Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-21
The MURDER OF JOHN 6. FAY.


The facts given in our yesterdays issue Of
the LEADER in regard to the Fay murder are
generally correct in their minutest details.
A few errors, however, crept into the nara
tive,-the natural results Of the confusion
and mystery incident to such orims,-Which
We correct below.
The name Of the murderer, as We stated
yesterday, is Jacob Udech, member of the
37th Ohio (Gsrman) Regiment, The names of
his compsnions,-WhO will be used as wit
nesses for the state,-are Gregor BetEighofer,
John ROdthar and Charles Ebinger, known
commonly as Crazy Charley" These men
we're with the accused on his first visit to
the house, but did not return with him in
search of his lost money.
The version given of the sffrsy by Auguste
Fay, the wounded man, differs slightly from
our account yesterday morning. We give it
for what it is worth About half an hour
after Udech had left the house the first time,
be returned, swearing that he had lost mis-
pocket-book. He addressed Auguste
Fay, abusively demanding his money,
and, on being told that nothing was
known of it, drsw his knife aud seemed
determined to make an onslaught
on all in the house. BE first rushed
after the women, who ran from him up stairs
screaming. He then attacked Augusts Fay.
wounding him as we yesterday described
As John Fay interfeTed, begging him to de-
Gist, he gave him the wounds from which he
died.
This account, materially the same as that
given in yesterdays LEADER lis corroboratsd
by Henry Jones, soldier of the 125th Rsgi-
ment, who was in the house and present at
the time Of the sffrsy.
It is stated by the inmates of the house
that after the ARRAY Udech continued his
search for his purse and at last found it on
the floor in room upstairs, where he is sup
posed to have dropped it during his first
visit.
Professor Thayer was the third physician
whom we mentioned as having been called in
to attend the dying man.
John G. Fay, Jr., the murdered man, was
formerly Orderly Sergeant of Smithknight's
(the 2Oth) Battery, and was about IS years Of
age. His wound was in the right arm, instead
of the left, as stated yesterday.
Auguste Fay, who was wounded, is con-
sidered out Of danger, though his wound is
a dangerous one, and will Oonhne him for
some time.
The examination Of Udeeh, for murder in
the FIRST degree, will take place at the Police
Court to-morroW morning. J. G. Grsnnis,
City Attorney, and P. A. Collier appear fOI
the State, and NJ. S. Castle for the defendant.
The defendant, Udech, is a German and a
member Of the 37th Ohio Infantry, the ofi-
GERS of which speak Of him as q dangerous
and violent fellow. Ha is stOutly built, ap-
parently about thiIty-ssven or eight years
old, with full face, stoIid but not rufianly
expression, and light hair and eyes. BE de-
mics ell the charges made Isgainst him, and
insists that he never saw either of the Fsyf
and was never in their house. This state
msnt he persists in most stubbOrnly.
The case is one of the most exciting which
has ever occurred in this city, and late de-
velopments are not at all calculated to allsJ
the indignation and horror which the crime
inspires.