Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-05-13
From the chicago Press. Friday.

From the Chicago Press, Friday.I
THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER CAsE-THE
CORPSE FOUND IN THE BARREL-CLER-
ING UP OF THE NEW YORK MYSTERY.
Some weeks since dismembered and multiated
human remains we're found packed in a whisky bar
rel left unoaled for at the New York freight station
Of the Hudson River Railroad. The Darrell and its
contents were discovered on Friday, April 3D. and
on the following day Coroner Hills, Of New York
city, empanneled jury at Bellevue Hospital to
hold an inquest upon the body, which, on examina-
ton, proved TO be that of female, and presented
shocking appearance The legs had been sawed off
at the thighs, the abdomen cut open and the
ntenstines, taken out the liver and heart only of
the vital organs remaining The mutilations of the
corpse showed plainly that it was not a medical
subject. In the barrel were found several articles
Of female apparel a pair Of white cotton flannel
drawers, a quilted white petticoat, and a ohemse
with one sleeve torn off There was also a large
piece of barege which, although 1t had been turned
white by the chloride Of lime placed inside the bar
REL still retained traces of the original pattern. The
garments indicated that the persons who wore them
must have been in good circumstances. The face
was small, and the features regular, hair brown,
eyes blue, and cheek bones rather high. In the
lower Jaw there were only eight teeth and those in
the upper Jaw were considerably decayed The
oorOners jury viewed the remains, and the inquest
then adjourned.
On Wednesday evening Capt. C. Bradley, the
wel-knOWn private detective, and City Marshal
Jacob Rehm the latter well the former posses
sing deservedly high reputation in their profession,
arrested Henry Jumperz, a journeyman barber in
the employ Of Messrs. FrazZs and Ribolla at their
saloon under the Matteson House. for the alleged
murder of Sophie Werner the wife of one Werner,
who, some three years since, kept a BARRIERS shop
under the Young America, now Revere House, on
Randolph street, in whose employ the prisoner was
at that time.
The details already developed by the officers, and
the statements of Jumpertz himself, reveal sieken
ing and terrible array Of infamy ard revolving crime
terminated probably by the fearful tragedy of acold-
blOOded murder.
The supposed murdered woman was Sophie Wer-
neT, her maiden name Sophie Ellen, and she was
tWenty-nine years of age. She had been deserted
by her husband for another woman, with whom he
had left the city, and had since been living with the
prisoner in shameless and open prostitution, and
formerly with another paramour, whom she deserted
for Jumpertz. The guilty pair had the rooms, last
fall in the building South Water street, occupied
by Cornish Cross & Co., and in which originated
the disastrous and long-to be remembered fire,
known as the Greet Calamity" Escaping from
the scene Of that disaster, they occupied rooms in
POmerOy's Building on South Water street. near
Clark street bridge where they took their meals in
their own apartments. He provided stove, tables
Dishes and other articles, and she did the cooking
After a time the woman became sHeieHts He tried
TO keep the matter a secret, but it leaked out, and
his associates continually annoyed him for living
with low Dutch woman.
Provoked by their tauuts he determined to 90 to
Milwaukee and the guilty pair took their departure
from this city Shortly after their arrival she was
delivered Of a child but by some means it was hur-
ried out Of existence. The prisoner says it was
born dead Not satisfied with this guilty alliance
the woman plead with him to marry her. but he re-
fused He wrote to Chicago to obtain work, and
Frazza & Rabolle offered him situation. He pack
ed up his baggage and she insisted on coming with
him, and still more strongly that he should marry
her He fatty refused each Of these requests, and
hard words passed between them. He hired a
room for her paid her board until July ensuing
and came off and left her about the middle of De-
cember last.
Several letters passed between them, in all of
which she constantly reiterated her demand that he
should marry her, and in Of them said that she
should die if he didn't let her come. He finally
wrote to her that if she was coming to in the
night time and directly his ROOM so that no
one should know she was here She arrived in the
city sometime in February, and no one knew she
was back again except the drayman, who brought
her trunks to the room. They lived along in the old
style until Saturday, the 9th Of March.
This brings their history down to the time when
the fearful tragedy took place The prisoner the
time of his arrest, and on being informed of the
charge, was cool and selEpOssessed, and seemed to
betray little feeling and no alarm. What we have
written of the relations and movements of the pair
is derived from the investigations Of the officers and
from the prisoners free and voluntary statements
subsequent TO his arrest which have been taken
down by the city prosecutor, John c. Miller, Esq.
Jumpertz says that this Saturday morning.
March 9th, he left the woman in his in Pom
er5y's building and went to the shop as usual and
returned at half past one to dinner. That as he !
opened the door it pushed hard, and when he got
into the room he found her hanging by cotton rope
10 common screW-hOOk driven into the door, her |
feet almost touching thehoOr Thsthe cut her do FD
and laid her on the bed Upon the table he says he
found a letter, saying that she fOrgave him and |
wished she could have died by the side Of Werner. !
HI says he sat in the window seat about an hour,
thinking what he should do with the body. To con-
vince himself that she really dead, he took the
BODY off the bed laid it on the matrass on the floor
md cut it with lance in several places. At the
irst incsion drop or two Of blood flowed butsfter
wards none. On the next day, he took out the en-
rails, and carried them two three miles off on the
prairie and buried them. His first thought was to
brow the body into the river but there was too
much ice.
He then procured a common case knife and car
,enter's saw, and, after much trouble succeeded in
,eting them sufficiently sharp TO perform his bloody
york After cutting the body up, he procured a
common whisky barrel, put the limbs in, after burn
ng such parts of her clothing as had blood spots on
hem and headed il up. On turning the barrel over,
lie saw water and blood coming out from the bung-
Ole. He took it out and threw in a quantity Of
our to staunch it, puttied up all the cracks, and
aiuted il all over.
Early in the morning of the 18th Of March, after
eepiug the body ten days in his ROOM he met a
rayman on Clark street bridge, and asked him to
AXE the barrel to the depot. The draymau consent
d, and went up to his room. He proceeded to roll
down stairs Jumpertz, fearing less he barrel
light burst requested him to carry it down stairs
ut he refused and rolled it down as he had com
lenced the body rafting against the sides of the
ariel, all the way down. filing him with dread and
pprehension, lest the draymsn should discover his
ecret. The body was finally got to the depot, and
lipPed to New York that morning