New-York tribune., 1910-11-25
AGED CLERGYMAN AND
HIS WIFE MURDERED
ualf-Breed Indian Arrested on
Charge of Shooting Dutch
Neck. NJ. J.. Couple.
ROBBERY GIVEN As MOTIVE
Prisoner Son Of Dr.. and Mrs.
Armstrong S Housekeeper, and
Was Reared in Family
Mother Under Guard.

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AMI L Armstrong and his wife. Annie
Pre Armstrong We're murdered last
light II the parsonage OF the Dutch
Neck Presbyterian Church. Tonight
John Sears a half breed negro and In
dan. thir-y-three years old. son Of the
toasekeepe- at the parsonage. man
Who had lived with the family since he
xas three years old was committed &c
the county Jail by Prosecutor William
: rrossley on a double charge Of murder.
NJ. Armstrong was eighty-three years
r1s. his Wife vas forty-tvo years old.
sr4 was member Of an old Dutch Neck
family NJ Armstrong was a graduate
of Princeton IN the class Of 1882. and for
KAN years and a. the time of his death
vss stated clerk Of the P-esbytery Of
Neu brunswick He was learned and
scholarly man. who preferred the leisure
~ country parsonage 10 the higher
-sf5 bs,- more exacrEng work Of : city
pastor
Re had been in charge Of the Dutch
Neck Church for upward Of forty years
r,a rs-sonaze was about a mile outside
= re village. The family consisted.
besi6es The pastor and his wife. Of Mrs
ces-s rhe housekeeper. and her son
Jossph. Ms Sears is a nesress and her
husband Is said To have been al Indian.
Sears Gave the Alarm.
--e alarm u Ire murder was given
shart O'Clock this morning. Sears
was rre man 7ho gave il. He awak-
cred the neigh 1crs. and within z little
v+.le WORD was sent 70 this city The
u0-zre Who were notified and sent word
r rba Prosecutors Office and within an
ho-- Prosecutor CrossleE. Assistant
Prosecutor Piper and their detectives
t-z1cv. Pllz5r and Ki-khan, were At the
scene. CorJners Boers and Grove ar
rived soon afterward. as did number
q detectives i was found that Ny
a-5 Mrs Armstrong had been dead, 50
III doctors said. about eight hours That
would bring the killing between and
Q o'clock last niEt1-
From the condition q the house ana
IL positions IN which the bodies lay Il
would appear that Nj Armstrong sat N
-hz pa-lor reading. HIS wife sat IN the
dining room. Each could see the other
tv looking u7 from the books they were
reading / is thought that Ar Arm
strong vas shot Is he sat reading or as
h looked up when The murderer entered
The rz-lor. H fell cut 4 the chair and
his h,dr lar ar the floor Mrs Arm
E--r-E. j. IS thought dropped her book
beside rre chair she vas IN and started
Inward her husband and was shot her
br5r falling in the dining room, but
7a M
Didn't Keep Appointment
Sears. who gave the alarm. said he
I'D been in New Brunswick It has
bear zs-s bI5sred rrat ne was there He
aad n appointment for the middle of
the e-er=nz in Nv Brunswick. but did
-o- keep il Instead, i is alleged, he
-rr, q trolley car from New Brunswick
about an hour after The couple had been
killed and did not stay IN Ne" Bruins
wick a-v length Of time. as h returned
OF he trolley car which left New
brunswick p 11.10 He reached Dutch
Ne~k 81 midnight. L was l o'clock be
f1-e The alarm Of murder vas given
P-7oI-1 Norho1s. twenty-five years
Cd 2 white man. of New Brunswick
v--r whom Sears had the appointment
which he did not keep, came TO Dutch
Mex today To find Scars The New
Brunswick appointment appears 10 have
been entered into with the provision that
= sears was not on hand Norhous Was
r. come 20 Dutch Neck to-day 10 meet
him The New Brunswick man was
Intercepted by The Prosecutor men and
zaz subjected 70 q long questioning. but
h vas not held, and returned home To-
u3-n-
The wounds Of the couple were caused
r. shots which We're fred from . gun Of
kind Sears Is said . have borrowed
no weeks ago from Emil Reed. Of
Dur-h Neck sears had . gun cf an
o-rer kind OF his own, and both guns
we~e found IN the kitchen Of the parsol-
Police Watch sears's Mother.
sezrs's mother has not been arrested
81 IS being watched. however. and Is
not allowed 70 communicate with any
che nor viii she be allowed 70 leave
Dutch Neck. Her story is that the shoot
ing occurred after she went 10 bed,
r9ch later than the doctors say i hap
Dered She says she hid under her bed
snd was afraid 10 give an alarm untA
she heard her son come in
Neither Sears nor his mother has been
sbie Is yet 70 account for the time be
ssgeen the arrival OF the midnight car
kao the giving of the alarm at ! O clock
rhst The latter hour Is correct IS Ger
tain, as several families were aroused
and me alarm was received by the
Trenton police 2 few minutes later.
The motive for the murder Is believed
u have been robbery. Or Armstrong 5
Va1ch and chain are missing. and it is
thought some other things are gone from
he house. Tro Of DR. Armstrong
Pockets Hevn turned inside out
SAD THANKSGIVING FOR ANTS