Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-04-15
The Murder i'm Spring valley
Cleared Up.
THE MURDERER Is ARRESTED.

Cleared Up.
THE MURDERER Is ARRESTED.
The horrible Spring Valley mystery is
at last cleared up, by the aid of private
detectives. who struck a cold trail, tracked
the assassin with keen scent, and ar
rested him in New York. For weeks past
the following has appeared in the personal
columns of the various daily journals:
INFORMATION is wanted of an unknown Jew,
of very small stature and lame in lett leg, hav-
ing T. +. marked on his SHIRT, who was found
murdered at Spring Valley, \. y, March IA.
Address Box $500 New York Postoffice.
This advertisement led to the detection
OF the murderer, and unraveled the name
of his victim.
The murder was enveloped in a mystery
more impenetrable than that of the Rog-
ers assassination. Neither the name of
the murdered man or that of his assassin
were known. 1t may be remembered that
on the night of Sunday, the 18th of
March, the body of an unknown man was
found in an open field in Spring Valley,
Rockland county, about thirty-three miles
from New York, bearing evidences of
having been brutally murdered 1t. was
stripped of pants and coat, hat rested
over the eyes, the face was horribly mu-
tilated, the nose and lips were eaten by
rats one eye had been plucked out, and
the skull fractured. The case was entirely
enveloped in mystery. The body could
not be recognized, the witnesses who sup
posed they knew him differing widely in
their statements, and, as it is now shown,
being entirely wrong in their conjectures.
The authorities and citizens of the Val
ley were on-plussed III all their efforts
to find clue either to the identity of the
murdered man or the murderer, and only
succeeded in arrestIng suspected indlvl-
duals by the wholesale. AT last deter
mined to employ every facility for the de-
lection of the crime which had blottcd
their peaceful valley, they employed the
services of the Pinkerton Police Agency,
about two weeks after the finding Of the
body. They gave all the information OF
which they were possessed, but it was of
comparative little value in the eyes Of ex-
perienced detectives.
The agency at once placed large force
of its ablest men at work, from fifteen to
twenty being engaged on the case. After
a laborious search, they succeeded in
three or four days in entirely clearing up
the mystery, discovering the identity OF
the parties, and yesterday handed the
murder over to the police authorities of
New York city.
The murdered man was Joachim L.
Furter, frugal young German, twenty
four years of age, who worked as tailor
at the corner of Atlantic and Cl1sson
avenues Brooklyn. The murderer Is
lazy, dissipated fellow, named Antonio
Maurer, also "a German of the same age,
and a cringing, cobbling shoemaker, able
to earn about three dollars IA week and
his board by doing loose jobs and stealing
or borrowing his spending money
1t appears that Maurer owed IS bor
rowed money to Furter, and made APP
pointment to meet him at Spring Valley,
where he formerly worked, on the 9th Of
March, telling him he would get the
money from his boss there, who represen
ted to be matchmaker, Mr.. Naucher, a
Frenchman, and who it now appears,
never employed him, but gave him Il dol
lar now and then out of charity. Maui
rer directed Furter how to make the trip,
and the last seen of his unfortunate vic
tim in this city was on the morning of
the day he started. He neatly dressed
himself, took large pocket-took out of
his chest, and went to the foot of Cham
bers street, where, according to the direc-
tions, he was to take the cars for Spring
Valley. Furter was IA frugal young man,
and had considerable earnings saved
When his body was found, some money
was remaining in the inside pocket OF
his vest, which had been left upon the
body.
Maurer had told certain parties before
he started for Spring Valley that in re-
turn for some money they loaned him he
would bring back and give them a gold
watch and chain, nice hat, &c. On his
return on the Both of March, when asked
about his promise, he replied that he
dared not bring the things just now.
On the night of the same day he was
very uneasy in his sleep, tumbled about
in the bed, and the next morning talked
about nothing but the murder, having
come from the vicinity of the same the
afternoon previous.
1t is thought that the murder was COM
mitted in some house in the vicinity, and
body kept in the cellar fer several days
by the parties occupying it, who feared an
exposure, or difficulty if it were found on
their premises. Parties are living in the
neighborhood who would not like to have
their associations ventilated by a coroner's
inquest or q murder trial. A stave found
alongside the body is supposed to have
been used in carrying it to the field,
where, as previously stated, it was placed
SO as to invite discovery instead of in the
adjacent woods where it might have been
hidden.
Maurer was pointed out on Broadway,
on Wednesday afternoon, to police Off
Ger, by the wife of one of his former en-
ployers, she having been instructed to keep
a watch on him. He was taken to police
headquarters, and to-day will be taken to
Spring Valley. The prisoner is little,
round-shouldered, low-browed French OF
German; speaks no English very long
in the body. According to his statement,
he left No. Morris street February 18th,
telling Ehrig he was going to Europe ON
the steamer. BE went TO Hoboken, and
stayed eight days; then to Delaney strset,
ave days: thence TO Brooklyn, iour days;
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