Bridgeton pioneer., 1896-04-23

fTost 1utof Acton ordered an inquest
held, and the officers left the dead woman
in charge OF Mr.. Bakers man, and took
Mr.. ana Mrs. Johnson and Nickerson to
Elmer, Where the inquest was held, in
Mayor Packards office. The following
gentlemen composed Coroner Hoelzel's
jury :-Thomas Allen, Foreman; G. V.
Halnes, Malvern Reeves, J. Thomas
North, George Allen, Henry Cole, J. G..
Brooks, Thomas Edmund and William
Christy. E. H. Loper was called, but
was excused.
County Physician Sharon, DIR. Rulon
Dare, John Nickerson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Johnson and Harry Baker, were called
as witnesses. Prosecutor Acton conduct
ed the case and examined the witnesses
All the witnesses were sent in an adjoin-
ing room from where the case was being
inquired into, and brought out separ-
ately.
The Prosecutor then addressed the jury
and said Gentlemen, the law, in such
cases as this, provides that in all cases
of sudden deaths, it shall be the duty
of the Coroner to inquire into them and
| lOPolO IhOii1 w SOuIu. LII your nlluSU
there has occurred sudden death. The
officers OF the county were notified to in
quire into this death. The responsibility
lies with you to say who is guilty for the
death Of this person. We go into this
case to show no partiality but to get the
truths. 1t is for you to decide"
DR.. Sharon, the County Physician of
30 lI11ty 1AI Z
made an examination of the body, assist
ed by DIR. Dare. In going in the room
where the dead body lay he made an ex-
animation of the general appearance of
the corpse. 1t was naturally pale; made
mission on the abdomical, there were no
indications of any inflammation. Death
was caused by in ternal hemorrhage,
produced by some sharp instrument.
Death was from loss of blood due to
4 criminal abortion.
doctor, did you have any conversa-
ton with Mrs. Johnson?"
II inquired particularly into the wo-
mans condition. She said she did not
know the woman's condition until a
week ago. Suspected her condition.
The woman had told her nothing. The
girl had not been off the premises after
she went there. She said the girl was
brought there to remain two weeks"
did she say what for ?'
II don't think she did, she said the girl
was brought there by Mr.. Baker,"
DR.. Rulon Dare, of Deerfield, was
sworn and said he was called to attend
Ida Hoffey, found her suffering from loss
OF blood; no blood at all scarcely, condi-
ton 22; conscious and remained so with
in few minutes of death. During relapse
she wanted relief. Her death was due to
internal hemorrhage; she died about
10l5 p. M, probable cause, child-bir
about 6a. m. She was all that time with
out medical attendance.
''Did you talk to Mrs. johnson about
the woman?"
eyes sir, she said the girl was brought
there by Harry Baker,
"Did she say whether or not she knew
the girl was in trouble?'
''Yes sir, she said the girl was in
trouble"
The prosecutor asked the doctor this
question because Mrs. Johnson had told
him she did not know she was in trouble
widower and lived in Vineland, knew Ida
Hoffey about two weeks.
"When did you last see her alive?"
"About week ago."
'How did she come to be at Johnson's?"
81 brought her from Vineland to the
Elmer Hotel. / told Mr.. Baker had the
girl in trouble and brought her here to
the Hotel. Baker had already got place
to take her. Saw Baker a week or ten
days before and made arrangements.
The girl had no friends in Vineland. 1
consulted Baker and he said he had a
place to take her. She stayed at the
hotel the first night and then stayed at
mans house by the name of Berry, until
Johnson's moved on the 25th of March
where she was taken by Baker.
'Did you ever see her afterwards?"
"Yes sir, 1 Saw her afterward. Mr..
Baker went with me-" She wrote me
letters while there, four of them.
"Where are those letters now?"
81 burned them up"
"How did she receive the letters from
you?"
"They were sent to Mr.. Burroughs,
Bakers clerk, and he gave them to her."
l told Baker she was nice girl and l
would marry her. Nickerson said he did
not hear of her death until officer Sithens
told him about it.
Prosecutor Acton called Constable
Sithens who said that when he went after
Nickerson he (Nickerson) told him that
he had heard of the girls death before
five o'clock yesterday morning.
The Prosecutor asked Nickerson what
he had to say to this and he answered
that the Constable was mistaken, that
he told him boy came to the factory and
told him, after the Constable had told the
boy.
Mrs johnson (paa Tap,;o Col,b\ xr,,.