Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-07-17

CHESTER COUNTY TRAGEDY A Mans
Trunk EXhumed from one Grave and His
Limbs from Another.-The Commercial oi
Monday relates most horrible story of The
murder Oh an unknown man near Cochranville
on the road leading to PeuAinstonyile, Chester
county. 1t says:
From Il gentlemen direct from the scene of
Tue tragedy we have the particulars of a most
brutal murder in Chester county, and "A suhsa-
queht humiliation OF the body, which finds its
parallel only IN the West case at Dover. The
facts in The case, as far developed, are as fol-
lows
On Friday last about noon, Mr.. S,mualp
Moore, who resides about two miles from CncI.
ranvilc, on the road leading TO Prnuinpiouvill,
observed the unusual sight of bllZzarIs hover
ING over the woods, IN the vicinity of his home.
IN great numbers. turning his stems i'm The III.
rectlon indicated by the bUzzards, lie soon came
upon newly made grave i'll the depths of The
WoOdS. lie at once commenced AN examiua
ton, and finding that human body was inter
red There, he returned and notified The coroner
who al once summoned jury. and repair ed to
the spV'. ef huming the body between six and
seven o'eock the same evening.
The body was i'll u perfectly nude STATE. and
partially decoinposed, while the legs were seI,-
araied from The trunk ut the hip joints, in as
sklliinl hiaiiirfas Ii done hya practical surgeon
Our Informant counted five stabs In the nod,
and it Was Otherwise muiilated beside. A few
feet from this mound was another fresh gray,
which was ol ened, and from it were taken fine
legs of the same body, with the bouts and stock
ings still on. The murdered man, shirt wn.
found beside linn, winch was all the clothing In
be seen. Only about Six inches OF dirt covered
the hody.
The body is supposed to he that of AN mn
known kehncklan, who had been uayeliup
through the country rs an agent for the .ale nf
some article y man named William E. I'm
derzook, residing near Jennerville, is the ,uu
posed murderer,
AT the cOroner's inquest the following f,,ts
were elected On the MONDAY night preceding
The murder, winch was on the 30tl of june,
the stranger said in the hotel at Jennersyill.
| and had been in company, during the day.with
Undertook, As usual. who also staid at The sam,
| hotel, although his mother resides near In.
| town. The next morning. Undertook hurrov
| ell a horse and buggy and drove To pruliu,,
tohvllle, where ms bInlher-in-law, Samuel
Rhodes, resides. lac object of his visit. as
voluntarily stated ny Rhodes, was to induce
| linn tkhodes) to join him la The murder nf
the stranger by poison that they might po,sess
| themselves Of his mohey--slO00 which Under
z1ok said the man had upon his prrsnu. and
$1,000 which lie knew he cOirld get
| Rhodes stated further that lie declined to
enter into the conspiracy against the lite of the
stranger, and attempted to dissuade Underzook
lIoiH MS pun HUscj tfHllg MN That she Womb
| disgrace not only himself hut the whole family
and that lie never heard of a man who mos,
pered by robbery"
Undertook, after long consultation. denart-
| ed, and Rhodes thought he had persuaded Lis
brother -in-law To desist lie (UndelZookl then
hired horse and buggy from a liveryman in or
near Penningtonyille, and returned the one lie
had borrowed from Mr.. Patchell near Jenner.-
VILE, in the morning, riding in one and eadiIp
the other
Nothing further was seen Of Undertook dur
ing the day, Gall this occurred on jane 3Oth,
and the stranger disappeared altogether until his
body was eXhumed, as above stated About
twelve O'Clock at night UndeizuOk returned the
horse and buggy which lie hired, will, two
blankets missing, the dasller Of the earn iage an
parrntly kicked Though and the frame bent
giving evidence of a struggle The next morn.
ing, July ISL Undertook was seen at ,Jenner-
vile, with his cohins in avery muddy condi-
ton. lie remained there the Win lie of the day
until evening, disappearing u short time before
the train was due On The baltimore Central rail.
road at the station for the town, about one
mile distant.
1t is supposed that Undertook took the train
for the Monumental City, as he has not been
seen since in the vicinity Of the murder. He
Formerly served for some time on the police
force of Baltimore
Undertook is about 81 years of age. The
man murdered was Of medium height, heavy
sci, aud bad black hair aud whiskers He ap-
peared TO be about 20 years Of age.