New-York tribune., 1900-05-07
BOY CONFESSES MURDER.
KILLS YOUNG COMPANION TO SECURE
THREE DOLLARS
LURES HIM FROM HIS WORK TO A CELLAR
MURDERER'S MOTHER AND ANOTHER
WOMAN IMPLICATED.


MURDERERs MOTHER AND ANOTHER
| WOMAN IMPLICATED.
Henry Mass, better known by his stepfather's
! surname. Hayes, the fifteen-y ear-old boy whose
body was found in a woodshed at No. 1872
Eghteenth-st Jersey City on Saturday night
did not commit suicide. was at first supposed
but murdered by John Garrabrandt was
intimated in The Tribune yesterday. Cara
brandt, who is in his nineteenth year, fed to
| Nyack. where he arrested and he has made
detailed confession.
The crime was premeditated, and careful prep
aratons for it made The motive
robbery, Garrabrandt wishing to secure the three
dollars wages which Mass taking home
1t was prompted by the fact that Garrabrandt
feared his fathers wrath. His father supposed
he was working and he planned the crime to get
Maasss money and deceive his father. He says
he did not intend to kill Mass. whom he lured
to the cellar and then dealt two powerful blows
on the head with the slungshot he had made.
| The confession. the police say, has implicated
| Garrabrandts mother Christina Garrabrandt
| and Mrs. Julia Coyle neighbor. to whom, it is
said. Carrabrandt confessed the murder and
who, it is alleged agreed to shield him. Mrs
| Coyle Garrabrandt alleges. suggested plan
! to divert suspicion. and advised him to remove
the body of Mass at night and place it on
the railway tracks few yards from his home
The two women were arrested. but
leased in $500 bail furnished by John Cannon
The police. despite Garrabrandts denial. be-
lieve that after using the sungshot he strangled
Mass with the rope and stick found in the
woodshed in the cellar Garrabrandt admits
| that he had prepared the rope and stick for that
purpose. but says the blows with the slungshot
| killed Mass. There are marks on the victims
neck. plainly indicating. the police believe that
! the rope was brought into service
| The police at first strongly disposed to
accept the suicide theory, but the fact that the
! body had been locked in and that Garrabrandt
whose reputation not enviable, had the key
and was missing, required an explanation, and
the house kept under close surveillance
Detective Lee Intercepted man named COoney
! who was entering the apartments of the Cara
/ brandts and learned from him that he was the
| bearer Of message sent over the telephone
| from Nyack by young Garrabrandt, requesting
/ his mother TO join him Mrs. Primroses home
| in Nyack, yesterday morning The detective
| promptly Informed Captain Kelly Patroman
! Murray, who could identify Carrabran ndt, hav-
| ing arrested him several times on minor COM
| plants. was summoned. and with the Captain he
started for Nyacll. They telephcned at O'Clock
| yesterday morning that they had found Cara
| brandt, who had confessed his crime.
THE MURDERER'S CONFESSION.
| The fugitive voluntarily returned TO Jersey
| City, and taken 70 Police Headquarters,
| where he made the following statement to Chief
Murphy. in the presence of Inspector Archibald.
Patrolman Robinson and Detective Clark:
left home at o'clock YESTERDAY Saturday
Hayes Ciasssl | used to work with him him at SHARP
! was discharged three or four weeks ago because
| the boss couldn't trust me around He said Henry
| vas going up Murray-st, about 73O O'Clock Sat
HrG9y % mornins aS When met Hayes & al d SHARP I Al
| O'Clock lie said yes. he asked me what excuse
he Would tell the boss that his siepfather was
| very sick and was apt 10 die | met him again
| liver some boxes. | went with him. lie delivered
! the boxes and went back TO the store. He went
| upstairs, and when he came down told me he had
| We took the Barclay-st. ferry and walked from
Ilob9ken to Jersey city and went to my house at
and into the woodshed and got piece of lead with
leather strap TO it the slungshop. and put il In
s Hsn y mh it. wNd m dMn MY StTe 40 eW e1E
P ThTn Henry f6 & GoT9 b Sd IN him b
corner He went to reach Tor IT, and l hit him
He fell. and hit him again on the head when he
down , is lie fTGgged ho he nd9g6 TO get mp up nor - KIN him
Then hit him again On the head After that he
the cord that was lying the floor | took his
money which was i'll an envelope from the inside
stick: intended to use il but didn't as he died
oT G0ud own @4e in the cer Sd Sfesh whse
through the tube to my mothers apartments. She
said; Your cellar door is open and the key is in
| then went upstairs closing the cellar door but
did not lock it. Went to my mothers rooms and
shed Mother and ! went down to Mrs. Coyle's
rooms, on the first floor, and my mother told Mrs.
Mrs. Coyle asked me what was going 70 do, and
l said ! didn't know.
My mother told me to go away. Mrs. Coyle said
she wouldn't tell her husband or any one. Mrs.
Coyle said had better wait until night and place
the body alongside the railroad track. and people
would think he was killed by train went down
the key my mother, but she wouldn't take it.
and went and took train 70 Nyack; N Y and
the house of Mrs Primrose (his auno l
and she tol6 me to say nothing 20 her mother about
1t. | then telephoned to No. Col Grove-st., Jersey
City, GOrmleys drug store, and asked them to send
over to my mothers house and ask her 10 come up
In the morning.
DIDN'T WANT TO KILL HIM
Why did you ask Henry into the CELLAR"
inquired Chief Murphy.
"I hadn't been working all week. My father
thought l was working and I wanted to get
money to bring home replied Cara
brandt.
Did you assault him for the purpose OF get
ting this money!" the Chief asked
Il wanted to get the money without killing
him. but he died from the crack on the head
Garrabrandt said
lid you intend to assault him and rob him
when you met him in New York;" the boy
asked
Yes. sir.
brandt, says that he dismissed for dis
obedience He sad that Garrabrandt was an
irveterate cigarette smoker and fond of sensa-
tional literature. He corroborated Cara