Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-16
FAMILY TURNS AGAINST HIN.
Father and sisters,

fnther and sisters.
Paterson N. j., Nov. 16.-Walter Me-
Allister, in Jail for Jennie Bosschiter's
rape and death, has nc hope now OF see
curing the aid OF friends. His father.
condemnlng him, is going into exile.
Pity, the sentiment that is supposed
never to die in woman, has died in the
hearts Of the pariah's two sisters.
Even they do not pity him. He Ii In
the blacklist solitude, mental and moral,
that could be imagined. His fathers
house is for sale: the silk mill that made
the wealth of the culprlt's parents, and
where he abused his authority SO OUT
rageously, is posted with the auction
GERS bills.
James McAllister and his two daugh-
tiers are going away, not to return. They
are going to a far-off town on the Pa
ciic coast. they say They will not
name it. Their despair is the most pa
thetic, their contempt for the accused.
criminal is the most blighting that leg
ENDS ever knew.
He has made them special epic VIC
Tins. All Paterson quotes without a
shudder James McAllister's terrible adj
vice to his son. when suspicion fell on
him: IF You are innocent o would
better go to the police station and clear
yourself. II you know anything Of the
crime you would better tell what you
know. II you are guilty take this pistol
and blow out your brains"
Surely a condition like this-a criminal
exciting IN a town the interest OF not a
single personage-was never recorded.
He was of a family highly esteemed.
They were kind, charitable, learned.
II rrt,c,, I,,,3 - ~ y I, r,,,iitSoe %ba 4 ~ u 90.
ciety happy in their presence. He was
planned him.
In other frightful mysteries of this
sort the minister, the priest, the philos-
opher, the man of science, have inter-
vened with divine charity, consultations,
formulas of experiments in criminal So
GEOLOGY, attempts at explanations. Wal
ter McAllister provokes not even an
abominable curiosity. There is nothing
to divert the attention from the thought
of stunning him like the plague.
His aged father, bent with grief, and
the two young women that Paterson adj
n1ired for their charm of and
their beautiful qualities, are too closely
related to him not to be under the ban
OF that irredeemable hatred now. They
suffer under the reflection Of 1t, and
worse stiil-they share 1t themselves.
His associates in the crime Of Jennie
Bosschieter's death are Stunned as well.
Kerr's wife has not called on him since
he has been in prison, and his brother
is to defend him. desperately, In sheer
fraternal devotion. Kerr's brother is a
former Judge OF Paterson.
William Deaths wife-they had been
married for six weeks-may not endure
the mention OF his name. Alexander
Campbell has not found a lawyer. The
bar says: LET these four men pass;
they do not belong to humanity" And
the four men. thus exiled from every
thing, began to realize their utter help
l~es.ness yesterday. They had said a,
first: "Oh, we shall find a way out Of
all this" But the prisoners in their pen
refused yesterday to shake hands with
them, saying: ooh. no.; we are here on
~ for theft and murder"
McAllister and the others nay make
no defense against the charge OF muir
der. and place themselves thusi in the
way of the state prison for thirty years,
and nothing graver. But their prose.
cutors and the court may not permit
them to make such a plea. They may be
forced to plead mot guilty" or guilty
simply.