The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-29
THE BOssCHKETER CASE.
Public Statement by Dr. Townsend Who
 Made the Midnight Call.

New York, Oct. 28.-It is now said in
 Paterson. N. J., that the present grand
 jury will take up the inquiry into the
 death of Jennie Bosschieter, for whose
 murder McAlester Death, Campbell
 and Kerr are confined in jail.
 Whereas statements have appeared
 lending to show that there would likely be delay by the authorities it is now
 given out that the investigation is to
 be pushed vigorously. Dr. Townsend,
 who refused to appear on the witness
 stand yesterday will appear at the 1n-
 quest next Tuesday night. His reason
 for not answering the Subpoenas was
 an order from the authorities to testi-
 fly regarding the visit of the prisoners
 to him on the night of the murder, pr.
 Townsend now makes the following
 statement of the midnight call and his
 connection with the case:
 Tt has been stated that the four
 men made two calls at my office and that the girl was alive when the car- riage first arrived They came but once and it was then too late to render aid
 ito the unfortunate. I am positive of the exact time of their arrival because
 cL NAAS bed I looked at the clock on the man. tel and saw it was 2 o'clock. Through the speaking tube inquired the cause of the summons and was told that there had been an accident and asked to come at once Throgh the tube l asked particulars and was met with the word that the patient was in carriage at the door. It was cold, but l waited only to don bathrobe and went down stairs When the door wa opened two men whom I knew as George Kerr and Walter McAlister showed me aside and quickly stepped inside. Then I was told that a young woman had been hurt and both men de clared that they would carry her in.
 '.But without further barley I brush ed past them and went out to the car riage. It was a two-seated rig that I had often seen at the Erie depot. I did not see the haclkman. There were two men standing at the curb near the door of the carriage. I knew Campbell by sight. Inside the carriage on a rear seat a young woman was half seated, ] half lying across the back of the seat. Her head lay sideways across her breast. I lifted her head and laid it back gently. It was limp and lffeless. l The clothing was disarranged. the hair | hanging about her neck and shoulders. Her waist had been 1oosened and only | the two top buttons of the waist were l buttoned There was no pulse. The | heart beat had been stilled.
 'sWhen climbed into the rig to make @ closer examination four men gathered at the side of the carriage. Their faces were white and they looked question. The body was cold. Boys l said to them T can do nothing; she is dead.'
 "They seemed to draw back and were all together when I stepped within the door and left them in conference at the curb. It was five minutes after two when returned upstairs.
 Dr. Townsend said the men had in- sisted that the woman should be taken into his office even after she was pro- nounced dead. Early the next day he SAW the account of the finding of the bodv of Jennie Bosschieter near Waga- raw Bridge.
 During his examination of the young in the carriage it had been too lark to distinguish the features and the circumstances of the position of the body with the gash in the back of the head and the fractured skull reported n the autopsy added to the mystery. on Friday afternoon he decided to seek he advice of professional friends, who were made acquainted with the full de- ails. When it appeared that the cases were identical the authorities were notified. Dr. Townsend visited the thief of police, and gave the informa- ion in his possession, and the arrest f if Soulthorpe, Kerr, McAlister, Death md Campbell followed.