The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-16

Working Up the Case Of the MUIR
dered Weston in Brooklyn.
The Wife Of the Victim and Two Female Rsla'
t.ves of the Deceased Conveyed to the
Capital ~ Witnessed

| Last evening Detective Malone, of Albany, In
company with two officers OF the Brooklyn depart
ment left this city for the capital having In custody
| three females who were arrested in the Eighteenth
| ward Eastern district, Brooklyn, and are held as
witnesses, upon recommendation OF the District
| Attorney OF Albany in the case OF the murdered
man who was found In the ravine, three miles
from West Albany, on Thursday week last. 1t ap-
pears that on Thursday week last the body OF
one-armed man, about forty years Of age five feet
two inches in height weighing 1875 pounds wearing
q blue coat and vest dark pants, and having in
his pocket card, with the name Theodore Grune-
void, barber, NJ. rs Atlantic street, Brooklyn"
was found on the farm OF Mr.. Isaac Jones by one
OF the laborers employed on the premises. There
was also found on
THE SCENE or THE TRAGEDY
razor on which was engraved the letters III. v.
J. j." and the blade was covered with human
gore. The mans throat was cut, and there were
no less than than ten bullets found In the body
when the pOst-mOrtem examination was held. One
Of the balls had penetrated The heart, one had
passed through the head, two through the hand
aud the remainder were lodged in the body. All
the circumstances were OF nature to clearly Illus
trate most atrociOus butchery The Albany officials
went to work on the case with creditable Skill ana
found that there were footprints, evidently made
by two men, leading from the depot Of the New
York Central Railroad. The detectives came to
the conclusion that the victim had been followed
looking the ravne and there the Soody deed was
contaminated The Information connecting the
case with Brooklyn was teegraphed to the Chief of
Police OF the latter city and that official proceeded
to look into the matter Tue result was the arrest
OF Mrs Mary Weston wife OF the murdered man. a
Mrs. Emil LIVINGSTON and q sister OF the latter at
No, 116 Palmetto street. Eastern district These
parties are held as witnesses
WHAT DETECTIVE FOLK SAYS.
rfa fah tha vUrit tordo1
that as soon as they received the Albany telegram
concerning the case they visited the barber shop OF
TIC street. near Hicks Grunewold informed the
off1cer that he had no recollection whatever OF
been IN that
The proprietor OF the barber shop subsequently,
however, brought the oicer up stairs to the street
him there remarked that he had some recollection
OF one OF his journeymen BARRIERS, man named
Emil-he did not know his sirname-telling
him that he had shaved a one-armed man. ON
Tuesday morning. August s, the man Emil left his
wrS hey sns %e had
taken away by mistake. One Of the men in the
barber's shop accompanied the detective then to
sided. At the house search Was made, and two
revOvers, seven-shooters, with twelve chambers
oicef. Ifhe pistols We're SHOWN aud are y Of am an
unknown make.) The name OF
THE MURDERED NAN
was John Weston, and ne had wife and three
children. He lived in the same house In Palmetto
street with Emil. The real name" OF the man the
detective SAID he would not give, but was free to
assert that he had not been arrested up to the
present. Weston owned house and two lots in
The city OF Brooklyn. He lost his right arm during
the late Union war; In which he served as O soldier
in the ranks OF the Fourteenth New York State MI
litia for three years. Weston was well known as
apedler, and sold the Soldiers Friend and such
papers on the city railroad cars.
WHAT THE GRUNEwOLD FAMILY SAY ON THE
HERALD reporter visited the store OF Mr..
Grunewod, and during conversation with Mrs.
Grunewold that lady stated that they had been
told by the police that nothing was to 60 IN the
papers about the case. Therefore she did not
that It was very strange that Emil should buy
barber shop in New York so soon after the murder.
He bought the shop In Eighteenth street Tor
$3.50, and then, when the Albany, story was in
off, Emil worked for two weeks in
their shop, was apparently very quiet and very
native Of Brooklyn, though OF German parents. and
about twenty-iour years OF age. On Tuesday morn
ing. the 9Th instant Emil called at the shop at 9
very early hour and procured the Key there and
opened the place, and then left. During the day
only two weeks, visited the store with her hus-
bands dinner, aud on being told that he had gone
OF she replied that 1t did not agree with his health
to work there, and That she supposed "he had
gone away, as he had been
GIVEN FIFTY DOLLARS BY WOMAN
to take her husband away" John Weston, the MUIR
dered man, was the landlord OF the house in
which Emil lived. The police have since sunday
murderer appears to have got wind OF the word"
and, IN common parlance, has managed to make
himself scarce in these parts" The Albany prose-
cutting officer wants the three women, who are
By THIS time within his Jurisdiction. 1t is reported
that Weston and his wife did not live on amicable
terms