Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-01-26
PITIFUL STORY OF BUTGHERY
Alleged Monsters Crime Detailed by
Little Girl.

Alleged Monsters Crime Detailed by
Little Girl.
Carrie Jones, whose story of one of
the most revolving crimes in the an
mails of New jersey led to the arrest
of her father, Albert Jones, is fraii
little child Of but seven years. She
makes her home with her uncle, John
Baldwin, ut No. 1853 Lewis street,
Camde =. Mr.. BaldWin ard his wife,
Miami, gave the Diet ills of the alleg-
ed crime, rs told by the child, iu all
interview at their home. Mr.. Bald
win said:
"Mrs. Albert Jones the chld's
mother, is sister Of my husband.
Ny husband and | were at Mason
vile about Il week before Christmas,
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Jones, who
live in a howell Little Carrie plead
ed so earnestly to go home with US
that we took pity on her and brought
her along, with the consent of her
parents. | saw that she was sick and
suffering, but had no thought that the
cause could be as it is. My only
thought was that she could have bet
ter care at my home.
GA short time afterward her father
and mother came here and signed
some papers, saying that they would
give the child to me. The father
said he never wanted me to bring, the
child back to him, and | told him to
not let that worry him, as | would
care for her and raise her. He then
remarked:
"'If you ever bring her back to
me | will knock her head off with the
butt of gun And he spoke as if
he meant it. have always looked
upon him as desperate man, and
both my husband and | have been
afraid of him.
"When | took the child her father
said to me. You can have her, but
| tell you she will never be any good
to you When l pressed him for an
explanation of what he meant he
would only say that she would never
be any good to me or anyone else.
Last Sunday he came here with
another man, whose looks | did not
like. | know they did not come for
any good. He wanted me to let him
take Clara back home with him and
said l could have her sister. Maggie,
aged IL years, in her place. l declin-
ed to make such an exchange.
CATER | got Clara home l began
to doctor her, but noticed she did not
improve under home treatments as |
would like For week past she has
been trying to tell me of what hap
pened to her and her sisters, but |
paid but little attention to her sayings
thinking them mere imaginations of a
child. On Tuesday night | found
evidence to bear out her tales. To-
day | took her to the Camden City
Dispensary, where she was examined
by DIR. j. 7. White, of No. 1853
Hadodn avenue. He said there was
no question as to the truth of the stor-
les and she was in Il serious condition.
She said that not only her father, but
another white man and negro had
assaulted her.
"Then Carrie told the awful story
of both her sisters, Maggie and Mary,
having also been assaulted by her
father, and said that she saw her
father murder Mary, who was but 8
years old, and throw her body in
pond near Bull Head Park, at Mason
vile. This she says happened year
ago last summer. She states that her
father struck Mary on the head with
club in the road near their home,
knocking her unconscious. Then he
dragged her into the house, stripped
off her clothing, cut her throat with a
knife, as a butcher slaughters hog,
tied rope weighted with stone
around the neck and, dragging her
body to the pond, about square
away, threw it into the water, where
it sank from sight. He then washed
the blood from his hands at a
spring" .