New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-10
sTH1Ncr AND TERRIBLE STORY
F,o~ TIE cA,cago TriSH"e' Ma, J.
.,,roFD MURDERER ARRESTED.

Our readers WI, ..o s;oce in Tie Tribune of the
ibit uelt of the dead aud mutuae.u Soy " ~, mr.,
nsIk,d in barrel from ths city 70 New p ~ ne
49, YVES marked Nv II. Jenhngs, 40 10 Leon
bairt' we Srw.York City" and was found at the
49, R.iroad DEPOT and opened by means of the
hsoiou the shipment of the barrel was traced to
hi. CITY having been sniPPeu HUH '"o Nen''ai DepO'
IS 80 i,th OF March last.
oI VIC ers here undertook to ferret out the perpe
$50 II vbst appeared most daboca murder,
'S .one weeks ago Marshal Rsbm, while at the Ger
az. Tbsster one evening" obtained what appeared
Lou 90 ,Le perpetrator Of the deed; and, being al
Ssd but one assistant by the Mayor, obt aimed the
ssstspce Of Capt Bradley the celebrated detective
and every effort made to unrevel the mystery
Al O'clock on Wednesday night the Cfli ;ers became
sa6td that they had sufficient proofs to warrant the
arest Ct Henry Jumpertz, barber employed IN Ri
Lola & Fra7Zas saloon, under the Matteson House,
ald accordingly took the accused into custody Inc
prisoner is native of Prussis, is about twentyfour
years Of age and very good locking, possesses con-
SIDERABLE Intelligence, AID has been in this country
about four yeara. The prisoner was immediately
taken 20 the Siarshsls office and detailed the circum
s.Apces Of the affair and from notes Of the
fic taken by John c. Miller, esq, City Attorney, we
Obtain the following tnat some Of the state
ntnts we're made ia reply TO questions put by the off,
GERS but most Of Them were gwen voluntarily:
Prcr to going into the room at PJmeroys building
Iwhse he reslded a. the time of his arrest he boarded
with man named Cone or kohn, 10 Madison street,
al the head Of La Sale street for six weeks. kOnn
aJewsh school teacher, and Jumpertz is barber, and
h.swtrked for Riboa & Frazza some sixteen months.
Last summer he worked for barber samed Gates, III
tie NeWball House. in Milwaukee, for some seven
months Three Yeas ago he worked in a shop IN
Spring street. New York. This was when he FIST came
to the country. Capt. Bradley asked linn II he mad
ever work in Leonard street, New York. and he replied
tbat lie had not. This was the first question asked
from which he could infer the of his arrest dc
said he commenced work for RbOlla 4 Frazza, the
lat time, about a week before last Christmas.
lie stated that he occupied the room, in Pomeroys
Building, in conjunction with a young man named
W,rrer Ia brother of the Frederick Werner, the hus
baSi Ct the woman whose body was packet m the
IJur1pertzl went to Milwaukee. He was asked II lie
had many female &C luantances, aud he replied that
10 bad tot either here or in milwaukee,. SAID ne
never visited brothes and seldom went out at nBnt
at al.
Q. Did you have any particular female friends A.
had ole. q. Where is she a. think you know-Why
did you take me up Il guess you know. The question
repeated. A. At present do not know where sue
is; the last time saw her was at my room her name
is Sophia Werner she is sisterin-ltw OF the young
man room with; her husband kept barber shop In
the Dung America; lie left two years ago and went
10 Europe; be back and took q hOusekeeper
s,meof his wifes friends wrote to her that he liv
ing with another woman, and she came on here but
could not live with him.
lie was then asked where his friend went alter lie
last cav her in his room.
A. don't exactly know where she went when she
Lett me. think she went to New York.
O. Did she leave anything here A. She took
everything away; size left nothing.
The prisoner, locking suspiclou'ly at Captain Bad
ley continued: care you the Juoge guess have
70 answer hm-would like to see him. want to an
swer bin; don't know who you are"
Capt Bradley then gave the prisoner his name, and
the latter said: Il know you now; have seen your
name in the newspapers.
MT BRADLEY then told the prisoner who the other
persons present were and also told him he was under
obligation to ans Ner any questions unless he chose
but tie prisoner seemed very willing to answer and
voluntarily continued the conversation, speaking very
rapidly and in broken EOglsh We give his state
uents just ss they taken down by Mr.. Miller,
81 this will account for their LcOherency and their
abrupt transitions.
Prisoner was asked when Sophia left him?
A. / cannot tell when she left. 1t was little over
two months ago.
@. Did you have any quarrel with her before she
lett A. No. had no quarrel with her, and no hard
v ords before she lett
O. How did you get acquainted with her A. got
q, qusnted with her here, and got pretty familiar with
her; heard how she had been ab2sed; she washed for
some young men that l knew in Nil saukee; my boss
NetIIing IN ChicagOl knew her and took her home
on account Of the way she was treated by her huS
band got acquainted with her there boarded
there and slept with her there; Webbing came home
one Liz ht drunk AMI went up stairs and kicked up
row with his wife; was sleeping down stairs: the
two women up stairs he made such fuss that they
got up and came down stairs in their nghtclothes;
gave sophia my bed and went up tars TO get some
Clothes for Mrs. Webbing; | came down, and it was
IN awful cold night, and got into bed with sophia;
after that slept with her several times; aferward |
rented a room in Ptkin's building South Water
street,, and room ed with her there rOomed there
when the building burned. THIS was one Of the
buildings consumed in the great fire in last October
We boarded then ON Lake street at Skaters !;
nner the FIRE lttey took room somewhere
elsel che proposed that i should board
with her. got tmogs and stove, and she cooked
for NE we slept together regularly the low
Dutch didn't like me, and made re marks about
me and the woman; l then got her to to 20
Milwaukee: she then talked of marrying Inc; l
Cculdn't-sbe had no divorce; told her would not
many her; she went TO Milwaukee. lJumpertz
D obsbly went with her as he next sold l went up
aud stopped there two months ! represented her to
be my sister; boarded with her Uot her child was
born about October last | told her about leaving
MI waukee; size was sorry and felt bad; about the
last IT September lastl / came to Chicago to
Frs1La about getting work; he SAID, Eyes, you are
DAYS b. fore Christmas last | came here she said
hen left it would be the last time would her;
she tod me wha did not know before, that she
peCted 70 marry me; told her i could not.
Capt Bradley then asked abou; the child, and
,Jumpertz said II was born dead but he did not get
Certificate of ii. lie was then asked if he heard
ffom Sophia after he came to Chicago. He replied:
/ hesld from her; she got plenty OF washing TO do;
4 wrc;e TO her 10 stay there; | bought wood and
aour for her and PAID her rent in ady ance until next
July IL, so that she would stay told her very
plainly that | did not want her to follow Inc; she
loved me very much, and was very good 10 me; II
1 would get married L would get woman lust as
good; | was here two months before | wrote my
last latter; she wanted to be dead she wrote to me
that she was coming here anyhow; wrote her to
come on the evening train, and come rgnt 10 my
ROOM 20 that nobody would know she would be
With me 10 my room; she wrote that she received
ny letter: she was going to ole; did not want to
die q one; she came on "wednesday night MaTeh
81; came to my room and was there untl Sunday
noon; she said she wanted to 90 away where no.
body VIC uld know her; said to her. What do you
wait to do; you must go; got stove, hjur and
filings and she cooked for me; Sunday mon March
= | came home 10 dinner the door opened hard;