per week, working as porter at the
| Boston Clothing House. Day before
| Yesterday he deposited S35 III the Provi-
| lent Savings Bank, the money being
given TO him by his wife.
Mrs. Ferry denied that she had stolen
anything, saying she had bought all the
Things found in her house from the
woman Quales, whom she met on the
street the Saturday night before the thru
Sunday in December. The woman asked
her TO buy them, as her husband was
lend and she was left destitute. She
bought the things, which the woman had
in a bundle, for seventy-ive cents, and
did not open the bundle or see what she
had bought until she got home. The
money found in her trunk. she said, she
had saved from her husbands winnings
in policy which, however. she knew
nothing about, not even what policy Is.
She was saving the money to buy u lot Ia
Ansonia, Connecticut. She Worked for
$l4 a month.
Both were committed to Jail to await
the action Of the Grand Jury. None of the
jewelry or silverware stolen has yet been
recovered but the detectives are search
ing the pawn shops and expect to soon
find at least some Of the plunder.