Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-12-22
CONFESSION OF ADAM HORN

The trial of man, calling himself Adam
Horn but whose real name appears TO be
Andrew Hellman, in Baltimore, for the muir
der Of his wife, has recently caused much
excitement in that city He was ably de-
Tended by Messrs c. F. Mayer and J. NJ.
Buchanan, but was convicted Of murder in
the first degree, which subjects him to the
punishment of death, and he received SEN
tence accordingly Since his conviction he
has made to the gentlemen who defended
him, confession of his guilt and also of the
fact Of his having murdered former wife,
about four yeurs ago, in Ohio. The con-
fession relates many particulars Of his life
in detail, which are not of much interest
lie is German by birth; a tailor by trade
has been in this country since the autumn
of 1917; accumulated handsome property
by industry, in the neighborhood of Balti-
more and Chambersburg removed to Ohio
with his family; was continually quarreling
with his wife, who had accused him of inf
deity, and for which, in fit of passion, he
murdered her, by giving her blow on the
head with an axe. lie was suspected of the
murder was arrested, examined, and com
mitted for trial aud, after lying in jail
about year, awaiting his trial, escaped and
returned TO Baltimore in lS4l. In 1912 he
married again. 1t seems, from the confess
sion, that this marriage like the former one,
was most unhappy, his life being perpetual
quarrel with his wife, of whom he was, or
pretended to be, jealous About six months
after this marriage, he killed his wife, by
striking on her head two blows with a stick
of wood. He next cut off the head of the
dead body and burned it. He then severed
the arms and legs from the body, and de-
posted them in different places Fearing
that he was suspected of the murder, he left
his residence, which was about twenty miles
from Baltimore, and went through that city
to Philadelphia, where he was arrested and
sent back to Baltimore for trial. The hor-
rid details of the last murder are given in a
Summary of the evidence" prepared by
his counsel, as follows: OF -..,- ws 4
The testimony, in brief, was, that on the
morning after Sunday, Odd March, the pris-
oner had, passing by Poist and other neigh
bors, who, it was imagined, would first nat
urally have been informed by the prisoner
if he were telling the truth, proceeded up
the,road to circulate report that his wife
had (as she had once beiore) left him; but
that inan hour or two all persons in his
immediate neighborhood knew it; that af-
Ter time suspicious began to raise against
the prisoner; that Poist apprised the prls-
oner of them (about thirteen days before he .
aed) aud asked him 10 let his house be
to which the prisoner assented
that Poist, walking through the prisoners
orchard, was struck with seeing a spade
there, and seeing nothing for which il could
have been used, but that he said nothing to
have made any inference, or scarcely to have
a suspicion from the circum-
stance; that the prisoner attended with his
usual calmness and steadiness to his BUSH
ness, and keeping up the representation of
his wife having gone away, but refusing TO
advertise for her, as on the first occasion
other going away he had done that his
wife had left him on the occasion alluded
10 for five or six weeks, and returned finally
Of her own accord, and that she had sec
ond time attempted to go away, but was dis