Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-08-12
The Germantown Murder.

had been more abusive than ever TO bis wife
aud children, quarreling with them very fre
quenty, and conducting himself violently
toward them. His wife, an unodending
harmless creature, generally bore the brunt
Of his dspleasure. And lately he procured
gun and he was in the habit of Threatening
to shoot bis family when be got into hs vo-
lent, abusive moods and they were so much
afraid Of him that, on signs OF his wrath, they
would fly from the house, and take refuge with
the neghbofs.
II is said that Schwartz had expressed him.
self as ''tired of his wife" and he had been
overheard to express a desire to get clear OF
her, as he "liked better some women who
lived over the creek On last Tuesday,
Schwartz got into u terrible rage, aud With
out any pretext whatever, so far as could be
ascertained, be attacked his wife in the house,
and beat her severely with q rocking chair
Mrs Schwartz made her escape out of the
house, and the children alarmed the neigh.
boas, who iuterfered, and he ,desisted for the
time She and her children, as usual, re-
msined over night with the nei ghbors, and
only returned home next day to get something
to eat, all OF them during the day working in
the tobacco field in the vicinity of town The
woman complained of feeling sick during
Tuesday and Wednesday, although she man
aged to drag herself to the field and labor
little. Thus she fingered on until Thurs
day, when she was assisted in from the field
by kind woman, who pitied her, and she
died about four o'clock in the evening, after
great suffering, and having, it is affirmed by
the physician, evinced symptoms OF being
poisoned, as we'll as beaten.
Schwartz remained at the house until
short time before the death of his wife, when
he suddenly started of, and hnrrying across
some fields in the vicinity he escaped from
town Intelligence of his wifes death and
theIescape of the alleged murderer, spread
throughout the village, and the men hastily
gathered together and Joined IN pursuit of the
fugitive After some llme spent in search.
party found Schwartz in u large corn field,
and after disabling him, arrested him and
brought him TO town. and confined him in the
Station house.
On Thursday night and Friday morning, an
inquest was held upon the deceased, by Justice
Zenripg, who acted in the capacity of coroner
The testimony was given by, neighbors, and
| by the children of the deceased. The gh-
bors testified to the general violent conduct
of Schwartz to his family; and they united
in the statement that The deceased tod them
that her husband had threatened to kill her
and that he had beaten her with chair and
that he was making COOL his promise TO
make way" with her. One Of the witnesses,
who assisted the deceased home from the field
states that she olten "vomted blood aud
green matter" and that she had fainting spells
on the way home that the poor woman said
she was going to die that Schwartz would
kill her anyhow, and 'that she would as lief
die as not" This, and other testimony COR
nj pi ha NJ "a
led to the suspicion that she had been poisoned
and post mortem examination was decidel
upon.
The abuse OF their mother by their father,
on Tuesday, was clearly established by the
Two elder sons, who testified to ESCAPING
from the room, and hearing the noise of their
father beating their mother, after they got
out upon the sidewalk. Immediately after
wards their mother escaped from the room,
crying-"Oh my God Your father has
struck me with a chair Call for help p So
much Of the testimony as related TO the ap-
pearance Of the deceased after she was beaten,
and her relation of the murderous affair was
corroborated by the testimony Of neighbors
The post m0rtem examination was made
yesterday forenoon, by Doctors Antrim, Don
nellan, Trout and Adams, OF Germantown.
The body was mere skeleton, being little
more than skin and bones" The face had q
ghsstly. starved appearance the arms were
bruised and discolored in spots the hands
had been misshspen into mere claws, by COZ.
slant ovsrwork while the fingers resembled
pieces of horn de feet were so cramped
and mashed out of shape by severe out door
labor in all kinds OF weather, that they loo ked
more like hoofs than feet Her emaciated
body bore numerous marks Of the cruel treat
ment to which she had been for long, weary
years subjected and on the left side of the
"small OF the back" was the mark of a brutal
blow which to us seemed quite enough to
have eventu ualy ended her life; and it was a
wonder that the poor creature was able TO be
about and work, after the blow was inf cted.
And the physician who called aud prescribed
for the unfortunate victim after she was strick-
en- down and poisoned, stated that the hus-
band administered the medicine, and seemed
greatly agitated as the hopeless condition of
bis wife was made known to him.
The examination by the physicians of the
body of the deceased disclosed bruse, and
abrasion Of the skin on the left side of the
scarum, extending downward. Tbs bruse
was a severe one, about three inches ia cir-
eumference, and although it's effects were
plainly seen internally, the physieiaua doubted
that It it alone would have Terminated the lie
of the victim, There was no internal disease
calculated to cause the death OF the woman.
Bus, on removing and inspecting the stomach,
the physicians detected the presence of
arsenic The stomach showed traces of vio.
lent Inflammation, and the effects had extend.
cd TO the lower bowels The substances iuthe
stomach was thought 10 be corrosive sub.
Innate, and II was believed to have been the
i'm mediate cause OF the woman death This
is the substance Of the post morfsa examiu.