Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-07-29
Awful Disclosures Relative to
the Brothers Skupinski.

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The Philadelphia Sun, Of this morning, con-
tains some horrible disclosures connected with
the brothers Skupn3ki, the murderers Of the boy
Lehman, who are now under sentence of death.
The name of the author Of the narrative is not
given He is spoken Of as Pole" 1t is al.
legged that he called at the Mayors office on
Monday, and, from one of the attaches, asked
leave to visit t te brothers Saupnski. He was
told that he must procure permit. AS far as
we can understand the account, he obtained leave
yesterday, and visited them.
He then desired to make statement, and was
sworn by Lieutenant Buckley, OF the Mayors
police He then described himself as formerly
captain in General Bem's Hungarian army, but
was now resident in Baltimore. He had long
desired to see the two condemned men, especial
" Matthias, over whom he believed he had inhu
ence. The following is his account Of the in.
tervew
Yesterday, having obtained PERMISSION, | vsi-
ted Matthias in his cell in the Moyamensing pris
on After some hesitation and some prevarlca
ton, Matthias promised to tell me the whole truth
about every thing. On asking him who killed
young Lehman, he answered, killed him myself
with my own hands, by taking leg off the stove,
and striking him over the head, which killed him
at once, and then threw him into the cellar
There were present with me, said Matthias, my
cousin Blaise, and man whom have heretofore
called Kaiser, but whose real name is John Rut-
kowski, butcher Afterward we three cut him
in pieces, aud put him three bags, two of which
were old bags, and one new, formed from Len.
mans coat.
The old bags had feathers (they lived on hens
and geese partly, which they STOLE and imme-
dately pucked off the feathers to prevent them
from being recogniseG.) They cut the body Of
young Lehman with kitchen knife Blaise
staid at home to clear up the blood, and Rutkow-
ski took the bags containing the remains Of young
Lehman to the river, having, before arriving at
the river, put stones IN the bags to sink them
They then threw them into the river.
The chief reason or aim was to possess the
license of young Lehman to sell jewelry, ant
not at first to kill. They had no means, anC
therefore felt they must kill him to obtain the IL
cense. Matthias and the others had inquired
minutely into the history Of young Lehman-hls
father, mother, sisters brothers, &C., and every
connection of his family. They intended TO g
to California TO set up business in jewery, ant
he correspondent through young man here witt
young Lehmans father, as if he (Lehman) hat
gone there. The goods which young Lehman
J had were not valuable, the whole not worth ove
J fifty dollars. Matthias said he never knew
man by the name of kaser but knew Rutkow
ski. He is the man called Kaiser, Rutkowsk
was in the house with them. He is very shor
man thick set and stout, and light hair n,
moustache or beard large nose very heshy il
the face hord complexion blue eyes yer,
y strong. Matthias said he lived in the woods an
! mountains near Philadephr.
g On dcponent expressing surprise, and shown,
d it is his looks, Matthias observing it, said, "Wh
n are you surprised You remember in April O
n last year, 1852, when deponent lived in Ne,
Q York, Matthias, BIase and Rutkowski, we enter
ed into an agreement to buy hogs, they robbie
e everybody they met. BIaise and Rukowsk ki
d led thirteen persons. Base killed eleven, Rut
+ kowski two.
i Their agreement was to rob and murder; the
d chief aim was to obtain ten thousand dollar
and with that to deal in money and ewelry
a California. In Newark, they murdered Ge
g man famiy-that is, Matthias, BIaise and Ru
d kowski-irst they killed the father, next ii
d mother, and then one or two servants The
!. were three daughters before they killed ther
d they violated their persons. They got sevent
e three dollars and some jewelry. They coverc
r. them over while they we're on their knees pra
d ing for their lives, and the house was set on Fl
= and all we're consumed Matthias said this