New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-28
THE COLUMBIA STREET MYSTERY.

On Thursday some Germans called upon Capt..
Squires of the Eleventh Wsu Polio, and told him
tt at they had reasou to believe that they knew men
who bad murdered his wife, and they were IL opinise
that he was in some way implicated in the Columss
street mystsry. According to their story. . Gesmsa
shoemaker, apparently in a very oocfascd and es-
cited state of mind, called at the shoemakers shop
No. AZ Thomas street. and asked the way to Thomp-
ron street, rayiug that hc hokiug fr work. tbs
shoemaker said he would give him work, and eoa-
ployed him. The man WAS very mysterious In his
manner, and during cts Of melancholy, exclaimed
aloud " Oh, they II know me by these clothes" He
f,srs increased 30 much that no had to get airemass
coat and requested that his employer ~oald put him
up stairs to work, he might other ~ss be seen
through the door and window. This was soeeded 70,
but the shoemaker was becoming alarmed. and cos-
Guided that be had q murderer 10 bis house. At
night the man who sometimes gave HE uswo
as Thomas, and again As Frank, slept up
tairs with another German workman. The latter
pretended not to understand EDglsb, and the sus-
pee ed party, while he thought bis companion IVES
asleep, gave nay to h,s ra,,ugs, exclaimng some
times "Oh my vrow, I killed her, and she's oil tho
" time before my eycs-in my sleep, and when I'm
awake. struck her with chair, and the blood
spirited to the wall. punched her, bat thefe IVES
60 no witness, and they cant hang me-" HE ON
ployer asked him why he afraid Of being $50,
he answered that he had got into some trouble,
but would not tell what il was. He had previously
been employed at shoe-store in Morris street, and
upon Inquiry being made there, it wW 1scer-
tanned that he had lived at Union HIN. Hoboses.
Further inquiry showed that an Irish girl who
lived in the same house with him and b, eu-
ployer, had charged him With bastuiy, which
he declared imposition; but BIO wa compells1
to marry the girl. This WA nearly year ago. She
was about Is years Of age. Tbe suppostion wsss
from these revelations, that he had murdered his
wife, ard Capt. Squres had bin arrested, and dis
patched an officer in search Of his wife. She IVES
found during the afternoon, in village To the resx a.
HObs ken, and from her statement 1t appeared thas
her husband had given her a terrible beating ~
then run away, not knowing whether She VS. alive
or decd. When she heard that he was 10 custody.
she came over and made charge Of ASSENT ADD bss-
tery ag ainst him. for which he committed to take
his trial by Justice Steers II h already been stated
that man from California suspected that the do
ceased was his wife who bad left Pbilsdslphs IN
company with Polander, and came to this city. He
traced the parties to howell in Cherry street. but
failed to obtain any further clue. On Thursdsy even.
ing the woman and her companion were found by tho
Eleventh Ward Police, and taken TO that Stations
where they confronted with the husband OF the
woman After some conference, he agreed TO receive
bis wife IL she would ayow that no impropncties hs4
occurred between her and her Polish companies.
The result was q compromise, and husband aid wifc,
once more united went home together. The only
missing female unaccounted for now H. Miss Nc
Kinney 81 years Of age whose mother lives 10 Esssx
,treet She had been seduced by her lover and wnea
her mother last saw her, few weeks ago, IVES
enceint>. No trace Of her has yet been found. The
mystery is as deep as ever.