The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1901, Page 1

a AIR; BRISK “ Circulation Books Open to All.’? ~ PRICE ONE CEN NIGHT EDITION-_AfM the Ne WINDS. ters for Ali Day—RACING #SP NEW YORK, TUCRFAIR, ERISiC WINDS, | “ Circulation Books Open to Al Pr ] TUESDAY, JANUARY 2% JENN IE BOSSCHIETER 'S BROT HER, M OTHER SAYS, OULD KILL M’ALISTER Judge Dixon Sends Mc- “¢ Alister, Death and Campbell to Prison at Hard Labor for Thirty Years and Kerr for Fif- teen Years, (Special to The Freaing World.) COURT-HOUSE, PATERSON N. J., Jan. 29. Walter McAlister, William = A Death and Andrew J. Campbell, con- victed of murder In the second degree for the killing of Jennie Bosschiete were sentenced by Judge Dixon to- day to thirty years each with hard | labor in Trenton State Prison. George J. Kerr, who pleaded guilty’ was sentenced to fifteen years at hard labor. The sentences were the full limit of the law. Judge Dixon's charge was very strong. He told the prisoners they should have been hanged. Mrs. Bosachieter and the father of the murdered mill girl were in court. Late this afternoon the prisoners gave out a public statement to the effect that they would be good in prison and earn their commutation. SAD SCENES IN CROWDED COURT the Prisoners Were Brought In to Hear Their Fate. How (Special to The Evening World) COURT-HOUSE, PATERSON, N. J.. Jan. 29.—The court opened here at 946 Jock and was at once filled with spec- ‘ors who had been waiting around th hour. ‘The jurymen that had convicted McAlister, Campbell and Death of the murder of Jennic Boss er were among them. low murmur of volces added to » solemnity of the a The per- fons who gathered in the court knew at three men were to have ine sweet- cars of their iife shut out from Uberty, and that a fourth would have the yeare that should have passed in honor and respect bittered with the ig. nominy of prison. The fact that Kerr's father was in the shadow of death and the familles of the other men were nearly prostrated adiled to the interest. Prorecutor Emley came in at 10 o'clock looking very serious. "Phen came John L. Harding, counsel for Kerr; Michacl Dunn, Death's law. yer, and Francis Scott, who looked af- ter McAllaters# interests, Judge Dixon ascended the bench shortly after 10 o'clock. Hoe looked the embodiment of Justice. The prisoners were brought in ten minutes after, Judge Dixon anked whether counsel for the prisoners had anything to say. Mr. Dunn arose and rald: “EL refrain from referring to the de- talls of facts Involved, because Your Honor |s familiar with them, Prior to the paseage of the law of 1898 the 6x- treme penalty of the crime for watch my client Is convicted was twenty yea “It has been extended by the Leg! lature to thirty years, but leaving it an it ts, It is for the Judge to give such lentency as ts warranted by calm, cool judgment of the case. On many occasions have I seen Your Honor exercise that discretion, In the case of these defendants I feel there are cir- cumstances which xcarcely Justify the Court In Imposing the full penalty. ask the ciemency of the Court in this case." White Mr, Dunn wax speaking Me- Alister fingered his chin and looked Ist- lewaly at the ceiling. Campbell had been pale, but a» ne Istened to the plea a flush of color came to his cheeks, Death's face set and he bit hts tps, Worr was very pale and his dark eyes unnaturatly bright. In behalf of Camp- bell Mr. Dunn presented a petition from cltlzens of Paterson asking for mercy, Mr. Dunn rend the petition In. which ft waa’ claimed that Campbell had her tofore borne a good reputation und 1 never been known to mix with dad characters. In all 123 names were signed, including city officials, business men and lawyers. The petition for Campbell was circulated in the mill where he was employed, It wan wigned by all the men, but the women, it is satd, indignantly refused to sign It and upbraided the men who did so, Mr, Dunn made a epecial plea for the young man and eafd he did rot belleve t bullding £6: | U} out his bondeman. | HUGH He 1s the father of George Kerr, the confessed assallant of Jennie The elder Kerr is dying. Bosschieter. KERR DYING AS SON IS SENTENCED. Family at Bedside Keep Shocking News of Confession from Broken-Hearted Parent. HUNDRED MEN CAPTURED IN RAID ON POOL-ROOM. CAN EANS. HASE AFTER A THIEF. iby Min, ev hy found rol ~ Ida -Sherow, “KERR. Se ee es oe (Bpecial to The Evening Worid.) PATERSON, N, J., Jan. 