Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-05-11

OF the Deering family as the unaided worl
OF his blood-imbrued hands. To Fathc
Grundner, of the German Redemptonis
Church of st. Alphonsus, of Philadelphia
he disclosed the details, and relieved TO tha
extent his scared conscience, on Sunda,
afternoon. By the advice of this good priest
who IS trying to prepare the miserable mar
for DEATH Probst made the confession tC
him, not us TO priest, but as to citizen
Therefore 1t was not to be kept private, ant
on Monday morning the priest in question
made the necessary communication to the
Mayor.
The delay of the butcher in making this
confession, has caused considerable expense
TO the detectives. Chief Franklin has eX
pended a vast amount of time and trouble
N securing the quarters in Philadelphia and
New York irequented by the lower class OF
foreigners, in search of the man named by
l'robst as his accomplice in these murders.
In the lower part of New York there are
whole rows of houses of equivocal rcputa,
ton, Kept by an inferior class of Germans,
and through these Mr. Franklin has most
diligently caused search to be made 1t was
not ~ any expectation of favorable result
That he did so, but because there was, in
view of the shocking extensiveness OF the
butchery committed, possibility that sec.
ond demon might have been concerned in it,.
Probst now yerfies the predictions Of the
Mayor, the District Attorney, and all the
experts OF the police force, by the acknowl-
edgment that, but for fear OF being torn to
pieces at the hands OF the mob, he would at
the first have conceded the full extent OF the
enormities le had committed lie not only
expects TO die but he wants TO die He is
NOT mend but beast, and like all wearied
animals he asks repOse-repose that lie is
wei aware exists not for him on this side of
the grave. He purposely reserved his con
iesslon until he knew that from his prison
cell he would never again emerge until he
walks from it, upon the graveled walk OF the
inner prison, to the spot where the cord,
made for Berger shall choke out the lie
thal now animates him. "a man can die
but once, " he argues, "and the pangs of
death are at best dreadful. By strangulatiom,
mlne VIII be hut momentary. | couldn't
live here now, and | am resigned to meet
DEATH but until was convicted and sen
fenced feared that the people would tram
pie me under their feet There is shrcwd-
ness in this remark. People expressed won
der IN our hearing that PrObst sat quietly
while the city photographer, Cohill, took his
picture. Any one who had stood near him
on that occasion, as did the writer, would
have entertained no wonder The wretch
at that moment looked upon himself us for.
tunale IN escaping the vengeance of an in.
furiated mob.
In the presence OF Father Grundner, the
warden OF the prison, and various leading
authorities of the city, the murderer repeated
on MONDAY the confession made ON the day
previous to his spiritual adviser. 1t is likely
thai he now tells the entire truth.
lie says substantially tms:-lIc did not
like the Deerings. They lived in squalor
ana worked him severely. Ills food was
extremely coarse, and not always sufficient
ne ald ike the boy Carey. He wanted
money, however, and was extremely anxious
to procure sufficient 10 take him 10 n distant
locality, where he could be saved from The
ually urudgery of spreading manure, chop
ping wood and milking cows. lie presumed
that Deerlng had in the house not less than
thousand dollars, and this he coveted night
and day.
Ihe morning of the murder found the wife
and children of Deering in the house. Deer
ing himself had gone for his neicc. and the
Doy Carey was at work near the hay rick.
ne was reluctant to despatch the boy, hut
deemed his death indispensable, and after
several minutes of irresolution, drove all
that was remaining of good from his own
neart. The axe flashed in the sunlight, and
then iol lowed the crashing of the brain. the
conVulsiye struggle of the departing spirit,
ana then the darkness of death The boy
SANK upon the grass, every blade of which
sustained thousand atomic lives. and Inv
upon his back dead With ii shovel the
murderer dug up the blood soaked sod, and
lirew II INTO the creek, and then deposited
inc Dody as 1t was found in the hay-rick
ne now went TO the house, telling Mrs.
Deerins that COW in the barn, that had
IAN down, was unable to rise. lie wanted
hei ail to get the animal to its feet. She
willingly followed him to the barn. Enter
lng the open door, he took from behind il
the axe that he had provided, and in another
second the wife of Deering Law with her skull
broken and her throat cut, down at his feet.
The sight of this blood, Probst saws, gave 10
him uncomfortable fcrocity. He had not
once thought oil killing the children. lie
wanted the money that he supposed to lie
somewhere in behring's house. lie took
tle HVes ol The boy and Mrs. Deering us ne.
cc,saiy to bring about that result. but he
uluh l want the lives of the children. The
plood that scented that mornings air rem
uered INN madman, SO far US tile spirit OF
murder was concerned. One by one lie en-
ticcd ihe children to the barn, beating in
lheir skulls as they came there with the shoIi
hahuled axe that the eldest child away from
home at the time, recognized as his own.
lheh came the task of concealing the
1odles, and this Probst says was scarcely
oohe, anu the evidences of guilt removed MS
lar as possible, when Deerinp drove intn tho
yard, with the niece (Miss Dolan) in the
buggy with him. Probst saws that before
Deering alighted from the wagon. he told
Deerlng that one OF the cows was sick
Deerlng didn't even stop to remove his
leather gloves. lie entered the barn behind
the door of which Probsl had planted him.
sell, with axe held alolt. II descended. and
Deerlng was a corpse. The same hacking
OF the throat was given, and then the mui
uerer turned back To find Miss Dolan. SHE
hau gone to the house, removed her outer
apparel, and, finding no one inside. was
coming to the barn to seek them. Proh.i
walked behind her, and, as her hand was
upon the latch of the barn door, sent her
INTO eternity, as he had done the rest.
lie put away the bodies as has already
been described, covered them with hav. nnd
then went to the house for plunder lie
solemnly swears to his confessOr that he rot
not one dollar, nor one article beyond The
trllling matters exhibited at the Coroner's
inquest, not worth, all told, the sum of fihy
Ioliars' II MISS Dolan had two or three hun
dred dollars in Treasury notes he AYERS I'M
he did not see them. The render NAV -"
member that the pocket-bouk of Miss Dolnn
as shown at the inquest, contained only eigbi
postage stamps. The mother of the deceased
uelosed nat she had put them in the laurh
ier's pocket-book before she started trom
Burlington to visit the Deerngs. Probst.
who is now to he credited, solemnly swears
mat beyond few postage currency notes,
the poeket-book contained nothing.
Finding no money, the murderer saws his
chiagrin was terrible, and he literally cursed
himself ~ IN his despair and disappointment.
lie packed up the pinchbeck watch nc
common silver watch, the brummapnn chain
and few miserable articles OF cheaD iewelry
that he took from the corpses and the house.
together with the two pistols-the onlvthings
OF actual value that he found-in Miss Do
lan.s blaek Yarnished muslin hnr- and ni