The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-24
WAS DR(GIED 70 DEATH
PATERSON, N. j., GIRL GIVEN
KNOCKOUT DROPS WITH
FATAL EFFECT
FIVE MEN ARE IN CUSTODY
Victim, After Drinking with Them,
Was Driven in n Carriage to
81 Lonely Spot in the
Country.

NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-Late last night
George Kerr, Walter McAllister, William
Death and Andrew Campbell, were ar
rested by the police of Paterson, n. J..
accused of having caused the death of
Jennie Bosschieter, the young woman
whose body was found last Friday on the
outskirts Of Paterson. Kerr and Death
are married.
The police say that Death has made a
confession saying that the four were
drinking with the girl and gave her
knock OUT drops. They then took her
in buggy across the bridge into Bergen
county, passing the girls own home on
the way to the spot where the body was
found the next morning. In the struggle
which occurred there, one of the men,
which one is not stated, tripped the girl,
throwing her heavily to the ground. The
fall rendered her unconscious and the
four men became frightened. They put
her in the buggy and started back to Pat
erson with her, but changed their minds
and again brought her back to the spot
to where the assault had occurred. Leav-
ing her they went for a doctor, whose
name was not given by Death.
The doctor returned with them and
pronounced the girl beyond help.
The police say they know who the doc
tor is.
The four begged the physician to do all
he could for the girl, and said they
would pay the bills. They said they
would take her to his house and the ply
sician started on ahead The men placed
the girl again in the buggy and started
away with her. Their fears overcame
them again, however. Believing the girl
to be dead, they again brought her back
to the same spot and placed the body on
the ground, making their way back to
Paterson afterward.
The detectives employed assert that
death was caused by the knock OUT
drops given her and not by the blow on
the head.
MEN WELL CONNECTED.
Death is an insurance collector; Nc
Allister is son of a well-to-do silk
throwster; Kerr is member of a
wealthy family and brother of former
Judge Kerr, and Campbell is foreman is
a silk mill
A fifth arrest was made today, Garrett
Stowcroft being taken into custody.
Stowcroft was taken to the police head
quarters at Paterson, where he made a
statement. He said he was hired by Nc
Allister, Kerr. Death and Campbell to
drive them with Miss Bosschieter in a
two-seated rig last Thursday night. He
said they stopped at SaaFs saloon where
they had several drinks. The girl after
been drugged. Stowcroft said he under
stood she had been given knock OUT
drops. They placed her in the rig and
she became unconscious. The men be-
came frightened as the girl did not re-
vive and they drove to the Office of DR..
Townsend
The girl continued unconscious and the
men were advised to take her home. Sub
seQuently they drove to the houses of
fWn nth nj hI1f
ceed in getting medical aid, and so went
back to the Office of Dr. Townsend.
When they got there this time the girl
was dead. They then drove out to the
place where the body was first discov-
cred, near the Wagarrow bridge, i'll Ber-
gen county, and left the body there.
DRIVER BRIBED.
Stowcroft said that McAllister gave him
$40 to keep his mouth shut 1t is re-
ported that Campbell and Death admitted
to Chief Traul that they were in COM
pany with the other men under arrest
with the girl at the, time she met her
death Both are said to have made
statements in writing, but the details are
not yet made public by the police.
Kerr, McAllister, Death and Campbell
were successfully arraigned before Re-
corder Senior, and were held without bail
to await the action of the grand jury
They were charged with numbering Jen-
ME Bosscheter "by giving her powerful
drugs, Of which she died q lingering
death" 1t is said that Death has been
married only few months
The funeral of Jennie Bosschieter was
stopped by the coroner this afternoon,
and another inquest was begun The fu-
neral was Indefinitely postponed. The doc
tors are examining the body for other
wounds not previously discovered and for
poison.
A HORRIBLE TALE.
Todays developments show that the
circumstances sIrro1irl Hing the daath OF