The Republican journal., 1873-07-17
Another Horrible Murder

PHILADELPHIA. July IA. A most hor-
rible murder has just come to light at
Jennerville, Penn. township, Chester
county. On the 30th of June strange
man stopped at the hotel of the village,
saying that he had come from Baltimore
and was an agent, but giving no name
He was in appearance not over 3d. with
black whiskers. The following day a
team driven by one VIM. f. Undertook
stopped at the tavern and the agent was
invited by Undertook to take ride. He
accepted and they went away together.
The team had been hired by Undertook
at Parkenburg and he returned it in the
evening when the person who took charge
OF it remarked that there was blood on the
wagon. Undertook made plausible
explanation and Immediately left the
neighborhood The strange man was
never afterward seen alive. On Friday
last it was noticed that large number Of
buzzards were lowering about the woods
between the village of Cochranville and
Penningtonville.
The man who observed it at length went
to the place and found unearthed the head
and body of a man, and his arms and legs
gave notice to the neighborhood and the
horribly mutilated body was eventually
recognized as that of the stranger who
had been stopping at Jennerville A Jury
was empanelled by the Deputy Coroner
but the verdict was sealed and not handed
over to the Coroner
The murdered man was stabbed in three
OF four places, his throat cut and both
arms and both legs severed close to the
body.
Undertook cannot be found. He is, or
was until lately, on the Baltimore police
force, IS young and has red whiskers. The
object of the murder unquestionably was
plumber. No clothes were found on the
dead man except his shoes. 1t is reported
| that the man was known to have con-
siderable sum OF money on his person
Several limbs were buried in a separate
spot from the body and not far from the
house of one Rhode, brother-in-law OF
the supposed murderer.
| Since the above was in type the MUIR
derer has been arrested
LIVES LOST IN THE FISHERIES The
Cape Ann Advertiser says that in COM
piling and collecting the statistics for the
"Fisherman's Memorial and Record Book
it finds that there have been lost from
Gloucester since 183O--a period OF forty.
two and a half years-twelve hundred anc
| fifty-One lives and two hundred anC
| eighty-One vessels-valued at nearly 8
million and a half-in the fishing anC
coasting business, averaging upward o.
Twenty-Five lives and six vessels yearly
The value of the vessels lost is 81 ,493 ,222
their Insurance, 1922, 1876, mostly in the
local offices. Ninety-two of these yes
sells were lost in the Georges fishery
a little over one-third OF the whole mum
Der; fifty in the Bay of St. Lawrence
mackerel fishery; Twenty-Five in tht
shore mackerel fishery; twenty in tn,
snore cod fishery; twenty-three in thu
Grand and Western Bank fishery; eight
cen in the Newfoundland herring fishery
two in the Grand Menan herring fishery
one in the Greenland halibut fishery
thirty-three in the coastlng trade; 81,
burnt by the rebel pirate Tacony, and ON
pilot boat lost in Gloucester harbor.
As there is no record of the number O
widows and orphans previous to 1858,
is impossible to get at the correct mum
Der, but it is probable they would aver
age about the same proportion as those c
T the last fourteen years, the number c
married men being about one-third tn
whole number lost, and averaging tw
!, children to a man. This would give i
!, round numbers four hundred widows an
, eight hundred fatherless children left de-
! titute by the disasters OF the past forty-tw
years. an average of ten widows an
twenty children yearly, which is not
large estimate. A sad record, truly.