The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-25
DOCTOR YS. .POLlCE.
Varick and Lange at Log
gerheads Over the Bar
toWcliff Case.
THE CAPTAIN HELD UP.
A Nurse Stops Him at the Door
of the Patients Room The
Girls Contradictions.

'sMiss Barrowcliff's mind is not clear yet
ments which she has made to me and which
have in black and white" said Captain
Lange.
"Miss Barrowcliff's mind is perfectly
clear. She sticks to her statement about
going towards the board walk and never
toward the Marion station to meet Miss
Dexter, being hit in the back of the neck
and grabbed by the throat. l don't believe
she will ever be able to throw any more
light on the assault" said Warden Osborne.
These two statements contradict each
other fatty. Captain Lange puts no faith in
the board walk theory while Warden Os-
borne puts allfaith in it. Warden Osborne
claims that Miss Barrowcliff is in a condition
to talk clearly of what she did on hat night
and Captain Lange asserts that she don't
know what she is talking about.
These two officials are firm friends
and neither one will say that the other is
wrong, yet each sticks to his opinion. War
den Osborne was asked by reporter if
Captain Lange's statement that Miss Bar
rowcliff contradicts her own statements is
true In reply he said:-''An will say is
that have never heard her contradict her
self. / refuse to say anything further.
Captain Lange and take different views of
the case, but shall not say anything that
will reflect upon him."
THE CONTRADICTION.
Captain Lange received permission from
Dr. Varick last week to visit Miss Barrow
cliff every other day and put to her such
questions as he deemed necessary. He called
on the twentieth and put few questions to
her. He called again on Monday. On this
day the Captain claims that she contradicted
herself on several points. He had with him
diagram of the West Side. This he
spread out. and, after explaining it to Miss
Barrowcliff, asked her which way she went.
She pointed north on West Side avenue and
81 believe went this way"
'Do you always go that way? asked the
Captain.
mo, Igenerally take Montgomery street
car.
''Is it not roundabout way to go through
West Side avenue and up Tonnele avenue
to reach No. 81 Wylie street?
"Wouldn't it be quicker to have gone by
way of Stuyvesant avenues"
eyes but wanted to meet Gertie at the
Marion station"
''But you had made no arrangement to
meet her?"
81 know it, but thought she would come
that way"
The Captain then asked her if she remem-
bered anyone catching her by the throat.
She said:-ssNo, but remember that some
one grabbed hold of my breast pin" The
Captain asked her if she knew where Sip
avenue was. She replied that she did not. He
thinks that this alone is sufficient
proof that she doesn't know who
she is talking about as she has lived in that
locality for the greater part of her life, and
%ba I,ohs of
leaving the car at Bergen and Sip avenues.
In answer to further questions Miss Barrow
cliff said that she remembered Mrs. Mahlen-
brooks giving her two silver dollars, but she
does not remember receiving any money
from Mrs. Smith She thought she had
about So in her pocketbook when she left
Smiths house.
CAPTAIN LANCE HELD UP.
When Captain Lange called at the City
Hospital yesterday he met Miss Dolan, the
head nurse, and told her that he wanted to
see Miss Ba1rowcliff. Beside the door to
Miss Barrowcliff's room stands a table two or
three feet long Miss Doland went to the end
of this table and reaching over it gently,
tapped on the door, Captain Lange asked
her why she didn't go directly to the door,
She told him that the orders are that no one
but Warden and Matron Osborne, the police
nurses and the doctors are to pass
the table unless given special
permission. The door opened and
the nurse inquired the nature of the
Captains visit. He told her that he wished
to see Miss Barrowcliff. She questioned his
right to do so, and asked hun if he had the
Warden's permission. The Captain grew in
dignant that she should put him through
such cross examination after he had received
instructions from Headquarters. She finally
let him in. He put but few questions to the
patient This morning Superintendent Smith
ordered him to discontinue his calls at the
hospital, It is said that this order was given
| in consequence of the nurses complaining
that Miss Barrowcliff is too weak to be
questioned and that Captain Lange's visits
aIwap ps excifnS her.