The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-05-29
Annthar Murder.

y railroad bridge towards Trenton
The first that was known of the affair
+ was made public by Mrs. Mary West, who
= lived next door to the Holloways The
father and mother of the girl were in
Philadelphia at the time. Mrs West
heard dog barking, and few minutes
later Lizzie came down. holding her
hands to her head, and said that she had
+ been struck.
! Mrs. West at once sent for the wounded
2 girls sister and also got a man to give
! notice to the authorities. Lizzie was
r taken to her sisters home near by, and
William Massey, who boarded at the Hol-
I loway home, was arrested on the charge
of committing the murder. He, and Liz
zie, so far as known, were the only
: persons in the house at the time of the
assault.
, After being taken to her sisters home,
Lizzie was attended by DR.. James S. Gil
bert, who gave her all the medical assist
ance in his power, but he soon discovered
that she was beyond human aid. She
fingered until four o'clock on Thursday,
when death ended her sufferings,a and then
Coroner Hibberd was notified.
That official went to Bordentown, and
after an examination of the case, tele-
graphed to Prosecutor Budd to go to the
scene and also requested the services of
another physician. Mr.. Budd went to
Bordentown, accompanied by DIR. Richard
Fl. Parsons.
An autopsy was performed which
showed that deceased was eighteen years
OF age, five feet nine inches high, and
weighed 100 pounds. There was an in
cised wound on the left side of the head
two and half inches in length, about
two and half inches above the top of the
ear. Two wounds were on the back ofthe
head each one inch in length. There
was a small confused wound below the
right elbow, and slight confusion on the
back of the right hand, also on the left
side of the frontal bone. There was no
fracture of the skull, but there was very
large clot of blood on the left side of the
brain. All of the organs of the body we're
in normal condition. The girl had been
indiscreet and was progressing towards
maternity alb out two months.
Coroner Hibberd summoned jury con-
sist1ng of the following gentlemen: Fred
erick G. Wiese, Frederick J. Potter, Will
liam r. Flynn. Samuel S. Taylor, Thomas
Lee, Albert Taylor, William H. l. Hill
lard, Bunting Hawkins, Thomas N.
Adams. Isaac E. Antrim looked after the
interests of the prisoner and Prosecutor
Budd represented the state.
Drs. Parsons and Gilbert testified to the
result of the post norton. In addition to
this DR.. Gilbert said that he was called to
see the girl about u O'Clock on Wednes-
day. He found her at the home of her
sister, Name Martin. He attempted to
converse with her, but found her answers
very incoherent, and she died about four
O'Clock the next morning.
Mrs. Mary West, who lived next door
to the Holloways, was the first to discover
the crime. She heard dog making
great deal of noise, and was about to in
vestigate when she heard somebody COM
ing down stairs. 1t was Lizzie She had
her hand to her head Mrs West in
quired what was the matter, and called to
/ Massey, who she knew was IN the house
Lizzie said Don't call him, he did it,"
"What within" asked Mrs. West. with
club, said the girl. "Why did he do
it?" was the next question, to which came
the answer, 81 do not know; l was
asleep" Mrs West took the suffering
girl into her house, and sent for her sister.
Mrs. West said that Lizzie appeared to be
perfectly rational, and expressed her per-
feet readiness to die.
Name Martin, the sister of the muir
dered girl, was called about IL 80 on We'd
nesday to go to her sister. whom she
found at Mrs Vests. Going to her she
said Lizzie. what ails your" Lizzie
answered, "Will's pretty near killed me;
don't 90 in the house, or he will kill you"
She further told her sister that they did
not have any words but that he did it
while she was asleep ON the bed She
had been reading book and fell asleep.
Mrs. Martin said that the left sleeve of
Lizze's dress was torn out, as if there had
been a struggle.
1t was claimed that Massey, the sus-
pected man, was in bed and asleep when
the deed was done. That this was not so
is proved by Otto Southard a boy who
took book to Lizzie about quarter to IL
o'clock, and saw Massey sitting in the
kitchen; also by John Carson, mllkman,
who served milk at the house about six
minutes of eleven, and gave the milk to
Massey. Mrs. West says she went into
the house between II and II and Mayor
Hudson was called to go to the house
about II.
Constable John Hamilton, who arrested
Massey, went after the man as soon as he
heard of the affair. He went up stairs
and found Massey in bed, apparently
asleep. This was about II o'clock. He
awoke Massey, who asked whats the
matter; anybody hurt?" YES" said
Hamilton, Lizzie says you have tried to
kill her" Massey replied, GAS God is my
Judge, | did not" Then the constable
took his prisoner to the city hall, after
which he went back to the house and
searched Msssey's room, finding part of
a spoke from a wheel, and two broken re-
volvers. Massey acknowledged that he
brought the spoke to the house a day or
two before, 20 make Ratchet handle
with.
Jacob Munce. cab driver, who took
Lizzie from her home to her sisters house,
noticed that her voice was strong. and
she was sufficiently conscious to answer
in the negative when asked if the wagon
Jared her. On the way Lizzie said, "Oh,
my, he has done me at last"
After hearing the testimony the jury
rendered a verdict that Lizzie Holloway
came to her death on Thursday, May "a.
at the home of her sister, the result of
wounds inflicted on the head by some
blunt instrument said wounds were in
flicted by one William Massey at the resi-
dence of David Holloway, at the foot of
Park avenue, May 49,
Coroner Hibberd at once committed
J Massey to the Jail, to which he was con-
veyed by Constable Hamilton He APP
neared to be very much affected and cast