The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-17


stayed AL niPht tin uesdayj they were playing die
duiinR the evening ioi betr; at dinner time Tues
again aUno he stayed till night; he sat with his hat
over his eyes; asked him what was the matter with
hm he saio he didn't eel well as he had been on a
tprte the night before Wednesday evening no was
talking wIh Heinrich Baer; they went away to-
Rether; next saw him on Thursday, think but I'm
not sure can't tell whether IT WednesdaylOr
THURSDAY II was the day aiier the murder was dis
covered, for the dett ctVes were there looking Tor
prisoner was n the bar.room while the detectives
were there; when he first came he nad this valise
he tod me TO keep IT for hD took # and gave it
70 the IOhee Kept t because he didn't pay tor the
beer; he spent nearly SO when he first camei he
paid for his lodgingsj saw silver watch nc had
asked for Heinrich Baer with another man; / said
yes, you can find them down Front street; he went
and when lie came back asked mm II he saw them,
and he said yes; then hao Heinrich Baer arrestedi
that ls, after heard OG the murder.
Hennch Baer, swOrn-I 1--we at the corner OF
Front and Coates; know the prisoner; he belonged
to the 9th Pennsylvanln Cava ry, the same that
belonged to, Compan! L; l met hm at LickfeId's
last Wednesday tTobst. the prisoner, told me that
ne had been inquinng for me; 1 saw HIM on We'd
nesday evening, about o'cockj we drank couple
OF glasses of beer; saw him have chain similar TO
this and part of the watch sticking out of his
pocket; don't know whe her 1t was a gold or silver
one; bo afterwards asked me If would like to pur
chase a pl,tol tins IS the one; said "No L don't
buy any pistols;" didn't see hls pocket.bOOk; he
laid for The beer with dfty-cent note; l saw no
lal ger money; i asked bIm whether he would loan
me seventy-Gve cents; he sad he couldn't spare any
as he was gong TO Germany tomorrow mornings
the last saw of HIM. .... f.
John Pross swOfn-I know the prisoner; his nam
is Ant9ipe Probst; was IN the same regiment WITH
him; Twas IN Company and he IN Company l.;
haynt seen him SINCE ne left the Bockl6y Hospita
{ II to day; he was IN the coO6 house.
Cbarlts Rous sworn.-l attend to boarders for Mr.
Llckleld; I know lie prisoner; John Pross cam
last Thursday and asked lor the prisoner; saw tn
prisoner have two watches and two pistols, q sma
one ana large one; that is one OF them; this
one of the watches, the other is a silver one; of
the hands was broken off the silver watch; dldn's
see him have much moneys the prisoner came to
Lckield's on 5unoay afternoon, at O'Clock; he
came there again on Monday morning at 10 O'Clock;
Monday night he stayed all nlghti he left on Tues
DAY morning. after breakfast and came back on
" ednesday about noon he was not there on Wed-
Desday night; he re uIned on thursday morning at
O'Clock; he left on Thursday evening at O'Clock;
1 never saw anybody in company with HIM; he
came alone and went away alone
Officer W illlam Green sworn On Friday morn.
ing heard they after parties implicated in the
muI der; Mr. Lickied told me that the prisoner had
left vase took the valise to the Station House,
where We broke it OPEN and found the contents as
Edward German sworn-The body of the woman
that saw lying in the barn was the same that
saw at Gartland's, on Thirteenth street
officer James Dorsey swOrn-Oficers Weldon,
Atkinson, and were in the neighborhood Of rwen'
ty -th I'd and Market streets, and Officer Atkinson
taid that man answers the description OF the mur.
