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PATTERSON MURDER Case
Four Men Accused of Poisoning
Pretty Jennie Bosschieter.
POLICE SAY THREE CONFESSED

The Prisoners Are Members of Promi.
nent Families - They Are Charged
With Supplying the Girl First, Then.
After She Died, They Left the Body by
the Roadside-An Atrocious Crime.
Paterson. \. ]. (SpeciaE.-Thc last
trace of mystery surrounding the kill
IN of Jennie BoSSchieter, the seventeen
year-old girl whose body was found
near the Wagaraw Bridge over the
Passaic rtiver, the other day, has been
cleared away. Four men, members of
some of the most prominent families
in Paterson, have been arrested.
charged with having murdered the girl
with an overdose of drug.
The prisoners are Walter G. McAlis-
ter. Andrew Campbell. George ]. Kerr,
and William A. Death. The charge
against them reads that they Ibid will
fully, maliciouSly and with malice
aforethought murder Jennie BOSschie-
ter by administering to her certain
powerful potion or drug, from the eff
fects of which. after lingering awhile,
she died" Death is the penalty of the
offenSc win which they are charged.
Three of the accused have made full
confessions. The Chief of Police maaHf
a formal complaint charging all Xour
with wilful murder, and theX were
taken before Recorder SeniQs$ They
were represented by able c9unsel but
all waived examination ssG6 we're com
mitted to Jail without b al toIawaIt the
ess5on Iob' of the Grand ry, now in ses;
Ehe men under an os+ oro o1l well
wn. McAllister tho son If lanes
lcAllister, a 81 Z throwster and is
lsiness withsis father Kerr be-
nd nd 1eh-to-do, family of this
a brother of former Judge
PWilliam Death is an advertis-
blicitor. and is a young married
Campbell was clerk In the
ee of John Hand & Sons, silk manu-
facturers.
The arrest of these men was followed
up by the taking into custody OF Gus
taY H. Scowcroft, who confessed that
it was in his hack, driven by him, .hat
the crime was lpmmitted. He was re-
!. leased on $500 bail, furnished by his
counsel. = g..
The story in outline of what Is re-
sarded as one oftthe most horrible
crimes in the history of New jersey.
! follows: - o.. ..-,S-,, y
r Miss Bosschieter was lured to a sa-t
loon about 10 o'clock on Thursday
night. There she was drugged, placed
In cab with the four men, driven to
remote place on the outskirts of the
town. taken unconscious to the ground
and there, being then in dying condi-
ton, was criminally assaulted by three
of her companions 80. :,
When they found she still remained
unconscious after being put back In the
carriage and after all their efforts to
restore her failed they drove with her
to the house Of a doctor In Paterson.
who came down to the sidewalk, exam
ined her in the carriage and pro-
nounced her dead.
"a: The carriage vas then driven to the
remote place near Ayers icehouse and
there the dead girl was l.ited out, car
2ried to the place where the body was
Z found, thrown down like dead dog
land her head deliberately smashed
against the ragged-edged rock on which
1t rested when the body was dlscov-
cred by one of Ayers employees early
the next morning.
The families Of the accused men are
completely Frustrated by shame and
grief. In jail. Campbell and Death,
the younger Of the four, are nervous
wrecks. but Kerr and McAlister are
stolidly Indifferent.