The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-15
BOSSCHIETER MURDER TRIAL


Schulthorpe was the most important
as we'll as the most startling. He told
in its most minute detail the story OF
the crime. He graphically described
the taking of the almost unconscious
girl from the saloon to the hack, OF the
ride out of the city and the unspeakabe
incidents attendant on the climax of a
night of crime.
| Apparently little beside the murder
case was on the minds of the Paterson
people to-day, and an hour before the
time set for the beginning Of the trial
| the little court house was surrounded
by a great crowd of peering, gossiping
men and girls The whole gathering
was on tip toe as it waited FOR the
prisoners to be brought past. Order
was kept by the deputies with some diff
| ficulty Those allowed in the square,
old fashioned court, were apparently of
the better class of Paterson. A number
of elderly women were present.
A few minutes after 10 o'clock the
three accused men entered the court
room First came Death, then Campbell
and McAlister, preceded by the sheriff
and escorted by constables.
Their attitudes We're characteristic.
Death seemed the most oppres sed. His
jaw was set firmly and he stepped
quickly, as though he were anxious to
reach his seat Campbell smiled and
carried himself buoyantly. McAlister,
who looked his nickname in the term of
sport went up the aisle with a swag-
ger.
AS soon as the preliminaries had been
disposed of the counsel for the defense
made formal motion to withdraw the
pleas and quash the indictments on the
ground that they were defective. The
motion was denied. Immediately the
court began to examine the talesmen
and the famous case had commenced in
earnest. The jury being secured Pros
ecuting Attorney Finley began his ad-
dress to the jury, precisely one hour af-
ter the calling to order of the court. He
occupied one hour and fifteen minutes
In the course of his RENE rks the attor-
ney pointed repeatedly at the three
prisoners, shaking his finger in their
faces while he pilloried them. McAlis-
ter leaned back in his chair and blink
ed with half shut eyes at the wall in
front of him; Deaths face flushed his
eyes filled with tears, and his glance
fell to the floor; Campbell, white and
nervous stared back at the public pros
ecutor with a sheer, even while Mr.,
Emley was demanding of the Jury a
verdict of murder in the first degree.
Mrs. Nina Bosschieter, Jennies step
mother, was called after the noon re-
cess, and was the first important wit
ness of the day. Mrs. Bosschieter said
Jennie left the house about %. m. on
the 18th of October, and said she was
going to a drug store in the neighbour
hood to purchase some medicine for her
sisters child. Next morning she was
notified of the finding of the body. She
saw Jennies dead body when it was
brought home at o'clock that evening.
On cross examination by Mr.. Dunn
Mrs. Bosschieter said that Jennie some
times remained out late at night bit
she always thought that the girl stop-
ped with some friends.
Susie Bosschieter followed ber
mother on the witness stand. She re-
lated how she and Jennie roomed to-
gether at home. Jennie told witness on
the evening of October IS that she in
tended to call on Mrs. Klatts, Whan
witness got back home that night len
ME had not returned. Next morning
she had identified the body as that of
her sister Jennie.
On cross examination the witness
said Jennie occasionally remained awav
from home at night but was always at
the house of a woman friend
The next witness was Cornelius Gar
~, teamster, employed at the AIyea