Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-09-22
The Philadelphia Murder.

The ING uirer of Friday Gays:
The excii~mPnt IN the nsighborhood OF the
house where the late murder took place was
very Int. nse yesterday morning
A further examination OF the premi ises was
made TO ascertain If the murderer had got any
thing for has crime. A pocket. book In which
Mr.. Miller kept her mar ket money was found
IN ITS usual place, and the contents were IN
disturbed. Another purse which the deceased
usually took 10 market was also found Ii had
ten-cent note in it. Money belonging TO a
society OF which Mrs. Miller was a member
was found in a closet In the upper part of the
honse. Nothing was missing from the house
except plain gold ring which the deceased
wore on her fiRger In the parlor, on the
evening of the day of the murder, copy OF a
morning paper was found where il had been
thrown through the window by the carrier
and is thought that the opening Of the win
dow by the carrier disturbed the assassin in
MS operations and caused him TO hasten his
departure. This may account for the money
ana other valuable articles in the house re-
Yesterday morning, DIR. L. b. ShapIeigh
maoe post mortem examination OF the de-
ceased The wounds on the head were found
TO be OF such character as 10 preclude any
herself
Detectives Joshua Taggart and George II.
Smith, associated with ChIef Franklin, were
kept busy yesterday endeavoripg 10 detect the
perpetrator OF the horrible murder A number
OF arrests of parties who are held as witnesses
were made during the day
Since the above was written these facts have
been developed:
Gottlieb Williams is a butcher by trade. He
will be thirty EIGHT years old this day He
never married. His father used to own the
house in which Mrs. Miller resided. The court,
containing twelve houses, running from But
tonwood street In the rear OF the house No. ga
Buttonwood street, was formerly called Will
Hams' court. On the morning previous TO the
murder he came TO the house He was a fire.
quent visitor there. On this occasion he asked
for breakfast, which she gave him He Iaft
ha q flsl.Nr a f,xy
way OF the court entered Pleasant street. He
stopped % speak TO Mrs. Crissey, living in
the court, as he went by. He knew her well,
and remarked upon the kindness of Mrs Mil.
ler He said that he loved her as dearly as he
did his mother.
Williams lest his father some years ago. He
was left with comparative competence. So
were his brothers. One OF them ser we'd a term
In the penitentary. None or them have any
property left. 6oltlieb has been several times
In the alnshouse. We learn from Chief Fraug
I'm that tie last register OF his name there is
dated July 10, 1866 He has been there a sort
OF conner and goer. The whole family were
butchers, doing business In Spring Garden
market Some twenty years ago, Gottlieb
killed boy in the market by pIunging knife
into his heart. He evaded The penalty of MS
crime by fleeing TO California.
For long time he has lived the life of a va.
grant. He was stricken with palsy or paralysis
about the time that he went TO California HIS
left arm is stifened and nearly powerless. He
was at Fisher 6 tavern, Ninth aud Baton wood,
on the morning or the murder, at quarter to
seven O'Clock. He had often been there before,
but never at an hour so early. The authorities
are satisfied that he is the guilty man That
he took nothing away was evident, because
he could not ascend the stairs. That no one
crossed the fence is shown by the undisturbed
condition OF the trailing-delIcate vines that
overhungi il.
Chief Franklin tracked him TO the Robin
Hood Hotel, near Laurel Hill. where he had
some distant relatives and acquantances
Gottleib then went TO a large meat packing
establishment just opposite the hotel. A can
telope lay upon the porch. with knife stuck
ing IN 1t. {" Whose cantelope is that :" he asked
OF a young man who was sitting there. This
was about p m ." II is yours If you want
it," was the reply. Gottleib eat the melon,
and sharpened the knife upon a milestone
why Go you do that l'' he was asked; ssyou
have eaten the melon" 81 want TO xiii nv
self," was the reply. al tell you / shall III |
live till Friday shall be thirty eight years
old; but don't intend TO live 20 see that day
i brought a bottle of Iaudanum here for that
purpose, but the cork came out OF 1t and lost
II ALL"
This was true. for the cork was found lust
where he had been sitting. The man talking
with him went away, glad 10 get rid of him.
Afterwards this young man, with others, went
into the loft of the packing house, and there
found him lying upon the bare floor among a
lot OF rubbish. The sslutation they received
was the same knife that was in the melon,
which he threw al them.
They tried TO pacify him, and partially did
go. They got him back to the hotel where a
man who had known him in better days be-
slowed upon him dollar. They got him into
a Ridge avenue car, when he bid them good
bye, saying that they would never see him
again. He has not since been seen, or rather
has not al this writing. His clothes were dab
bled with blood, but as he had been among
slaughter house debris, no importance was
attached TO it. Chief Fran kiln states that be-
sides killing the boy, as above mentioned, he
was also charged with killing a man named
Turne. by striking him over the head with q
spauner. He was tried and acquitted.
The police were notified last night, az six
O'Clock. Of the description Of the suspected
man. Every citizen will, of course, be upon
the lookout for him. He.:is five feet seven or
eight inches high, with brown goatee and hair;
wore a dark straw hat, and faded suit Of
clothes, and laced shoes. HIS arm and left
side were palsied. He carried q hickory walk
ing stick, with carved handle. He had been
almost pensioner upon the woman whom he
is believed TO have m urdered.