The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-12-04
TIE sCa0EpPa MURDER CisE.

The Doctor Appeals to Governor Geary-He
Declares His Innocence and Argues His
Case Upon the Evidence Adduced ON His
Trial.
DR.. Paul Schoeppe, now under sentence Of death
at Carlisle Pa, for the murder of Miss Snnecke, OF
Baltimore, has addressed the following appeal to
| Governor Geary:-
CARLISLE Nov. 90 1860.
| To his Excellency Major General JonY W. CEARY,
Governor OF Pennsylvania Harrisburg, Pa:
dare address you. an q man at the brink or the
grave, and my soul shall meet with Its Maker.
may think. speak the truth, the fun truth, when
say am an innocent man. did not Kill that wo-
man. But before l leave this world feel 1t my
duly to make some statements yet TO your Excel
Mrs. Parker has sworn that Miss stinuecke had
told her inat the Doctor mad gwen her something
to make her Sleep" and that shook my hands and
said ~ did not give her anything TO make her
Sleep"
Mrs. NJ. Shndel has sworn ''that had told her
Miss Stinnocke had asked me for something to put
her to sleep but thar refused to give 1t to her. say
Permit me some words in regard to both state
menTs here repeat did not give Miss Stlnnecko
particular medicine to make her sleep. All she got
from was TWO grains OF tartar emetlc and ten
grains OF pulvls ipecacuanha; but it is wen known
TACT, not only to physicians. but also almost 10 every
person who ever took an emetic, that such u COM
bination OF tartar emelic with ipecacuanha has the
sleep, the ipecacnanna then operating az al ami.
EpaSticum. When Mss Stinnecke, therefore aI,er
sne had vonied, asked me to give her something 10
make her sleep, may have said-only In order to
stop her asklng-'the medicine which have given
you VIII make you sleep,n knowing myself very wen
that II 10 the usual consequence OF an emetic CON-
pounded OF tartar emetlc and ipecacuanha TO cause
steep; and Miss Stlnnecke taking my words Just as
they were spoken aud without knowing the connec.
tIon OF my thoughts could then have told Mrs.
Parker that the doctor had given her something to
make her sleep.u Your Excellency will know very
well that 1t IS sometimes the sad duty OF physician
NOT 10 tell his patients, especially his lady patients
the full TRUTH in order TO appease and calm their
1Anf htaf
ect that when Miss 5tinnecke, In the evening, asked
me Tor something TO pur her to sleep, refused to
give IL 10 her, as Mrs. Shndel has testlled.
In regard TO the charge made against me that had
poisoned Hiss Stnnecke with prussia acid, ] here
swear before God that Miss StlnnecKe never got one
drop OF prussic acid from me. Ineyer bought prussc
acid i'll HARRISBURG l am man possessed OF SO
marked face, besides this wearing gold spectaclcs
OF form not eomn9niy worn mere la America, that
every person who efer san me once Will recognize
mo AZ once. And III addition to this assure your
Exceency that l. till tue funeral OF Miss Stilnecke.
in Baltimore not only never wore hard silk nat
but also had not even, TIL to that time ~ my posses
fore, Is mistaken II he thinks that bought prusslc
aciu rom him.
Your Excelency viii kindly allow me here to tell
how tais whole case was brought up against me. AS
IL turned out that Miss Stinnecke had left
VIII making me her sole heir, people began 70 talk
get her money. Many, very. many, persons
grudged me this fortune Your Exceency
the money would never have been indicted. Az
ready, Tong before the trial, and long before there
existed On alleged CORPUS uStiC!, IL was perfectly
certain to the minds OF the people here that had
Committed murder. All the witnesses OF the Com.
monwealth who swore against me went upon the
witness stand with the certain opinion In their
minds that was q murderer and hai poisoned this
woman They did not ask, in the ilrst place, "Dld
tins woman do by polsonr' They said so--"Dr.
Schoeppe has poisoned this woman; how can We now
Tx this case ~
/ was poor foreigner, without influential friends
and powerful connections, whereas the word or my
public prosecutor was OF great influence with the
public opinion. An immense prejudice was raised
against mo. Even intelligent men were not free OF
tnlA So, for instance remarked ex-Judge Watts,
long before tho trlal-"They should not try DIR.
Scnoeppe ut all he ought 10 be hanged right away.n
am convinced your Lxcellency Will not term such
words Justice" ior the law says crime shall never
When the trial came on my prosecutors under.
stood most skiiuiy now 10 operate with the public
opinion. People were stirred up ia order 10 press
the public opinion upon the jury. In doing my
prosecutors most perfectly succeeded, for the Jury,
during my trial, was In continued illegal comlnu-
nicaton with the people, as tho statement or the
constable who attended the jury on my trial has
shown. A mob was hired and placed under the
window OF the room where the Jury had retired TO
mako up verdict, VINO yelled up, 'Aang that
damned Duchman ~
knowing that was innocent was quiet and calm
during the trial, for trusted the Law would protect
me. ! measured the circumstances aud mat
apply 10 things In Europe. But l have been
most drealfully disappointed, and shall now pay
with my life for crime which has never boon
committed at all. IL was said at the trial by one OF
my prosecutors TO the jury, "Do you think that that
fellow tne) would have married that ladyr' Bat
this was not the question. me question: was "Did'
this lady dio by posonW No man possessed OF
fnr and unpreudlced mind will say that IL has been
proven that MISS Stlnnecke died q poison. Inc law