Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-12
KERR HAS SQUtALED.
Will Tell What He Knows About
 Bosschieter Case.

~OSSSAAOSOA SA0Os Young McAlister Sent for His Father
 Yesterday-Refused to Leave His
 Cell-the Hackman Grows Nervous
 as Day of Trial Approaches = He
 Will Tell His Story for the Fourth
 Time.
 Paterson, N. J., Jan 12-This city is all agog over the Jennie BosschieIer murder trial, which begins next Mon day. On every street corner the sole topic of conversation is the outcome of the trial and what fate awaits the four men accused of committing two of the most dastardly crimes ever chronicIed in this county. That the four pris on- CTS realize their position is beyond doubt
 Yesterday. for the first time since his incarceration, Walter McAlister 1t- fused to leave his cell. He asked Keeper Dougherty to ring up mes senger boy and have him deliver q note to his father. The latter called at the Jail yesterday afternoon and his son stood on the second tier opposite his cell and beckoned the gray-haired fath- CT to come to him. The old gentleman entered his sons cell and remained there for nearly two hours. On leav- ing the prison MT McAlister was asked lf his son was in good health
 For q moment the sorrowing father meditated and then replied: Physical ly he is all right, but mentally don't think he is we'll. I do not say this on the eve of my boys trial to palliate h,v- '>F lot. that in his talks to me he rambles and wanders from one thing to another. l hope he grows no worse.'
 It is true that Kerr will be used as witness by Prosecutor Emley. Ex- Judge Kerr, brother of the prisoner, admitted this to q correspondent yes terday afternoon. Prosecutor Emley, when asked about it, replied: II am not the person to ask that question. Ask Kerr, or else his lawyer, Mir Har- ding"
 The subject of Jennie Bosschieter's murder and assault is in every mouth and all classes of citizens are discus sing the probable defense of the pris- oners. The most damaging witness against the men will be Gus Scul- thorpe, the hackman, who drove the dead girl and her companions on the fatal night. He has told his story of tue crime three times, and each time repeated the first story.
 He, too. is nervous as the day of trial draws near. His companion je- hus do not recognize him, and for over q week he has not appeared at the Erie hack stand until darkness has succeed | ed daylight. He knows that he is con- l tinually under surveillance.
 Detective John Taylor, to whom the entire credit is due for the speedy ar rest of the four men, has charge of | Sculthorpe, and the latter reports to | him. The old hack which conveyed Jennie BOSSchieter to the place where she was found has been abandoned. l The other day Sculthorpe received an offer from the manager of muse um in New York for the vehicle, but 'Sculthorpe refused to even speak of the old ramshackle turnout
 1 Prosecutor Emley has decided that l McAlister, Death and Campbell shall first face q jury on Monday next to be tried for their lives for the murder of Jennie Bosschieter.
 Kerr, who was jointly identified with the other three prisoners and who has been granted a separate trial, may be called as witness for the state against McAlister. Death and Campbell. Kerr ! Sdy ue WAS uOL pIeSGuI at tuc lliuC l the knockout drops were given to Jen- nie Bosschieter, but he was a member of the party who drove in hack with 1 the girl to the outskirts of Paterson, | where her body was found, and where l she was criminally assaulted while iM | an unconscious condition. Kerr claims to have taken no part in this assault.
 There was q rumor about the Pas safe county jail here yesterday that Kerr had decided to become 9 witness for the state and tell all he knew about the crime when McAlister. Death and Campbell were placed C trial. Prosecutor Emley, when asked about this, said: "Kerr has made no comics sion to me, nor to the police, so it is pretty certain none has been made.'' Judge Dixon's court room in the old court house, where the trial will take place. has q seating capacity of not more than 200 persons. Judge Dix on has ordered the sheriff not to allow | the court room to be overcrowded and so at the most there will not be more than 200 persons present at the trial at any one time.
 The 900 can easily be figured up There are about seventy jurors. who must be seated first, then there will ii is estimated be about twenty-five o1
 
 commodations. That disposes of one half of the seats. Then there are the newspaper reporters. of whom there will be many, and for whom seats have been selected. Next there will be q biz array of lawyers interested in the de fense as counsel and special counsel the prosecutor, his assistant and clerks Lawyers not employed on the case art by law entitled to seats, also. Int four accused and their guards wil bring the number up to TO or 1SO, $, thai very few others can enter.
 The doors of the court room will no be open until 9:45, and then only fo jurors and witnesses and newspapel reporters. After these have been seat ed and every one having business il the court room has been provided for the public will be allowed in until al the seats are filled up, and after tha the c0hstables will close the doors ant allow no one in.
 Sheriff Sturr has made arrange 1 ments by which the four accused mer