Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-22
Murder will Out /!


CH1CAGoi
The readers of the Express will rccollect
that some weeks since there arrived at the
Hudson River Railroad depot, in New York,
a barrel sent from Chicago, but consigned to
no ono. On opening it the officers were hor-
rified to find the body of a woman dissccted,
and firmly packed in the barrel. The police
of Chicago were notified of the facts and on
Wednesday night arrested Henry Jumpcrtz.
Prnssi'n barber there, for the murder of
Sophie Werner, a German woman whose
corpse was identified as that in the barrel
The woman had been deserted by her hus-
band, and subsequently lived with Jumpcrtz.
lie became tired of her, and carrying her to
Nlilwakic left her there and returned to Chic
ago. The confession which he made to the
officers, as 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 de-
mand that he should marry her, and in one
of them said that she should die if he didn't
let her come. lie finally wrote to her that if
she was coming, to comein the night time,
and come directly to his room, so that no one
should know that she was here. She arrived
in the city some time in February and no one
know she was back again except the dray-
man 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 din
ner. The prisoner says that as he opened
the door itpushed hard and that when he
got into the room he found her hanging by
a cotton rope to a common scrcw-hook driv-
en- into the door, -her feet almost touching
the floor. This is the prisoners version,
He cut her down and laid her on the bed
Upon the table lie says he found letter
stating that she forgavc him and wished
she could have died by the side of Werner
He then set in the window-scat about an
hour thinking what he should do with the
body.
10 convince himself that she was really
dead, he took the body off the bed, laid it
on mattress OH the floor and cut her with
n lancet in several places. At the first n-
cision a drop or two of blood flowed :, but
afterwards mono. On the next day, Ie took
out the chtniIs and carried theG two or
three miles off on the prairie Sdd buried
them. His first thought wyfo throw the
bodyintp the river, but there was too much
ice.
Hc then procured common case knife
and earuentGrs sawhnd after much trottb-
la, succeeded in<etting them sufficiently
sharp to perfopN his bloody work. After
cutting tile vs. up,he procured a'common
whisky bs<c5 put the limbs in--after
buYniHg,Ech parts Of her clothing as had
blood .SSts Oh them and headed it up. On
tuTvAg the barrcl over he saw water and
btHd coming out from the bung hole IIe
IIook it out and threw in quantity Of -four
to stauneh it, putticd up all the cracks and
painted it all over.
Earfyin the morning ofthe 10th ofAIach,
after keeping the body ten days in his room,
he met q drayman on Clark street bridge,
and asked him to take tic barrel to the de-
pot, Ihc drayman consented and went UP
to his room. He proceeded to roll it down
stairs Jumpertz, fearful lest the barrel
might burst, requested him to carry it down
stairs, but ho refused, and rolled it down
as he had commenced, the body rafting
against the sides of the barrel, all tho
way down, filing him with dread and an,
prehension, lestithe draynian should disco q
er his secret. The body was finally eotte
the depot and shipped to New York that
morning. '.e
THAT was a wise nigger, who, in speak
ing ofthe happiness Of married people, said:
dat az pends altogether how dcy onjoy
.E F''
AN adrairer ofdogs, hsying a new litter
of fnc breed, was requested bya friend
10 setShim down FOR puppy GSir, + eet
you doyn for good while ago