Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-07-29

deponent yesterday. Matthias was willing to
spare the lives of the three girls, but Rntkousk
said if they did SO, they (the girls,) would be
witnesses against them, and that they killed
them.
In all cases they had with them tar and rosin,
with which they besmeared the bodies after they
had killed them, so that if the house should not
be entirely consumed, they might be certain that
the bodies would burn up at all events, and thus
the mode or way such persons came by their
death would be a secret. This family was Ger
man family, and farmers.
Murders of this character were committed in
the vicinity Of Baltimore. When they found
children, they were taken by the legs and their
brains nsbeaten out. Rutkowski once was reading
paper IN German, which he understood after
reading an account to Matthias a4d Baise, of
murder published in tina. pa ~ saagaing, said
to Matthias and BIaise, no person knows that we
have done it. This murder and house e-burnng
was in the neighborhood of Baltimore. The
most part of the murders were near Baltimore.
Whether the Newark was Newark, New Jersey
or Newark Delaware, is not known to the depo.
nent.
Matthias said they had killed three persons
near Philadelphia, or in Philadelphia. Matthias
told deponent that they had killed altogether
eighty persons.
Matthias said that Mr.. Kimmel, who lived in
Newark twenty years, they had understood, had
one thousand dollars in the second story, and his
servant three hundred dollars in the third story
of the house they planned to rob and murder
him and the servant, but were prevented putting
their plan into execution by some circumstances.
They had collected eight thousand dollars in
cash, and about half bushel of jewelry stock,
and about six hundred watches, silver and gold,
with and without chains. They are hid in the
mountains under the care of Rutkowski.
This Matthias said to him, | shall not be hanged.
Rutkowski has band who will free me--he has
many men well armed they will come around
the prison before the 9th of July, 1852, and try
to get in. The keeper who comes to the door
will get killed, and then they will rush in and
rescue me and Blaise. He said he had commu-
ncaton with Rutkowsk. Matthias said he had
a poignard and two hundred dollars. He wan
ted razor from the deponent, and scissors, to
shave and prepare himself with
After getting out of prison, their plan IS to get
to Liverpool, taking their money with them, leav-
ing the watches behind. They have vessel in
view in which to sail for Liverpool on the same
night they get out of prison. They have some
half dozen places and houses to rob and kill,
and aftcrward to 20 to Newark, and kill --,
and then rob him and 90 to New York. The
persons to be killed, after the Liberation of the
brothers Skupinski, are at Newa4h, Mr.---.
Az New York, MR.---;, Mrs-.r, dra{
goon in the U. S. A., Mr.. -- ID. ---41---,
Mr.. all of whom are Poles
At Philadelphia they are to kill the two Off
GERS who arrested them. a black man who witness
sed against them and the richest ieweer IN
Chestnut street, who occupies q store at the cor
ner of street. The jewelIer is one at whose
house lives an old shoemaker, and he who made
a contract for a room in said house with Rut-
kowski, for which he was to pay one hundred
and ten dollars and ten cents rent. lie was to
kill the old shoemaker. This was part OF the
plan. They had all three sworn to the two eX-
tremities-of either being rich altogether, or
hanged. They had burned between thirty and
fifty houses TO ashes.
Matthias asked dcponon if he wanted money!
that he (Mathias) could give him two hundred
dollars. Deponent declined. He also said that
if deponent told of it, what is here said, he (de-
ponen0 would be killed also. The two studs are
of the Lehman robbery.