The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-09-30
MOR(1UE
MEMORIES
This Is Moving Day for the
Unknown Dead Of Hud-
son County.
LONG RECORD OF TRAGEDY
Suicides, Murder Victims aud
Those Stricken by Mishap
Have Found a Brief
Rest at Speer's.
LONG RECORD OF TRAGEDY


the city morgue changed its location to-
day from Speer's establishment at she
Junction to the undertaking rooms OF
Thomas Hughes, at No. 1O1 Montgom-
cry street 1t left behind it a history OF
crime and death seldom equalled in the
annals of city.
TO ascertain the number of dead bod
les that have passed into the old morgue
during its twenty-four years of service
would be almost impossible. To say that
there were thousands would be putting II
mildly.
ABODE OF MURDERED.
The body of every person murdered
within the limits of this city in the last
quarter of century has been there, and
also the bodies of many murdered out
side of the city limits. The Pulitzer wo-
man, murdered only short time ago by
William Hooper Young in New York
and thrown into the Morris Canal on the
Hackensack meadows, was the last vic
tim of the murderer's hand to be taken
there
Besides these there have been the in
Vulnerable bodies of unidentified persons
who died ON the streets and elsewhere,
and the almost incalculable number OF
suicides and persons killed by accident.
POLICE RECOLLECTONS.
Chief of Police Murphy and Inspector
Archibald endeavored this morning to
recall some of the most sensational MUIR
ders in connection with which the old
morgue performed the duty Of taking
charge of the body. Within recent years
there have been any number Of remark
able cases. to say nothing of the late
murder of the Pulitzer woman.
The Garrabrandt case, two years ago,
was considered a rare example of juyen-'
lie depravity. Young Garrabrandt killed
his boy victim with club in the cellar
of house in Nineteenth street.
The Teresenick case was another.
Teresenick killed Capt. Biddleum on a
boat in the Morris Canal basin at the
foot of Hudson street.
MORE CELEBRATED CASES.
Then there was the duel between
Frank Serrata and Salvador Sarrella
a vacant lot at West Side and Highland
avenues and resulted in Sarella's death.
The body of Sarrela was found in the
lots.
Another Sensational case was that of
Tobie Williams, who killed Patrick Con
molly, a Communipaw avenue saioonkee-
per. Williams died in States Prison three
years ago. He had ben there about six
months before he died.
Still another case was that of William
L. Neely, who shot and killed his wife
on Jordan avenue, near Mercer street,
while she was returning from ball with
another man. Nicely was arrested by
patrolman Peter Murray, December J.,
1890. He was sentenced to twenty years
imprisonment. His picture is No. 119 in
the rogues' gallery.
Other cases were those of Pasquale
Antonisio, who killed a man last July at
Brunswick and First street; John Jan
sen, who shot a man in a tailor shop en-
September 10, 1900; Mike Reilly, arrest
ed by Detective Hottie and Patrolman
Rogers for killing man named Ger
agility with a soldering iron, and the bur-
glar shot by Samuel Hague in the Van
derbeck residence at No. Al Glenwood
avenue last March. Hague's victim has
never been identified. The burglars body
remained at the morgue for some time
and was then buried in a pauper's grave.
EXCITING SCENES OFTEN.
Many exciting as well as pathetic
scenes have been witnessed at the old
morgue The walls of the grief stricken
relatives and friends of the dead have
been heard daily within its walls, while
on many occasions when the victim Of a
sensational murder case was removed
there thousands of people crowded about
the building. Sometimes the public was
permitted to view the remains.
The removal of the morgue was due to
the death of Morgue Keeper William H..
Speer. who died August 26, last. His
successor is Thomas Hughes, one of the
best known undertakers in the city. Mr..
Hughes received official notice of his ap-
pointment as morgue keeper from the
Circuit Court yesterday. He entered upon
his new duties today.