New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
WAS KILLED BY A DRUG.
-FOUR MEN CHARGED WITH THE MUIR
DER OF JENNIE BossCHIETER.
EVIDENCE TENDS TO SHOW THEY DROVE
ABOUT THE CITY WITH BODY-POLICE
SAY THREE CONFESSED

SAY THREE Confessed
Paterson. N. J.. Oct. % (speciaD.-Walter c.
McAllister George ]. Kerr, William A. Death
! and Andrew Campbell were arraigned in the
Paterson police court this morning on a charge
or wtlfully numbering Jennie Bosschieter "by ad-
ministering some powerful drug" This charge
puts an entirely different aspect on the case. in
that 1t asserts that the girl was not killed by
nelng thrown violently the stone on which
her mead was resting when her body was found
last Friday morning at Wargaraw Bridge, as
was at first supposed, nor from exposure. as
was said by DR.. w. L. Vroom. who performed
the autopsy, but by poison. The evidence in
the possession of the police almost conclusively
proves that the four men now under arrest
drove hither and thither through the city with
the dead body of the girl beside them before
they left it at the Wagarrow Bridge.
Augustus Sculthorpe, the cabman who drove
the party, yesterday made a confession, which
resulted in the arrest of the four men dur
ing the night He told in detail all the move
ments Of the party, and his testimony is
ceiving startling confirmation from an autopsy
now being made by the Passaic County authori-
ties This autopsy shows that there was no
fracture of the skull, and that the artery under
the broken piece of bone at the base of the skull
was not severed
The case now is entirely in the hands
Of the Passaic County authorities Coun-
ty Physician Mcbride, DR.. Todd ard DR. Van
Noordt performed the autopsy for this county.
They refuse to give out the full details of the ex-
animation. but Dr. Mcbride admitted tonight
that yesterday they obtained the heart and
stomach. and that to-day they returned for the
remaining organs. DR.. Mcbride said that he
was going to have the organs thoroughly ex-
am1ned, and the contents of the stomach an
alyzed. When asked what was the cause of
death, the Doctor said he would not answer
until the examination had been completed. He
also refused to say whether the girl had been
assaulted. He asserted there was no fracture Of
the skull and no artery cut. but he declined to
say whether there had been conclusion Of the
brain When asked whether chloral had been
used. DR.. Mcbride threw up his hands and
cried that he would refuse to go into any such
questions.
You are asking me expert questions now he
said "and refuse to answer. Here is a book
on choral. If you want to look it up"
There is no doubt, however. that the authori-
ties are now seeking to establish the fact that
the girl was drugged with choral put in alb
sinthe in Saas's saloon, at the corner of Bridge
and River SITS. MoAIlister is said to have ad-
ministered the drug, and the police say that they
can prove this charge. They also say that all Of
| the men except McAllister have confessed every
thing. The whole mystery. the police say, is
solved. and they confident Of the conviction
of the four men.
1t is not known yet how the police got the first
evidence which led to the solution, but it is GER
tain that in the end it through the confess
sion of the cabman Whether his confession was
voluntary obtained under threat of punish
ment is likewise unknown The movements of
the girl were easily traced from the time she left
her home Thursday until $50 o'clock, when
she was seen in front of Kent's drug store, in
Main-st., talking to two men. Leonard Kamer-
ling recognized her. and said that she was cry
ing mo! MOI" to of the men as he was
passing. This man, now appears, was An
drew Campbell, who answers the description
given by Kamerling. 1t is now known that
Campbell and the girl walked together up Van
Houten-st to Church-st., and then to Broadway.
and thence down Rridge-st. to the saloon at the
corner of River-st,, with the three other men
following all the way. They reached the saloon
before 10 O'Clock. The girl went in by the side
door, and Campbell and McAllister went into
the barroom. They called for two glasses of
beer and glass Of absinthe. The other two
men had not then arrived. McAllister carried
the drinks from the barroom to the side room,
and it is supposed that at this moment he
dropped the chloral into the absnthe Christie
pher Saals the saloonkeeper, says that, later he
went into the side room and served two more
glasses of beer and glass of milk and seltzer
The next time he was called into the side room
all four of the men were present, and they called
for a quart bottle Of champagne. Meanwhile
McAlllster telephoned to the Erie Railroad sta
ton for hack. Augustus Sculthorpe responded
with a two seated carriage. Mr. Saals say he
did not see the carriage, did he see the party
go out from the side room.
At this point Augustus Sculthorpe appears and
continues the story of the crime. The girl was
assisted out Of the saloon between two of the
men, with a handkerchief over her face. After
the five had entered the carriage, Sculthorpe
drove the Bridge-st bridge and went out
to the Gof1e Road, where he tried to get into
roadhouse, but found it closed. He was then
told to turn around, and they started back
the Passaic County side of the river While in
the Rock Road a stop made and one of the
blankets was taken out of the wagon and placed
the grass The helpless girl was then taken
from the wagon and assaulted by three of the
men. The fourth man and the hackman refused
to leave their seats in the carriage. The girl
then put back into the hack and as she did not
revive the carriage driven to the river
shore, where her face washed and her head
bathed in effort to restore her to conscious
ness. She showed signs of returning
sciousness, and the men, becoming alarmed,
thought it best to drive back to Paterson and
find physician. The hackman was told by one
OF the men to drive to the office of Dr. S. f.
Wiley. in Ward-st., but when they arrived DR..
Wiley was not at home. and DR.. S. Cyrus Town
send. in Paterson-st., aroused. One of the
men met the doctor at the door He said they
had a woman in the wagon who had met with
an accident and they wanted to know If they
could bring her into his office. The doctor re-
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