The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-04-28
The Murderer Probst
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III MS CcAl III III gnAAcusDuIS, DolOE6 the
inquest held over the remains of his
victims, before the Court of Quarter
Sessions: where he was arraigned 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 unuttera-
BILE misery, and looks forward to death
as a welcome relief He is imprisoned
in the same cell the murderer Berger
died of apOplexy. A heavy bolt is
fastened into the center of the floor, and
q chain fastened to this clasps the muir
derers leg Its length allows him Just
sufficient room to lie upon a mattress,
which is his bed, and to reach the loop
hole in the door from which he receives
his food.
He still adheres to his original state
ment that he had an accomplice in the
murders Chief Franklin has not only
secured Philadelphia hut New York
also in pursuit of the man whom he de-
scribes. The search has proved wholly
in vain and from the Christian gen
tleman who ministers to him, the pas
tor of the Roman Catholic Church, at
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 the murderer
utters.
And yet he puts the question shrewd-
| ". know, he says, that l must
be hung. would gladly step out of
this cell, shake of these gives and be
hung tomorrow. 1 killed the boy Cor
nelius Carey, and held behring's
horse while Jake killed him and his
Wife's niece. OF course 1 must be hung;
but" he insists, didn't touch hair
of the children's heads, and Jake
promised me that the baby and the
elder children should suffer no harm.
Horrible spectres, says the wretch
ed assassin, haunt me at night l can
see them all lying within collins" The
| physician of the prison has adminisS
tered to the wretch the most powerful
anodynes and opiates. He seldom
sleeps for one full hour during the
night, and then endures the pangs Of
eternal perdition, and sees the phan-
toms of his murdered victims. The
| Christian priest who has undertaken to
prepare him for death-Father Grun-
| der-it is scarce necessary to say dis
credits his story. The miserable man
wrote yesterday letter to his parents
in Germany, bidding them final adieu,
confessing the crime of murder, and
begging their forgiveness. The letter
! will be forwarded according to his di-
/ r1
far as the confession goes, are evident
ly tissue of falsehOOds. Chief Frank
lin and his detectives have the entire
history of the man from the time he
was mustered out of the army up to
the day he was engaged by Mr.. Deer
ing 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
headquarters and spent his money at a
German brothel in New York. Every
movement that he made is now known.
The people with whom he associated
in these dens of infsmy, whether males
or females, have testified to what they
knew concerning him
The seal Of Cain on his forehead has
been many times exhibited since Chief
Franklin undertook the task of learn
ing his history. The Coroner's jury
rendered a verdict charging him with
the whole of the eight murders. When
we remember that Mrs. Deering, in two
months more, would again have been a
mother the eight murders are increas.
ed to nine The grand jury indicted
him as solely guilty of the entire mas.
sacre. The District Attorney rejecting
as false the entire story of the pris-
oner, will try him for the entire butch
cry.
There was put into his cell the other
day man with manacles Hpon his
wrists. He played the part Of sen.
fenced murderer. To him Probst sd
mitted that he got a thousand dollars
from the murdered family He did noi
say what had become of the money
What has become of what he did OBJ
tain will probably be never known
PennIess and miserable, it was sup
posed that Probst, on the night that be
was arrested, was vending his way tC
the almshouse, of which he had before
been an inmate. He was q vagabond
by nature, and the commission Of muir
der IN no case altered his instincts.
Nearly all the articles stolen from
the Deering homestead have been re
covered. Those still missing are q cav
airy revolver of large size; a small sill.
yer lepine watch, with one hand broker
of, and which it was known was offered
for sale in the neighborhood Of Fourth
and Poplar streets; two fifty dOllal
compound interest notes, and one
twenty dollar compound interest note
A story was circulated on Friday to the
effect that the missing silver watch haC
been recovered Such was not the fact
Il has been traced to 3 female, a resi-
dent Of this city who AYERS that sh,
sold it to a man who resides out Of ia,
city.