New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-15
FARMERS WIFE SLAIN
AND EWELRY STOLEN
DoIice Look for Men Discharged
ast Friday. Who QuarreIled
Over Amount Of Wages.
urR NIECE NOT AWAKENED
husband Was Away, but Two
Men and Three Dogs Were
Left to Guard Jersey
mans Little Home.

Three vatchdogs we're kennelled near
49, s,,cher door. two hired men slept
$3.50. feet away from the house, 4
. Girl dreamed away the hours in
..,, room. and yet none of these
-. .vakcreI when Mrs. Minnie Mack
nc strsrs,ed TO death in her little home
c.-svcrs. y. j., Yesterday morning.
-. Dsrlsrsrs crept stealthily into the
..r,opou-s. ana it was evident that Mrs.
a.. ,,.s the only one who awoke AMI
-. e.. made a struggle for her life.
IT, s--u. X her ~ the face. and tied her
- &, tight with a corset cover and a
.ors, that r-s oesh was cut and torn,
"a then made a gag Of a sheet and
'.,fe5 n far down in her throat. After
- .ra -urierers took several gold
u.,.-res "a chain bracelet and rifed a
'~,,-sss .r tho sleeping niece's room Of
$50
Manic k.-~. the niece. awakened from
. terrifying dream At dayhreak and
,,-ored from rar bed. stumbling over her
crer and empty suitcase. With 2
vorsrs tuition that something was
wrong she van into her aunts room.
ebs saw Mrs. NaCks body. screamed.
aud staggered out Of the house in her
rigbteovn and along the roadway to the
home Of Ferdinand Lurghmann. who at
once sent cor Chief Of Police JACOB
sgbri-r and Dr Olpp. Of West Hoboken.
4, INVESTIGATION showed that the sa'e
j., which Charles Mack keeps the proh's
from his truck garden had not been dis
,yrbed. although It seemed evident inc
--,,,s had been committed by some ono
fs-,ir.sr with the house Mack hlmset
had started for Manhattan with a LOAD
~ vegetables ~ 10 a m. and his vile
and his niece had helped him prepare Tor
tho tourney. The safe had been moved
HIT not opened, and in IT was found
came ,ava'rt. The farmers big gold
watch lay untouched on top Of the hu-
,sau .r his dead vife's bedroom. But
her watches. jewelry and trinke's were
.one.
Mrs. Mack was lying on the floor with
her head resting on the bed. She seemed
10 have kicked and struggled fercely be
fore they killed her and threw her bodT
half Of the bed in order TO search the
mattress and pillow for money.
Entrance had been forced through the
kitchen door. In the kitchen, which IS
under the room i'm which Mrs. Mack
s'ert. we're found a spade and manure
fork the murderers had brought in from
? place in the barnyard near which the
&. Bernard. Newfoundland and fox ter
rier were kept. The cottage is little
frame structure in Bayview avenue. sew
e-al hundred feet from the Paterson
Plank Road. on the meadows, between
Homestead and the Hackensack River.
After talk with Prosecutor Carver
Nsror Churchill Of Secaucus instructed
the seventeen-year-o Karn girl 70 re-
main at the Lurghmann home until the
iroueet. She is from Bengal Dutchess
County. and was visiting her relatives.
Charles Mack, on hearing IL the muir
der after his return from New York, told
the police of his quarrel with two men he
had discharged last Friday. He paid
them SIG each. but they demanded SlG
and when he refused 10 pay the add
tiousl money they complained to Hilbert,
the iaI'er. They wanted him 70 go back
with them and compel Mack 10 give
them another dollar apiece.
He told them he could not do il, but
oHevej 20 let them sleep in the Borough