Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-01-19
BOSSCHIETER MURDER
Prosecution Ends It's Case Against
Three of the Prisoners.
KERR's EVIDENCE NOT NEEDED

The Fourth Man Under Indictment,
Whe Was Expected to Tur. States
Evidence, Not Called Upon-one of
the Prisoners Interrupts IN witness.
Paterson, N j., Jan. 15.-Ths trial
OF Walter L. McAlister, Andrew Camp
bell and William A. Death, three OF the
four men accused of the murder of
Jennie Bosscheiter, a mill girl, under
circumstances revolving in their utter
lack of humane considerations, COM
menced yesterday before Judge Dixon,
In the Passaic county court OF oyer and
terminer. George j. Kerr, the fourth
man under indictment, was not in
court, as he has been granted n sepa-
rate trial on the ground that he was
not present when the fatal dose was
administered to the girl.
Before the trial was begun IL was
expected that at least two days would
be necessary to complete the jury, but
Judge Dixon carried the proceedings
on with such vigor that within an
hour after the court was called to or
der he had empanelled his IL Jurors
and heard the opening lines OF the ad-
dress Of the prosecuting attorney.
The remainder of the day saw four
Of the principal witnesses in the case
on the stand. Mrs. Nina Bosscheiter,
the mother of the unfortunate girl, was
one, her daughter Susie another, Chris
TOPPER Saal, the proprietor of the sa-
loon where it is alleged the drug was
administered to the girl, was the third,
and Gus Schulthorpe, the hack driver
OF the horrible midnight ride, was the
last. Mother and daughter told OF
Jennie's life at home and at the mill,
telling fully OF the incidents just pre-
vious to the girls disappearance.
OF the four witnesses the testimony
, OF Schulthorpe was the most import
ant, as we'll as the most startling. In
his crude, unvarnished way he told TO
the minutest detail the story of the
crime. He graphically described the
/ taking of the almost unconscious girl
, from the saloon to his victoria and OF
the ride out of the city and the un-
speakable crime committed on the dead
or almost dead girl. Kerr only was
exempt from participation in the as
, sault which the hack driver described
With brutal roughness, without the
slightest attempt to conceal facts under
! nice words, in the language of the
4 streets, Schulthorpe told the occur
| rences Of that stop on Rock road.
With an array of expert evidence tC
show the cause OF death, the admission
T, OF statements made by the police thai
one Of the defendants made a comics
| sion Of crime, and a sensational inter.
f! ruption of one of the witnesses by one
I of the prisoners, Prosecuting ATTORNEY
| Emley tonight announced that the
case of the state was complete. WheI
Sergeant McInerney was testifying tina,
| Death confessed his completely in tn,
crime the prisoner jumped to his fee
and shouted: You lie, you lie.
His counsel pulled him down, and
| after the evidence was given by severa
other detectives Death was summone.
to the stand. He told Of his arrest anC
OF a number Of questions put to him b,
the police, but he stepped down from
the stand without stating what It wa!
he told the police. Judge Dixon theI
admitted the evidence OF the police
men, in which they said Death hat
confessed. Policeman Perry testife,
that Death confessed that McAliste
put the drug in the girls wine glas
two or three times.
| Large Reinforcements Fer Kitchens
London, Jan. 16.-The government
has decided to send large reinforce
ments to Lord Kitchener, and the wa.
office, in carrying out this decision
has determined to enlist 5000 yeo
manry volunteers