The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-22 00:00:00

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EVENING EiiITIoN.

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THE MURDER OF THE BLSV
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OFFICIAL REPORT TO THE FRtJSSIAN 1.0151...RF„:4741;rt,„4,4.,
THE HOME DEPARTMENT. 7.10;).4;',..?;
On Sunday, the 8d inst., at six p.na;;4oo-.eotseli='-r.,;.:,-.
man, one of the footmen, and the two maid=servants 'of:
the Bishop went to the parish church, in the lower •part
of the town, in order to be present at the close of. the
40 hours' prayer. About a quarter of an hour later the
other footman followed, by the express order of his master,
After two gentlemen who had paid a short visit to the,
Bishop had taken their departure. Before this inter•
view, which had been solicited from the Bishop, he i
his kind manner desired his old housekeeper, Bosalia
Pfeiffer, aged 76, to make all fast after the servants
should be gone. Nevertheless, the two inaid-ser-
vantl, on returning about a quarter-past seven, found
the doors all open, and looked in vain for the house-
keeper through all the lower apartments of the ground-
floor and in the kitchen, places from which she had scl-
dam before been missed.

The two footmen, having on the conclusion of the
church service, besides attending to somo busing SC
their own, inquired, by the Bishop's direction, rest,,
ing the health of a canon, returned after the lapse of
another half hour, that is to say, about hall-past seven,
and learned that the housekeeper was nowbsre to
found. he coachman went, after the service; ie
a public-house to get a Class of liner, end was se ;71
later in coming home. One of the footmen proceeded
up stairs, but rushed instantly down with the alarteieg
information that the Bishop was lying bathed itz his
blood on the floor, and that Rosalie Pfeiffer was sitare;
by the stove in a state of insensibility. 'fee two foot-
men and the two maid servants ran up, and were h -
ror-struck at the spectacle which presented itself—et
their venerable master lying on the floor, stretched ee,
all his length in a flood of blend, with his faee,do,..ll-
- The housekeeper, whose countenance waf,
covered with blood, and who sat, as has been said, neer
the stove, had several severe wounds on 'the head.
After repeated questions, loudly put to her, as to what
had passed, she only pointed to the dead body of the
Bishop, and with difficulty gave utterance to the
scarcely intelligible words, " Who is that—whet isehat 9"
The Bishop's servants havief; eiede the dreadful
event known, the Burgomaster, Novakovsky, the ca-
thedral physician, Cirski, some canons, and several ciei-
zens of Frauenburg, hastened to the Bishop's reihkftees
The body of the Bishop, which, though lifeless, was
not yet cold, was laid on a bed, but all the means of
restoring animation were tried in vain. Three severe
wounds had been inflicted by a hatchet, or sonao such.
weapon, on the head. One of these, which was three
inches long, and three-quarters of an loch brow(, and by
which the brain on the right side wag laid open, bad
evidently been given by the mortal blow. , The liouS -
keeper, who had received three severe wounds•on th.:;
head, was conveyed to her bed. The physician
votes the greatest attention to her case, anal there are
now hopes of her recovery ; but how and when she
got into the Bishop's apartment, and came to be seated'
upright by the side of the stove, cannot yet be knosse.
The horrible ocourrence appears to have made such an
impression on her, that she has not hitherto been able
to communicate anything of importance. The few half
intelligible words which she mutters at feverish inter-
vals appear to have reference to the instructions give
her by the Bisrhop before the murderous deed.
The burgomaster ordered the Bishop's curial domain
and all the outlets of the town to be watched, and the
houses of all suspected persons to be searched. At
the same time about a dozen mounted citizens patrolled
all over and about the town in every direction, for the
purpose of arresting any to whom suspicion might attach ;
but all this had no result. The Cathedral Syndic, Virs-
bovski, was also occupied during the night, from 3 to 4,
in examining the Bishop'a domestics ; there appeared
no ground for suspecting any of the individuals belong-
ing to the establishment. The news of the assassina-
tion having that night reached the neighbouring town
of Braunsberg about 11 o'clock, the district Judicial
Counsellor Dulls hastened to Frauenhurg, whither the
military commandant also sent a detachment to assist
the police, and took upon himself the investigation of
the case. Near the spot where the Bishop had been
struck down there was found a kind of mask. The
upper part of this mask, which is made of coarse linen,
has two round holes cut out for the eyes ; the under
part, which hangs down in the form of a heard, is of
dark cotton much worn by washing, and is stitched
to the linen with blue thread. In the Biabop7,,e
sitting room, where a lighted lamp stood beside his
reading desk, some drawers of a commode, which heel.
before been locked, were open and things taken out. In
these drawers, in a closet under some linen articles of
clothes, and in a secretaire, pieces of money, securities,
and certificates of shares in the public funds to a consi-
derable amount were found. The articles at once
missed were, a gold watch, a gold snuff. box, and a paper
with one-sixth dollar pieces, which the Bishop,used to
have always lying open before him. Soon after,
,how-
ever, the servants noticed the absence of a silk bag, in
which some Polish coins used to be kept. Whether the
Bishop_ had to greater smouut of money inshis.possessimi
cannot at present be ascertained, but the dissippeanmee
of the articles already mentioned left. no doubt that a
robbery had been committed. The examination of
witnesses called by the Bishop's servants confirmed
their declarations as to where they had been deri;,g-ti,e
time in which the murder must have been perp tratarl.
Public rumour quickly pointed out as the murficrer
Rudolph Kuhnapfel, who,u the burgomaster beer-fief-me
had reason to regard with suspicion, and who was a man
likely to have committed the deed. From the documents
of former investigations produced against lout, and from
public fame as to his character, the lisliovving particulars
have been collected :—Rudolph Kulinapfel, between '26
and 27 years of age, of the Catholic religion, had worked
fur a long period abroad, in Pomerania and Saxony, and
had served in the 3d Regiment of Infantry. He
sipated, discontented with his condition, an avaricious,
irreligious man, who has cherished, in a particular man-
ner, hatred and malioe against the clergy of Frauen-
burg, as is proved by several strongly-expressed
ening, and firebrand letters. He- lately underwent the
punishment of imprisonment for three weeks. About the:
time of the murder, between six and seven o'clock, he was
seen by several persons near the Bishop's residence, and
moreover, as in consequence of the repeated searches
in the house asiiere he lived, besides several other art ;-
cies calculated to cast strong suspicion on him,
greater rat of the money tied valuables rnisse freak
the Bishop's apartment have also bels?n found. T""
Rudolph Kuhnapfel, his parents, with 141101,11
ho ►west,
and his sister, are arrested and placed in fq:seial safe
keeping. Tim., further proceedings will take pled° •bekrc
the Criminal Judge.

