The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-17
They Claim They Acted on GEN
erous Impulse.
THE ALLEGED CONFESSION.
Prosecution Succeeded i'll Having it
Admitted as Evidence To-Day
the Summing Up Will Ocs
eur and Case May Be
Given to the Jury
by Sundown.

PATTERSON, n. j., Jan. l6.-Counsel for
the defense in the Jennie Bosschicter
murder tral to-day practically closed
their Case.
Nl.lI;tm A. Death, Walter McAlister,
anu 1auurew CamIiocli, the lnree men on
IIlaI tor rae murusr, toiu their versions
OF the events OF the night jennie Boss
| cllIeter met her death wnne in their COM
pany Their testimony varied but little
as to details.
The plea set UP by counsel for the three
defendants was Il generai ana specific de-
nal OF all the accusations made against
the men, He opened With an attack on
the character of the dead girl, and claimed
that the prisoners were in way re-
sponsible for the death of Jennie Boss
chieter He denied that she had been
drugged He denied that she had been
i.l-treated and assaulted.
PRISONERS ON STAND.
McAlister, Death and Campbell We're
each on the stand. Their testimony was
on the line they were acting on a gener-
Gus impulse when they took the girl out
of the saloon to the hack. They claimed
that she was Jolly drunk for a time in
, the back room OF Saals saloon; said she
was Joking and laughing after the first
drinks that she became .'dopey' after
taking the atsint1e. They thought a
drive in the fresh air would do her good
and had taken her across the river out
into the country. The assault was de-
MED
They had lifted the girl out of the hack
because she was sick. and they hat con-
Quoted themselves like humanitarians. in
their efforts 10 bring her back 10 her
senses. They had taken her tq the brook
to obtain water. They would have taken
her home after she was dead but when
they reached the neistTborhood they saw
persons about
FEARED SCANDAL.
They were frightened at 1.-The dead girl -
and did not want TO get mixed up in the
scandal They maintained that they had
no evil intentions against the girl. The
meeting in the saloon was unintentional, so
far as McAliSter was concerned, and he
had drawn his friend Kerr into the case
unwittingly. Campbell became mixed up
in it because Death did not want to be
seen on the street With the girl lest
someone tell his wife.
The hack, it would appear from the
statements made by the prisoners. was
not intended for the party at first but
for AIcAlister Ke.r, and two young
women, whose names McAlister refused
to divulSe, on the ground that their names
had not been mentioned and he did not
want to connect tnem IN any way With
the case
When the hack drove up the girl went
with them, but not before she had had
another drink.
THE ALLEGED CONFESSION.
The story told by each appeared pausi-
BILE, explanatory andrea sonnble, but con-
nicting with the testimony of the hack
man and the alleged confessions OF Death
and Campbell, as introduced by the State
and admitted as evidence. The State
which was beaten yesterday in the effort
to introduce the confession said to have
been made by Campbell, succeeded in get
ting it all in in even more detailed a
Mariner than would have been possible
| yesterday.
Dr. Charles A. Lofer, of New York city
who was called by the defense. said he
had see4i persons "knocl1cd OUT by abb
sinthe.
Prosecutor Emley asked him the hypo-
thetical ucsti0n:
IF a person had died after having tal1er
nbsinthe, and choral was found in tho
stomach. what would YOU say she dice
off,"
From choral poison, was the reply.
Tomorrow the summing up will occur
and probably the case Will be left with
the jury about sundown. although it may
be that Judge Dixon will defer the charge
| to the jury until Friday.