New-York tribune., 1901-01-15
PATERSON JURY CHOSEN.
M'ALISTER, DEATH AND CAMPBELL
PLEAD NOT GUILTY.
SCULTHORPE. THE HACKMAN, TEsTIFIES IN
THE BOSSCHIETER MURDER CASE.

ty Court, Paterson n. J., before Justice DIXON
Although the case is one of the most important
in the criminal annals of the State. q jury was
obtained in fifty minutes.
The States case was unfolded to the jury in
an hour and ten witnesses were examined Do
fore the hour of adjournment. At this rate OF
progress the case should be given to the jury
by Wednesday evening, or on Thursday.
There was a crowd of several hundred people
in front of the courthouse from an early hour
but comparatively few were admitted. and the
crowd lotered the whole day. The prisoners were
taken from the jail to the courthouse by a back
way so that the curiosity of the crowd remained
unsatisffed. The courtroom was packed Ihe
prisoners did not exhibit any signs of nervous
ness In the afternoon they threw off the re-
serve and stiffness which had been their at
titude in the morning, and they became more
ct ease frequently talking TO each other ana
their counsel.
The following are the twelve men selected
jurymen:
CHARLES BRETT. foreman
WALTER BROOKS.
JOHN MAIISTER.
JOHN F. HOCKETT.
GEORGE HARDCAsTLE.
CHARLES IRVING.
ANTHONY THOMAS.
Q WINAN
EDWARD BERGEN.
JOHN RUBIN
GEORGE b. CoNKLIN
JOSEPH SMITH.
McAlister was challenged on the ground that
he was a relative of McAlister the prisoner. but
on the juror showing that he was NOT related 10
and did not know the prisoner he was sworn
The other challenges were all peremptory
Prosecutor Eugene Emley and Assistant Prose
cutor Ralph Shaw represented the State; Francis
Scott appeared for McAiisto: Mictaez alu
rprresautPd CnruDhnl and
Death. and ex-Judge w T. Hoffman OF Jersey
CITY was associate counsel for the three de-
PENDANTS. Judge Dixon urged the jurors to alb
stain from reading the newspapers during the
trial.
Prosecutor Emley. in opening the States case.
referred to the Importance of IT. and said 1t
was the desire of the State to present the case
to the jury stripped Of all lrrelevancy. Jennie
Bosscheter a young girl he said one OF a
numerous family living at No. 1J5 East Fifth
st. Paterson. She came to this country in 1890
with her family. She was born in Holland
They were family Of gentlefolks, who like
many others, were driven to these hospitable
shores by stress of circumstances The girl was
at the time o: the tragedy. employed at the mill
of the Paterson Ribbon Company The prose-
cutor then went over the circumstances of the
drugging and the assault. and said he would
ask for verdict of guilty of murder in the first
degree against all or the defendants.
The first witness was Cornelius v w Fonda
a civil engineer. who proved a map of the sa-
loon in which the girl was drugged. and
also a map of the country covered by the tragic
midnight ride.
Mrs John Bosschieter. mother of the girl
was called to prove that Jennie left home about
100 o'clock on the evening of October Is last
for the purpose of getting some baby powder at
kents drug store. Susie Bosscheter, a sister,
gave similar testimony
Marinus Garry testified TO the finding of the
body the next morning Leonard KamerlinS
testified that he Jennie on Maiu-st. in
front of Kent's drug store. at $50 o'clock talk
ing to Campbell She was saying mo, No" in
a short, snappy manner. the witness passed
Nellie De Vries and Bertha Dyson testified
that they both Campbell and a young
woman enter Saals saloon, at Bridge and River
SITS, little before 10 O'Clock. Christo, cher Saal
testified that McAlister and Campbell came
into his haTIoOu and ordered drinks yor three
cider sctze, and absinthc--which McAIister
carried in" the back room. Later Saal
called int -tIe back room TO supply a bottle Of
champagne, and then he saw the girl and Death.
Saal said he did rot see the party leave his sa
loon. The next morning McAlister came to his
saloon ana SAID to the witness: That girl is
dead. Do not say anything about it. If they
offer big reward do not take it, Komer
Sandford and Charles Lee were called and said
they the old victoria driving out the
Goifie Road with the five passengers
Augustus Sculthorpe, the hackman, was the
principal witness. He the stand about
two hours. He said Kerr the prisoner who is
get a separate trial, came to him at the Erie
station and took him down to SaaTs saloon
When he arrived there the four men carried out
the unconscious woman and ordered him to
drive out Governor-st.. through Straight-st. over
the river and out the Goffle Road. At side
road, called the Rock Road. he was ordered to
turn aside. The four men took the still uncon-
scious girl out and assaulted her, one after the
other Replacing her in the carriage they
drove back toward the city until they arrived at
a brook where the men tried to revive the girl
but, failing to do so, they drove into the city,
first to DR.. Wiley, who not in, and then to
Dr. Townsend. who pronounced the girl dead.
the Goffie Road again The hacknan wanted to
take the girl home. but they threatened him
and he obeyed them. They drove around the
river this time, and, when they reached point
Alyeas feed mill on the Bergen County
side OF the river. the men took the dead body
from the carriage and threw IL down at the
side of the road The witness said that as he
whipped up his horse he heard sound of
bottle striking stone. and when he took the
detectives 10 the spot few days later he found
the bottle. which is said to have contained
chloral. When the four men left the witness
that night McAlister gave him So and told
him not to say anything about the affair.
Sculthorpe was put under rigid cross-ex-
animation by eX-Judge Hoffman, who failed to
break down the testimony of the witness In any
material point. When Sculthorpe left the stand
the court adjourned for the day.
DEERFOOT FARM sAUSAGEs.