The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-05-11

Arrest % Msnxy @mpertz ter INC NJ
Soma weeks since. dissnsaIbercd and muiiia.
ted humsr rs.u Ains we're feundin whisky bar
ri. left uocolled lOg q The New York Freight
Station Of ne Hudson River Railroad. The
barrel and ~ contents were found on Friday,
April "a. and on tho following day Coroner Hills,
of New York City, empanneled Jury at Belle
vue Hospital. 20 hold an inquest upon tue body
which, on examination, proved to be that Oh
female, and presented shocking appearance:
The legs had been sawed or 1t the Thighs, ana
the abdomen cut open and the inteslines taken
out, tue liver and heart only Of the vital organs
remaining. The mutilations OF the corpse show
"a plainly that il was not medical subject. In
the barrel were found several articles OF female
apparel, a pair of white cotton flannel drawers,
quilted white petticoat, and q cheiuisc with
one sleeve torn of. There was also large
piece Of barcge, which, although il had been
turned white by the chloride of lime placed in
side the barrel, still retained traces Of the orr
ginal pattern. The garments Indicated that the
person 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 lover jaw
there were only eight teeth, and those in the
ul5per Jaw we're considerably decayed. The
Coroner's Jury viewed the remains, and the in
quest then adjourned.
Here then was apparently all the clue to be
obtained which might throw light on the mat
ter, and yet there was obviously one line of ev-
dence which might be followed up TO indicate
where the barrel had originally been shipped.
Freight books aud way-bills we're examined, and
the successive links in the chain carefully studied.
First, the barrel came from Albany. At Alba
ny it was found TO have been received with
~ -. Pail
road. Away across the Empire State went the
keen eyes that we're busy tracking, and the
keen scented faculties, and at the Suspension
Bridge the clue again gave response, and the
bac. charges led on to Chicago.
II was evident that the shipment, which was
fraught with horrid secret, had first been
sent on its way from Chicago, via the Michigan
Central Railroad. The detectives of this city
and the officers Of tie NJ. G. II. II. stationed
here, were interchangeable in the matter. Some
of the receivers of the freight at the station
were able TO recall that the barrel had been
shipped on the 10th Of March, having been de-
lvered at the depot by drayman, but that
was all--whe among the hundreds of our dray.
men it was there seemed to be no means OF as
pertaining. The barrel on shipment was di
rected to, and OH It's being discovered bore the
address of,"TV H. Jennings, ls5 Leondrd street,
Nep York." evidently, of course, a fictitious per.
sonage.
There is nothing in fiction more thrilling than
the details that do justice to the experiences oil
frst-class detective officers, in working up a
case like the present.
The search has been successful and on Wed
nesday evening Capt. G. P. Bradley, the we'll
known private detective, and City Marshall ia
cob Rehm, the latter as well as the former pos
scssins dcservedly high reputation in then
profession, arrested Henry Jumpertz, journey
man barber in the employ OF Messrs Frazza d
Ribola at their saloon under theMatteson House
for the alleged murder OF Sophie Werner the
wife Of one Werner, who, some three year:
since, kcpt a BARRIERS shop under the Young
America, now Revere House, on Randolph
street, in whose employ the prisoner was a
that time.
The details already developed by the officers
and the statements of Jumpertz himself. reveal
a sickening and terrible array of infamy and
revolving crime, terminated probably by tbs
fearful tragedy OF cod-blooded murder.
The supposed murdered woman was Sophie
Werner, her maiden name Sophie Elten, and
she was twenty mine years of age. She had
been deserted by her husband for another wo
man, with whom he had left the city, and had
since been living with the prisoner in shame
less and open prostitution, and formerly with
another paramour, whom she deserted for Jum
per'z. Tie guilty pair had the rooms last fall
in the building ON South Water street, occupied
by Cornish, Cross & Co.. and in which orgiua
ted the disastrous and long to be remembered
FIRE known as the "Great 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. Ii.
provided stove, tables, dishes, and other art
cles, and she did the cooking. After a tim,
the woman became eaciente. He tried TO keeE
the matter a secret, but it leaked out, and hi!
associates continually annoyed him for living
with low Dutch woman.
Provoked by their tsunts, he determined t
go to Milwaukee, and the guilty pair took thei
departure from this city. Shortly after theil
arrival she was delivered OF child, but by som,
means it hurried out of existence. Tn,
prisoner says it was born dead Not satisfied
with this guilty alliance, the woman plead with
him to marry her, but he refused. He wrote tc
Chicago to obtain work, and Frazza & Ribolig
offered him situation. He packed up bis bag
ga re, 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. lie hired a
room for her. paid her board till July ensuing
and came of and left her about the middle OF
December last.
Several letters passed between thom, in all of
which she constantly reiterated her demand tina
he should marry her, and in one 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 come in the night time, and come directly to
his room, SO that 10 one should know that she
was here. She arrived in the city some time
in February, and no one knew she was bach
again except the drayman, who brought he.
trunks to the room. '.They lived along in tn,
old style until Sunday, the 9th Of March.
From this point the skill and tact of GU,
Chicago detectives went to work, from thes,
data to evolve the mystery. BY what means
this was done, how clues were obtained ant
followed up, how now and then the slender
thread failed and sagacty was ut fault, an,
how still the detectives pushed forward unit
stronger and stronger suspicion became ire
sstblc. are their professional secrets Will
which the public have nothing to do, but which
II they could be written, would be OF thrillin.
interest.
The prisoner has been committed to iail unit
the remains shall be received in this city from
New York, when an inquest and investigation
will be held upon them. The prisoner is coo
and uhconcerned too much SO, even supposing
the case to be one of suicide unless he be a
brute, beyond all feeling. He evidently seem.
to consider his statement sufficient to clear him
and expresses no apprehension to the result
The case excites a powerful interest in the city,
and each succeeding step of the investigation
will be watched with much attention.
This brings their history down TO the time
when the fearful tragedy took place. The
prisoner at the time OF his arrest, and on being
informed of the charge, was cool and self
possessed, and seemed to betray little feeling
and no alarm. What we have written OF the
relations and movements of the pair is derived
IRON the Investigations of the officers and
from the prisoners free and voluntary state
ments subsequent to his arrest, which have been
taken down by the City Prosecutor, John c.
Miller, Esq.
Jumpertz says that on this Saturday morn
ing, March 9Th, he left the woman in his rooms
in Pomeroys Building, and went TO The shop
as usual, and returned ut hali-past one "a
dinner. That, as he opened the door it pushsd
hard, and when he got into the room he
found her hanging by cotton rope to com
mon screw-hook driven INTO the door, her feet
almost touching the floor. That he cut her
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