The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-16
Another Case Of Riot, Ruin and Death
Caused by "the Demon Drink"
SCALPING A WIFE.
The Mother-in-Law and Her Daughter
Found in Drunken Sleep Be-
side the Cory Corpse.
THE GUILTY HUSBAND GETS AWAY,
4 Horrible Picture Of Debaushery and Blood
in a Tenement House.

At two O'Clock yesterday afternoon the news was
received at Police Headquarters that horrible
murder had been committed in tenement house
In East Eleventh street. George Scheneln had
killed his wife.
A reporter proceeded from the HERALD office to
the place where the tragedy mad occurred Ala East
Eleventh street, and found it tenement house OF
the catacomb order. in which are packed hundreds |
OF squalid and shiftless human creatures, whose
habits in general are anything but temperate or |
wholesome. The approach from the street lies
through q narrow, dark alley, the pavement of
which is traversed by a gutter the odOrs from
which were far from pleasant to the nostrils. En-
tering the house and penetrating into the room in
which the Schefrelins lived,
MOST wRETCHED SCENE
presented itself. The apartment was almost bare,
the floor was carpetless and the furniture very
scanty. About the small, rusty stove there were
plentiful stains of BLOOD and even on the iron lids
and on the cover OF an old Kettle were spattered
drops Of the red liiejuice. Into another room,
which opens from the first and was filed with dark
ness, an irresistible but horrible curiosity at
tracted the visitor, and here after he had become
accustomed to the gloomy twilight, there were v1si-
BILE other traces of the horror that had been en-
acted. A bed stood at one side OF the door,
the few clothes upon which were disordered and
filthy. and on the floor was clotted pool Of blood
Having seen SUFFICIENT of the dreadful evidences OF
the tragedy to make a sickening impression, the
reporter went next to the station house and made
inquiries OF q sergeant who was on duty concern
Ing the occurrence. Ali that they had learned OF
the commission of the deed was very meagre.
Roundsman Riley shortly after the hour Of noon,
was walking along the street, when he was &C
costed by one Of the citizens whom he knew, and
asked
''THE ROW IN sCHEFFELIN's"
''Have you heard OF the row that we had last
night in Scheffelin's?'
He replied that he had not, and the. man told him
that he believed woman was killed there. He
went Immediately to the place indicated, In the
"nving room" Of the family, near the stove, he found
woman lying prone on the floor In the midst of
her own life blood and so lacerated and torn that
bhe looked scarcely human. In other parts Of the
room, their FOUL reeking breath filling the air with
the unwholesome stencil Of debauchery, were
stretched two drunken women, stupeded in their
drink. The figure by the stove was not pleasing to
look upon. The scalp was cut rom the head and
lay back revealing the raw and bloody tissues that
cover the skull. The face was bruised so that
with streams OF blood. The body was entirely
naked, as If 1t had been pulled from bed, and the
struggle. Two wounds, as ii produced by stabbing,
were found in the lett side, and one In each arm.
AN OLD TABLE KNIFE
smeared with blood was found at the feet of the
horrible remains. 1t was evidently the weapon
with which the murder was committed, although
the blade Is dull and rusted, and hacked In several
places.
the Ofiicer gave the signal for assistance, and on
the arrival OF another policeman who kept guard
the place, he went to the station house to re-
port what he had seen. The sergeant detailed
some men to arrest all persons who could be found
under any suspicion OF having been connected with
THE TWO DRUNKEN WOMEN,
one OF whom Ann Schenelin, is the mother-n-aw OF
the victim and the other, Mary Morse, the sister,
in-law, were partially awakened from their vile
fumbers ana conducted 20 the station mouse,
where they were locked up in separate cells. The
body, late in the afternoon, was removed to the
Morgue.
woman, with sinister expression OF countenance
hawk-eyed and nawk-beaked with hair OF an iron
gray and maudlin mouth. She was aroused from
the last lapses OF besotten sleep by the keeper
and came to the grated door OF her cell in response
to his summons. The reporter then questioned ner.
Is q "bossn pasterer, who has been married to the
woman whom he killed for about six years. one
child was the frMt OF their union but It died be-
fore 1t was year old. They lived in lO3d street,
near Second avenue, boarding In the house OF a
woman named Sarah Fisher. This lady may be
possessed Of some personal charms or she may
not, but, at all events, she Is said to have been
in the breast Of Marie sehsne the wife of the
'boss' plasterer, who imagined that improper
relations existed between her and her husband.
so they quafrelied. Marie was much addicted to
the love OF vile whskey, and not very Industrious,
provident or prudent. she left her husband about
mother-ln-law, at Ala East Eleventh street, to
sojourn. Since she has been there, according to
the lattcrs story, she has beaten ana abused her,
and threatened at times when intoxicated, with
the most horrible oaths to Kill her. Into this part
OF her narrative the old woman inluses good deal
OF passion, despite her condition OF hall-stuIor
Her daughter, she says, was struck on the head by
Marie with coal shovel and cut very badly on
ON TUESDAY NIGHT
the son came to her house and entered the room
where they were. Marie, his wife, was lying drunk
and asleep OH the floor the stove. He ap-
preached and gave her push with his loot. lie
thar. aata I'm har nm ND ghA cNnlA IN,
him with abusive language. Probably becoming
angry he struck her in the lace with his open hand
He then dragged her into the bedroom, and what
afterwards occurred MS mother claims not to have
seen or heard. She says there were no screams
and no struggle. What she next knew was that the
son sent her daughter out to get ten cents worth of
whiskey, which, when it was brought they drank
he should 90 to work. as he had good deal to do
and he went down stairs into the lager beer saloon
on the street. The keeper OF tins place says that
morning and told him that he was going 10 the
station house to surrender himself prisoner for
what he had done. Later In the afternoon he was
seen in Harlem. and man reported the fact at
the station house. Several officers were looking
for him, and as he was supposed to be still drunk
his powers OF escape were not 80 great as they
might have been.
On a second rehearsal OF her story the old woman
said that she thought the murdered woman re-
ccved her injuries by falling on the stove alter she
attacked by commissions and received no assist
ance while they were upon her.
The real facts Of the tragedy are apparently
entangled IN somewhat O a mystery, which may
however, be cleared up when the women become
sober enough to collect their The daughter
last night was still SO stupefed that she could not
talk. She Is quite passable In appearance; her
features are small and fresh, but not very regular
and she has black, luxuriant hair. Her filthy con-
diton, however, was disgusting. Old Mrs.
Schefren claims to be native Of Ireland, Mona
CHAN county, and Is about sixty live years OF age.
"How SHARPER THAN A sERPENT's TOOTH ~
An Ex.superintendent of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
IL NJ a. MoGher.