Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-15
LAW SEEKS TO AVENGE
FACTORY GIRLS DEATH.
THE MEN WHO POISONED, OUTRAG-
ED AND MURDERED JENNIE
BOSSCHIETE.R r ON
TRIAL.
THE FOUR INHUMAN MONSTERS.
STORY OF ONE OF THE MOST BRUT-
AL CRIMES EVER COMMITTED
IN THIS COUNTRY.

PATERSON, N. j., January 14.-W.
G.. McAl1ster, Andrew J. Campbell and
VIM. A. Death were placed on trial
here to-day, charged with the murder
OF Jennie ~Bosschieter, the young mill
girl, on October 18th last. George j.
Kerr, and the other accused man, will
not be tried until the fate of these three
men has been determined. The case
against Kerr is O as conclusive as
that against the others, and in conse-
quence he has been granted a separate
trial.
The character of the defense. which
the attorneys of the accused men will
make has been carefully kept secret.
Prosecutor Emely will insist that the
men are guilty of murder. in the first
degree, the penalty for which is death.
1t will not be necessary for the State
to prove that murder was intended.
The Jersey law holds that death aus
ed in the pursuit of a felony is murder
in the first degree.
The two most important witnesses
for the State will be Augustus H.
Schulthrope, the hackman who drove
the unconscious girl from SAILS sa-
loon on the night of her death to a
lonely spot off the Collie road, two
miles north of Paterson,
Where She Was Assaulted,
and Prof. Witthaus, the expert chem
list. Campbell and Death at the time
of their arrest confessed to the police
that McAli5ter poured knockout drops
into Jennie's drink in SaaPs, but coun-
sci for the accused will object to the
use of the confession against the priS-
Oners. DR.. S. Cyrus Townsend, who
vas aroused early on the morning Of
October 10Th by the young men in the
hack and found that their girl COM
panion was dead, will also be an i'm
portant witness of the State. The
prosecutor has other evidence in re-
serve which he will not divulge.
1t was 1915 when Judge Dixon en-
tered the court room. Three minutes
later Walter McAlister, William Death
and Andrew Campbell, the prisoners,
were brought in. The trio were seat
ed at the trial table, and their coun-
sci, the prosecutor and the court,
without any p~reliminaries began to
discuss the method Of choosing a jury.
McAlister was dressed in a light
brown suit, with bright blue necktie.
Under his eyes are puffs and a pale.
yellow mustache adorns his face. He
was pale, but looked about, nodding
to acquaintance in the room. Death
and Campbell were both dressed in
black. Campbell's face was devoid Of
color, while Deaths face was flushed
feverishly. Campbell looks to be about
II years old. He is %. He is short
and Of slight build.
At 1880 the jury was completed.
The u men were sworn, and then
prosecutor Emily briefly outlined the
murder of Jennie Bosschieter, and
dwelt upon the Importance of the trial.
In his opening address Prosecutor
Emely said he would ask for a YER
dict of murder in the first degree, and
quoted the law to the effect that ANY
person who should kill another
In the Preparation OF n Rape
shall be guilty of murder in the first
degree.
Jennie BosschieteT's body was found
near Alyear's ice house at the Waga-
row bridge on the Passaic river on the
morning of October 10. There was a
deep cash at the base of the skull,
which had been caused by a sharp
rock against which her head rested.
There was no apparent evidence that
there had been a struggle in the neigh
borhood, but the body and the girls
clothing bore marks of violence. The
neighborhood was lonely at night, and
- r-or oO-o,aAn1u tAlI tho+ oripoo-
against young women had been com
mitted there which had been hushed
up afterward. The girl was employed
at the Paterson Ribbon Company's
mills. She was about IS and good
looking. Her father was a mar of
Holland descent who had once enjoyed
some consequence in his native land,
but had been unfortunate in his bust
ness ventures. 1t was known that
the girl had been or the street IN the
evening before her body was found.
She had been seen chatting with sew
era men in front of Kent's drug store,
mother for medicine. Three days
after the body was found it came out
that the men with whom Jennie had
been seen talking near Kents drug
store were Walter c. McAlister, a
member of the firm of James McAlis-
ter & Co, silk manufacturers. and
George J. Kerr, a man whose family
was of some prominence in Paterson.
The men were asked if they knew any
thing about the murder of Jennie Boss
chieter. McAlister. speaking for the
two, said: 1T makes me laugh to hear
that the police suspect me of knowing
how that girl came to her death" He
went about his business as usual. and
with Kerr, seemed to regard the matter
As Almost a Joke.
But on the night of October % both
McAlister and Kerr were arrested, and
before daylight the next morning VIM.
A. Death and Andrew Campbell were
in custody with them. Death had been
married five weeks before his arrest.
There were stories in the city that his
marriage had very little romano
about it. He was an advertising So
licitor. Andrew Campbell was a book
keeper in Hands silk mill and bore a
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