The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-25
Shot Down in the Evening
in Their Home at Dutch
Neck, New Jersey.
YOUNG MULATT0 SUSPECT
Shotgun Used at Close Quarters
to Kill Mr.. Armstrong and
His Wife.

. IRtNrOS. y. j. Nov -. Sting in
p"ia' by their hrcsid-. the Rev. Amis
|. ARMSTRONG "a" ven"-Ab!- pls;o- o.
IN. DIIch N-cS Pr..byt--ial Church.
and his wife wer. shot to death las
night. Mrs. Arms ron <. " IL believed, was
first To- fall, he br'..-, pe-c'd by tho
"hIrg- from a .ho;g ia not three feet dis
toni from her body Then as II. ro"
from h- cha IN an adjacent room tho
aged clergyman met "A like fac Death
IN each ms lnc., wa, pact .Cally in
-tIntIH-ols
tia. intruder. or there may have been
more than one. ransacked the house.
stripped from tn" Rev. Mr. Armstrong
the watch h" wore suspended from his
neck and turned his pockets inside out.
Alarmed by the Iot- Mrs. John Sears.
an old n-gr"s-. the only other occupant
of IN. house. SAWS she crawlrd under a
bed and Law Their. for hours until her son
came home ana discovered what had
happened
Then the cry Of murder went out .
cry which shock ed the countrywide and
started hundreds of armed men upon
the quest for vengeance From 2:3o
o'clock this morning. when news OF tho
shooting reached this city. until late to-
night searching parties secured tho
woods and fields for miles about Dutch
Neck but thew discovered no clue. Mr..
Armstrong had served as the pastor OF
Drcn Neck for forty-three years and
was beloved in his community
But detectives work ed upon a differ
ent theory To them the woods and fields
and places Of concealment had only a
passing interest. They argued from the
circumstances 81 the murders that the
trail Of quest would lead close TO the
household Of the minister. at least to
some one intimately acquan with his
home life and perhaps aware that he
was supposed to keep considerable
amount Of money in "A secret place about
the house To them the story told by Mrs
Sears sounded improbable and they were
not satisfied with the alibi which her half
breed son John. tried to establish by
wick early in the event z and had returned
home by the last trolley car. arriving ar
Dutch Neck about 1850. They estao-
iished the fact that he had bought .
tick 81 for New Brunswick and that he
had alight sd from me last returning car
to prove thar he had actually gone as
far as he claimed or To- prove what time
he left home
Sears was brought TO Trenton this
aft rrnoon and wiz n him a young man who
said that b. had been in his companyan
New Brunswick Roth were subjected
To IN. sweating process. hut after several
hours of r'Iori IN. authorities admitted
hat Sears story had not been seriously
shaken Mrs. sears was not taken into
CUSTODY at once. but was watched at
mel ghboring house and no outsider wAs
permitted 10 speak with her. The burden
of her story was that sh. had became so
& frightened by the shoot ing that she was
unable TO move after she had crawled
under IN. bed
The darecrv-- have worked out an
q apparently accurat. theory az TO how the
were committed Mrs Arm
s,rony va. reading in the dining room
and her husband was sitting in an ad-
iacrnt room Apparently hearing a
knock or a Nose ~ the kitchen door. shs
,rc-e laid IN. map.<in. .b. wa. reading
IN the table and took two or three steps
toward the kitchen. Then the door was
opened and the shot gun was discharged
a, her breas, Her r;rh, hing and near.
,..,. r,ddhd nv tho .bc, which broL. ,wo
in. No., NJ IN. cbarg. lodp.d in IN.
,r.c.. NJ ber back Sb. evidently fell
,,.r wi,ho,,, . s,r,ggI.