The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-06
REARRESTS
IN WILSON
TRAGEDY
trolley Crew Held for
Death Of Kearny
FreehOlder.
HE WAS STRUCK BY CAR
AFTER BEING ROBBED
One Police Theory Is That He
- Was Victim Of Thugs in
the Meadows.
BODY MAY HAVE BEEN
PLACED ON THE RAILS
Dead Mans Glasses Found l85
Feet from Where He Was
Pun Over.
BODY MAY HAVE BEEN
PLACED ON THE RAILS
Dead Mans Glasses Found l85
Feet from Where He Was
Pun Over.

Following en- all-night investigation
by the Jersey City police of the mys-
terious death of Freeholder George T.
Wilson. of Kearny. who, after being
robbed, was struck while in an appar-
emily dazed condition by trolley car
near the Hackensack River bridge
Henry B. Weikel and William A. Dean,
motorman and conductor of the car,
We're rearrested in this city early to-
day and turned over later to the Jer-
sey City authorities on charge OF
manslaughter.
The claim was made that the car
crew had mlsstated facts in their
declaration, made yesterday that the
car was going four miles an hour at the
time. A detective declared that he
stepped off the distance between the
blood on the rail and the spot where
the dead mans eyeglasses were picked
up, and found that they had been
hurled 1856 feet by the impact. The car.
the detectives claim, was ,goin. forty
miles an hour.
While the Jersey City police believe
that Freeholder Wilson was robbed and
either stunned by blow on the head
or turned adrift in the Hackensack
meadows, so far they have found but
little evidence to support their belief.
Inat they are determined to run down
the perpetrators of the deed Ia shown
by the fact that the force Of detec-
tives has been doubled, and eight
sleuths are now working on the case.
Investigation Hampercd.
The detectives declare that SO long
as the trolley motorman and conductor
misrepresented facts in the first in
stance, it is possible that their entire
tale is wrong. The sleuths are in
clined to the belief that Wilson's body
was placed on the car tracks after he
was assaulted and robbed, but this
theory does not fit in with the finding
Of the eyeglasses 1856 feet away,
The trolley company has refused to
divulge the name of a single passenger
of the car which struck Wilson. and,
the police claim, are hampering the in
vestigation.
Investigation today discloses the fact
that from the time Wilson left his
home, at 262 Kearny avenue, Kearny,
until he was struck by the car, 200
yards from the Jersey City approach
to the HackensacH bridge, he was seen
but once by persons who knew him.
This was within half an hour after he
left home. He was then standing at
Harrison avenue and Third street, Har-
rison. Water Purveyor William Cam
pion bade him good evening at that
I'1ae.
: Wilson did not go to the newsstand
he was bound for when he left the
house, although his brother John and
Michael Kelly, the newsdealer, were
waiting for him at the latter's place Of
business, Davis avenue and Dukes
street. Both had an appointment with
the freeholder, They waited until
nearly 9 o'clock, Ind then, when he
had not arrived, John Wilson departed
and Kelly closed up shop.
Investigation today also resulted in
showing that at the time Wilson left
his home he had at least 500 and per-
haps as much as $100 on his person. He
was known to carry a liberal amount
of pocket money by nearly everyone
who was acquainted with him. His
valuable watch, which, with the money
and his coat, was missing when the
trolley car crew picked him up, had
been purchased only about year. 1t
was Of solid gold and was valued at
500.
Attached to the watch and its heavy
gold chain was an odd Knights of Co
lumbus charm. The dead mans daugh-
ter, Miss Frances Wilson, said today
that description of the watch and
charm had been given to detectives.
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