derer, but be an Hishman; that didn't satisfy me,
and ran after hmi when about two yards TINS side
OF the bridge caught up to him, and said Good
EVENING"" took off his hat, and 1 said, you're
Dutchmanr" he said, mo; Pm FreDchman;"
| the Iridge;' 1 said, "Where's your goatee?" he
saId "He shaved it of last Monday )" sad you'd
better turn around and take walk with me down
Market street," took hold of his coat and said
| It's q fine evening"" he said "Ya.a-s;" 1 walked
| Weldon and Atkinson and all three went TO the
station House with the prisoner; we TOOK the pr
soner to the Lieutenants room, and there no iced
his thumb being off; he was searched by Lieutenant
| Patton; pockeLknlfe, large one was taken out
| OF his pocletj asma purse; that's it; that's all
know about If; 1T was ABOUT eight o'c ock when we
| saw the prisoner; OttCer Atkinson said he
| ITishman
| noon got despatch from the chief giving de-
| scnptiOn OF this man except the thumb, which de-
| scrIption communicated TO the force; between s
! and O'Clock saw the officers come down Market
street between Sixteenth ana Seventeenth streets
followed chem to the Station House, andItook from
the prisoner If he had ever lived at Nj bearings;
| he said no, be had not; ] then sent out for Mr.
Mitchell, who lived at No. 1929 Arch street; he came
| TO the STATION House, but could not identity the
| man; he told me OF a lady in West Philadel-
| phia who could identify him; / sent for her
the next morning, and she identified him; right
| away after he was identified he owned ~ to killing
the boy; had no conversation with him from the
time he was locked up the evening until the old lady
| came; had him in the morning in my room; the
ola lady was there; Mrs. Doan was the old lady /;
! she Immediately identified him; she asked bv
! Sergeant BadeD if that was the man; she ran Up
to hln ard sad that is the numbering vii ain after
be as taken down slaiTs he said IL at he had killed
the boy; can't recollect the words he sand to him.
or by HIM exactly. There were no threats used
! Officer Weldon swoTn.-It was twenty minutes to
] O'CLOCK on llursQay nlPnt That i standing q
! the corner OF Twenty third and Market street
| waiting TO make an arrest, when the Or soner cume
along; was satisfied from the lieutenants descrIp
tOn that he was the man, except the gOatee; Atkin
| son said that II he was not an lrishman he WOu d
| answer the description OF the muTdererj said ne
| was not an Irishman but Duichman Atkinson
SAID he wasj by this time Officer Dorsey arrived on
| the ground; he didn't hear the conversation at all
l advanced towards Dorsey, and said you are a
younger man than am, and you can run tas er
overhaul that man, il he's German bring him back
II he's IRISH let hlm pass immediately he returned
] " mr. mi fhpV Uprp a rn oDa nor
sey being next to the house; here Dorsey stopped
apo delivered the man to me; commenced to inter
rogate, him. ssked the prisoner. when did you
take this goatee off, he said on Monday; said,
how long have you been in this country he said
about three years. where have you been llVngG IN
Eighteenth street, West Philadelphia sand he; said
there vas no such p.acej what is your employers
namep Jonn Hoover; what does he dor a carpenter
told him there was no carpenter OF that name IN
West Philadelphia; he then salG he was a cabinet
maker; asked hlm where he was coming from; he
sad he had lett Hoover, and was down Cary penter
st eet hunting another job; found this statement
so contradictory that arrested him; took him BY
the night arm and walked him down, Dorsey on the
other side part OF the way, and part OF he way
handed him over to the Lieutenant; the
let the prisoner go was that had already taken
from the SchUylkill two men, and / felt exhausted
and was raid that If this man ran he would get
away from me.
Officer Atkinson sworn Officer Dorsey was about
q step behind us; SAID 10 Olcer Weldon there goes
man that answers the dt scription OF the murderer
SAID to Ofhcer Dorsey to go after him and arrest
hm II he was Germanj Dorsey laughed attheIdea,
but he went and ARE sted the prisoner.
CHIEF Franklin testified TO finding the bodies OF the
| victims the axe, the wagon with the meati he a so
notified all the Station Houses of the description
the hired man; the light suit of clothes the prison.
| ersJ were iound under hrs bed; the bonnet and
IuIs were up stairs the bed, not soed az all the
shirt, with the bOod 1t, was on crib up stairs
had co, veIsatlon with the prisoner on thursday
evening; 1 asked him if ne mad any objection to
| l asked HIM what his name was; he saId
Anthony 1aunter; lne said he had been IN