The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-09
MURDER AND SUICIDE
A Servant Girl Shot Down
in the Dining Room Of
Her Employer.
THE MURDERER KILLS HIMSELF
She Was Annie Andersen and He
Was Joseph Graham Jealousy
the Supposed Cause.
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TRENTON, May 9, 1Ss6.-Annie Amber
son. servant girl, aged twenty-eEhi
years, employed by Charles l. Balm.
gartner, a leading drygoods mercHan1
of this city, was shot and killed at is2t
O'Clock this morning in the dining RON
of his residence No. 209 West State
street. Her slayer, a man unknown
the family, shot himself at the s$ne
time and in few moments he fled
also.
West State street is the most fashion
able thoroug,hfare in the city and as
quiet ordinarily as country road on
Sunday. The shooting was heard by
the people of the neighborhood End
created the greatest excitement. Ehe
man fired three shots altogether Ehe
nrst one fired at the girl lodged inlthe
Ginning room wall The second one sthck
her and the third the murderer sent nto
his own head below the left ear.
Physicians were hastily sent for, put
before their arrival both the girl hnd
her slayer had died.
Who The assassin is Dis still a matte of
conjecture. The girl has been in lthe
employ Of the Baumgartners only pur
weeks She was in the Ginning 1om
alone when he appeared this moiiin,
Mrs. Baungartner and other memperS
or the family being in apartments on
the second floor.
Ihe man was seen to pass 1ntotpne
alley alongside the house and enteH5he
dining room from a side porch. Wien
Mrs. Baumgartner reached the dithg
room after the shooting, Annie AMIR
clutched in her left hand. Her nlrdHr
lay near her in a dying condition Nth
a revolver in his right hand.
Coroner Bowers and the police ard D.
vestigating the case. but so far H3e
been unable to learn anything that Weld
lead to the identity of the man. Thfe
was nothing on his person to reveal Is
body were found a gold filled case waA
and $4.31 in money. A small Odd FL
lows badge was pinned to his vest.
black moustache, dark frock coat az
light striped trousers. Apparently
was about 35 years of age.
The dead girl was the recipient of log
in her hand as she lay dead this mornig
was unsigned, bat was pestmarked
East Orange, N. J.,', and had been posa
writer spoke of an injury to mis- i'd
which had been severely bruised al
which he was nursing The feet OF e
examined by Coroner Bower, but tnF
showed no sign of injury.
1t has since been learned that Anle
Anderson, the murdered girl, halls fr4l
Freehold, n; j., and that she had beh
receiving attentions from a man lkloag-
ing there. The relatives of tft srl
have been teleeraphed to. The EAt 3r-
alge letter found in her hand is adlrSss-
ed from No 119 Mercer street.
The murder and suicide has been idSn-
titled as Joseph Graham, a carTfnteN1
who halls from Freehold, but wi4 nail
been in Trenton since Miss Anlersoil
came to the city. He called upd thd
girl last night and was a would-beIloverl
1t is surnised that he knew shi was
being courted by some one else ami that
jealousy melted him to kill her. He was
around the Bamgartner house eark this
morning and entered it shortly af4r the
the letter which Annie was reading when
she was shot