The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-05-10

ATRAesDY IN CHICAGO Some weeks since there
arrived at the Hudson River Railroad depot, in
New York. barrel sent from Chicago but con-
signed to no one On opening IL the officers were
Mortified to Ind the body Of woman, dissected.
and firmly packed 10 the barrel. The police of
Chicago were notified of the facts aud on Wednes-
day night, arrested Henry Jumpertz, Prussian
barber there for the murder of Sophie Werner. a
(}ermsp woman, whose corpse was identified as
that in the barrel The woman had been deserted
nv her husband, and subsequently lived with Jum-
rertz He became tired of her, and carrying her
10 Milwaukee left her there. and returned to Chi.
cago The confession which he made 20 the off,
GERS, "a published In the Chicago papers, tells the
rest of the horrible story:
Several letters passed between them IN All OF
which she constantly reiterated her demand that
he should marry her, and io one Of them said that
she should die II he didn't let her come de 1naliy
wrote TO her that IL she was coming. to come in
the night time. and come directly to his room. so
that no should know that she was here. she
arrived in the city some time in February, and no
one knew she was back again except the draym
who brought her trunks to his room. They lived
along in the old style until Sunday, the 9th OF
March.
That morning be went to the shop as usual and
returned at haifpast ons to dinner. The prisoner
says that as he opened the door 1t pushed haru
hanging by a cotton rope to a common screw hook
driven into the door, her feet almost touching the
hoor. This is the prisoners version lie cut ner
down and laid her the bed. Upon the Ia
BILE he says he found letter stating that che
fJrgave him aud wished she could have died by
the side of Werner He then set in the window
| seat about an hour thinking what he should do
with the body.
To convince himself that she was really dead
he took the body off the bed, laid it on mattress
on the floor and cut her with a lancet In several
places. At the first incision drop or two OF blood
| flowed, but afterwards none. On the next day, he
took out the entrails and carried them two or three
miles of the prairie and buried them. His hrst
thought was to throw the body into the river. but
there was too much ice.
| He then procured common case knife and ssr
penters' saw, and after much trouble, succeeded
ia getting them sufficiently sharp to perform his
| bloody work. After cutting the body up, he pro
cured common whiskey barrel, put the limbs in'
| after burning such parts of her clothing as had
blood spots on them, and headed it up. On turn
| ing the barrel over, he saw water aud blood com
| ing out from the bung hole. He took it out and
threw in quantity of flour to staunch it, puttied
| up all the cracks and painted it all over.
Early in the morning of the 10th Of March, af
ter keeping the body ten days in his room, he met
draymau on Clark street bridge, and asked him
to take the barrel to the depot The drayman
| consented, and went up to his room. He proceed
ed TO roll it down stairs. Jumpertz, fearful lest
the barrel might burst, requested him to carry il
down stairs, but be refused and rolled it down as
he had commenced, the body rafting against the
sides Of the BARREL all the way down, filling him
with dread aud apprehension, lest the drayman
should discover his secret. The body was finally
got to the depot and shipped to New York that
morning.