2. Hugh Kerr, father of George J. Kerr, was dying at home while the son wh» broke his heart was being sent Jfor bis awful crime, De. Denner, the family physician, hid been at the aged man's bedeld rm ing, At 9.20 o'clock Mr. Kerr unconselousness, from which the doctor he will never awake, fall rapidly shortly af summonel to his b vod MDONALO'S BAIL IS INCREASED. Court Says He May Ex- pect No More Favors. Miles MeDonald, the gambler, shot and killed George Price Ina on Park avenue One Hundred and ‘Twel “fifth street and seriously wou de ed Edwant Courtney, committed to qrism by Magistrate Zeller tn Harlem Court ‘thie afternoon tn defauk of val) for the latter act on @ charge of felorjous assault. | Courtney Is paralyzed from the walst down. He had so be earrled to MeDonald’s bail was iner SUN, th amount imposed afternoon, He stood on the steps of the Court-Houre waiting for his bondsman, and when his name was called failed to anewer It, Magistrate Zeller made out 4 commitment and sent Ollicer Levy ifter him, He appeared in court with- vu have violated xtended to you by trate, “and 1 of you further, al) the cou this court, do not propose to fw His ball was MeDonald glared about the room, amd an he elng led away to prison he valid in a loud “That's ull | could yet from you, anyway.” It was sald that out befor ight. MeDonald '« now un- Dall In all, half of which tx killing of Price —$————$_$__ intefeteinivieinielet: ORECAST. be balled dere hit WEATHER Fi Forecant for the thirty-nit hours cnding at Wednesday for New York Clty and vieinity: Vair to- night; snow Wednent brink to high winds, becoming Wednenday, Siete Ja receiver. red Is and as he op thim, ‘Whe The yh, emits, ye ONGRESS MUST |BRICE TRIED 10 PASS ON CUBA. ENSURE MAYOR Extra Session if Necc | WASHINGTON, Jun. . eesti ‘The « meeting to- wan devoted almost ex- | sion this afternoon and then adjourned sary to Act on the clusively to a discussion of Cuban mat- tin a hurry. Previous to the mecting Constitution. ters, Such information ax was at hand | Counciiman Stewart M. rice announced bearing upon the provisions of the | to zome of the members that he would ‘Cuban Constitudon was discume! at! introduce a resolvtion on the refusal of somo length, and the opinion waa ex-' Mayor Van Wyck io lower the flag for pressed that the completed document: the ¢ ne death, A hurred confer- would reach Washington about Feb. 15, | ence of some of the members resulted when it will be piaced before ress. | in the plan Journ It is Known that the President regards |) The which prompt action In this matter as of great! Hrice pre 14 fi . Importance, sands; would inots hesitate! (01 Resolved, oTliatias snarl ot, feapect to conmder it, should It appear neces: | the Mayor tn hereby’ reuueated to lower nary, [tse fag out er the Council = ante need for pro} action on the | ber to hall ntl after the Cineral Spooner Philippine bill reranted 4° of ner tate Majesty, Queen Vecturia, Pres dent Guggenheimer, who Was pre- of the Cuban Constitution, and the xtate- ment tw made on hign atdhority t widing, Ignored expontulations of Coun- chman Bri Council vated In the the event of he fallury of igher | here meneul 10 tve tie consld ion of Congress an exira reasion, aMrmatly adjourn, and will not meet again until next Thursday, ‘usu To cuRoee $100Q00TOYALE’ OPENING EARL. cord January Pas- senger Lis not know that Geors ed to-day.” eatd ex Judge Jest son, TE would: surely it, We must we that Gere er will lear my tou muc! was cman 5250 FOR MAIN “PTH COURTS Ma-tins, Father and Son, Fined by Justice Leventritt. Counci: Adjourned Before Half-Mast Resolution Came Up. nell held aw five minutes’ sex ellman was nd William t office ts at $20 by Justice ntempt of court. Trey were o ked up in Ludiow Street Jail until the tne ts paid. the contempt was in an action brought by Emanuel Popper against the Order of Chosen Friends for the appointment of Justice Leventritt appointed iver, Next day the Martins moved for a dismissal of the nult before Justice Maddox in Brooklyn. du Maddox, in Ignorance of the proceedings before Juatico Leventrits, did dismiss the sult. Then the Martins went before Justice Smith in Richmond County, and in a new mult secured the appointment of the younger Martin aa] Silliman Believed to Have ares Left It—$1,500,000 Justice Leventritt heard of the action And summoned the Martins to court. In Estate. Lawyers Joseph Martin