Cape May County NJ Archives News.....Garrison Murder At Townsend's Inlet, Cape May Co. September 1860
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West-Jersey Pioneer. (Bridgeton, N. J.) 1851-1884:  September 22, 1860 September 1860
GARRISON MURDER AT TOWNSEND'S INLET, CAPE MAY CO.
We are called upon to announce the sad occurrence that happened at Townsend’s
Inlet, last Thursday. A man by the name of Abram Garrison, committed the bloody
deed of murder on his wife. lie is a person of about 47 years of age, and medium
height, say 5 feet 7 inches. His avocation is a varied one; sometimes a
wood-chopper, a fisherman, a farmer, &c. The deceased was middle-aged; masculine
looking, and could cut her cord of wood a day. They were both intemperate; generally
keeping (we are informed) their bottle, well filled, in the house.
On the morning of the murderous act, he went fishing, and returned home about 4
o’clock, P. M. His wife had been to a store and purchased some flour, coffee, &c.,
and had just returned, as he entered the house. Two of his children were at home;
one, a boy of 14 years, and the other, a girl of 4 or 5 years. He called his son and
sent him to his father’s, about half-a mile distant, with some fish. While the
little boy was absent he committed the horrible deed, and we say, brutal murder. In
short, the child returned, and his sister came running out to meet him, with the bad
news, that “father has knocked mother down, and jumped on her and stamped her bad.”
The boy went in and found his mother, on the floor, with her head resting on the bag
of flour, and groaning bitterly. He asked “What is the matter?” she says, “your
father has stamped me to death.” The father was at this time about the house. The
son went to his grandfather’s, and had the family come over She, the wife, was still
laying on the floor, and there did lay until her spirit fled; where ? About 3
o’clock the next morning she died. During the forenoon, persons were called in, who
found her as she died, in a puddle of blood. A Jury was summoned and an inquest
undertaken, but was postponed until the next day, when Drs. Wiley, Young and
Beesley, made an examination; but no external bruise could be found sufficient to
cause death. The body was then partly dissected, and we were told (not by the
physicians) that a rupture was found in the lower part of the stomach, which caused
her to bleed to death. — Ocean Wave.

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