The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-03
fore she will be able to speak and tell some
thing of her assailant.

fore she will be able to speak and tell some
thing of her assailant.
TOUGHS INTERVIEWED.
Three young fellows walked into the
Seventh precinct police station at about
eleven o'clock this morning, closely followed
by Detectives McNally and Hottie. They
were George La Forge, Smith and Murphy,
three of the Stuyvesant avenue gang, upon
whom suspicion has rested as the possible
perpetrators of the deed. The detectives
took them upstairs and into the patrolmens
room One by one they were taken into
Captain Langes office and carefully ex-
amined by him. The examination evidently
didn't in any way incriminate them, as they
were allowed to depart when it was finished;
These Stuyvesant avenue toughs have hard
name and the majority of them have served
sentences for various offences. Young La
Forge was sent up by Justice Kimmerly for
sixty days only few months back. He has
also served upon school ship
THE DOCTORS THEORY.
The doctors connected with the case and
Warden Osborne all agree upon one theory
as the correct one and that is that she never
lay in the lot all night but was assaulted in
some building near the spot and in the
early hours of the morning was carried
where she was found. That her shoes were
free from sand tends to strengthen this
theory, as to have reached the spot where
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of Sip avenue, which was the shortest route
to her destination, or had taken the more
round about way which leads through Stuy-
vesant and Corbin avenues, she would have
had to walk through thick yellow loam
which would have adhered to her shoes and
and which even most constant drlzzle OF
several hours duration would not have
washed off.
A REPORTERS FIND.
Working on this theory JERSEY CITY
NEWS reporter yesterday afternoon paid
visit to the locality of the, assault, his object
being to ascertain if anywhere in the vicln-
ity there is a building to which she could
attention A short search revealed just
such place as the reporter had in
mind on starting out. 1t was an ideal place
for the carrying out of such crime as the
one committed; and going on the idea which
has become instilled into the minds of the
police and others-that she passed up Stuy-
vesant avenue-it would have been only the
work of second to drag her to the spot. 1t is
delapidated old building standing on Stuy-
vesant at the head of Corbin avenue. At
the rear of it and out of sight of the street is
low she'd Next door to it and with space
of about fifteen or twenty feet separating
them is Mrs Smiths grocery store, which is
the headquarters of the Stuyvesant avenue
gang. People hasten their steps if obliged to
pass this spot after dark, as it bears hard
name
A SHELTER FOR TRAMPS.
Mrs Smith told a reporter that every
night tramps seek shelter under the shed,
cook their supper in front of it and In fact
make it their stamping ground. The police
seldom pass this place as it is a lonely spot
and off the regular beat of any officer, The
patrolman who patrols that section OF the
town has post about three
are numbers of such spots that he cannot
visit, and pay proper attention to the more
thickly populated sections of his post and be
on hand to pull the patrol box every hour.
Now, in taking the route up Stuyvesant to
Corbin and thence to Sip avenue, which
the police believe Miss Barrowcliff started
to take, she would cross Stuyvesant avenue
into Corbin directly in front OF
the opening leading to this
| shed and crossing would turn her back to it.
1t was pitch dark when she passed that way
| and nothing would have been simpler than
| for tramp, or one of the Stuyyesant ave-
nue. gang, lurking in the shadow of the
building, to spring upon her from behind as
she started to cross the street, and grasp
her by the throat before she could
| been but the work of second Once in his
power it would have been an easy matter to
| drag or carry her to the she'd Supposing
| that such thing did happen, it is not prob
able that they would leave her there or that
they would make way with her in that
| spot as suspicion would instantly rest on
| the frequenters of the spot. 1t
is far more probable that they would carry
her to some other place the better to cover
their guilt No better place could be found
than the spot in which She was found, as the
manner in which the police have been baftied
at every turn proves. If she was carried to
the spot it is only reasonable to suppose
| that man or men who showed enough
craftiness to select such place for their
| final crime would also be cunning enough
not to forget any small details which would
lend towards throwing the police
off the scent-thus they would be care
| full to place her music roll !. beside
| her The theory that she was drugged, or
choked into insensibility, outraged in some
secluded place, and then carried to where she
was found there to be put out of the way OF
telling tales, is gaining ground rapidly
among all who have closely watched the
case and is the theory upon which the police
are working.
| KLEMM FOUND.
! Klemm, whom the police want to identify
Ennis, will be at Police Headquarters this
| evening at seven o'clock.