The Goffle Road Murders of Passaic County: The 1850 Van Winkle Killings

by Don Everitt Smith Jr.

On January 9, 1850, Judge John Van Winkle and his wife, Jane, were brutally stabbed to death by their former farm hand, John Jonston.

The murder happened in their home on Goffle Road in Hawthorne, NJ (which is still standing). This story would go down in history as the first in Passaic County. Since the murder in 1850, it inspired the work of New Jersey's greatest poet William Carlos Williams. Williams would go on to inspire the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609493168
• ISBN13: 9781609493165
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"