The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-14
ABARROWCLIFF CASE
LETTER CARRIERS POPULARITY CONTEST. ABA
Miss Irene Bothen Murder
ously Assaulted at
Marion.
\ A PRECARIOUS CONDITION.
Gross Police Carelessness ~ The
Victim Locked Up All Night
and Committed to Jail.

At five minutes to two O'Clock this morn
ing Fatrolman Fitzhenry Of the Third pre-
cinct found woman wandering around in
dazed condition near the scene of the Bar
rowclif outrage. The woman was unable to
give any satisfactory account of herself, and
the officer, thinking she was drunk, locked
her up.
This morning she was araaigned before
Judge Douglass and gave her name as Irene
Bolton. She was still in a dazed and ap-
parently stupifed condition and the back of
either would not or could not answer the
questions put to her by Judge Douglass, and
he summarily disposed of the case by ilnpos
ing a fine of $40 or thirty days for drunken
ness.
Shortly after the woman had been re-
moved to the County Jail, Mr.. J. Wesley
Bothen of No 81 Richard place called on
w arden Mitchell and asked to see the prls-
oner He at once recognized her as his SIS
ter, Irene Bothen.
THE WOMAN RELEASED.
Warden Mitchell, who is well acquainted
with Mr. Bothen, at once accompanied him
| to Justice Douglass court, and assured the
| Justice that the young woman was eminently
| respectable and that there was some mistake.
| The justice at once signed an order Tor her
| release and Mr.. Bothen hurried over to the
| Jail to take his sister home. She had be-
come very hysterical by this time and talked
| incoherentlY.
| When the blood had been washed from her
| hair deep cut was found at the back of her
head No information could be got from
| the injured woman for some time when fin
ally she said that she had been struck on the
| head by man.
n r., 4 NJ.
| rs Broadway, Marion, with Mrs. Sim
| mons. but takes her meals at her brothers
| home in Richard Place. Last night she left
| her brothers house shortly after nine o'clock
| to go home While walking along the board
walk. near the Marion station she was ac-
costed by man, who struck her on the
| head with some sharp instrument, pre-
sumably stone, and knocked her senseless.
"A DANGEROUS LOCALITY.
What happened to her after she was
struck is blank to her Beyond the fact
| that her assailant wore g white straw hat,
| Miss Bothen can give no further description
Of his appearance. At the time af going TO
press sne was still in nysterical eondi-
tion and unable to give any further details
of her experience. A partial examination
of her body. disclosed the fact that she had
been roughly handled by the brute. 1t is
| probable that she was assaulted
The locality is an exceedingly lonely one,
and very dangerous after nlghtfaH. Numer
Gus tlamIs infest the vicinity and assaults
upon unprotected women are OF frequent
occurrence.
| Miss Bothen is thirty-five years old, of
slight build, and has been an invalid for
some time She is prominent
member of Grace Church, and bears
an excellent reputation. Her brother
was indignant this morning when | saw
| him, and characterized her arrest for
drunkenness as an outrage. He said that
she had never drunk drop in her life The
| action of the police in locking her up with
out having her wound attended to and ascer
tanning whether she was badly injured or
not. does not reflect much credit on the de-
partment, and Mr.. Bothen threatens to have
| the matter investigated thoroughly