The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-07
A BOY MURDERER ARRESTED.
ConfeSses to Killing n Companion in
n Moodshed.

NOoosheus
NYACK. y. Y, May 6.-John Cara
brant. nineteen-y -year-old boy, was ar
rested here early this morning on charge
OF numbering Henry Hayes. aged sixteen,
! in Jersey City. yesterday afternoon. He
was arrested in West Nyack by Capt. John
F. Kelley OF the Second precinct, Jersey
/ City The boy was found at the home
Of Mrs. Primrose. a relative, who lives in
quiet neighborhoOd. He at once ac-
! knowledged his guilt and willingly accom-
| panied the officers to the Office OF Justice
| W. W Whyard. to whom he made the
| following statement:
Il went to New Yorl>from Jersey City
| today for Henry Hayes and found him
/ at 10 Murray Street l asked him II he
would come over to Jersey City with me,
/ as / had something for him. He then
asked his boss. Mr.. Sharp. il he could get
off at noon. telling him that his father was
very sick and likely to die. He got paid
and at 1905 we took the Barclay Street
ferry to HobOken. to Jersey City. l took
him down into the cellar Of my home. 1872
Eighteenth Street. Jersey City. l then
took him into the wood shed. He went
in ahead of me l then hit him with a
piece of lead with a strap to ii. | hit him
and then hit him while he was down. Then
he struggled to get up, when l tied his
hands so he could not get hold Of ne.
He hollered out, Don't kill me, but for
give me-
Young Garrabrant said he afterward
went up the three flights OF stairs to his
mother. who asked him what was the
matter Later he told her that he had
killed a boy in the woodshed and that the
boy was Henry Hayes. After this John
said his mother was advised by Mrs.
Coyle, who lived In the same house, to
take the dead body out at night and place
il on the Erie Railroad track so the peo-
pie would think the boy had been killed
by train.
Young Garrabrant gave as his reason
Tor killing Hayes that the latter had got
him out Of a job by telling his boss that
he, Garrabrant, had threatened to shoot a
girl. This. Garrabrant said. was two
months ago, and he had not had employ
ment since. After the murder young Gar
rabrant took the $3.50 p. N. train on the
Northern Railroad for Nyack. During the
evening he telephoned down to his mother
and then walked over to Mrs. Primrose's
house in West Nyack. On his way over
he met Mrs. Primrose's daughter. Mrs.
ReardOn, who asked him what had hap
pened.
Il killed boy today" he replied.
The woman did not believe him. but
told him not to tell her mother that or
she would not have him in the house 1t
became known in Jersey City in the even
ing that Garrabrant had come to Nyack,
and Chief Kelley and another officer ar
rived here a midnight After the prisoner
made his confession Of the murder he con-
sented to return with the officers TO Jer-
sey City, and they went down on the 7:15
train this morning.
NEW YORK, May 6.-In a confession
made by young Garrabrant after ne was
brought to Jersey City. he declared that
his motive in killing Mas, whom he knew
as Hayes. that being the name of the
latter's step-father, was not only revenge,
but partly to get SO. which he knew Mas
had just received as his weeks pay. Gar
rabrant's mother and Mrs Coyle iani-
trees Of the house where they lived. are
under ball as accessories after the fact
TO the murder. Garrabrant says he told
them about the crime right after it was
committed and they advised him 20 fee.
Mrs COyle suggesting a way to dispose of
the body, and promising not to tell what
she knew.