The Evansville daily journal., 1858-05-11

WoMES MuRpERs.-The Lafayette papers
contain an account Of the discovery Of the
body of an apparently respectable female, in
a low swampy thicket by the side of the New |
Albany and Salem Railroad, near Francis |
vile, IN Jasper county. She had been dead |
some weeks and the body was in an advanced |
stage of decomposition. She was apparently
about thirty-fve or forty years Of a e, me-
dunn sized, with delicate and rather hand
some features. and seven false teeth. She
was dressed in black velvet waist-such as
are frequently worn with q skirt of o differ
ent pattern-but without any other outside
dress. She had on two or three white skirts
one Of which was turned over her face
and silk stockings and gloves. She was
without shoes or bonnet. Her clothing was
all of an elegant quality and neatly made
In examining the body at the Coroner's in
quest, several shot were found in her breast,
which warranted the conclusion that she
was the victim Of murder. No clue was
found to her identity, or the perpetrators OF
the shocking crime.
The people of Joliet, Illinois, were thrown
into an intense excitement by the discovery
| Of the nude remains of young girl, sixteen
years old, partially covered up with stone
and dirt in rock query near that place
| The corpse was found to be that of girl who
| had been seduced by a man in the neighb
hood, and who had taken her from her home,
with the consent of her mother, to be taken
to a distance, to conceal the birth OF child
from her neighbors. The seducer WAS ar
rested for the murder, and was held in close
custody.
Some weeks ago, an excitement was
created in New York city, by the dis
covery, at the Hudson River Depot, Of
the remains Of = woman, cut up and
packed in q barrel. 1t was directed to q
false number and returned to the Depot
where the contents were examined
Steps were Immediately taken to dis.
cover the murderer, and the barrel was
traced to Chicago, whore it was first
shipped. After series of thorough in.
vestigations, by the police Of Chicsg 90
the barrel was found to have been sen
by Henry Jumpertz. barber, who occu
pied sleeping apartments alone, at dis
tance from his shop, and where he had
living with him, during the winter
a woman, who had been abandoned b,
her husband. The woman disappeared
from the premises about the date Of tn
shipment Of the barrel. Jumpertz wa
, arrested, and confessed that he shippe,
the barrel, but denied that he is guilt,
Of murder. He says, after living wit
: the woman. till they had a child. she i'm
( portuned him to marry her, which h
f steadily refused to do. Whereupon sh
$ became gloomy and depressed, and tha
r one night on returning from his shop, h
found her suspended by o cord, to
hook in the room, and dead. Alarme
. with the fear Of being implicated in som
}. way in her death, and thinking of n
other way to conceal the body, as th
lake was frozen, he cut it up, and packe
= it in whiskey barrel. and after keepin
;. it ten days in his room, shipped it O
/. the 10th Of March, by the aid of dray
&c man, to New York city, where the di
:. covery was made. This is the prisoner
version Of the story. At the last a.
counts he had not been examined.