The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-24
CITY INTELLJGENCE.

| EXAMINATION OF PARTIES CHARGED WITH THE AR
SON AND BURGLARY OF Mrs. JOHNsToN's Residence
| Henry Frecke and Frederick Buttenbaum who were
arrested last week charged with setting fire to and
robbing the dwelling of Mrs. Johnston, the REFS
terstown road last October, had a hearing yester-
day afternoon before Justice Griffin, Robert A. Nc
Allister, Esq, prosecuting The first witness called
was officer Meads, who sworn and testified as
! follows: Last Thursday night about halfpast 10
! O'Clock was passing along Thames street, and when
| | came opposite Ganbatz's saloon sat down a
bench in front of the house. had not been there long
before | heard some one inside exclaim, Cd
| d--n 1t Chris, you've got good snap this
| time" well, | thought if there was a good
| snap there. I'd like to have hand in it myself, so
| l got up and looked through the window and sa
several persons examining the contents of a trunk
| in the BARI Dom; went to the door and found it
| locked; Shook it, and Ganbatz came, and said at
first couldn't come in, afterwards said ''come
in; went in and told Ganbatz thought the goods
had been stolen he sad show do YOU know they
| are stolen; bought them of Frecke, he is free
man and a white man. | then went out and saw
officer Hutton, who | left in charge of the
house, then went to the station house and informed
the Lieutenant of the affair." Captain Morris, Lieut.
Muir and myself then went back, secured the trunk
and arrested Ganbatz, and brought him to the sta
tion house. So far as | can recollect the trunk
contained coopers' tools, ladies' wearing apparel
Jewelry and gloves. After this, went to look for
Frecke; did not know where he lived.
Woligang drummer, sworn.-l bought some sill
yer on the l4th of last November from party who
came to my store; at first told him did not want
to buy that was short of money; at last concluded
to give him sixteen dollars for several silver spoons
and one large silver ladle the spoons were marked
sc. s., and on the back they were marked s'Hol-
land;' laid them by, and on last Sunday Mr..
Johnston and the officers came to my house and
asked me if | had bought any silver about Christ
mas time; said yes, and showed it to them; Mr.
Johnston identified the articles his property to
the best OF my knowledge that is the (pointing
to frecke, who stood up who sold me the silver.
Joseph Rothschilds, sworn.-Keeps a clothing
store at No. ZIG Broadway; knows Frecke by sight,
came to my store last November to buy goods,
hadn't any money, said he going to sell some
thing at Crummer's; went there and came back to
my place. and bought goods. That is the
man, (ponting to Frecke,) saw him several times
after that at my store, always came alone, except
once when he came in company with another man;
they were both drunk, don't know the other man.
that man favors him (pointing to Buttenbaum,)
but can't swear he is the man.
Peter n. Brown, sworn.-Lives at No. 255 Alice
Anna street; have known Frecke about four months;
came to my house about the middle of last Noyem-
Der; he was recommended by another man; asked
for board for the winter; told him if he chose he
could come and board; in about two weeks he came
again and brought trunk and bag; lived in
Thames street then; Buttenbaum came with Frecke
the first time. On one Sunday night Frecke took
out something like silver snuff box and showed it
to witness, and said that Buttenbaum had offered
him levy for it; he then took ont a silver spoon
from his pocket; witness asked him where he got
these things; Frecke said there was a fire in
that the night of the fire he heard a
noise, and his boss cried out, "Henry, come
down.; that he dressed and came down. and ran
with the boss towards the house. which was all on
fire. that Mrs. Johnston was standing outside in her
night gown; that she said she wanted two chests
saved; that he and his boss ran up stairs and
brought ont the trunks and laid them on the lawn:
they then went back and got some other valuable
articles and threw them of the window into the
bushes; that after the fire he was going through the
cornfed, heard queer noise, kicked the corn over
and found clock; that he helped to carry mirror
and put it in Buttenbaums room that Buttenbaum
worked the garden shares when he sold dol
lars worth he Kept seventy-fve cents, and some
times kept all; he used to sell the large potatoes
and send Mrs. Johnston the small ones; Frecke
also said that they did not like Mrs.
Johnston, and they knew she was going to
move on Monday; Frecke had about eighteen
spoons at my house, he gave me six spoons for six
dollars he owed me; they marked '.Johnston;''
witness delivered them to the officers; the other
spoons Frecke said he would keep; he sold some to
Mr.. Brookling. Frecke worked with me, we had
settlement; the night he went away hadn't cent;
he said Buttenbaum owed him money; he left the
chest down stairs, and went out, came back about
evening, drunk, and took trunk away; heard he
went to Ganbatz-when he went away, he left
wine cooler in his bed, he said he left two but only
one was found noticed the bag when he to
my house. thinks that is the bag-(a large bag
shown witness.) Frecke said fire occurred between
one and three o'clock in the morning; heard But
teDbaum sing out the house is on fire; looked out,
and saw the fire, also said there much straw
in the cellar it was easy enough to set fire to the
house; few days before he left, he showed me di-
rectons where he was going, in the country; think
it was to DR.. Gibson's, West River.
Christopher Ganbatz, swOrn.-Live at ia Thames
street, knew Frecke during the winter, was in the
habit of coming to my house to drink beer, never
had any conversation with him, except ordinary
bar-room talk; on Thursday last he to my
place, and said he was going to the country, and
that he did not want to take all his baggage with
him, that he had a trunk, and wanted to borrow
three dollars it; he brought the trunk to my
house; told him did not want to lend money that
way, be better go to pawnbroker, and another