New-York tribune., 1873-05-20
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THREE MYSTERIOUS MURDERS.
THE EIGHTH WARD TRAGEDY.


From ON examination of. the blood found,
On SATURDAY morning. ion the floor OF the clubhouse at
tacbed 10 the low negro dancehouse in the basement
AZ No 40 suvan.st. Deputy Coroner Cushman is salts
fed that II that of human being. He also believes
IL 10 have come from principal artery severed by
sharp instruments yet ne deems It possible though i'm
prohable that il eused by hemOrhage OF the lungs
from natural causes He considers IL very improbable
that any person. after being weakened by the sudden
loss of about three pnts Of blood, could get away
aided survive He proved by the autopsy upon the
body OF the murdered Sullivan, the victim OF her
bruta c0loTed paramour, Joseph alias James jackson
Of No 57t ThOmpsonst. that the external hemorrhage
from her wounds was very slight and that therefore
the blood at No. 49 suvan-st that Of some other
person whether OF there any connection between
the two TRAGEDIES stu problem. Coroner Herman
has not yet designated day for the inquest.
Superintendent Kelso was informed by.Capt. Burden
of the Twenty ninth Precinct, yesterday mormhghtn"t
jackson was seen sxthave. at about IL a. No. on sat
urday by several coored men, who state that he ap
pearod cool and not at all hurried his manner 1t has
been shown concusvey that about three hours after
the finding of tie body, Jackson drew 500 from
have used the money 10 pay his passage
10 some distant city The police seem 70 be making great
discovered any trustworthy clew 10 his Whereabouts
Among the many theories concerning the tragedes he
ouc tbt s generally received in the neighborhoOd Is
that which attributes jackson, not only the murder OF
his paramount but the SUBSEQUENT klng Oh rSai; & bn
The outhouSe. The bOOd-marks traced through the
hallway and for short distance along the Sidewalk are
regarded as indicating that the body was carried to the
street and tIanterred 10 wagon.
A MURDERER's CONFESSION,
Joseph Waltz, the young man who was ar
rested on suspicion Of numbering Harmon Hulcher, the
Albany grinder Athens May j. made full
confession of the crime yesterday morning to Constable
Ernst OF Catsku, and directed where the body and
money could bc found The body was found buried In
The orchard the house. and the money amounting
30 $ u the barn. In his confession he states that the
deed was done about 10 p May l. little later
lie went 10 the room occupied by Hucher, whom he
found asleep, and struck linn three times with the
haIclet; the with the blunt part. and twice
with the sharp side He only grOaned and all over.
Waltz then took the body 70 the stone wall where the
traces OF blood found. and covered II up
There he left il until the heXt night when he TOOK II
down into thC orchard and buried It, The officers having
learned an they could. took Waltz out az ms own sug-
gestOn the place where the body buried IN the
orchard few inches below the surface IL was found
wrapped in "a blanket The head was horribly manged
Wait also COnfesses to having burned three schOOl
houses the town, and 10 having buried the books
which nave been found at the place he designated
When asked why he committed the murder, lie repled
was iu me, and / wanted 10 do something bad"
THE MURDERED GYPSY.
The CoroneT's jury in the case Of the un-
known gypsy girl who died near Cold Spring, Putnam
County have rendered verdict to the effect that hcI
death was caused by outrage her person. Warrants
have been sued for the arrest Of the band Of gypes
who were with her.