New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-17
SLAYER FREED
Campbell, Jennie Bosschieter
Murderer, ParoIed.
FOUR CONVICTED OF CRIME
Kerr Is at Liberty, but McAllis
ter and Death Are Still Serv-
ing Sentences of 80 Years.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Trenton, n. j., April lb.-AndreW camp
bell. one Of the quartet Of Paterson young
men who were convicted of causing the
death Of Jennie Bosschieter. Paterson
mill girl, whose. body was found by the
roadside in 1901, was paroled by the Court
of Pardons to-day.
Campbell is the second of the young
men who received long terms of imprison-
ment for completely In the famous crime
10 receive his freedom. the other being
George J. Kerr. released last year, after
having served eleven of the fifteen years
to which he was sentenced. Campbell
had served about twelve Of his term OF
thirty years when released to-day.
William A. Death and Walter Nc
Allister, the others who participated in
the murder, are still i'm prison, serving
thirty-year sentences. Their applications
for clemency were refused by the Court
OF Pardons to-day. The four Bosschieter
slayers, almost from the time Of their in
generation for the crime, were the most
persistent seekers OF clemency before the
Court Of Pardons. and at almost every
meeting OF the court in the last few years
their applications for release were among
those acted upon.
SIayers Of Prominent Families.
All four OF the young men were promi-
nent in Paterson at the time the crime
was committed and efforts have been
made from time TO time by influential
friends to obtain clemency for them.
The Bosschieter case was one of the
most famous in the annals Of crime in
New Jersey and it attracted nationwide
interest. Jennie Bosschieter was a comedy
girl Of eighteen years and popular with
the other girls at the Paterson Ribbon
Company's mills. where she worked.
When. on the morning of October 10. 1901
her body was found near Alyea's ice
house at the Wagner avenue bridge, over
the Passaic River. covered with clothing
hastily arranged and torn, the whole city
of Paterson was aroused. Though the
body showed evidence of violence. there
was nothing to indicate that struggle
had occurred
McAllister and Death had been seen
talking TO the girl the night before the
body was found, but not until DR. Cyrus
W. Townsend gave the information that
the two men had brought the girl to his
office at midnight the same day and that
he had found her dead were the two men
directly connected with the crime.
Drank Dragged Milk and Settler.
IL was learned from Augustus South
orpe. cabman. that the girl had talked
with the four convicted men in front OF
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Campbell to a saloon at River and Bridge
streets McAllister. Death and Kerr
Joined the party afterward Hydrate OF
chloral was placed In some milk and self
ger which the girl was drinking. When
Southorpe, the cabman. called for the
party the girl was carried out limp and
placed in the rear seat of the cab between
two OF the men. all OF whom had been
drinking heavily.
After a while the men became alarmed
when the girl did not recover from the
effects of the choral. and after one ply
sician had refused 10 see them finally
rot into the Office Of Dr. Townsend. who
told them the girl was dead After driv-
ing frantcally around the city trying to
decide on what TO do. the men threw the
body of the girl near a rock by the ice
house where it was discovered.
The trial was sensational and aroused
bitter class feeling I'm the city. The work
crs in the mills manifested hatred for the
more prosperous members of the COM
munity. fearing that the family connec-
tons of Kerr and McAllister would save
them from punishment.