West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1900-10-24
.CLREa BRUrAL DGAIl
Victim IF Aristocratic Fiends
u at Paterson, N. J.
DIED FTER BEING DRUGGED.
CeIirtble Crime Committed-Her Body
Taken y Lonely Place, After Physi-
clan Pionounced Her Dead--Four of
the mek Under Arrest Prominent.

Show that the circumstances surround
ing the death of Miss Jennie Bosschie-
ter, of Paterson. n j.. form fearfully
revoltirg crime. The police have the
Eve prisoners more or less concerned I'm
the affair in custody. From state
mentsl and confessions 1t is learned
that shortly after o'clock Monday
evening Miss Bosschieter entered
Kents drug store at Paterson
and Rear It met Andrew Campbell.
There was short conversation, and
then fhe pair walked down Main street.
Somewhere en route they were joined
bg Gforge Kerr, Walter McAlister and
Willblm Death. The four entered.
Chester SALES saloon. Here drinks
were served. Finally one of the men.
telephoned to the Eric depot for cab,
ansi Ngtgust Schulthors responded. This.
cabman hils been the main source of
fhs poliees information, and has given.
8 sIetalled story of what occurred.
1t was in the neighborhood OF 10
o'riollS when the four men lifted the
pagtlT conscious girl into Sehulthors
f{ss. They had administered Knockout
oIjs to the girl. The men directed.
e VlrRstEs,tc take them to a roadhoAse,
MIt tley found 'tsssc place closed and res
i4'aksd rappings prodns.ad no response
Tho party then starteds-Sack toward
the city.
ID lonely spot the hack waPs stop
ped and the girl lifted out of itA One
of the four was not guilty of the crime
The hackman claims that he did not
leave his seat on the cab. He is uTil
able to say whether the girl was alive
or dead when she was lifted back into
the cab. He remembers that he was
told to drive down beside the river
bank. Here the girls apparently life
less body was lifted out of the cab and
head and face bathed with river water
After long time spent in trying TO
revive her the men held a consuIta-
tion. Their victim was again lifted
into the cab and the hackman was or
dered to drive like mad to DR.. Wileys
house. DIR. Wiley was not at home,
and the party hurried to the residence
or Or. Townsend. The physician was
aroused. He felt of the girls pulse
and said the girl was dead. Twice he
told them. They drove off and came
back. The doctor was offered any
amount of money If he would try to
save her life. but he persisted it was
psaless as death had come long before.
The carriage then drove away. 1t was
GDally resolved to drive out to Bergen
county.
McAlister caught the girl by the
feet and dragged them outward. An
other of the men lifted the shoulders
and as the hips reached the sill Nc
3AIister dropped the feet and the two
men held the body upright for mo-
meuf and then let GO The girls body
fell backward, the head striking the
rocks. which crushed the skull This
cireumstance, which threw the Bergen
county authorities off the scent, was
not foreseen by the men disposing of
the body. The hackman received $40
for rs nights work. This was paio
ny McAlister
the firm of McAlister & Co., silk
throwsters George Kerr is member
OF the J. P. Donleavy Paint COM
pany. Andrew Campbell is a book
keeper employed at the HIND street
silk mill. William A. Death is young
man who was married five weeks ago.
hrs. Deaths friends are endeavoring
20 conceal the story of the details Of
her husbands arrest, and she Is con-
vinced that mistake has been made
The men implicated in the crime were
held without bail after hearing be-
fore Recorder Senior. Judge Kerr,
brother of one Of the prisoners. Is mar
ried to sister Of Mayor Hinchcliffe
the millionaire brewer Of Paterson. He
Is also a relative of John Johnson. the
Democratic nominee for congress In
the Paterson district
The funeral of the girl was held here
III was claimed at Paterson last night
that the affHir is only one of series
OF crimes in which some girls of that
vicinity have been victims but 1t Is
the. first case known in which any girl
has lost her life.
The Sultan Will Make a Bluff.