Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1907-09-04
Killed Play m ate
As He Entered
The Temple.
GRAND JURY
INVESTIGATE.
Coroner Bishop Held Inquest in
New Brunswick Yesterday to
Determine the Cause Of
ath-.Boys Called
Each Other Names

NEW BRUNSWICK, Sept. A.
The jury at the inquest conducted by
Coroner Bishop here yesterday after
noon to fix the blame for the death
|of Max Chikinsky, the Hebrew lad
who died from injuries received in a
fight with boys on the steps of the
Richmond street synagogue, found
that the boy "came to his death as
the result of the fight, in which the
boys, James Erhart, Joseph Lout,
John Barlow and George Holzworth
were active participants.
The jury recommended that the
matter be referred to the grand jury
for further action and that the boys
be apprehended till the matter is dis
posed Of The five boys were re-
manded to Jail.
Chikinsky was on his way to at
tend service in the temple Saturday
evening. Testimony showed he en-
countered the five boys close to the
steps of the temple and pickering
started. They reviled him as Jew
and he retorted by calling one or all
of them "Dutchman" or "Dutchmen. "
The five rushed for him and he start
ed up the steps to the main entrance.
They reached him before he could
gain the door and he fell or was
knocked down the steps. Death, the
county physician said, was due to con-
cuSSiOn of the brain. 1t is believed
that immediate action will be taken to
have the case disposed of by the
courts so as not to hold the boys with
the other county prisoners in the Jail.
The Hebrew population in the low
er part of the city is greatly excited
over the killing of young Chikinsky.
The funeral of the boy brought near
ly all of the Jewish colony together
and they were unanimous in their
opinion that the boy had been killed
because of his race. Detective Dunn,
who spent considerable time in the
lower part of the city gathering evil
dence of the crime, everywhere found
the Jews wrought up over what they
call lack of protection of their peo-
pie and over demand for punish
ment to fit the crime. They declare
that the boys who assaulted Max
should be hung or electrocuted, and
that would be the only way that the
| authorities could show that they were
not prejudiced against the race.
| The police do not think that re-
ligion entered into the case at all.
| They believe that the five boys now
in Jail charged with murder simply
meant to pay off individual scores
they had against Chikinsky for whip,
pings that they had received separ-
ately.
The boys in Jail were playmates ot
the boy killed, and are of class that
get most of their education on the
street Chikinsky, the victim, was q
public school boy and would have
gone to the Bayard street school yes
terday morning to take an advanced
class as he had been promoted for
brightness. Joseph Erhart, eleven
years old, one of the assailants, has
been in the hands of the police six
times within the last two years. When
only nine years old he was arrested
for grabbing pOcketbook from a wo-
man shopper on Church street. His
parents have given him up to his fate
and have not been to see him since
his arrest this time. Joseph Lout'.
parents have also kept away. Johr
Bartow's mother is dead and his faith
er is away on fishing trip and ha,
not heard of the tragedy.