The Camden Mystery
Was she or wasn’t she? On January 26, 1889 nurse Annie Eisenhardt was found cut and bleeding in a restroom at Cooper Hospital. Her tale of what had happened to her and the physical evidence were in conflict, and it appears that her wounds were self-inflicted. Or were they?
Besides Nurse Eisenhardt, other significant players in the story include Dr. Harry Jarrett of Cooper Hospital, Camden Chief of Police Samuel Dodd, Camden Mayor Jesse Pratt, Cooper Hospital night watchman Samuel Ellis, and Camden County prosecutor Wilson H. Jenkins.
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Assaulting the Nurse
New York Times – January 27, 1889 A Woman Badly Cut and Beaten and the Watchman Arrested Philadelphia, Jan 26.—Annie Eisenhardt, a nurse in the Cooper Hospital, in Camden, N.J., was found lying unconscious in a pool of blood on the second floor of the building, in the bathroom, about 1 o’clock this morning, after…
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The Camden Mystery.
Philadelphia Inquirer – January 28, 1889 Nurse Eisenhardt Describes the Murderous Assault. Doubt As to the Means of Escape The Night Watchman Gives His Statement, and the Police Admit That As Yet They Have No Clue. Although it has been two days since Annie Eisenhardt, the night nurse of the Cooper Hospital, Camden, was murderously…
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In White Chapel Style
Wheeling, West Virginia Register – January 28, 1889 A Fiendish Assault on the Cooper Hospital Nurse. Camden, NJ. January 26 – Miss Annie Eisenhart is the head nurse at the Cooper Hospital. Shortly after one o’clock this morning she was tending patients in the male ward on the second floor, and started to the bath-room…
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Night Nurse Will Recover
Trenton Times – January 28, 1889 The physicians say that Annie Eisenhardt, the night nurse in the Cooper hospital at Camden, who was assaulted, will recover. There is still no clew [sic] to her assailant. She has repeated her first story of the assault in substantially the same words. She accurately describes her assailant, and…
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The Camden Mystery
Philadelphia Inquirer – January 30, 1889 Nurse Eisenhardt, of the Cooper Hospital, Makes an Important Admission Miss Annie Eisenhardt, the injured nurs [sic] at the Cooper Hospital, made an important admission yesterday to Doctor Farrett, the resident physician. She admits that the mysterious man who slashed her on Saturday morning had also criminally assaulted her.…
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The Nurse Inflicted Her Own Injuries
Kansas City Star – January 31, 1889 Philadelphia, Jan. 31—It is now the popular belief that the Camden hospital nurse, Annie Eisenhart, inflicted her own injuries. She adheres to her original statement that some strange man assaulted her, but there are many contradictions in her various statements. A physician who made an examination says she…
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