The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27


Then she walked along and caught uF
with him.
"Now. I didn't pay very much attention
to this thing, and I didn't think anything
of 1t.
"At 12 O'Clock. or about twenty minutes
to, or somewhere in that neighborhood.
saw this same man whom | had seer
with a woman with the red jacket and the
white ribbon or feather on her hat, comins
back, and once more l slipped into tn,
mill door and hid my lantern behind me.
NOW, that man must have seen tina
lantern, because when he came along hs
was muttering something to himself.
think he said, 50 far as | could hear him
=" I thought l saw a light, damn it, ano
l don't see any now. and ! guess thef'
amt any spooks around here
Just then l placed my foot to thc
door. swung 1t open and the light fron
the lantern caught his eye. You saw Z
light all right, / exclaimed. Here 1t Is
What did you do with your woman friend?
I asked.
- didn't have any woman, but there
is a man down there by the boats will
his coat off; maybe you mean him.
Il didn't see any woman with the man
at this time, but L did notice thai he car
ried a bundle under his arm that he didn't
have at the time he went down. Sticking
out from that bundle I saw what appeared
to be a black cloth. The man had n black
mustache and he looked to be about &
years of age. When he got to the end Of
the mill, he turned and crossed the Centre
street bridge"
Coogan Is positive that the man whom
he saw with the woman is the same one
to whom he spoke two hours later.
John Foster, of Thomas street, this city,
after visiting the morgue. said thai on
nn..A- 1T I-.A H. -,
the Five Corners" in Harrison, which Is
near the place where she was found
He is the conductor Of a drill crew on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, and while
passing that vicinity Tuesday night he
saw a woman with a red Jacket and a sci
OF furs, which he identified as those in the
morgue, walking through First street,
Harrison. This thoroughfare leads to
the creek where the body was
found. He says that the woman
was apparently sober and knew
to Chief of Police Rodgers after he identi-
fed at the morgue the jacket and furs as
the ones he saw on the woman.
Mrs. Carl Relnhardt. who, with her hus-
band, lives on the boat Orlando. a short
distance from where the Idle Hour is
moored, was seen by a reporter after she
had looked at the body, and said:
II never saw that woman around any of
the boats here. I saw her body, and | am
sure she was not acquainted with anyone
hereabouts. Wednesday night and early
Thursday morning our boat dogs barked,
but that is common and we did
not pay any attention to it. If
this woman ever came on a boat down
this way l would know 1t, for I am always
about. Then again. women hardly ever
come on n boat at this time of the year.
/ never saw any except my friends, and
they come seldom"
Asa Haskins. who own the dock where
the Idle Hour and the Orlando are put up,
spoke highly of the two men who were
arrested.
'They never had any women on that
boat exclaimed Haskins to Chief Rod
gers. ''They were men who strictly at
tended to their own business. 1 have
known Thompson for four months. and
Kirkman has been here two weeks"
The Waterman of The electric light
works, an eighth of a mile away, was
Wednesday night. Half a dozen men and
women living ear the river also told the
police they heard screams.
A woman named Mary johnson,
who sings in a moving picture
establishment in Harrison. said she
was going home on Christmas night
with her sister, and that while
they were between the Pennsylvania
Railroad bridge and the railroad sta
ton they heard a woman cream:
"Oh. my God!'
And then. a little later, as they were
walking very fast, they heard the SAINT
voice again:
"oh. dom dc that. Don't. oh. my
Ged!"
Thomas Morton. OF Washington and
Warren streets. Harrison, said that
he saw a woman In that neigh
borllood about 8 o'clock wednesday
night. He said thai this woman
appeared to him to be intoxicated, and
she was alone. He said that she was wei
built physically. but he could not tell how
she was dressed. Morton is night watch
man at the Fairiie & Wilson coal yards.
at First street, north of the Marine Engi-
neering C~ompany's plant.
A clue which may lead to something, and
which the police pin faith in. is a brake
mans dinner pail, which was picked up
near the Thompson boat by an italian
boy, who told his chum, Albert Taylor,
of 68 Liberty street, who in turn told
other companions. until It reached the ears
of the police. Inside the pail are stains,
red like blood.
Lie EdsSdlc River BOAT CluDb OF I1dIIl-
son. has its clubrooms in the murder dis
trlct. Wednesday night, about fve of tbs
900 members gathered there, and were
there until nearly midnight. The steward,
Fred Heyl. sleeps in the clubhouse. He
nor the members heard anything out of the
ordinary. Last night a larger turnout Of
members was at the clubhouse, and while
they discussed the murder, none OF then
could recall having heard of any disturb,
ance.
When seen last night In his cell Thomp,
son had only one complaint to make. III
did not fear anything serious from hi
arrest and was anxious to get q hearing
What did annoy him was a $40 bill which
he said that he had left in his t%rouser;
pockets on the boa He was told by ar
EVENING STAR man that the chief Of
police had searched the boat In the after
| noon.
Then he has my &c. exclaimed tn,
| prisoner, and when told that the chic
had not found the money Thompson con
tinued:
We'll, that is just as l thought. 1 kneW
when / left that boat that somethin,
| would happen. They had no right takinj