New-York tribune., 1908-05-20
SON KILLS e. &. STERRY
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years ago. He then told of hearing the shots
and the subsequent events.
so far as know" he said "Mr Sterry's fam
lily relations entirely harmonious. Mr..
| Sterry just looked after the business in a gen.
eral way, while his attended to the details.
The only business conversations he had with
| them about the details of the business. and
while there would be at times slight differences
| of opinion they never were such could be
called disputes"
Mr., Sterry had four sons,' he went on. 'and
| all have been connected with the firm One of
them, John D. Sterry. is travelling in the
West for the firm.
George Sterry, jr., lived at the Manhattan
Square Hotel with his wife. They lived hap
PLY together. When he came into the office this
morning he appeared all right. 1 can give no
reason for his act"
i knew nothing about this affair until sa"
my brother Jim crying" William De Witt Sterry
told the coroner. He told not to go upstairs
Heard two shots. he told me. Finally / got
hold of David D. Kirby, member OF the hrm.
and he went upstairs and told me what he saw.
Il can't account for this murder and suicide
1t must have been that my brother was suffer-
ing from insanty-was crazy"
James w Sterry, who lived with his father,
followed his brother telling practically the same
story. he SAID MS ueeu DIoIHeI iihu heiHouS
disposition. He was the first to mention his
fathers engagement. Coroner Harburger, when
Mr.. Sterry said his father widower asked
if he intended to marry again.
He engaged to young lady in East Or
ange," Mr.. Sterry replied. L do not think 1t
necessary to give her name"
Did the engagement engender any i'll feel
ing?" ..-...-..-..
The Ill feeling would not result like this
replied Mr. Sterry.
Mr.. Kirby said that the father and son had
had some small differences over their business
relations but that he had never heard of any
family quarrels. He said he had met the woman
and that she appeared to be about thirty five
years old.
LETTER ON VICTIMS DESK.
Before searching the bodies Coroner Harbur-
ger went through the papers on Mr. Sterrys
desk Among the business letters he found this
note
No 101 ST. Nicholas avenue.
Dear Brother George
have to- plead to you once more. You see
by this that we must get out if you do not send .
s25. 1 promise not to ask again for cent. Th>
landlord says that il we do not get the money
We will have to get out. ELIZA
There is no such address as No 1O1 St. Nicho-
las avenue in this city. In the fathers pockets
this notice. all ready for insertion in the
newspapers:
Marred-Sterry- Blaikie-At Englewood n. |
J., June 3. 1908, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs:
Cameron Baikie. by the Rev. Brewer Eddy, OF
East Orange, Rachael Briggs Blaikie and George |
Edward Sterry.
Miss Blaikie gave up her place teacher on |
May to prepare for her marriage. She went |
away yesterday morning to spend the day, and |
when she returned to her home she pros
trated at learning that Mr. Sterry had been muir |
dered Her pastor, the Rev. Brewer Eddy, of |
the Trinity Congregational Church. spent the |
evening with her. Other callers were not ad- |
mitted to the house.
George Sterry, jr., had lived at the Manhat- |
tan Square Hotel for the last three years with |
his wife Mrs Sterry was told over the telephone |
after the shooting that an accident |
had happened. When the newspaper men Wis |
tied the hotel she met them at the desk and in |
sisted on knowing just what had happened. |
The clerk told her. She collapsed.
Mr. Sterry and Miss Bake had known each |
other a long time. she and her sister Julia hav |
ing been friends of Mrs. Sterry. Her father died |
two years ago, and since then her brother, Cam
eron Blaikie. has occupied the old Blaikie home
stead in Enslewood Miss Blaikie has lived in
Orange for the last fifteen years. When the
leaked out first Mr., Sterry said when
pressed for confirmation of the rumor: Such |
an announcement should come in the customary
way, from the friends relatives of the per-
sons Immediately concerned. No one else has
any right to make the announcement and GER
ainy one has any authority to do So
Mr.. Sterry director of the Princeton
Theological Seminary, president and a director
IF the Bloomfield Mills Company director of
he Spring Coal Mining Company, president and
director of the firm Of Weaver & Sterry and
an officer and manager Of the Manhattan Eye
and Ear Hospital.
He of medium height and did not look his
age by ten years. He great traveller and
spent much of his time in Spain a country of
which he especially fond and where he had
planned to spend his honeymoon. The firm OF
Weaver & Sterry Is old and we'll established
me.