The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-08-12
Execution of skuutns,,

deipha' on Friday morning, August 9th .,
which time he made the following confessior,
TIE TRUE CONFESSION OF MATTHIAS sKr,sp-
Celestio William, pastor visited him on u.-
day, the I'd inst, the cell of the condemned
usual, here he very confdentially made the g,
lowing confession to me as his copfessor -,
which he especially desires to be made -
II, Matthias Skuspinki, was born in tho -.
OF olkus, in the kingdom of Russian Poland
and am % years of age, and Smith bv rros,-
sion lived in Upper Schlessin, in the cir,,..
Peunten, five years. At the time Of tho b,o.1-
ingout of the revolution, in 184S, at Crsco,.
was there and took part in it two months 90
which and my companions fed to Franc
From there | went to Switzerland ,rbe-oI
mained eight months. There money
me to travel to England. After arrivir, -
worked for six weeks as a smith. In .Jnno 1910
came in the ship Robert Bell to the UDito5
States, and at the end of August I Ianded :
New York then worked one wear in Oh
street. During this time got into = o,...',
with man from Canda, and challengad biu, =
fight duel with pistols. The man. in his FOO.
had me arrested and confined in prison s;xdo,.-
After this become sick, and remained so ttr..
weeks. On my recovery, worked two month.
and then finding nothing to do which couso5
me to travel TO Baltimore, where I remained two
months without any employment. l then tra,.
elled back to Philadelphia, where on the frs,
day became acquainted with Jonathan Kaiser
who offered me his house. which accented
He had some furniture, but he was so Door I've
necesitated topurchase the necessaries oflife fr
ourselves. So we lived together for three weeks
One day John Kaiser related to me that bevss
acquainted with young man who sold iewelrv
and he had desire to rob him. He engagedtbe
young man named Lehman to call at his house
On his arrival with the jewelry, Kaiser examined
the various articles, but purchased only a thin
BILE, with the excuse that his sister was not q.
home, otherwise he would purchase more. He
engaged him to call another time I Iipuuiredos
Kaiser why he engaged him to call, as he did
not intend to purchase anything. Whereupop
he answered that he intended to kill him. Ire
monstrated with him upon the great crime he
designed to commit, and he answered that Twas
too stupid to defer his intentions The fol-
oWlngday the pedlar came again. 1 mentioned
to Kaiser, in the presence of Lehman, that II
was not worth while to take his life for the sake
of the trifing articles he had We auarrelIed
with each other for half an hour when Lehman
asked the cause of this long quarrel whereup-
on kaiser answered that my friend desires to
purchase gold watch, but 1 will not give MIN
any money for that purpose Kaiser then enea-
ged him to go again and bring watch which hs
would then purchase.
Lehman came again, hut he was accompanied
by colored man, and I stated that watch was
too heavy, and did not wish it. This I said
with the idea of deferring Kaiser from his evil
intentions. Upon this he became very angry,
and scolded me- but finally engaged the peilar
to come again some other day. On this dav
Kaiser told me and my brother Blais. YOU shall
go out to-day. and forever leave nv house, SO
that can do as please. My brother went of
to work very easily, but ] did not go out until
ABOUT 10 o'clock. l returned about O'Clock in
the afternoon, and found the house closed. and
1t was only opened after Kaiser saw me from q
window He conducted me into the room and
locking the door, put the key in his pocket.
noticed that one of Kaiser's boots and his nan
falcons were spotted with blood. l inquired
where it came from, and he answered he had
Killed him. He showed me long knife, and
threatened me to remain quiet about the mat
ter, or he would take his and nv life. I then
swore with an oath that l would say nothing to
nobody, and he then promised me thirty pieces
of Jewelry, with the condition that I would as
sist him to carry the body to the water put
some water on to the fire to heat and Kaiser in
the meanwhile went to the cellar and cut the body
INTO q number of pieces. He made three separ-
ate bundles, occupying space of an hour and
half. The water by this time was sufficiently
warm, and L then proceeded to the cellar and
found some,few limbs of the body, but cannot tell
whether they were hands or feet There was
also large quantity of blood on the floor of the
cellar. After this, Kaiser came out of the Gel
lar and gave me the promised thirty pieces of
jewelry, partly rings, and other triing matters,
and requested me to say nothing of the whole
affair to my brother
On the evening of the same day, about twi
light, Kaiser gave me a bag containing parts of
the corpse; he took two bundles, and together
we carried them to the river. Arriving at the
shore, L delivered the bag to Kaiser and left
him, going directly home to the house. Not far
from the door, l met Blaise who had just re-
turned from his work. He inquired of me where
Kaiser was; L answered L did not know. We
then entered the house and went to bed After
II o'clock, Kaiser came home. Three DAYS af-
ter, Blase and left the house and rented a
mother.