EALOUS Tover MURDERS FORMER SWEETHEART in FORDS BEER GARDE
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11,746 Readers ;&1 Official Nrtrapaper of BestNewsCoverage Middlesex County "• and Woodbrid^e, Sewaren, Fords, Woodbridge Townahfp Hopelawn, Keasbey, Port Reading, Avenel, Iselin and Colonia WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP'S FAMILY NEWSPAPER siNCE 1909 KVKNTY-SlXTll YEAR WOODBRIDGE, K, J., FRIDAY J EALOUS tOVER MURDERS FORMER SWEETHEART IN FORDS BEER GARDE ~—:. .HI-..•••„...__ • • J ERA Investigation Signs Of Prosperity Crop Up In Woodhridg* Crow's Report Not Ready Dorothy Pettite, Former Fords Nest Yet States North Waitress, Shot By Ex-Army N TUB NAVIGATOR Geronimo Says He Will "Clamp Down" On Those From authoritative sources It Who Bring False State- Captain After Lovers' Spal I was learned that a former I supervisor of relief Investiga- ments to Notaries and tion, a Towiublp citizen, was Then Enter Than as Com- "NOTICE" Inheduled to be "let out". In plaints. Edgar Crockett Held By Police I (act ,wc- understand that the WOODBRIDGE - To use I gentleman In question was ....The long- thi' leu a I language, "notice is [advised his departure wu in awaited report on the result of hnshy given" that "one-eyed" Murder Charge; Claims Victim Had j order. However, a little birdie tlir st:itr investigation of the ]n- iliivm will get tickets from I advised certain persona that olfims in the Township start- I the gentleman threatened to al KnuTKem-y Relief Adminis- ing on Sunday. So dfcltrts 'Double-crossedand Ruined Him" I "spill tht be*n»", to he wu ralinn lias ;it;aiti lieen held up Police Commissioner John A. Itianiffrred to Perth Amboy. and will not lie completed this Hassey. |Bnd of Act 1, act 2 will fol- Mr». Dorothy Heller, Age 19, Friend of Dead Girl, Being low, How low will the farce week as believed. Ralph North, "1 am giving orders to tht Held at Material Witness—Witneu Claim* of Being at investigator placed here by police department," he uid, leontlnu*7 Is It a seven act "that tickets be i««ued to driv- One Time Connected with New York Police Depart* [play? the K. K. V, said that he did nut ers of cars with faulty tail lights m«nt Believed to Be False.—Crockett Attempted to 1 4 • • I know exactly when he would he or one headlight. The 'one- Commit Suicide but .45 Calibre Automatic With Which |Too inucii praise cannot be finished with his inqttfry here. eyed' car is a menace on tht He Murdered Girl, Jammed.—Mrs .Heller TelU Story to Minority Leader Ralfer- The new plant ol the Middlesex Concrete Products and Excavating Company now road and has to be stopped. And In Exclusive Interview. "I just about think 1 am fin- completed .it I want to serve notice that any r ins successful attack on a the loot of Berry street, near the Township Dock. to revise New JerBey'a ma- ished with my work here," he ticket given out by an officer nery lor administration ot stated, "when something else will not be 'killed'." POLICE SAY CROCKETT PLANNED MURDER rknien's compensation laws. crops up." W(in|>UKII)r,|.;--om. of the bill would have done away Beyond that statement Mr. North Hassey Considers niiKt modern and up-to-date rnad b'OUDK.—Evidently urged on into an insane, jealous i the present minimum com- refused to comment and would not tiiiten;il |ilauls owned by the Mid- Former Township ragisAieeause his sweetheart left him for a younger man, sation o( $10 a week was with Refinancing May say whether or not he discovered dlesex (oucrete Products and 11. Crockett, 57, a salesman ,who gave his address a doubt as Ralferty said: "a any irregularities during his in- Sous, sinful and dishonest piece quiry lu date. Bids For Proposed Kxe;ivatinjT Company is Hearing Committeeman Is as 410 Third avenue, Asbury Park, shot and instantly legislation. Following the Put Township On completion. killed pretty Dorothy Pettite, age 29, formerly of Fords, , dlesex assemblyman's attack "li 1 regularly had charge of this and lately of 1342 Corlies ave., Neptune, early last night. ill was withdrawn from the office," he said, "I would \w in a Radio Car System The large hopper with weigh- Given Last Honors calendar .Good work, John. position to discuss the situation Cash Basis Again in the beer garden of Sam llod-es, of New Brunswick ave- lure. Hut, as it is, I have to re- ing scales and screen is easily seen Sayt Police Radios Would Mamy Attend Final Rite* for nue, this place. port first tn niy superiors as in the picture to the left ot .the Auditors Already At Work Crockett then attempted to turn the old .45 