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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
Steady industrial growth has been the main stream of New Brunswick's history since 1850. But political controversies, revival movements, and a celebrated murder case have rippled the current. In the early nineties, when the city council was deadlocked on the choice of a president, a coin was tossed, it is said, to decide the vote. The Democrats charged that the Republicans had used a double-headed coin. The city's saloons once enjoyed such excellent patronage both downstairs and up that reformers declared, "It would be an injustice to the devil to condemn him to live in New Brunswick." Crusading evangelists moved in, set up their tents on Livingston Avenue and "converted" hundreds.
The Hall-Mills murder put New Brunswick on newspaper front pages in 1922 and again at the time of the trial in 1926. The Rev. Edward W. Hall, rector of the fashionable Protestant Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, had been found shot to death under a crab apple tree in De Russey's Lane, near the city. Beside him lay the mutilated body of Eleanor Mills, a choir singer. Hall's widow, from the old and wealthy Stevens family, was tried for murder with two of her brothers; all were finally acquitted. The most important testimony for the State was given by the "Pig Woman," Mrs. Jane Gibson, who said that while she was riding her mule in nocturnal search for a pig thief she saw four persons at the scene of the killings.
At present (1939) the city has approximately l00 factories producing, in addition to the goods already named, chemicals, rugs and linoleum, fireworks, furniture, incubators, and clothing.
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