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boy C0NFESSES MURDER,
Young Garrabrandt Killed Henry Mas
For Three Dollars.
l.uRED VICTIM TO fHE CELLAR.
Pounded Young Mas to
Death With Piece Of Lead - Dis
charged From Factory He Wanted Vic
TINS Wages to Take Ar
rested He Made Full Conf ession.

rested He Made Full Confession.
JERSEY CRY, N. J. (speciaD. .-Angered
because he had lost his place In lamp
shade factory, and desiring to get the %
wages for the week drawn by the boy who
had made him lose his place. young John
Garrabrandt killed Henry Mas in the coal
bin Of the tenement house In which the
Garrabrandts lived In this city. Cara
brandt was traced to Nyack, N. Y, by Jer-
sey City detectives, and was arrested there
ut the home Of relative, Mrs. Primrose.
he was so frightened when the police Of
flcers routed him out otJbed that he at
once confessed having killed. young Mas.
As he would have related a. simple story
Of an everyday occurrence, ~Garrabrandt
told how he had murdered his companion
In cold blood. Not an angry word was
spoken before the crime.
my name Is John Garrnbrandt," said
the boy, when the police were ready to take
his confession. 'T will be nineteen years
old on June IS. reside with my father
and mother. left home at six O'Clock
Saturday morning and went to New York
City. knew Henry Mas. I used to work
WILL uluu dt ouuEp q Aucu b, NOS. 20 anu
30 Murray street, New York City.
II was discharged three or four weeks
ago because the boss couldn't trust me
around. He said Henry Mas told him I
threatened to shoot girl there.
81 was going up Murray street about
half.past seven Saturday morning, when I
met Mas at Sharp Il Aliens door. asked
him II he could get of at twelve o'clock
He said tYes.' met him ct flve minutes
past twelve O'clock, He Was going to Ca
nalstreet to deliver some boxes. Invent
went back to the store. .-.
"He went upstairs, and when he came
down told me he had his pay-$3. We
took the Barclay street ferry and walked
from Hoboken to Jersey City. and went to
my house.,
II went down to the cellar and went into
the woodshed and got O. piece of lead with
leather strap to IL, which used as
siunRshot, and put 1t In my pocket. ]
made 1t. Et Her
II put 1t in my pocket to bit Henry Mas
utes, when Henry came down. Itold him
! had something for him behind a barrel ln
the corner.
"He went to reach for It and I hit him
with the piece OF lead on his head, near the
ear. He fell down, and hit him again on
the'head when. haRas Town. He struggled
to get up, lAfterths frst blow4hs hoilered
and begged me not to kill him Then !
hit,him again on the head. Hfterthat he
said nothing. =. -,
Il, then tied his hands With a piece Of
tar cord that was lying on;the floor. I
took his money-e3-whtch was In m
envelope, from the inside pocket Of his
coat. ~ ~
"When Henry hollersd Mrs. Coyle came
down into tho celler and whistled through
the tube to my mothers ar artmsnts.. She
said: 43s%t.
"'Your cellar door is open and the key
L. In the lock- - .Ss,t. 49,
t".I then went upstairs, closing the cellar
door, but did not look it., went to my
mothers rooms and told her 7 had
Mother and I went down to Mrs. Coyle's
rooms on the first floor, and nv mother
told Mrs. Coyle had killed Mas down in
the woodshed.
"Mrs. Coyle asked me what was gbing
to do, and I9said'.I didn't know. My
mother told me to go away. .Mfs.s CoyIe
said she mustn't tell her husbRddxer any
one. - '..'' "a '..
''Mrs. Coyle said had better walt until
railroad track and people would think he
was Killed by train. T went down to the
cellar and looked the door. -
IT wanted to give the key to my mother,
but she wouldn't take It. went ont and
saw policeman coming out Of cellar at
Seventeenth and Grove streets. got
scared and went and took q train at Nyaok,
N, Y, and went to the house Of Mrs. Prlm-
rose. ! told Mamie P Primrose that had
killed the boy, and she told me to say moth
ing to her mother about IT, -ts
"Why did you ask Henry into the cell
lar2" inquired Chief Murphy.
II hadn't been worklng all the week. My
father thought was working aud wants
ed to get some money to bring home"
"DId you assault him for the pufpose OF
getting this money!"
"I wanted to get the money without
killIng himi but he died from the.crack on
the head" ~. e ,r.
After the boy had been locked up :Chlet
Murphy caused the arrest OF Mrs. Cara
brandt and Mrs. CoYle as accessories after
the fact. They were released on bail.
Mr.. Sharp, Of the hrm for which the boys
worked, says that he. discharged Cara
brandt partly because o. the revolver and
partly because he was Cigarette flend."
When he found the boy carried a revolver
he took the weapon from Hin, and has II
still .'