calibre he Towiublp Committee's Nnve told you before." Act Ai Auxiliary to Regu- automobile. To the left of the John Egan, Sr. ~ Services mind, Fred Spencer, lar Patrol Duties—Will Held Wednesday Morning On Programs to Present army automatic ,with which he murdered the g\r\, on crtalnly knows how to let I'. M. deroniino, cuimty director hopper is the blower and dust' to Committee—Would-In- himself, but the gun jammed. ui relief, was at the local office Give More Protection and collector so that absolutely no At Our Lady of Peace ction on a motion as he oltv- 1 elude Board of Education Mrs. Dwxthy Heller, age 19, al- proved last Monday yesterday afternoon to confer witl Service. dust or grime will bother resi- Church. Mr, North, (jeroiiimo stated that Bond*. so ol laflfCorlies street, Neptune, iht when he sponsored the dents in the vicinity. The dust a friend of the dead girl, is being he has always tried to answer every WOOniiKllMilv-l'olice Com- FORDS.—One of the largest epalrlnc ot the roads on collector is one of the most mod- held by the police as a material rove avenue, Tlsdale place, complaint nude to him, but he has missioner Jiihn A. Hassey is seri- funerals ever witnessed in this W(H)|)BRlU(ii Auditors Rev. Mellberg To ioilnd thai a number of them are ern in this vicinity. What appears witness. en street. Woodbrldfe; ously considering and carefully district was held Wednesday employed by 11. ll. Rile)' & Com- According to the story told by Fords avenue, Fords. Mr. it justified. to be an immense chimney is the morning when John Egan, Sr., ate goiny over the bids received last pany are already at wWk prepar- Crockett to the police. Miss Pettite encer placed some of the "I have, in my office in I'erth oil burning system and the gen- long resident of Woodbridge Town Receive Doctor's Monday night for the proposed had lived with him as his common on the "spot" before AIHIKI), two -iKiii'il statements erating plant. The feeding hop- Ship and father of Police sergeant ing several financial programs law wife and.Jhen deserted him. rewntloc the motion and sworn IO and bearing a notary seal, two-way police radio car system. John Egan, jr., was laid to rest per and feeding machinery is to 1 indtulmg the renewal and re- "Got Square" Degree on June 16 *y meekly voted "yes". iiave personally investigated these Although the General Electric In St. James cemetery, Wood- was not a single dls- complaints and find them to be the left of the oil burning system: bridge. Services were held at 9:30 liiwiicinff ui Township bonds, a In an exclusive interview with Company, of Newark, was the low- a LEADER-JOURNAL reporter Convocation Exercises of ntlnc vote. Eealdenta on unwarranted, i have « good notion est .bidder at $5,008, Mr. Hassey At the extreme left of the pic- o'clock from his late residence, authorized at a meeting of the : street! will no doubt ap to have the law on some of these 808 King George's road and at 1U last night, Crockett in a calm, col Milton University to Be said" it did not necessarily follow ture is where. Abraham Neiss, Township Committee. lected voice as if nothing unusual the first ward com- people who think they can justify that the General Klectric would get o'clock from our Lady of Peace Held at Local Methodist lltteemaii'i Interest in (belt a (alsr statement just because it president of the company, intends In an interview •with one of the nad happened, said: the contract. church, this place, where a sol- Episcopal Church Audit- Us* Improvements hears a notary's seal." to build a dock from where h^ emn requiem high mass was cele- auditors, it was pointed out that "You don't have to give me the fwtre sorely Mated. We are going over each bid will ship his product by water, the concern is at the present time third degree. 1 killed her and orium. Discussing a complaint made, brated. engaged in a similar program at •#r ' * * against married women whose hus- carefully," he said, "and we will de- you'd have done the same. She cide which one will suit the pecu- The ground in the foreground at Rev. John E. Larkin, pastor ot A.sbury Park where the munici- bauds are employed, working in used to be my girl friend. She got )C,\i Milmu i ! CcmmiUernan Emit Nier ;ro- liar conditions we have here," ,rhe, .picture will be graded ami the church was the celebrant. pality had over $6,(KX),0()0 worth oi liii^ department, Mr. Norjh said tbt me to sell my business Oust wlvr, rniversity, ot Baltimore, Mary-^--: tnday trm* i.» vi-ill m»V' Other bids received were from pa'ved arid a railroad siding con- Rev.