The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-22
Che 9atlaad Daily Giobe.
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 90, 1873
hhe Murdered Scissors Grindcr--a
naorribic Tale.---Thc Confession of
Wnifz,---HrOw the Deed was dou..

fessed the deed. On Saturday large bod
of men continued the search Of IL
premises, but did not succeed in finding III
body. Sunday crowds of people focked
frtm every direction. About II i, NJ IN
party discovered, in the ashes of bon6r,
some brass screws, plates, &c., which wer
thought to belong to Hulcher's machine
AT o'clock p. NJ. intelligence arrived of III
finding, on May 7, by the roadside in tn
town of Coxsackie, twelve miles north {
the Waltz farm, a part of the grinding ma
chine. A letter was tackled to the TELEGRAM
pole above it, confessing the murder of tn
scissors grinder, and containing a ramblin,
account of the school house robberies whicI
occurred in this town last winter. Tn
letter avowed that these crimes were com
mitted by a number of confederates. Tn,
object OF this letter was to avert suspicion
but it resulted in completing the chain q
circumstantial evidence. The hanowritin,
was identified as that of Young Waltz
Search of the premises continued Email,
some of the stolen school fixtures wer,
found under the barn floor. and the hook
from which the paper was torn for this let.
ter was found in the room of Young Waltz.
This discovery finally broke him down. and
yesterday morning he told the sheriff he
would confess if they would take him IN 10
the farm. He made complete circuit of
the farm, accompanied by large crowd.
but returned to the house without making
any statement. An hour later he yolun,
teered full confession of the murder. and
exonerated the old people. We find the
confession in the Argus as follows:
"On Thursday, the lst of Nav. the scis-
sors grinder came to our house; | was
down in the lot; after we had taken suppcr
father and mother went to bed, and in a lit
tie while after Hulcher also went to bed
Tor long time | sat up alone, and then
went to my room and opened my Testament
and read chapters then l blew out the
light and lay down, but could not sleep;
an evil spirit came over me, and my soul
was filled with dark thoughts; the temp.a-
ton was terrible; l could not resist; got
up and stole carefully out of doors to where
knew there was II hatchct; taking this
weapon in my hand | crawed back to my
room and lighted lamp: Hulchcr was
asleep; l set the lamp on the tloor my
conscience fought with all its might not to
90 the act, but the evil spirit was stronger;
took up the hatchet and struck Hulcher
on the head with the hammer part: he
made little noise; | then struck him twice
with the blade, he struggled little and then
died; he blcd good deal; | took the body
out alone past the barn to the stone wall
and then covered it up with a few blankets
and some other stuff; left the body there
all next day; the next night when father
and mother were in bed, l went to work and
dug hole and put the body into it, and
prayed for the mans soul; | felt better
then; l cleaned up the blood in the house
ana on the sofa; father thought in the
morning that the scissors grinder had stolen
tne blanket with which | covered up the
down behind the fence, i~,oJ.oan's nocket
in my trunk; on Sunday night, three nights
afterwards, went up the road on foot near
Coxsackie, and there left part of Hulcher's
machine, and nailed a letter to the tele
graph pole; | burned his clothes and
boots"
After making this statement, Joseph
Waltz led the officers to n point in the plum
orchard, about three hundred feet in the
rear of the house, where the body was found
buried in shallow grave. The remains
were rolled up in blanket and were much
i
forehead. The watch and money were
found in the wall of the barn, near the
house, where Waltz said he had secreted
them.
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MURDERER.
correspondent of the Albany Express
interviewed Waltz, and held the following
interesting conversation with HIM
took a good look at nina tall, mus
cular looking man with rather long hair,
and light beard and whiskers, eyes very
bright, but not sharp or intellectual, teeth
white and even, of light complexion and
slow, uneven speech. Joseph Waltz looked
more the simpleton than the knave, al
though he may be and perhaps is the latter
Well, Joseph, how do you feel this at
ternoon?" venturcd.
Very well. just wait Il minute please.
and he then stepped one side, brought hi
stool to the door, and seating himself upoI
it continued: 81 am all right. How il
everything with your"
"Ths is rather bad fix you have go
into. What possessed you TO commit thi
| deed ?"
Il don't know that myself; some evi
spirit | suppose.
did you bear IIulcher any i'll viii wer
you angry with him, and did he ever We
or annoy you!"
mo, never; we were friends. | hay
been to his house in Albany and he alway
treated me we'll My story is II long ont
and am willing to confess all my mi
deeds; but it would take long time to tie
them"
"Well, never mind; tell me if you wisl
| am patient.
"Wherc did you come from, did yc
say?"
Il reside in Albany; am from the y
bany Eoening Express"
"Well, then, | will tell you but hear II
through, please, before you go away. lo
must know | am very fond of reading 5
some time ago, one dark night, entered
school house and stole all the books cou
get hold Of | took them home and res
them, getting much pleasure from ther
but | was always uncomfortable, known
that they were stolen, hut no one suspect'
me. and then later | burglarized anoth
school house and took the books from the
and hid them, and when | wanted them
read, took them out. Until | did the
things never had committed any serio
offense, but endeayored to lead Christie
life, but once begun | continued, and II
long ago
BURNED SCHOOL HOUSE,
but it was by accident 1t was in t
village of Leeds, over there by the mou
tains, and | had gone in one mig
to steal books, when lighting my cane
and putting it between two sticks it fell a
set the school house on fire and burned
down. Then came the scissors grinder
the house and killed him Here VIA
went into minute details, giving the C
cumstances of the murder just as | ha
narrated it above, after this he continue
| took the body ont that night, covered
up, and arranging things in the room 50
nothing, but my father thinking that 7
scissors grinder had stolen our best blank
went after the police to get him airest'
Well, the next night, when father u
" mother had gone to bed crept out,
going to the wall picked up the body, a
= carrying it out into the field | dug dit
and buried it when that was done I
- ON my knees by the side of the grave a
prayed for an hour and half that y
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