The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-01-21
THE NATHAN MURDER.
Alleged Discovery of the Murderer-A
Marvellous story.

the year with first-class sensation. 1t
is no less than five-column letter from
the famous Count Joannes, pretending
to establish the fact of the discovery OF
the assassin who killed the late Benla-
min Nathan, and of his accompllce.
The latter is printed in large type and
with the greatest degree of typograph-
ical display by the Sun, which editor
ially endorses the statements of the
Count The letter appears to have been
written in delirium of delight over
the result of his long continued inves
LEGATIONS. He is always "grand, gloomy
and peculiar" but this discovery has
made him epigrammatical and witty, as
we'll
According to the Counts narrative,
he with four other gentlemen formed
sort of Vigilance Committee for the in
vestigation of the Nathan murder All
but himself, however, soon retired from
the fruitless labor. He was left alone,
and, as he says:
[ received Ito write in alliteration)
numerous letters from Jews and testers,
Gentiles and gentlemen, matrons and
maidens, ladies and larceners, SANDER
ers and summers, clergymen and cheats,
priests and prisoners, bombastic DULLES,
bankers, brokers, brilliant and bung-
ling burglars, dated in this city, and
from Canada, and from the East, West,
North and South--a collection of com
positions as would make a museum of
mockery or sense, to throw me off my
guard; and some denounced death
against me, and in other instances wise,
suggestive conclusions.
Finally, through official aid and his
own inquiries, he found an accomplice
of the murderer in prison. This man
was in the Marine Corps during the
war, as messenger of Admiral Farra-
gut. He knew the man who killed Mr.
Nathan. There was plot, he said, to
rob the house of Mr.. Nathan, in which
the person alluded to participated.
There was no intention to kill Mr.. Ma
than, but the murderer preferred to
cake desperate chances than to go to
Sing Sing, and had before this killed
two men, in Nevada.
The Count gives a long series of ques-
lions and answers to and from this ac-
complete of the murderer, who was in
prison when the murder was commit
ted. He also said that the murder was
committed by the use of al "iron
RING" phrase exactly describing the
"dog" found at Mr. Nathan's house.
the accomplice and by the suspected
ment. And the accomplice said:
"This iron dog was picked up in
Camp McDermit, Nevada, in may, 1869,
while Jim and / were there. It was used
for opening boxes of clothing, from
which We used to pilfer, and was
brought on to New York as memento
of having Drained Piute Indian, and
kept by me in my trunk until [ gave
Jim an order to get it.
We give, also, the questions and an
swers which follow
Count Joannes-Did yon see in the
murderer's possession any Jewels, mon
ey, or any valuables that belonged to
the late Mr. Nathan?
Prisoner saw three large diamond
studs and gold watch and chain, when
[ saw him, August 3, 1870
Count Joannes-Did the murderer
give you any money!
Pnsoner-He gave me five dollars.
Count Joannes-About how long
period before the 29th of July, 1870
the day of the murder-did the subse-
quent killer of Mr. Nathan call and see
You?
Prisoner-About July 20, 81, or %,
1870
Count Joannes-Did he ask to Dor
row any articles, implements or profess
sional "screws" of you? If yes, did
you meet his wish2 and state what ar
ticles you lent him, and where he went
to get them.
Prisoner-Yes; he asked me for Jim
mics, etc, and said he was going to
'crack" that place in Twenty-third
street. l told him to go to my trunk
and get the iinmies, etc, and he took
the "dog" and revolver, etc.
Count JOannes-Was the implement
now known as the iron "dog" among
the articles you loaned to him?
Prisoner-Yes!
Count Joannes-Was the said iron
dog" ever longer than when you lent
1t to him Ii yes, why was it short
ened?
Prisoner-It was unhandy to carry
in my pocket.
liz CNItSiIC VI UIiS 1IIUtlIlSeub sur
geon at the Nathan inquest as to the
death-blo from the iron "dog," was
that it penetrated the forehead brain;
and he expressed the blow by his ac
ton, as from right to left, thence. ap-
parently, by, a left-hand man. That
was the mental result from the evil
dence.
In my interviews with the alleged
murderer, he not knowing that he was
accused, he freely rendered to me his
theory Cat last) OF the robbery and MUIR
der, and during our conversations OBJ
served that he always kept his right
hand III his side pantaloons pocket,
and gesticulated and even wrote with
his left hand.
L asked him how it was, in his theory
Of the murder, that the diamond studs
were taken from the shirt bosom, and
no marks remaining of the bloody fin
gers! "Of course, said, ''they must
have been taken out before the muir
der" when he quickly replied:
mo, no! They were unscreaUed and
taken out after the murder; for moth
ing was easier than to wipe the blood
off the hands, as thus, upon the sides
OF the pantaloons suiting the action to
the aoords aOith both hands,. [ used
often to do it when was butcher"
1t was this expressive action of his
which betrayed the deformity (from
factory accident) of his right hand, the
thumb of which and one finger are
crooked and paralyzed.
The deformity of bloody hand was
seen upon the walls and the door Initial