Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-17
SLAYER OF GIRL,
PARDONED, IS HOME
Chief Justice Gummere Said to
Have Been in Favor of
His Parole.
Especial to the Newark start


PATTERSON, n. J.. April IL
Paroled by the Court of Pardons at
Trenton yesterday, Andrew Camp
bell, sentenced in 1900 to thirty years
for the murder of Jennie Bosschieter
with three other young men. returned
TO the home Of his sister Mrs. james
G. Sigler, in Main avenue. Lakeview.
rear here. last evening. where he was
greeted by his aged mother. WHO has
worked and pleaded for her boys
pardon.
His younger brother, who was in
short trousers when Andrew was sent
10 Jail. has worked increasingly for
the release of his brother. and was
present when he returned home. The
family shut up the house and went 10
New York last night to avoid the eX-
element in the neighborhood attend
ing the return Of the young man.
To start Life Anew.
Campbell today declared that he
will start life anew. The Bosschieter
murder was one OF the noted crimes
IN American annals. Jennie Basschie-
ter, a remarkably pretty silk mill
girl Is years old, kept an appointment
TO meet McAllister on the night Of
October H. 1900. McAllister lured the
girl into the back room of saloon
and there he met the three other men.
After several hours spent drinking
Knockout drops" were put in the
girls beer. While she was irrespon-
-i..I he, ho nh e M
the Passaic river in a carriage and
attacked.
When she collapsed she was taken
by her four assailance in hack to
a physician's office. Finding she was
dead the four men took her out of
the city and threw her body into a
Held. where 1t was found.
The police traced the assailants
through the physician to whom they
appealed for aid and through the
hack driver who drove them and who
gave evidence of a startling charac-
ter as to what took place while the
girl was stupefied and still alive. =
Scored by Judge.
In passing sentence in the case
Supreme Court Justice Jonathan
Dixon, who Is now dead, said:
"It is true that the sentence which
] am about to pronounce will destroy
your lives, will obliterate every pros
pect that once, perhaps, was so
bright before you, of an honorable
existence among your fellows, and all
for the deeds of this dreadful night.
From time immemorial tho legal
penalty for a crime of that nature
has been death but the leniency Of
the jury In the exercise of their law
ful authority has saved you from the
gailows. and no further leniency can
be expected In this tribunal"
The fight to have the men paroled
began on tho day they went to
prison.
Campbell's term with the regular
deduction for good behavior was TO
have ended on February l, 1921.
Pardon Was Planned.
While no one will admit it, the fact
is that the Court of Pardons paroled
Andrew Campbell as the rdbult of a
long understanding among the older
members OF the court that when the
correct time came he was the one of
the three men left in prison for the
killing of Jennie Boschieter worthy
Of parole. II has been known that
Chief Justice Gummere wrote to
Governor Stokes years ago saying
that Campbell would be a worthy one
of the quartet of men for parole when
ne had served major portion of his
sentence of thirty years He has
about served that now. twelve years
and a. few months of the twenty-five