Howell Man Is Charged with Murdering Wife Score Magistrate
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Weather DISTRIBUTION 1 UL Umperttam 71. Motif hit today, Ugh in the low Me, TODAY berating cloudiness, tonight, faw, 7». Tomorrow, cloudy,, 23.725 chance of scattered showers, higb 88. Saturday, fair and warm. See weather, page 2. DIAL 741-0010 Issued duly, Monday Uirouzb Friday, second Clan Pogtagt VOL. 87, NO. 4 Paid al Red Bar t and at Additional Mailing OL'ices. RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1964 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE Heat Wave Ends; Grief-Stricken Over Baby's Death Rain, Wind Do It The heat wave which has broiled this at 7 o'clock this morning was 71, Mr. Moreau irea for the "past several. days is over. > reported. Along the shore, the temperature reached Scattered showers and thundershowers a high of 97 at 4 p.m., William D. Martin, Howell Man Is Charged last night, accompanied by northwest winds Long Branch Weather Bureau forecaster, re- which reached a maximum speed of 40 miles ported. per hour, dropped temperatures dramatically. That is the highest temperature recorded Today will be fair,,, with a high in the so far this year and comes within one de- low 80's-a relief from' the high 90-degree gree of the high for July 1—98 set back in temperatures which have roasted Monmouth 1901—he said. County for the past two days. .. t. , Yesterday's low in the Long Branch area The temperature at the shore yesterday was 68, recorded at 1 a.m. With Murdering Wife was just one degree below the sweltering Showers, beginning at 10:45 p.m., dropped . temperatures in inland areas oi Monmouth less than one-fifth of an inch of rain in the By CHARLES A. JOHNSTON By yesterday, police said later, the claims went into a rage. "I'll kill you and the doctor," County. Long Branch area. HOWELL TOWNSHIP - Three months ago amounted to "a drawer full . totaling over police said he told them he had threatened. In Freehold, the thermometer soared to The temperature humidity index reached Ralph Palmer and his wife, Darla Jean, were }12,000." A moment later she was dead, a single bullet 88 degrees at 3 p.m., one degree below the 83 at 1 p.m. yesterday afternoon to make grief stricken. Their only child, an eiight-month- In Palmer's mind, the'doctors he had em- /fired through her abdomen and later recovered everyone uncomfortable. old boy, had died of cancer. rj. ployed treaty his boy pa much for things he on the floor. sizzling 99 recorded there Tuesday. The tem- New York City had its second straight perature registered 93 at 6 p.m. and 86 at ., In the weeks'that followed, their sorrow went didn't have, too little jdr what proved fatal. Trooper David Maxham said Palmer told him day of 99 degree weather yesterday. Phila- uncontrolled. Between them grew up a pile of ; 10^ p.m., Frank J. Moreau, U. S. weather delphia, which had 100 Tuesday, reported a His wife, troopers'quoted him, withdrew from that, had he known his wife was to die, he would observer at Freehold, said, and dropped an- medical bills. Last night, state police reported, it all, unable to face the reality. This annoyed have "gotten those doctors, too." high oi 99 yesterday. they argued again and when it was over, she other 12 degrees for the 24-hour low, 68. Tomorrow is expected to be cloudy, with • him all the more. Instead, he picked up his wife's body, car- Threatened thunderstorms failed to material- was dead. To work off his anger he had gotten into the a chance of scattered showers, and a high Police charged Palmer, 25, a carpenter, with ried her to a sofa in the living room and tele- ize, according to Mr, Moreau, and showers about 80. But skies will be fair and the weath- nightly habit of target shooting tin cans with a phoned state police and the Farmingdale First dropped "maybe 13 drops of rain" in the murder. .11 caliber pistol on a range in his back yard. Aid Squad. Freehold area last night. The temperature er warm for July 4, Mr, Martin predicted. Almost from birth, the baby's life had been one of continuous doctoring and hospitalization. Last night followed the usual pattern. Both But, at about 6:30 p.m., she was pronounced Before the diagnosis of cancer, it had been spinal were home by five o'clock. They talked—from dead on arrival at Fitkin Hospital, Neptune. meningitis. different rooms—and he,, loaded his gun. , Troopers Maxham and Louis Taranto obtained Palmer worked on a housing project in Free- Palmer told police he had started again to what they called a full statement from Palmer. hold Township. His