The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-15
CORONER'S INQUEST AND VERDICT

C0R0NER'S INQUEST AND VERDICT
The Dayton COhO) journal furnishes the following
terrible but amazing story touching the murderer
Marquardts whose wife and three children were
brutally murdered q few days ago under some reli-
gious nallucinatton synopsis Of which was pub.
lished In the HERALD al the OF Its occurrence:
The precedent history OF the family aud the story
OF the murder - dramatic III the most thrilling de.
gree. There was not time when this was written to
tell the tale OF the maniac husband aui father. lie
was In cage In the station house asleep, when ne
was awakened to tell his story to US. When aroused
ne struck us q; once as deranged man, although
his unnaturaly red face suggested intemperance
But has story dlsabused US OF that impression. At
the close he said, II drank more yesterday than
it at ai" We Thought MIN man as sH least fHt
years old. His originally dark brown hair was
S%ziy' IKE iooilsmls iasnlSnably powdered head
tares HIS hair was long and ank, parted one side;
his face red, long aud thin, with strong straight
sharp outlook He was respectfully dressed; said ne
chad on his good Clothes" and though WORKING
woman'a He SAID his story would take an hour.
Late "a u was, we told MIN to go He said HIS
stx yes Old; came 20 this country s when be wa.
eagnsespi mas . sister residing near Newark. n J.;
~srroa CIV walter 10 sais country when ne
four m0nf14 Eight years ago he married Mary
been separated from ner husband Tor about the the
same reason that had caused the divorce between
s soS @ Sa tSsy had s ssa Il
0nsr they naS SIX cnaren en- In sgn yssr me
three that was murdered. 'God knows," he said,
show q died" Ne and Mary mad not lived
nrst got to "pIaying che TOOL about Heaven.b
church nor saw clergyman nor mad anything to
do with spirisualism. sue had notions that she
not answer her after her three appeals the fourth
answer was from the devil, and she thought--his
tod her Tnss both prayed dc was aevo ,
she according to ms story dlda't nave faith They
nae rapd sna sne tSd n now 3S 70 re-
and their first controversy was about heaven. Their
first cnid, now over seven years old, was named
his wife's dclation; the second after Habakkuk the
prophet: the third after John the Baptist ths child
flth Samuel the sixth Magdaene Leah Samuel
and Magdalene were the three who were murdered,
Elizabeth and HabaKkuk escaping.
The unhappy wretch told q long story about MS
discussion with his VIE about witches God and the
devil. lie said she urged him TO take tire to the
1t because God mad told her to- She had taken
things rom her relations ler father died several
tnenl burned. She told hun that bundle OF rags
were her mother, and insisted that she should De
lcvedp-had not ordered these things to pe burned
because tney wouldn't burn. Meantime tue chi.
dren got 70 believing In witches, They sad that
their mother taught them So and they persuaded
HIM that he could catch the witches in his hands
and squeeze them TO death. ''Mary." ne SAID.
"would ask three times OF GOO, and she got an
devil; when the devn answered then would quit,
bat couldn'L nave had better vie. We were both
kind to each other through all this fOolery."
T9s paS 9s r MSe Tsc Sa
wcpt over "Mary was a good wie. l c0uldns
have better, didn't 'lend 10 xiii her, put aid''
Then he went on to describe Wild dance they had
10 kill wlicues; now they killed them; then that
Mary had hallucinati0n that sne ought to cut OF
his head; that she took q knife AMI cut through his
handkerchief into his skin until ne bled when
she said that hts neck was hard as iron, and that
Cod didn't intend nss Us head should be cut or
ssThen we butted our heads against the WALL and
told Mary to hit me on the mead with hatcnet.
day, bnt Is well now" Inis was last week some-
time. The poor fellow could no. remember 'It
cut my head on with sharp knife when told her
to cut away that nothing could Kill me. felt that
as long as oeeve ecv COO 4sy r eSg iSS se
day and night, and believed In God Almigny with
We inquired about the children again. He said
they believed In witches as strongly as Mary DAD.
they were not afraid OF him, but always when he
came nome they met MIN with shout, but Mary
would have spells. on friday last she went to bed
a sS he rs sne sue sa she Vision Of her
cofiin anu the collins OF the children, but not his.
She said the end was soon coming She did not
understand II. lie diu not want her 10 60 TO heaven
without him; "but n God Almighty SAID so u must
be s0.n she had one OF these spells. she Went 10
bed and would not get up. lilo thought she was
dead She ala not feed the children and would not
have fire. They both set up IN bed nearly All night
Sometimes he would get up and read tue BDle. In
the morning she would have IRE. lie told her ne was
tred OF this fooery,u and II she did not quit IT ne
would leave her and never come back; but ne added
patheticay, IL told her she should have every cent
mad In the world; would not have taken five cents
from ner for millions, for she was good wife to
me. could not nave found o better one Ia oil the
Marquardt went on to say that on that day, sat
urday IL was little against her but didn't quar-
rel with her. We didnt quarrel. We only argued
ABOUT God Almighty. the devil and witches. she
mad got to thinking that she was witch, that the
Killed. The Oldest child said she was o witch. All
the children said mamma did 1t Caught tneml but
they wouldn't say that mad any thing 10 do with 1t,
unless Mary this wIfe) touched Them" Then Mar
quardt would 60 OF again In his Wild way, praisng
the goodness or his vile. lie said he made the Dire
burn Notwithstanding Mary said It wouldn't, and
after awhile Mary got up and MIXED the COVE Then
he went to reading his Bible and got to crying and
then another talk with Mary, when ne went over
to his neighbour, Jack Yields, and told his
trouble. Mr. Weld seems TO have understood
Marquardrs situation. and tried TO paciry
him, but was unsuccessful. At halT.past
nine O'Clock saturday night Marquards said
he was at another nelghbor's house, Mr.. Nil.
ler's and that Mrs. Miller, without any fire, got
him boiling not cup OF conee in less than two
minutes. "How sne did IL, Mister" he SAM, with
out nre, nobody but God Almighty could tell. But
as my wife coudn't cut my throat OF with q sharp
knife Knew that hot coffee nor poison couldnt KIN