New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-05-07
n17RDERED IN HIS BARROOM.
~rw-JERsEY INNKEEPER FOUND WITH
IT'S SKULL CRUSHED AND THROAT CUT.
,oeRrRs TAKE HIS MONEY AND THEN KILL HIM
ONE MAN ARRESTED OK susPICloN-A


VISITOR 70 THE RoADHpUsE.
Iohn II. Enslebrocht. proprietor OF the Sunnyside
III n roadway house at the intersection Of the
paterson plank road and the old Secaueus lane III
North Bergen. y. J., was found murdered al 0
o,clocI, Yesterday morning lie lay in the middle
~ the barroom with his skull crushed and his
throat cut The discovery was made by hans
peuder \ driver for Peterss Brewery, at Union HILL
nbo drove TO the hotel at a. nl to leave the daily
consignment of beer. Mortified at the sight ne
drove 10 Halls coal yard at Homestead Station
half a mile away. and gave an alarm. Word was
nj once sent TO Coroner A. j. Nolk. al Hopoheh,
and also 10 the Justice of the Peace. ChuTchil OF
Secaucus Both officials arrived ana began
an investigation in which they were aft'rward as
sisted by Police Commissioner John T. Feeney' OF
Jersey City who is also chief Of detectives III
Prosecutor Wirfied's Office They found Ensie-
brecht lying in a pool Of blood with horse piahhe'
partly wrapped abou; him. He was In his stocking
feet and had neither coat nor waistcoat- APP
parently he had either been in bed or was just go
ing bed.
Leaning against the icebox at the end OF the
bar was an old Springfield rife. with which the
murderous blow upon Englebrechts head hao dP
parently been dealt. Under chair nearby lay an
old razor. with which evidently, the muruere"
mans throat had been cut. At Engleorechts slde
Law his dog The officials decided that as the dog
had made no alarm. the murderer must have been
an associate OF Englebrecht. They found that
Louis Bauer n man sixty years old. slept In
room over the bar the second floor being unoccu-
pied. Bauer is out OF work. and EnSlebrecht had
given him a home. He is a mild and nofensive
person. and is held a witness He says that
Frank Burger. Martin Teut and man named Buck
spent Sunday IN the barrOom with Enelebrecht
Bauer adds that he went upstairs to bed shortly
after 10 O'Clock Sunday night. and that some time
afterward Frank Burger brought him up drink
He thinks II was about o'clock. Immediately
after taking the drink Bauer says he fell asleep and
knew no more until he woke up yesterday to learn
that Englebrecht had been murdered lie says
that when he went to bed Burger Teut and Buck
were the only persons In the place although there
had been a good many visitors at the place during
the day
Englebrecht. It is known, had $3.50 in his pocket,
When found he had nothing. lie two waist
coats on Sunday. and carried the money in the
inside garment. These waistcoats were found hid
den IN empty beer keg several hundred feet
from the house. The pockets were empty.
Burgers story Is that no gave Bauer the drink
spoken OF shortly after u O'Clock. and that he
and his friends left the hotel at ll:30 lie went
10 his home at Secaucus. Back and Teut also lived
at a distance and when messengers were gent for
them they TO this city. Detective Fcenoy
placed Burger under arrest, ostensib.y witness
bat really on suspicion. one OF the reasons IS that
Bauer says Engebrecht carried his money IN a
red pocketbook and red pocketbook found
in Burgers possession 1t only contained s.. how