wife, 23, brown haired, of talk with his wife about sorting out the accumu- They described him, hours after the kjlling of average build and appearance, was a technician lation of bills to find out which ones might be his wife, as remorseful but still distraught about at "Marlboro State Hospital. reimbursable from insurance, which ones they had the pile-up of bills. After the funeral, they went back to work. to pay. Police charged Palmer with murder at a hear- In late afternoon, they came home to their quiet When she didn't seem to listen and stayed in ing before Magistrate John Cavanaugh who com- house at Jerseyville, on Rt. 33, home to each the kitchen when he called her into the living mitted him to the county jail to await grand jury other—and their bills. room where he was loading the automatic, he action. No ball was allowed. • Score Magistrate Choice LONG BRANCH — Stanley Co- George Baxter and appointment hen was appointed city magis- of Walter H. Thorns to succeed trate last night by a 5 to 3 vote Wilbur Ray on the Board of Ad- of City Council amid bitter ex- justment, also split Hie council changes among councilmen and almost on the same line as the an outcry of disapproval from magistrate's choice. All others most of more than 100 people went without diSsent. in the audience. Dlnkelsplel Abstains Councilman Edgar N. Dinkel- Related Story, Section Page spiel abstained on the Cohen ap- pointment, as well as a prelim- nary motion, which was knocked The former deputy attorney down 5 to 3, to return Mr. Bal- general was scheduled to be dino to office," * sworn in this morning and to immediately assume the bench, Mr. Dineklspie,l voted for Mr. succeeding Thomas J. Baldino, Baxter's reappointment and PLANTING A HOSPITAL — Ground was broken yesterday for ihe now 160-bed Jr. who -fag *tiWf\e $6-,760 a against (he naming of Mr year position for 12 years. Thorns. Mayor Milton F. Unter- wing at Riverview Hospital. Giving the first shovelsful energetic flings are Mrs. meyer, and Councilmen Walter Mr. Cohen's appointment was Juli* E. Throckmorton, administrator, and Frank F. Blaisdell, president of the board of George and Samuel Marks were one of 23 approved at a special in the minority on all contested governors. In center is Red Bank Councilman Daniel J. O'Hern who pledged bor- meeting. votes. Two others, reappointment of ough co-operation to the hospital in which he was born. Mr. George abstained from vot- ng on virtually all of the non- controversial appointments on grounds that he had not been present when they were discussed Launch Hospital Wing Project and agreed upon in caucus. Plan Board Posts RpD BANK — Riverview Hospital will have its new 160- those who solicited money and those who gave it. All nine councilmen joined in bed wing in 18 to 24 months. Mr. Blaisdell and Mrs. Throckmorton wielded shovels that confirming the appointments by gained significance with the ceremony. It was the fourth time City Manager James F. Roose- "We hope it will be 18," said Frank F. Blaisdell, board velt of three Planning Board president, as he marked the technical start of construction one of them had been used for the purpose. AT YOUR OWN RISK — This it Atlantic St. area, Keyport, a new construction sec- The shovel was first used in 1943 by Mrs. Throckmorton members. at groundbreaking ceremonies in the parkingiot yesterday aft- Thomas J. Mauro was renamed tion of Rt. 36, showing two traffic lights in westbound section of roadway. The one ernoon. i • and Newton Doremus, the president of the board. Some 12 beds were added to the existing 29. for six years; Charles C. Widdis in center background, leaning, was struck recently by auto. Neither stanchion it Actual construction by the John H. Eisele Company of The shovel was again used in 1949 by Mrs. Throckmorton was appointed to fill the two-year protected by sandbag "islands," promised by state Highway Department in March. New York, contract winner with a low base bid of $2,338,000, unexpired term of Chairman An- and Mr. Parkes who broke ground for an ,80-bed addition. Man was killed, a few miles east of this scene, Saturday night, whan his auto struck will commence around the middle of this month. The third groundbreaking was in 1958 for 195 beds and thony J. Camassa; and John C. The new six-level addition will take up most of the park- 34 bassinets, emergency rooms, and x-ray, laboratory and Cittadino, to fill a one-year un- an end section of new concrete barrier with no warning light. State department' teg' lot in which yesterday's ceremony took place. pharmacy departments, Mr.