New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-26
POLICE FIND THE BOTTLE.
CHLORAL WAS THE POISON THAT
KILLED JENNIE BOSSCHIETER.
STATEMENT OF YOUNG WOMAN MORE
DEEPLY IMPLICATES KERR
AND MALLIsTER.

Paterson Oct Is (SpeciaD.-It became known TO-
day that there is no longer question ABOUT the
drug that used TO stupefy Jennie BoSschiete'
by the four young men who lured her to her death
last Thursday night On Tuesday afternoon the
poIIce found the small bottle containing choral
which had been used Is said. by McAlhster' IL
was found not far from the spot where the Dooy
was discovered by the assistance OF the capnlah'
Sculthorpe. who told Chief Graul that after the
men left the body by the roadside, he heard one
of them say 81 guess l had better get rid or
this" and Immediately he heard noise as Oh
something falling In the brush. He recalled TINS
incident afterward. and when the detectives went
to the spot they found the bottle after a long
search. The police say that they know the drug
store where the chloraI was obtained and the
name Of the clerk who sold it, but they refuse to
divulge these facts
scultborpe as now appears in his confession TO
the police was awakened while sleepeing In his
cab at the Erie Railroad Station the night OF
the murder by George ]. Kerr who asked him If
he did not want a good job. He replied that he
did Kerr then told him to be ready when he was
called Kerr also said that he was waiting for a
telephone message. The message-supposed to be
the one sent by McAlster while he In Saals
saloon-was soon received, and Kerr rode In Soul
thorpes cab to the saloon. This is the only addi-
ton OF Importance to what the cabman had pre-
viousy told
Christopher Saal who keeps the saloon at the
corner of Bridge and River SITS, denies that there
was any other woman than Jennie Bosschieter IN
the side room with the four men. He did not see
them go out. There woman about the
building who put her head out Of the side door and
looked UP and down the street. Mr.. Saal also de-
MES that the lights turned down in the side
room lust as the girl was led out. Mr.. Saal made
a statement to the police last night he VIII De
subpcenaed to attend the inquest.
Coroner yermeulen will hold the inquest at the
Courthouse next Monday evening. DR.. Mcbride
says that the analysis of the contents of the sto-
ach will not be ready then, but the result Of the
autopsy will be given without that. In that case
the analysis will not be known until the trial.
which it is said, will not be held at this term
of court. Prosecutor Finley has already three
murder trials for this term and he could not take
up this important with such quantity OF
pressing business hand. He will, however,
bring the case before the Grand Jury next week,
and indictments may be brought into court on next
Friday, but the trials will be put on until the
January term.
There has been no demonstration Of any kind
and no crowd gathered in front Of the jail to-day,
but the feeling of indignation is just as strong to-
day as 1t was on Tuesday, when the horrible deed
Jail Warden Buckley says that McAlister. Kerr,
seem to have fallen into the jail regulations with
Seea a thew do no work During the day they
keep by themselves. Only their counsel are per-
Warden Buckley says that none. of the rela-
tives Of McAlister have been near him at the jail
only for few minutes. Deaths father visited him
se e b g1ey d da9 m pBGckey the JAZZ
never had at one time before seven persons charged
with murder.
Lizzie schaub of No. Q Matlock-st., has made
statement in which she duplicates McAllister and
Kerr still deeper than before. She says that last
May McAster induced her and Bertha Zimling-
haus go driving. Kerr met them, and at a
roadhouse the Golfer Road they had drinks
which stupefed the girls. On a lonely road the
attempted. Lizzie says, to assault her and
Bertha but failed. 2 later she forgave him and
paid physicians bills for illness that followed
Miss Schaub it is understood. will make charges
before Recorder Senior against McAllister. Bertha
Zimlinghaus cannot be found and 1t is said she Is
out of town
Mrs George Kerr, whose husband Is under arrest
for the murder of Jessie Bosschieter. is III at her
home, No. Is Jackson-st and is expected at any
is grave, as her husbands arrest completely pros
trated her
1t was learned tonight that the name blown on
the bottle found by the police is Kent" Leonard
Kent, when tonight, said that the mere fact
of the name being the bottle did not mean any
thing. The bottle might have contained some
thing else originally, it may have been frequent
" refilled McAllster had been in the habit OF
carrying choral for the last eight years, and Mr.
Kent said he was sure that he had never obtained
1t either of Kent's stores. He had questioned
all the clerks closely, and he satisfied that
choral had not been dispensed by any OF them to
any of the four prisoners Choral was not sold
except physicians prescriptions or to veterinary
surgeons. Inquiries at Kinsella'S drug store, in
Main-st., and David Neer's. in Broadway and
Bridge-st., produced similar answers. All Of the
clerks had been examined but none OF them had
sold the poison.