The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-12-04
VICTIM or
PARENTS HATE
Hoboken Police May Have
Murderers Of Babe
Found in the
River.
CONFLICTING STORIES
Midwivss Say Father Prom
ised Them Money to Make
Away With the Child.
CONFLICTING STORIES

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! Three persons, arrested on suspicion of
/ being implicated in the murder of the
male infant found in the satchel that
was said to have been left on the Four
| teenth street ferryboat, Hoboken, Tues
/ day night, were arraigned before Re-
corder Stanton in Hoboken today and re-
manded until the police have an oppor-
! tunity to secure evidence that will estab-
lish guilt
l The prisoners are Michael Piza,
1 twenty years old, a bootblack, who lives
| at No. 526 Adams street; his wife, Mary,
| eighteen years old, and Mary McNeill,
| thirty-six years old, of No. 528 Adams
street
| Mrs. Piza is positive that the child
4 found in the satchel is hers and says
that the unnatural hatrde borne towards
it by the father was responsible for its
| murder. The McNeill woman, on the
other hand, says that the womna's child
| is now in the New York Founding
Asylum, at Sixty-eighth street and Third
avenue, Manhattan, and that the truth
of her statement can be established by
inquiry at that institution
REPUDIATED BY FATHER.
The Piza child was born on November
l7. The. father claimed that it was not
his son, and asked Mrs. Hilda Bogert,
lof No. 303 Clinton street, and Mrs.
Theresa Iayarezza, of No. AT Adams
street.-the midwives who attended the
mother-to take it from the house or
do away with it.
The sLayarezza woman swore in court
today that Piza oered her $50 if she.
| would get rid of the child.
II don't care what you do with it,
she swore he said to her. Throw it in
the river, put it in sewer, or burn it
up. I don't want it around here. Its
not my child"
The other midwife told a similar story,
saying that Piza's hate for the child
was so bitter that he threatened to kill
either it or the mother if it remained in
the house.
The midwives tried to placate the man;
and. to satisfy him on a point in which
he was especially concerned, called in
DR.. Forplano.. The physicians opinion
about the child didn't satisfy Piza, and
he continued to demand that it be cast
from his house.
MOTHER AGREES T OPART WITH
CHILD.
The mother finally agreed to have the
child placed in founding asylum and
the McNeill woman was engaged to ar
range matters.
On November27 the McNeill woman
and the mother took the child with them
to New York. Mrs. Piza says she rode
as far as Fourteenth street with the
woman, who told her that it was un-
Necessary for her to go further, as one
person could have the child put in the
asylum Mrs. Piza says she went home.
Fifteen minutes after, she swears, the
Mcneil woman was back in the house
The mother asked her if the child had
been received at the asylum and she said
that everything was all right.
The Mcneil woman persists in claim
ing that the child is at the asylum, but
will not tell whether or not it was re-
ceived there the same day the mother
went with her to New York.
MOTHERS STATEMENT.
Neither the mother nor the Mcneil
woman testified in court, their state-.
mehts being made to Chief of Police
Hayes after their arrest last night.
Chief Hayes today sent two detectives
to the founding asylum to see if the child
Is there The widower say that the sis
ters at the asylum refused to accept the
child without certificate, and that the
McNeill woman got Joseph Coletti,
druggist Of Grand and Fifth streets, to
make one out. Coletti was closeted with
Chief Hayes this morning. He denied
that he had mazse out a. certificate for a
bogus child named Smith, although
both the widows told him to his face
that he lied He was not arrested.
IDENTIFIED THE CHILD.
The midwives identified the child
found in the satchel as Mrs. Piza's, last
night, but when taken to the morgue
again this morning said they were in
cllned to doubt that it was. The<child
at the inorgue, they said, didn't look old
enough. Mrs. Piza says she is positive,
however, that the child is hers.
The police were put on the track of
the Pizass by Clerk Tucker of the Health
BoaYtis On November II Tucker re-
ceived information that a child had dis
appeared from the tenement at No. 526
Grand street. and the police have been
/. working on the case since.
When the body was fished OUT of the
river Tuesday night, sthe police, to allay
suspicion gave out the information that
the satchel had been found in tho
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