Martin, father and son, Jacques Hertz inflicting the punaity to-day, ne sal “The Martins had ked for the ap> potntment as receiver of one of the offl- cern of my court. Because they were] The will of the Inte bi hot permitted to dictate that appolnt-| man, the rich lawyer, fect gra tue ment and falled to Induce Hertz to re-| ate of Yale University. will probably be tain them as counsel, they defled the yea Court and rught to annul ite action inj ffered for probate next week: another county,” It has been read In the presence of his ‘Then he senienced the lawyers, who) relatives and in said ¢ were allowed y days to appeal. quent of $100,060 to Yale —————— ‘The eatate consists of about $1,000,000 in STOCK EXCHANGE TO CLOSE. | reat estate and 4.0m 1n bonds and Sates other securities. No Trading in This City on Day] In addition to the 31,00) legacy to of Queen's Funeral, Yale, the late Mr. Silliman made several AL u special meeting of the Governing, bequests to his employees and friends, Committee of the New York Bwock Ex-| The bulk of the estate he left to his change to«lay {t was decided to. nus-| Nearest relatives, aid at the White Star tine pend business next Saturday, out of re- OE ee Jomce’ that the Oceanic will carry a. specs for Queen Victoria, whoew funeral — A lezsicg te gets just thi ht stimulus larger number of passengers than cver is {som Mallaating’s ladle Fale Ale, lof, whe pest in danuasy. : Among the mv ebritles whose names appear on the passenger Hat of the Oceanic are: Misa de Acosta and jher olster, the divorced #: Ww. |>. Stokes; Thomas olin, J. of ars Heton, Prin a ‘en Brancaccio, or, A. 8, Clarke ontain a be- | who was formerly Mra. WF. ib 4 | inere are also on list the names of Sir Martin, Conway, the Earl of Drog- heda, J. W, Dun the Minsay A. A. aaa. EB. Fox, Mr and Mie, Benjamin j wonton, Sr an Ro Jiminez, Mra, Adolph Ladenbur, JF. D, Lan fer, J. Frank SicFadden, of jadel- phia; H. F. Parsha.l, a celevrated elec. irleal engineer; Thomas Charles L. area dl Gountess de I ars and Hiram jamin D. Sillt- a F. Rountree, Count and —*+ Leonard Bosschizter Has Sworn Death to His Sister’s Murderer if Pardon Should Ever Make H.m a Free Man. “Do not think me vindictive or venge= ful" said Mra, Bosschiter to an Evens ing World reporter who sat beside. er in court to-day, “because I hay come to hear the murderers of my daughier sentenced. It is for comfors to my heart—poor comfort, {t ts. true, but 1 1 not be content untess heard with my own ears that Jew fs avengel. It fs a sattsfaction—t.t only thing I may have. 2 As the four prisoners were led before) Julge Dixon and passed close to Mra, Bosechleter her nerves gave way and tut for*the hand of would have fallen to Fear that perhaps after all the full penalty of the law might not be metyi! out to the despoilers of her home cama (o her, “Oh, God," the little woman eaclaimed, bending forward with half- lowed s, “Jo not let them suffer Mahely."* i She Collapsed Once. Ge The tremendous strain under whieh: MR KARMA RAY iPS di RR HARA low voice of ex-Judge Scott pleaded for” Sl clemency for MeAlister and his | Fades tn crime. Her trail frame stiff im! ond ahs threw back the heavy m0: % veil chat covered her face, “Poor Jennie Bowschelter,” In subst. nce to the convicted meny er I am about to destroy your Rosschleter's sorrowing heart. overtiowed from the flerce Joy which the! 1s brought to her. It eculd not hg: nd she sobbed aloud. John Boss phlegmetic Holland face showed no emotion. But phe caressing? of his hand ont his sobbing? showed ttat he, too, wae MRS. BOSSCHIETER. Sean rrr san E He: JUDGE’S TO CONVICTED MEN. nes. — STERN TALK. Hates \ you to hard labor In State prison for the term of thirty years?) aeiuted the Judge. : It was not a sndle that came over Mrs. Bosschieter's face,-but an iumle nation, She looked back at her hus bund, thelr eyes met. JENNIE WAS ; r encing of Kerr did not matter to the Bosschleters. They. e suid that McAllater was the on@ whose punishment they prayed! Verbatim Report. The prisoners McAlister, Death and Campbell will stand up. The s proved you guilty was murder in the first de- You stand convicted cf the erime of murder in the second degree. \erime of which the evidenc | gree, for you killed Jennie B. She Ginred at Each Man, In the stress of her emotion at onee more looking on the faces of her daugh : rs, Mrs! Bosschieter rose to the condemned men passed alsic, handcuffed