Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-05-13
New Series---V Vol, lit, No. 26..
A FEARFUL TRAGEDY.
| From, tie Chicago Journal Of Nay 9th.

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Some time since an announcement was
made in the New York papers that a bar
rel marked "W. III, Jennings, 1S5 Leon
ard street, New York, +" containing the man
gled remains Of female, was found In the
Hudson River Railroad Depot at New York
city. An inquest was held upon the body
at that place, and the officers commenced
investigations. kilograms were sent
through Canada, and it was found that the
barrel had crossed the Suspension Bridge.
Further investigation located Chicago as
the starting point. From the fact that
there were no charges upon the barrel ex-
cept for its passage over the Michigan Gen.
tral road, it was evident that it was shipped
here, and upon examination of the books
it was found that the barrel left the Mich
igan Central Depot on the 10th OF March.
A man named Henry Jumpertz was SUBJ
sequently arrested as the murderer. He
is Prussian by birth and twenty-four years
of age. He came to this country about
four years ago.
The circumstances of this cold blooded
atrocity as detailed by himself are as follows
in the outline. OF how much credence
they are worthy it is not for us determine
They certainly, at any event, form combi-
nation Of horrors seldom if ever equalled
in the annals Of crime, and show him to
be, if not murderer, to which all the cir
substances point, at least, cold -blooded,
depraved man, with little OF the human in
his composition.
The Eame Of the murdered woman is
Sophie Werner; her maiden name was
Elten. She was twenty-nine years of age,
and the wife of Frederick Werner, who
formerly kept barber shop under Revere
House, at which Jumpertz worked. Wer-
ner at the same time was living with anoth-
er woman, whose name we are unable to
learn. This was in the latter part of 1855.
Somewhat over year ago Werner abscon-
ded from the city with this woman, leaving
his wife here. His business was broken up
and his wife lived with barber under the
Sherman House Jumpertz was boarding
at the same house, and formed an improper
intimacy with her. She told him her story
and he symyathized with her, and finally SO
far prevailed upon her that she left her
former paramour and lived with him. He
hired rooms in Pitkin's building, in South
Water street, taking the meals at the res
tlurant on Lake street.
After that building was burned last fall,
in the great fire, he hired room in the
fifth story Of Pomeroys building, at the
corner of South Water and Clark streets.
After they took the room, they ceased ta-
king their meals on Lake street. He pro-
vided a stove, table, dishes and other arti-
cles, and she did the cooking. After a
time the woman became eHcientc. He tried
to keep the matter secret, but it leaked
out, and his associates continually annoyed
him for living with low Dutch woman.
Provoked by their taunts he determined
to 90 to Milwaukee, and the guilty pair
took their departure from the city. Short
ly after their arrival she was delivered Of
a child, but by some means it was hurried
out of existence. The prisoner says that
it was born dead. Not satisfied with this
guilty alliance, the woman plead with him
to marry her, but he refused. He wrote
to Chicago to obtain work, and Frazza and
Rabolla offered him situation.
He packed up his baggage, and she insis
ted on coming with him, and still more
strongly that he should marry her. He
fatty refused each of these requests and
hard words passed between them. He hired
room for her, paid her board until July
next, came off and left her about the mid
die of December last.
Several letters passed between them, IN
all of which she constantly reiterated her
demand that he should marry her, and In
one of them said, that she should die II
he didn't let her come. lie finally wrote
to her that if she was coming, to come In
the night time and come directly to his
room SO that no one should know she was
here. She arrived in the city some time
in February, and no one knew she was back
again except the drayman who brought her
trunks to his room. They lived along in
the old style until Sunday the 9th OF
March.
That morning he went to the shop, as
usual and returned at half-past one to DIM
ner. The prisoner says that as he opened
the door it pushed hard and that when he
oot into the room, he found her hanging
by a cotton rope to common screw-hook
driven into the door, her feet almost touch
ING the floor. This is the prisoners YER
sion. He cut her down and laid ARr ON
the bed. Upon the table he found letter
stating that she forgave him and wished
she could have died by the side of Werner
He then sat at the window-seat about an
hour thinking what he should do with the
body
To convince himself that she was dead
he took the body off the bed, laid it on
,,,o,.,.oss on the floor and cut her with 8
lancet in several places. At the first IN
cision drop or two of blood flowed, ou
afterwards none On the next day., h'
took out the entrails and carried them tW!
or three miles off on. the prairie and burie'
them. His first thought was to throw tn
hndu into the li,,er. but there was too muc