New-York tribune., 1900-10-25
WIFE OF CABMAN TALKS.
SAYS SCULTHORPE WAS AT MERCY OF
MEN CHARGED WITH MURDER
OF JENNIE ROSSCHIFTER

Paterson, Oct. "a (SpeciaD.-Augustus Sculthorpe
the ca bman in the Jennie Bosschieter murder case
was released from Jail to-day on $500 bail IT was
on his confession that Walter c. McAster. George
j. Kerr, William A. Death and Andrew Campbell
were arrested His release such small bail was
accounted for by the fact that he had sworn a
deposition before the Recorder which contains all
his knowledge Of the crime so that if he were IN
duced 10 leave the city his testimony would not be
lost.
All day a crowd varying from two hundred to five
hundred people stood along sidewalk in front of
the jail yard, looking the building. The Jail was
visited by many friends and relatives of the prison
ers, out Jatler Sullivan would not permit any
inside to talk prisoners Mr.. Sullivan is the
father of Mamie Sullivan, whose murder in 1896
never solved. The only persons who allowed to
go inside and talk to the prisoners were their
counsel.
The brazen conduct of the men while they were
at large is almost incredible. The cabman
stranger TO them, yet they simply gave him $40
and told him TO keep his mouth shut. Oh Saturday
evening McAlister met Leonard Bosschieter
brother of the dead girl and offered his assistance
in trying to discover the murderer. He told Boss
chieter that he and Kerr had the girl talking
TO two men Thursday evening and If he
across the again he would inform the
brother. or have them arrested Campbell also dis
played the same effrontery. He of a group
IN front of the police station at o'clock Mon
day morning and told where he and Death had
seen Jennie on Thursday evening. One of the group
4elI NdInpDelS pOcKetS ana SAID, iauSninSly.
Where Jennie's underclothes?' 'T left them
at home" jokngly Campbell replied, without winc-
ing, and he seemed to be the merrest of the party
Chief Graul said to-day that the people will be
still more shocked when the practices of certain
young men who have paraded under the mask of
respectabiity revealed the tIial, they
will be The Chief asked to-day which of the
foIr men took part in the assault upon the
conscious, dying and perhaps dead. girl. He
Piled that il Kerr. Up TO this time IT has
" ated was Deaf
but according to the Chief it was neither.
County Physician Mcbride said to-day that it
would probably take two weeks to complete the
examination of the organs taken from the body
of Jennie BOsschieter. Until then he will give no
further information the subject The Coroner's
juIy will sit until the physicians ready to
make report. Scuthorpe. the cabman, has been
pledged TO secrecy by Prosecutor Emey. lie is on
duty .o-night with his hack at the Erie Railroad
Station but refused to talk Mrs. Sculthorpe, how
ever. told the following story:
My husband told me the story of the crime
Sunday, and 1 advised him to go make a state
ment to Chief Graul. [ greatly frightened
as he was when he told me about the ride My hus-
band says he summoned to Saalss in Bridge
st. on the night of the murder When he reached
there the four young men brought out woman
who appeared to be under the influence of liquor.
Not until the four took the girl of his
carriage for the purpose of assault did my hus-
band realize the position he was placed in. Then
he advised them to take the woman home They
laughed at him He heard the woman groaning
as she was being carried the waters edge. when
the men began TO get afraid that the woman
dying Ny husband SAYS he heard the men slap
ping the WomanS hands, as If to revive her
From that moment the four men became des-
perate They lost their heads. He advised them to
have the girl driven to her home They got angry
with him, and of them drew a revolver, and
in threatening way told him to drive back to
Paterson. He did SO After that my husband was
carriage were burning brightly My husband said
that when the body was being taken out of the
carriage to be dropped along the roadside the left
light shone plainly on the face of the dead woman
and he says he will never forget that sight.
charged him with cruel neglect in driving home
without letting the authorities know of the trouble
but he said he was scared by threats into keeping
quiet"
Irene Kerr, daughter of the prisoner. George ].
Kerr, by his first wife is engaged TO be married to
Arthur Kingloch, well known young man. Miss
Kerr has been living with her grandfather FOR
long time, she not good terms with her
father, with whose habits she was acquainted. She
warned her stepmother about his disreputabe con-
duct and told her she would better have nothing to
Il with him