to. thelr on the way back to thelr celia. walked first. sehicier by administering polson to her for the purpose of committing an assault. From time immemorial the legal penalty for a crime of that nature has been death, but the leniency of the jury in the exercise of their lawful ‘authority has saved you from the gallows, and no further leniency can be expected In this tribunal, whose proper function Is noi to make the la ment, but to administer the laws as they are framed not to carry out personal senti- faction and great sorrow could Bave | Wein true that the sentence which Lam about to pronounce will destroy ;\ricken Uy .thelr look McAlister would aulekly, ling as he had not donc ag” ds of Judge Dixon, ly looking at each one Mra aeter stood calmly until the tour ssed her. Then she collapsed, r and her husband heped. pascheter to the carrlage The World had provided ‘for her. ‘A soft murmur of sympathy .hummed rom \he dense pack of spectators as she stepped in the carrlage sobbing unowie troliably er Moral of the Trial, “Loam happy.” she safd on the homeward drives “so happy ft almost reoms as I 1 bad never been worry, © Git not want the men hanged, dat 1 y for ilfe it would: bright before you, of an honorable existence among your fellows; and all for the deeds of that dreadful night. I cannot make distinction among you, for I am not to punish or reward you for your previous conduct, but for this crime of which you are convicted, and for which alone {s sentence to be imposed; and } cannot say that In the commission of that offense there Ey was any difference among you. I trust, therefore, that the fearful consequence of that 1 night m help to teach the young men and the young women of this community th jno matter what may be thelr ambition, no matter what may be thelr intel- lectual qualities, they cannot hope to secure happiness outside of the paths of virtue and honor. The judgment of the Court Is that you shall labor in the State prison for the term of thirty The prisoner Kerr will stand up. The evid din this case did not warrant the conclusion that you were Implicat je administration of the drug, but ft was convincing that you participated In the ravishment of Jennie Bosschieter, aud in the commission © that offense there {s one aspect of the cuse that makes your conduct worve than that of your asso- clates; for you were olde ynd had more of tions to virt @ Wife worthy of your highest and purest affection, childien whose welfare should hays been your constant concern; but you disregarded the lessons of experience you broke the ties that bound you to home, you permitted yourself to drift awny from the moorings of domestic ite and love, and+now you a the rocks of vice and crime, And such a crim No wonder that its revelations shocked th munity. No wonder that {ts reveliions stirred in every manly every womanly heart intense {ndignation That pitiless ride. that das- tardly outrage, and then when the poor victim of lust and murder lay dead you cast her by the roadside, recliess Whether her fair form should fir be vist by gentle human hands or by fangs of beasts Poor Jennie Bosschieter; she did not deserve that fate, ‘And now how gladly would | spare your relatives the grief that they endure, but human wisdom has not yet devised « plan whereby the guilty may be adequately punished and tie Innocent saved from sorrow, In th exercise of my offictal duty 1 cannot withhold from so heinous an offe: any measure of that personal suffering which the sentence of the law must bring to you. The judgment of tho Conrt, then, tg that you be imprigoned at labor in the State prison for the term of peisen rane 0 be Imprisoned at hard years ls a long time, thougt, twenty years at leas. I can be thought that no other fer from thes men ast 1 may rsee the facts again wich his money = rdons for Boma men ¢ @r. hetr ‘egal sete ree of God rest! neve © upon McAilstér if he ever ¢ man, In Paterson until ster ever returns will seek him out, He’ the others, but {f he perhaps they might com- and in or eaten fer died, and did not tbe. | aas hardly sie . since Jen with grle at the m y in fear he ¢ 1 al toda f, ; has been a dear sacrifie her th T betleve that ansal warning hax been # mothers 6: ee rom mothers tert out Hat even: With this. comfort: 1 MY heen, able to. mays cine sapere, goat My son Lxonaid 5 i the mother suffered was added to as the: | 7) ext hatred, triumphant satiee © 9) hadi