The true northerner., 1901-01-18
HEBECAME EXCITED
Defendant Death Gives the Lie to
Police Witness.
PROSECUTIONS EVIDENCE is IN
Death Objected to Statement That
He Made a Confession to the Police
of the Crime Against Jennie Bos.
schieter.

Paterson, N. j., Jan. 16.-With an ar
ray of expert evidence to show the
cause of death, the admission of state
ments made by the police that one of
the defendants made confession Of
the crime and a sensational Interrupt
tion Of one of the witnesses by one of
the prisoners, Prosecuting Attorney
Emley Tuesday night announced that
the case of the state against VIM. A..
Death, Andrew Campbell and Walter
l.. McAlister, three of the four men ac-
cused of numbering Jennie Bosschie-
ter, was complete.
The greater part of the day was oc
cupied with the testimony of the med
ical experts, the most important of
whom was DR.. Andrew F. Mcbride, the
county physician, who performed the
autopsy on the body of the girl and
declared that she came to her death
from the effects of "some poison" and
Prof Rudolph S. Witthaus, a chemist
who made a qualitative and quantita-
tive analysis of the stomach
of the girl and detected the
presence of choral hydrate in
sufficient quantities to show that death
had resulted from the administering of
this drug. A number of detectives and
policemen were put upon the stand
to tell of the arrest of the prisoners.
Detective Sergeant McInerney, who
drove over the route with the hackman
Schulthorpe, and found the bottle near
the body, was testifying to statement
made to him by Death on the night of
his arrest, or rather in the early morn
ing. He was saying: 81 went to
Deaths cell and asked him if he had
any relations with the girl, and"
Death instantly sprang to his feet
and shouted: "You lie, you lie."
His counsel pulled him down, and af-
ter evidence was given by several
other detectives, Death was summoned
to the stand. He told of his arrest and
of number of questions put to him
b., - police, but he stepped down
fro the stand without stating what
it was he told the police. Judge Dixon
then admitted the evidence of the po-
licemen, in which they said Death had
confessed.
VIM. Perry, a policeman, told of a
different confession made to him by
Death. He said the young man had
stated to him that McAlister had put
the drug into the girls wine glass two
or three times.
DR.. Cyrus Townsend, to whom the
four men took the girl when they first
returned to Paterson, told of his ex-
animation of the girl and of his pro-
nouncing her dead. The other wit
nesses examined were Daniel McShane
of the prosecutors office. who had pos
session of the bottle found by the dead
girl; DR.. VIM. l.. Vroom, coroner for
Bergen county, who was notified OF the
discovery of the body and who made
an examination; Tunis Vermeuon, the
undertaken who embalmed the body;
DR.. r. w. Todd and DR.. Thurber, Of
Paterson, who corroborated DR..
Vroom's evidence; DR.. Calvin Terri
very and DIR. w. II. Newman, who
were present at the autopsy; Chief of
Police Graul, Detective Sergeant John
Fl Taylor. and Detectives Titus and
Lord. who corroborated the statements
the other officers made as to the con.
fessions made by Death.
Topeka, Kas., Jan. 16.-Gov. Stanley
Tuesday night announced that he
would offer a reward of $500 for the
apprehension of anyone implicated in
the lynching of Alexander at Leaven-
worth The governor further stated
that he was sorry that he could not of
fer a larger reward, but the law allows
him TO offer only $500. He said that he
was also going to instruct the attor-
ney-general at once to investigate the
conduct of Sheriff Everhardy in con-
nection with the lynching, and If 1t
was found that the sheriff had in any
way violated his trust as an official,
PROCEEDINGS would be instituted to
oust him from Office.