New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-15
THE DRIVE TO HALLENBECK' s.

THE DRIVE TO HALLENBECK's
We took the masks to the house. The next mask
was bought on fa went s to BF6"p Rr hv
Van Wormer. saw Mr.. Brown and another man;
Ho r tR Chatham ttf Brown objected said it
not necessary TO go to stuyvesant He said We
after the horse. We saw Coons. who hitched up
spring as droPe to Van D"E house
ton got out and went In. Burton and two broth
three false faces in the - wagon Then We drove
down the post road and passed through % hn{
way for, when they We're going TO North chatham.
ing StuyTesant | asked Why they We're going that
way. They did not tell me, Burton sat on Wiis a
mans min ! demanded to know where we
Peter a surprise The next place WIS Stottv,iie;
that store and left the three others in the wagon
bought paper Of tobacco and gave it to ar tba
store bu did not eogn7e eheT of thm passea
the hospital in Hudson and then went on TO Green
port Church Frederick got out ard Locked nuns IN fh
thTTe anG T Tn to Haenbeck.s farm The boys
mi fp po we Wits in 10 the wagon at the church and
then took black robes. Fred said that Charles Hal
ierbeck was in church with his wife and hired mar;
Uncle Peter and his wife in the h9use CONG stn
along the orchard Burton drove the horse to the
barn Then bN4o the WE hos oo off dr
them inside out and then put on ne RAISE "a, aaceS
my own.
STORY OF THE MURDER
We then walked UP the road past the Hallenbs zee.
house and through the orchard. We spread OUT,
going through the orcharS and ehe Covered stoop
Burton told me to follow him and Fred TO come com,
ne xas B on 6e Eft slGa a and and Fred
Burton knocked on the 1901 , g., -'iri ban he came
to the door urtons revolver was IN his ,sfe
han
into the room He fired The door sprung back ok
door and one in the ceiling Fred came IN and
Immediately commenced firing Ny rev9, revolver 1 vas
enbeek While Fred Freas pistol pasoG wa as
held level With his sh9udfr canno tei how many
shots were fired. They were fired very rapidly
Here the witness identified the revovers and
continued:
fired shots from my reyoTer flo was s 2p9s
Bower Burton let go Of Hallenbeck ana VEN .r
into the other room Ieay Of ady e F1h Wills
was firing the time at HalienoeGk, bfs Sn
stood Willis stood almost against Hanenp 2e
Fred left the room and Wills fo0"ea n his shot
gun" / followed Burton out saw soIneth1ng
shining the step and PICKED II up 6pe cartTIdees
1 in the house about one minute ana d iaii' "'
am bind on the right side. The right eye has
been removed, and wear an artificial one e Rh0 Ws
Mrs Hallenbeck. did not see her race ~hen we
were there, but think the woman VINO ran . aClos9
the kitchen vas she Mheh gGE G the barn
followed him; he crawled under the fence; l
5 ana Fred 9fe we e there All got into
when we came TO the woods We changed our coats Is
our pockets I asked him If they had been shoot
ing that man Burton said nefore s any q Fred
seid he shot MIN in the back Willis said ne dld
Woiyer held They had hfteen twenty cartridge
each They asked me how man. mao l , s,iaa
four. They asked me how 1t was dd not nave
more. 49,
have watch do not kn0 OO T Know time the
time we reached Halenbacks. We entered FIRST FIRST,
in Hqs9a osSa Uttered By
the lower road, We met half a dozen teams on the
RETURN TO KINDERHooK.
The Van wormer boys reloaded their revovers
when they changed their coats at the WOODS , re
%hafe 4hey E Shof M SHasnbee Fred said he
shot him in the back Willis did pot not say a Wh they
shot for They did mot I'll M sI6ep
we got in the toS me o shut np When we got
home inls 1--WE We went to the Van Wormer house The
minutes Burton and l went to the depot Burton l
drove. then went 10 the Gonnor hP bus sangb
ters Burton drove up and down until car ar came am
IN Ien na ne Burton and drove up the street
we could be seen. We then drove over TO Nalatie
seen in Vaiatie We drove very slowly. came back
and went the Van Wormer house III, me h PI,r
ted and / went alone. L unfarHesSeu III,
horse and watered II. Brown asked me WY i
vratered the horse II IL not too warm he ieit
The horse and il was cool. II had been clipped 49,
7 carried nv revolver for year and generaily
had II with me. Willis and Fred carried theirs
at night They hung them up in the daytime; 1
All, not see a gun in the Hallenbeck house When
Burton called out / left Immediately Mr.. Hal
ienbeck was then in a corner Willis burned the
false faces in the kitchen stove Mrs Van Woriner
and Pearl Van Buren, were there. 1880, -
When they went in the other room Wills burned aea
the masks Burton said to his brothers on tne
way home that If they told or told ne "ouid
fix 1,,..on o,a,rin,,
ther reyolvers in the front room cleaned mine
The next morning. When we arrived home we TOOK
o,,t Of the wagon whips and the buffalo robes:
These saw put in the wagon down at Greenport
Church. =, -, -, ,oo ,;,,i,a az
the Van wormer's six or seven weeks before De
ca,nber Q, Previous to that / was visiting IN
Stephentown with my father; before that be
60 In Newark y. J. ] never was in the Hal
i,heclx house before but once: this was two years
80 7 aid not hear Mr.. Haiienbeck say anything
sSSat night / did not hear any one say anything
a. that house but Burton Van Wormer.
The defence then cross-examined Bruce. but
broueht out nothing important The court ad-
tourned until tomorrow.