The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-13
O. That was ON Fridarf


A. No THE prisoner here pull ed up one panta.
loon above the top o s boot to indicate the size Of
o. Ae had pair OF boots of about that lengthG
A. Yes; they re in the house, now.
10. No; they ere missing.
A don't know about them.
q. He did not take them with him, nor you eitherH
q. Then all this was done in day lightS
Q. Did you leave the honse before nightS
A. About SIX or seven O'Clock.
Q Did you eat anything in the house after you
committed the murderg
A. Yes, something.
q. There was q ham cut-who cut thats
O. She cleaned OF the breakfast things before she
was killeCi
A, Yes.
Q. What was that ham cutfors
a. For dir ner time
q. What oid you and this other eatS
A. Bread and butter.
Ibis question was repeated before an answer was
A; lie went away first. He told me to go and he
O. You have no relatives in this country, have
A. No.
q. Have you any at home--a father or mother
liUngr
O. Dtd you ever bear from tn mr
-. Yes.
Q. How long SINGER
A. About Two months.
O. Are they old people!
Q. This man, you say, killed all but the boy'
Q. You killed tAe boy and he killed all the restS
Q. He killed Mrs Deerug and the four children,
aLd then MIR. Deering, when he came home, and the
woman with hlm2
a. los las this answer was given, an apparently
involuntary sigh escaped the prisoner
2. Did you help him kill any OF tnems
Q. You will tell everything you know. of course,
Antoinef
[rhe prisoner added something about making it
ali rght which was naudible even to our reporter,
who bent over hIml
@ You had two axess
q. Alter their heads were broken, who chopped
their throats?
A. he cut them all down; he knocked them all
o. iBy Chief Rugelesl Did you not cut the throat
OF fbe boy you killed with the hatchetr
Q Continued the Nav or) You both agreed be-
fore hand that you were 10 klh them by hitting
Il em the skull, ana cut their throats after
wardsY
A. Yes.
Q. That was the plan you agreed upon?
(No answer was gwen to this question, other than
ella hit inclination of the headl
z. Have you any brothers or slstersr
a. es; have three brothers in Germany.
q, Are you tue Youngest OF the famIlYr
A. Yes; am the youngest.
q. What is your fathers occupation! Question
A. He Is carpenter.
q. The same as your ownE
Q. YOn learned your trade with your father!
A Yes.
Q. Where did you lose your thumbR
Q. Were you regularly discharged9 Did you
selve your time Outp
Q. You stayed your tune Out, you say, Antoine,
and then you were mustered out with the rest OF your
A. Yes, served with my company.
Q. Did you get INTO any trouble when in the
A. No.
Q. You never we're under arrest for anythng'
q. lBy Chief Ruggles,) Who took that little baby
A. He did, They were all killed when came in
the hOuse-the children and the woman.
CAT this point casual conversation toek place be
tween the Mayor and the officers who ma de tue
lowing additional questions were then put to the
Q. Some Of the people down there said you always
your mea 8. Is that lruef
A. No. every time took 1t of.
q. You would have no reason for Keeping 1t onE
(His Honor here stated that his reason for putting
this question account of the suppositon that
the prisoner wore wig while he was in the employ
OF Mr.. Deering. He seemed however, to have
@ DID you ever know man by the name of
Timothy to work for MIR. DeeringE
Q. He had no other laboring man about the place
A. Yes, he got one when came there's he was
o. What was his name; do you knows
A. do not know the namej this was a young
O, When was that man thereS A. He left before
A. No; was one day there before he came.
9. He stayed eight daYss
(The object of the question was to find something
TO correspond with the date of receipt already pub
.lished)
Q: ROy far were you out in the country on
A. / walked a little round there.
@ You did not stop at a tavern to stay where they
refused to take you in, did yous
Q. Were you not many miles OutS
A. About two mi es.
O. You did not then go away about nine or ten
mIlesf
Q. What sort Of a bag vas it that this man Took
A. No III was about that long Indicating length
of about two feet and that wlde; he got 1t from the
woman when she had come.
Q. Was 1t oil clOthI
A, Yes; a black bag.
Q. Was 1t newf
A. No; II was not new.
@. This other man has moustacheS
O. A black mOustache'
a. Yes
O. Whiskers and moustache toos
Q. And the travelling g-bag he had was a black o'e'
A. Yes.
O. He has dark hair, has heS
A. Yes.
(The examination before the Mayor here eiosea''
Tue bodies of the murdered Deernes ana Ine
other two victims of the drcadfs atrociS naNs
been lying in ice at the premiss Oh mr. S'ipoh
Garland, at Seventeenth, .aId Barker streets
preparatory TO their burfli' tomorrow ~
O'Clock. They have not As yer peen piePyron
for sepulture, but will y durlng tne coqrse OF