(From the Elbing Gazelle of the 7th intmant.)
To-day another strict search was made in the `.ous4i•
of Kuhnapfcl, the tailor of nauenhurg, to discov,ir
the gold watch and snuff-box missed from the Bishop's
chamber. The result or the search was successful.
Several articles were found, some on the roof of
the house, others in a hole under the stairs—viz.,
one gold watch, one gold snuff-box, about. AO tix-
dol!ari, in gold and silver, and, it is said, an-
other mask of the same kind as the one lett in
the Bishop's apartment. During his examination,
Kulinaptel displayed the greatest daring and levity.
Turning to the corpse of thin Bishop, he said quite
coolly—" A bad job for the old man. Why he atre.;!l,s
to have got a sabre cat on the licad,"aad then kelooked
up at the pictures on the wall. His extraordinary in
difference tells in people's minds against him ; for how
could an innocent man be indifferent to such a dreadful
accusation? It was, too, such a moving sight to beliol,l
the gray head of the venerable victim covered with
blood end disfigured with frightful wounds! A wax
taper was found near the Bishop ; it is therefore pro-
bable that he had opened the door to the murderer
himself, and, according to his affable condescend-
ing habit, had turned back for the taper and lighten
him up the stairs. How horrorstruck must he have
been when he saw an unknown person masked and
armed a'ith a hatchet I
bad cuts in he:
babTlyhetorna;rkomfoubninds obny
ttillicebflooliosrekin theeeipet blood w
r,
wbarouas;
h us
hsetru 1:agl" eh
:di tiiinhni nIP," f(ri e,,cSnh:i't becomeiis
'cti
ll it,
hands, d a
and hard
andif l'er
she recovers compl,Ae
,
a state of insensibility,
sacrifice it will he Jong before
murderers p..rents are in Frneral
cboe iliisecvicodu stnoe sbs.o
innocent. file distress of the mother
has almost deprived
eh:armoifnr:da,sovn,h,
enl;l;ibemaorr7,wiestict:ull:::i
apfel will be again , „,,
%%Pt he exhibited tothht:Fripu.biiie The
tmoobsitsifiliiitxtliouti,sbeixi!:tecuttiitr-
-ti%DiPiertchr:riishaews(7ill confess or. not. The BishOp is to
be buried on Monday next.

As we find that in several of the counfry towns
balls in cclebratum cf the chri~ter.ing of the
R d crc fixed er thc 10th ti next iocith, con (;iit
.11"fi,n,ziyss
we ;hick st as
well to repeat our former annoclicement that the. Prinee,s
will be chrittened on that day.
DR. GRANVILLE'S " SPAS OF ENGLAND."
—.The public will be glad to find that the above-inentiowd
:pork, which is dedicated, by express permission, 'to tier
Majesty, is just ready for publication. In a country sra
rich in minei al waters as England, it is rather surprising
that there have existed so many individuals for whom they
seem expressly provided, who deny themselves the benefits
readily to be derived front them, at small cost and trouble,
and travel a great distance to incur every possible incon—
venience and expense to reach' some fashionable wateriog.
place on the Coto inent, where the advantag es promit cd to the
invalid are very rarely obtained. Chemical. analysis •proves
I beyond a doubt, that among the various Spas in England,
several exist that must, from their peculiar composition,
be equally, and in some instances more eficaciaus than the
most esteemed of the Spas of Germany, when had rocourso
to under like circumstances; and with this authority we
have also extensive medical experience, showing that the
results of different diseases treated by native mineral waters
are encouraging to an extent it would be difficult for any
of the foreign springs to exceed. This has rendered ne-
cessary the publication of a work in which the composition,
the operation, and the virtues of every one of the mineral
waters of England, may be seen at one view, together
with every information relating to them which may b of
most interest and value to all who have occasion to ma?',e
trial of their efficacy.

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