Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-10-31

The Prisoners Arc Members of Promi.
ncnt Families - They Are Charged
with stupefying the Girl rIrst. Then
After She Died. They Left the Body by
the Roadsidc-An Atrocious Crime.
Paterson. y. ]. (SpeciaO.-Thc last
trace OF mystery surrounding the kill
in of Jennie Bosschicter. the seventeen
Year-o!d girl whose body was found
near the Wagaraw Bridge over the
Fassaic river, the other day, has been
cleared away. -Four men, members of
some of the most prominent families
III Paterson, have been arrested.
charged with having murdered the girl
with an overdose of Il drug
The prisoners are Walter G.. McAlis-
ter Andrew Campbell. George ]. Kerr.
and William y. Death. The charge
against them reads that they did will
fully. maliciously and with malice
1forethought murder Jennie Bosschie-
ter Ivy 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
oiTensc with which they are charged.
Three of the accused have made full
confessions. The Chief of Police made
formal complaint charging all four
with wilful murder. and they were
taken before Recorder Senior. They
were represented by able counsel. but
all waived examination and were com
mittcd To Jail without bail To await the
action of the Grand Jury now in scs-
sion.
The men under arrest arc all well
known. McAlliStcr is the son of James
y. McAlliSter. Il silk tlIrowSter. and is
in business with his father. Kerr be
longs Ia wellto-do family of this
city. AMI is Il brother of former Judge
Kerr. William Death is an advertis-
ing solicitor. and is IL young married
man. Campbell was Il clerk i'm the
office of John Hand & Sons. silk manu-
facturers
The arrest of these men was followed
up by the taking into custody of Gus
tav III. Scowcroft, who confessed that
1t was i'll his hack, driven by him. that
the crime was committed. He was re
leased on $500 bail, furnished by his
counsel
The story in outline of what is re-
garded rs one of the most horrible
crimes in the history of New Jersey.
follows:
Miss BoSschieter was lurcd TO Sa-
loon about 10 o'clock on Thursday
night. There she was druggcd placed
iii cab with the four men. driven To n
remote place on the outskirts of the
town. taken unconscious To the ground
and there, being then in n dying condi-
lion. was crminally assaulted by three
of her companions.
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
10 the house of doctor I'm Paterson
who came down 10 the sidewalk. exam
ined her in the carriage and pro
nounccd her dead
Ihc carriage was then driven to the
remote place near Ayers icehouse and
there the dead girl was | ted out. car
ried To the place where the body was
found. thrown down like dead dog
and her head deliberately smashed
against the ragged edged rock on which
II rested hen the body was discov.
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.