Fiends Assail Man in Forked River, 1905
New Jersey Courier 14 Sep 1905
FIENDS ASSAIL FORKED RIVER MAN SUNDAY
The worst case of atrocious assault known along the shore in years took place on Sunday morning last between twelve and one a.m. at Forked River. George Chamberlain was the man who was maltreated, his face being pounded to jelly and he being fiendishly mutilated. He was taken to Long Branch hospital Monday morning.
Chamberlain is a married man of 48 years and has brown up children. He had been working at Barnegat Park. Saturday night he went from his home on the Main s hore road in the upper part of the village down town to pay George Frazee three dollars he owed for rent. He did not see Frazee, and when he left Tate's hotel and pool room shortly after eleven, he was sober and had his little money in his pocket.
No one in Forked River village admits seeing Chamberlain after that , except that Adolphus Vaughn heard Chamberlain call, "Doll, Doll, come out here" as he pased Vaughn's house. Vaughn got up out of bed and went out of doors. He saw three men who skulked down at the roadside when he came out. Vaughn, thinking it a drunken frolic, went back to bed.
Chamberlain presumably went up the road a few hundred yards farther when his pursuers assaulted him. He was hammered over the head and one side of his face beaten to jelly. A grade stake, pulled up from the county road, all bloody, and a pool of blood in the road, showed the spot next morning. His trousers were stripped from him and he was frightfully mutilated. However, he dragged himself home and aroused his wife by calling , and she got hm in the house in a serious condition. He had his trousers over his arm, as he dragged himself along the road.
His money, watch tobacco and pipe were taken presumably to make people believe that robbery was the cause of the assault. A wagon had turned around in the road near the pool of blood, an faced toward the south. Thee was no clue whatever.
Chamberlain is not known to have "had an enemy in the world", as one of his friends put it. He says that tehre were three assailants, but he has no idea as to whom they were or why the attacked him. He was so badly hurt that he could really tell little about it. Nor did he explain where he was during the time that he left the Forked River house at 11, Saturday night and the time of the assault, which was probably an hour and a half later.
FIENDS ASSAIL FORKED RIVER MAN SUNDAY
The worst case of atrocious assault known along the shore in years took place on Sunday morning last between twelve and one a.m. at Forked River. George Chamberlain was the man who was maltreated, his face being pounded to jelly and he being fiendishly mutilated. He was taken to Long Branch hospital Monday morning.
Chamberlain is a married man of 48 years and has brown up children. He had been working at Barnegat Park. Saturday night he went from his home on the Main s hore road in the upper part of the village down town to pay George Frazee three dollars he owed for rent. He did not see Frazee, and when he left Tate's hotel and pool room shortly after eleven, he was sober and had his little money in his pocket.
No one in Forked River village admits seeing Chamberlain after that , except that Adolphus Vaughn heard Chamberlain call, "Doll, Doll, come out here" as he pased Vaughn's house. Vaughn got up out of bed and went out of doors. He saw three men who skulked down at the roadside when he came out. Vaughn, thinking it a drunken frolic, went back to bed.
Chamberlain presumably went up the road a few hundred yards farther when his pursuers assaulted him. He was hammered over the head and one side of his face beaten to jelly. A grade stake, pulled up from the county road, all bloody, and a pool of blood in the road, showed the spot next morning. His trousers were stripped from him and he was frightfully mutilated. However, he dragged himself home and aroused his wife by calling , and she got hm in the house in a serious condition. He had his trousers over his arm, as he dragged himself along the road.
His money, watch tobacco and pipe were taken presumably to make people believe that robbery was the cause of the assault. A wagon had turned around in the road near the pool of blood, an faced toward the south. Thee was no clue whatever.
Chamberlain is not known to have "had an enemy in the world", as one of his friends put it. He says that tehre were three assailants, but he has no idea as to whom they were or why the attacked him. He was so badly hurt that he could really tell little about it. Nor did he explain where he was during the time that he left the Forked River house at 11, Saturday night and the time of the assault, which was probably an hour and a half later.
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