, 1866-07-13

ef1cIent keeper OF MOyamenSlng Hfl-
son, ~endeavoring with the kind and able
assistance of Chief Detective Benjamin
Franklin, 10 obtain the fullest and most
reliable details of the confession to graft
fly the deep anxiety of the public upon
this subject.
The consul of the prisoner, Messrs.
O'Neill and Wolbert, were present in his
cell until past four o'clock. On their re-
firing the members of the press were not
able to obtain any details Of the confess
sion, from these ~reticent gentlemen. At
ter a subsequent short visit by several
Catholic priests, Mr.. Perkins, Jr,, Assist
ant Keeper, Chief Franklin, Mr.. Wood
ward, and the reporters were admitted
10 his cell. The indoors were closed,
but the narrow window lighted up the
small vaulted cell, bringing out wildly
the bare walls and floor, and the mattress
upon which sat Anton Probst. lie look
cd the same as during the long days Of
his trial. He was dressed in pantaloons,
shirt, and blue wooden stockings. Around
his left ankle passed an iron chain, seye-
raj feet in length, which was fastened to
an iron ring in the floor. In his hand he
held a small rosary, and his fingers often
PLAYED among the black beads, and his
eyes occasionally dropped to the cruciGX.
His confession was as follows
| went down to Mr. behring's the sec
ond time about the 2nd of last March
nv motive was to work | knew at the
time he was in the habit Of having money
in the house; | had not thought Of com-
hitting the Murder at that time, but |
calculated to rob him Of money [ had
seen him counting money he counted
a good deal Of money in the house ; |
never said anything about it TO anybody
at all !; 1 had several plans 10 get hold OF
the money, but [ was never out on the
road waiting for him /; | never said any
thing to the boy Cornelius about it;
never asked him about the money in the
house; never had any conversation with
him about it.
Icame TO this country in 1868, at Cas-
tie Garden, in the ship Columbus, from
Bremen | never did anything wrong in
Germany (before | came here; my father
and mother are still living in Baden !; |
had a brother and sister; my father is a
carpenter; I had no trouble at home; |
thought this was a better country |
worked at home at farming for my father;
[ was never brought up to any trade,
[ was born at Baden I am twenty
four years old | enlisted in two hours
after arriving in New York, on Saturday,
the 9th of May, 1868 [ went into the
Forty-frst New York Infantry, about two
O'Clock in the afternoon, after drinking in
a lager beer saloon in Greenwich street;
[ went into the Twelfth Pennsylvania
Cavalry next; | stayed in New York I'M
til the following Monday; then I got the
money for my clothes, they sent me away
on Monday about six or eight miles from
New York !; / stayed there, and then we
went TO Washington.
L stayed there about six or eight weeks
in all, then I deserted there, | went to
Baltimore for Philadelphia, and then to
New York
I enlisted first in the Forty-first New
York Infantry Regiment dc Kalb Regl-
ment) and went to Charleston, South
Carolina then, on Saturday, nine months
after, we were ordered to Washington /;
we got there on Sunday afternoon and
we stayed there !; I left my musket there
and deserted right away /; | went to some
place in Washington and got some clothes;