Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-04-23
THE uIRpURER PRoBST.

[Frcm the Philadelphia Sunday Timesl
We have seen the murderer Proost IN has
over the remains OF his victims, before the
Court OF q uarter Sessions, where he was ar
ralgned upon the charge Of murder.
ProbSt SAID, At his last interview with Chief
Franklin, that he would welcome the hour
that brought his execution. He is dragging
out hours Of unutterable misery. aud looks for
ward TO death as welcome relief He - i'm
prisoned in the same cell in which the mur-
dererer Berger died Of apoplexy. A heavy
bolt is fastened into the centre Of the Hoor. and
a chain fastened 70 this clasps the murderer's
leg Its allows him Just sufficient room 70 lie
spCn q mattrsss which is his bed, and 70 reach
to the loop-hole IN the door from which he re-
ceives bIs food.
He still adheres to his original statement that
he had an accomplice in the murders. Chef
Franklin has not only secured Phtladelphla
but New York also, in pursuit Of the mSn he
describes. The search has proved wholly IN
vain; and from the Christian gentlemen who
ministers 10 him, the pastor OF the Roman
Catholic Church, n the corner Of Fourth and
Reed streets, TO the Chief Of Police and the
Mayor OF the city. no one having cognizance
of the case credits one word that the murderer
utters.
And yet he puts the question shrewdIy. II
KNOW ne says, ssihai must be hung / would
gladly step outof this cell, shake OF these gives
and he hung TOMORROW. killed the boy Cor
Eelius Carey. ana held bearings horse while
Jake killed him and his wife's niece. OF
course, must be hung; but" he insists, II
didnt touch hair of the children's head, and
Jake promised that the baby and the elder
children should suffer no harm" Horrible
spectres,' says the wretched assassin, sshaunt
me AT night. i can see them all lying within
Collins The physician Of the prison has ad-
ministered 10 tue wretch the most powerful
anOdynes and opiates. He seldom sleeps for
one full hour during the night and then en-
dures the pangs Of eternal perdition, and sees
the phaniOms of his murdered victims. The
Christian priest. who has undertaken 20 pre-
pare HIM for death-Father Grunder-it Is
scarce necessary TO say. discrtdits his story.
The miserable man wrote yesterday n letter
10 his parents IN Germany, bidding them a
nnal adleu, confessIng the CRIME Of murder.
and begging their forgiveness. The letter will
be forwarded according 10 his directions; but
lis contents. except as far as the confession
goes, are evidently tissue OF falsehoods.
Chief Franklin and his detectives have the
entire history OF the man from the time ne was
mustered out OF the army up 20 the day he
was engaged Dy Mr.. Deering. They find that
he has SIX times Jumped the bounty" that he
entered the army three weeks after landing in
the country; and that each time he cheated the
Government, he made his headq uariers and
spent has money at German brothel in New
York. Every movement that he made IS
now known. The people with whom he asso-
ciated in these dens Of infamy, whether males
or females, have testified 10 what they knew
concerning him.
The seal OF Cain on his forehead has been
many times exhibited since Chief Franklin
undertook the task OF learning his history
The Cononers lury rendered a verdict charg-
ing him with the whole Of the eight murders.
W utI We ItlntInDtE tudI DeerlnE. IN Two
months more, would again have been a
mother, the eight murders are increased 10
nine. The Grand Jury indicted him as solely
guilty OF The enure massacre. The District
Attorney. rejecting as false the entire story Of
the prisoner, will try him for tae entire
butcheTy.
There was put INTO his cell the other day a
man with manacles upon his wrists. he
played the part OF a sentenced murderer. To
him Probst admitted that he got a thousand
dollars from the murdered family. He did not
say what had become of the money. What
has become OF what he did Obtain will prob
| ably be never known. Penniless and miser-
able, IL was supposed that Probst- on the night Z
| that be was arrested, was vending his way
| to the almsbouse, of which he had before been
an inmate. He was a vagabOnd by nature,
anc the commission of murder in no case al
tered his instincts
Nearly all the articles stolen from the Deer
ing homestead have been recovered. Those
sull missing are a cavalry revolver Of large
size, small silver lepine watch, with one
hand broken OF, and which il was known was
offered Ior sale in the Reighborhood of Fourth
and Poplar streets; two fifty dollar compound
interest notes, and one twenty dollar COM
pound interest note. A story was circulated
On Friday TO the effect that the missing silver
watch had been recovered. Such was not the
fact. II has been traced TO a female, a resident
Of this city, who AYERS that she sold il 20 a man
| who resides out Of the city.