Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-05-25
From the Chicago Journal, 9th. Mysterious Murder of a Woman.
THE SUPPOSED MURDERER ARREsTEp-AsToUND-
 ING DISCLOSURE

1 Mysterious Murder of a Woman. THE SUPPOSED MURDERER ARREsTED-AsToUND- | ING DISCLOSURE.
 Some time since, our readers will remember an announcement in the New York papers, that a barrel marked "W H. Jennings, 1855 Leon- ard street, New York; containing the maneled remains of female, was found in the Hudson hlver railroad depot at New York city. An inquest was held upon the body at that place, ana the ofhcers commenced investigations. Tele- grams were sent through Canada, and it was found that the barrel had crossed Suspension bndge. From thence it was easily traced to Windsor, and was found to have crossed the rlVer rom Detrolt, on the 18th of March, on the steamer 1fanS't Further investigation To- cated Chicago as the starting point From the fact there were no charges upon the barrel ex- cept for its passage over the Michigan Central road, 1t was evident it was shipped here. and upon examination of the books, it was found that the barrel left the Michigan Central Depot on the 16th of March,
 From this point and with data furnished them by the officers of the company, and others whose names are immaterial at the present time, Marshal Rehm and Capt. Bradley commenced operations, and by series of successful moves
 
 ry to detail a few days since made up their minds who the man was. Considerable precau- ton was still necessary to be exercised until they should obtain some definite clue as to the probability of the case. A consultation was had yesterday, and it was determined to arrest the man last night. They proceeded to the shop where he worked, Messrs Prazza and Bibolla's barber's saloon, under the Matheson house; waited until the time of closing, and when he came out to go home as usual he was arrested. His name is Henry Jumpertz, and he Is journeyman barber by trade He has been Tn the employ of the above firm for some tune, and was formerly employed by Werner, who kept shop, about three years since, under the Revere House, then Young America. lie IS rrussIan by birth and twenty-four years of age. lie came to this country about four years ago.
 The circumstances of this cold -blooded atro- city as detailed by himself are as follows. in the outline. Of how much credence they are worthy, 1t Is not for us to determine They certainly, at any event, form a combination of horrors seldom if ever equaled in the annals of crime, and show him to be, if not a murder CT, to which all the circumstances point, at least a cold-Jlooded, depraved man, with little of the human in his composition.
 The name of the murdered woman is Sophie Werner; her maiden name was Elton. She was tWenty-rnne years of age, and the wife of Ere derck Werner, who formerly kept a barber shop under the Revere House. at which Jumpertz worked. Werner at the time was living with another woman, whose name we are unable to learn, This was in the latter part of 1S55.- Somewhat over year ago Werner absconded 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 al improper intimacy with her. She told him her story, and he svmpa- thized 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 their meals at d restaurant on Lake street.
 Alter that building was burned last fall. in the great fire, he hired a room in the fifth story ot Pomery's building, at the corner of South Water and Clark streets After they took the room, they ceased taking their meals on Lake street. He provided stove, table, dishes and other articles and she did the cooking After time the woman became ehceinte He tried to keep the matter secret but it leaked out, and his associates continually annoyed him for | HNM9 With low Dutch woman.
 Provoked by their taunts, he dertermined to go to Milwaukee, and the guilty pair took their departure from this city Shortly after their arrival she was delivered of a child, but bv some means, 1t was hurried out Of existence.- The prisoner says it was born dead. Not satis- fled with this guilty alliance, the woman plead with him to marry her, but he refused He wrote to Chicago to obtain work, and Frazza ,l..ll H..
 ed his baggage, and she insisted on coming with him, and still more strongly that he should marry her. He f1atly refused each of these re- quests and hard words passed between them He hired room for her, paid her board until July next, came of and left her about the mid dle 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 sad, that he should die, if he didn't let her come He 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 vas 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 hall-past one to dinner The prsoner says that as heopened the door it push ed hard, aud that when he got into the room he found her hanging by cotton rope to a com mon scrcw-hook driven into the door, her feet almost touching the floor. This is the prison CTS version. He cut her down and laid her or tine bed. Upon the table he says he found a letter saying that she forgave him and wished that she could have died by the side of Wer- her. He then sat in the window seat about an hour, thinking what he should do with the body. To convince himself that she was real y dead, he took the body off the bed, laid 1t on a mattress on the floor, and cut her with lan- cet III several places. At the first ucision q drop or two of blood flowed, but afterward, none. On the next day, he took out the en- trails and carried them two or three miles of on the prairie and buried them His frs thought was to throw the body into the river but there was too much ice
 He then procured common case knife and carpenters saw, and after much trouble, sue ceeded Tn getting them sufficiently sharp to per- form his bloody work. After cutting the body up he procured a common whisky barrel, pu the limbs In, after burning such parts of he clothing as had blood spots on them and head ed 1t np. On turning the barrel over he saw water and blood coming out from the buughole He took it out and threw in quantity of houl to staunch it, putted up all the cracks anC painted it all over.
 Early in the morning of the 16th of March after keeping the body ter days in his room, h, meta dravman of Clark street bridge and ask ed him to take the barrel to the depot Tn, 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, out he refused ant rolled it down as he had commenced, the bod, rattling against the sides of the barrel, all tn, way down filling him with dread and appre henson lest the drayman should discover hi secret. The body was finally got to the depo and shipped to New York that morung.
 Thus ends for the present this tale of blood and horror. The greater part of it is his owr version, taken from his own lips. Whether h. is guilty of the terrible crime of murder, th courts will determine and it is not for us to say but his own story shows him to be thorough, vitated and hard hearted man.