Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-01-31
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WOMAN IN WOODBRIDGE
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The Zambo girl then left the
house but returned about two hours
later. She again called and re-
ceived no answer She went up
stairs and this time pushed heavily
disclosed the body OF Mrs. Fitz-
simmons laying on the floor. her
head near the bed, with a pool of
blood about her.
AS far as the police can determine
no n saw Mrs. Fitzsimmons alive
after her husband left for work. Mrs.
Veronica Zambo. mother of the H.
year-old girl who first discovered the
murder. told one OF the detectives
she had seen Mrs. Fitzsimmons
about 3 O'Clock, but when questioned
as to the xac time is said to have
admitted that 1t might have been
much earlier. and possibly before
Fitzsimmons left for work. Her tes-
timony is not being seriously con-
sidered. as one of the officers stated
she had told him she had been
watching for Mrs. Fitzsimmons at Q
O'Clock but had not seen her.
The murdered woman was in the
habit OF milking the COW early every
morning. This she had not done be-
ore being attacked, this leading to
the belief that the murder was CON-
mitted early in the morning.
1t is believed that an attack upon
her by a strange man would have
been resisted by her and some signs
of a struggle found in the bedroom,
but such was not the case. An au-
topsy was performed on the body by
County Physician John Suydam. His
decision was murder"
No vivid marks were disclosed on
any part OF her body or head which
might have shown that she was
knocked into Inconsistencies before
her throat was cut, although two
slight scars were found on her neck
and under her left arm, which might
have been caused by a mans fingers
in holding and choking her.
The body was removed to the
morgue of r.. A. Hirner, in Wood
bridge, and later removed to the
home of her stepmother, Mrs. Louis
Franc. 1923 Oak street. Perth Am
boy. Funeral services will be held
from the home in Perth Amboy. and
later from st. James Church, in
Woodbridge. tomorrow morning at
10 O'Clock. interment following in
Holy Name Cemetery. Jersey City.
The house in which the Fitzsim-
monses lived Is located just off up
per Main street, setting back about
fifty yards from the road. The back
yard is almost in the clay banks and
but a few houses are to be found in
that section. most of them being &C.
cupied by foreigners engaged in the
clay works.
The Fitzsimmonses occupied four
small rooms in a W family house,
the other half of which is not rent
ed. On the first floor were kitchen
and parlor, while upstairs were two
bedrooms. Although Fitzsimmons is
said to have been making a good
llary at Camp Raritan, the house
gave the impression of utter pow
erty. the furnishings being few and
of the poorest kind.
Mrs. Fitzsimmons seldom left the
house, which explained the frequent
calls of Lizzie Zambo. who did most
of the shopping, the report being
that h young wife's husband re-
fused to give her any money with
which to purchase clothes.
The couple had been married
three years, the two having met il
Haskell, N. J.. according to informa.
ton secured by the police. The wife
would be twenty years old in MAJ
anu Is SAID 10 nave Deen
and pretty when first married. Nu
merous quarrels marked their mar
ried life. according to reports from
those who have known them. Fitz
simmons is said to have attacked
her and beat her occasionally anc
at one time was addicted to heavy
drinking although he told the police
he had sworn off.
Inquiries among the residents in
the neighborhood of the Fitzsim.
mons house failed to reveal the pres
ence of any stranger about the
house Saturday morning.
According to Mrs. Louis Franc
the girls stepmother. MI. and Mrs
Fftzsimmons had lived with her and
her husband in West Hoboken after
the young couple had wed. Shortly
afterward the Francs went to Perth
Amboy and took up their residence
in Oak street. The Fitzsimmons
also went to Perth Amboy and lived
for a time in Prospect street, later
moving to Woodbridge.