Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — DOOM THREE TO PRISON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DOOM THREE TO PRISON.

McAllister, Death and Campbell Guilty in Boaschieter Case.

Walter C. McAllister, Andrew J. Campbell and William Death, three of the four persons indicted for the murder of Jennie Bossctfieter, a mill girl of Paterson, N. i J., who was mur-l dered on the ntght I of Oct. 18 last, were adjudged guilty of murder iu the second degree. According to the New * Jersey law the maximum penalty for the crime is ‘ thirty years in prison. Thus was brought to an end a trial which has stirred interest all pver the country and has been 1 watched in New I Jersey more anx- j iously and eagerly, it is declared, than any event in the criminal court for more than a quarter of a century. The story of the. murder of Jennie" Bosschieter, the 17-year-old daughter i of a Paterson, N.J J., family, is one'

of the most revolting in recent criminal annals of the country. Her dead body was found near a bridge over the Passaic river, a short distance from Paterson, on Friday morning, Oct. 19, and the facts concerning her death were brought to light withiiutwo days. Four men were implicated in the crime, all of excellent family, and all, with one exception, standing well in public esteem. Evidence was given to prove that the men met Jennie Bosschieter in a saloon and treated her to drugged wine. The unconscious girl was then taken in a hack by the four- men to a lonely spot outside the city and maltreated. The girl was replaced in a hack, the men purposing to leave her on the doorstep of her home. On the way back to the city her death was discovered. The men then decided to drive to the country and leave the body by the roadside. The carriage was driven to a point in Bbrgcn County and the body thrown to the ground with such force that, the head striking a rock, the skull was crushed.