Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-09-11
Stephen D. Cray Is
Attacked Near
TOttenViIIe.
Get FUGITIVE
Slayer Held on Charge Of Honi.
eide Victim LingerGdi in Hos
pitaI Until This Morning
Son Caught as He Was
About to Board
a Train.


Tottenville, Sept. 11:-Stephen D.
Gray, seventy-three years old, WELL
known colored man, living near Boz
gardus' Corners, Sandy Ground. was
fatally assaulted with an axe by his
son, Stephen d. Gray, Jr., forty-three
years old, waiter, of lao Dufield
street, Brooklyn, about $50 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, at the formers
home.
Within a half hour after the deed
had been committed. Gray was cap
tured at Huguenot station by Ser
geant Delafield Ruch and Patrolman
/ Grover G. Vaughn, of the 99th pre-
cinct, as he was about to board 3
train that leaves Tottenville at 355
O'Clock for New York.
The first the police knew OF the
assault was when they received a
telephone message from O. Bogar-
dus e. Son. The reserves were turn-
led out and nearly every detective on
the island was notified
The patrol wagon. with Patrolmen
Hoerner and Lynch, and DR.. u. A.
Gaudet, of Main street, was soon at
fthe scene OF the crime. DR. Gaudet
made an examination of the injured
man and had him removed to the s..
r. Smith Infirmary at once He
! found that the aged victim had a
! fractured skull, and a cut, four-and-
one-half inches long, in the top Of
his head.
Died This Morning.
The aged man died in the infirm-
ary at 5.45 o'clock this morning.
without regaining consciousness.
Stephen d. Gray, Jr., was brought
to the 99th precinct here and later
taken to the infirmary to see Il the
father would regain consciousness.
SO as to identify him.
At the station house Gray admitted
to Lieutenant Haerle that he had
struck his father with an axe. When
asked If he had had a quarrel with
his parent or what he struck him
for, he said that he had had bad luck
for the past several years, which he
attributed to his father II Is said
that he is not quite sound In mind.
Gray came down from Brooklyn
yesterday to see his father, who res
sided with his daughter, Mrs. Rebec-
ca Lucinda Landin in Woodrow ave-
nue..
He arrived at the house about
O'Clock, said Mrs. Landin, when ques-
toned at the station house last night.
He seemed all right and sat down In
chair in the dinning room One OF
Mrs. Landin's children went outside
where their grandfather was and told
him that their Uncle Steve was Ia
the house The old man. who was
totally blind In one eye, and whose
other eye was affected, came into the
house He greeted his son cordially
and offered to shake his hand, but
I the son refused. He said his hands
were dirty The parent said he was
putting a pane Of glass in window.
They sat down and talked a little
while. The son inquired about all
their neighbors and friends.
The older man got up and went
out to the back yard to finish his
work.
He had cut a tree down several
days ago and went to cut up some OF
the wood The son, seeing his father
/ in the yard, asked his sister, Mrs,
Landin, If she had an axe as he
would like to exercise his muscle.
She told him that she had none,
I but that their father had an old one
| in the barn. The older Mr.. Gray had
gone to the barn to get it and was
coming out Of the door. when he was
struck.
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