The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-01-19
THE DEFENSE OUTLINED.
Council for the Alleged Murderers of
Tennis Bosschieter Construct
an Ingenious Defense.
SAYS the GIRL MADE FIRST ADVANCES.
Assaulted, and Claims that Her
Death was Due to Overindulgence
in Cocktails and AbSinthe In Com
pany of Defendants.

pnny of Defendants.
Paterson, n. j., Jan. 16.-Interested
crowds filed the approaches to ard
the room in which the court of oyer
and terminer is sitting for the trial
of three of the alleged murderers OF
| Jennie B~osschieter, the mill girl. The
state having rested its case Tuesday
night the days proceedings began
with the presentation by counsel OF
the case for the defense. Of the three
men accused, Death showed most the
effects of the strain through which
they are passing and detection and en-
IRENE were depicted in
his c~ountenance and movements. Nc
Alister, on the other hand, was com
paratively self-possessed, but Camp
bell was evidently troubled and anx-
ious. There is a possibility of h de-
tense closing its case and the trial
being concluded Thursday with the
summing up and the judges charge.
A Request Overruled.
When Judge Dixon opened court
counsel for the accused asked that
S~culthorpe, the hackman, be recalled
so that he might be confronted with
the record of his conviction of II
crime of which he had previously been
found guilty.
Judge Dixon denied the request, on
the ground that the point sought to
be made against S%culthorpe was i'm
material.
Dcfensc's Opening Address.
Michael Dunn her delivered his adj
dress opening the case for the de-
Tense. Counsel promised to prove that
the death of Jennie Bosschieter was
not caused in the commission of a
criminal assault, and also that the
charge of wilful murder could not
stand against the defendants.
Trying to Blame the Girl.
Mr.. Dunn proceeded with a MARIA
tive of the events preceding the
death of Jennie Bosschieter, the pur-
pose of it being to show that the
meeting of the four men, McAlister,
Campbell, Death and Kerr, was not
prearranged, and that the girl made
the first advances hat opened the
way for the meeting at SAILS saloon.
Cocktails and Absinthe.
In the saloon, according to counsel,
the girl drank freely, taking cock.
tails and absinthe. She became
drowsy. Then she was escorted from
r the saloon 10 the hack, McAlister and
Death walking on either side of her.
: She was not carried, the attorney
: said.
s The Ride in the Hack.
The narrative of counsel for the de-
Tense proceeded with the ride III the
), hack to the place where the girl die.
: She had become unconscious, and the
y men lifted her from the hack to the
I ground, where they, kneeling around
her, and made every effort to reviv'.
e her. She was taken with nausea an
d The men Used their pocket handker
Y chiefs to wipe her face. The hack
G man, counsel said, was mistaken when
t. he testified that the accused men as.
saulted the girl.
{ Deny that She was Assaulted.
Despairing of succeeding in restor.
ing the girl to consciousness, the men
n put her back in the hack and drove
L for aid to the house of the nearest
physician. The death OF Jennie Bos
scheiter, counsel said, was accidental
S. her drink was not drugged and hei
IS erson was not violated by the de
d PENDANTS.
s, The misfortune that befell h"l
lie might, counsel said, fall to any othel
e. girl under similar circumstances.
Undertnker's Testimony.
David Vermullen, an undertaken
WHO buried the body of the girl, wa
the first witness called for the dc
Tense. He testified that he a~ssiste,
in embalming the body and that tw'
quarts of embalming fluid were used
:, Witness vas not present at either o
- the autopsies. After the funeral h
was directed TO reopen the grave, an
a small box Winch he supposed col
'e tanned parts of the girls remain
were taken out and delivered to tn
authorities.
tS
ny Leaped From Eads Bridge.