Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-02-06
The Murder at TEObokem.
ANOTHER CAR HOOK TRAGEDY-A DRIyEI
ARRESTED ON SUSPICION.


The HOboken murder was, Mondar
morning, involved in as great myster1
as ever before, by the reports printed Cf
the supposed Identification of the body.
Early in the day Coroner Parsloe teIt-
graphed to Allentown, Pa, where d.
Laubach resides, to ascertain whether or
not he was missing, or whether any Of
his agents in the vicinity of Hoboken
had been unheard from since THURSDAY
last. Late in the afternoon he received
an answer that Dr. Laubach was in Al
lentOwn and that the Hoboken agent o.
the Eclectic medicines was alive Mean
time hundreds of persons were visiting
the office of Coroner Parsloe, where the
body lay. Among them was Dr. Lau-
bach's agent, who having heard of the
report made by at least a dozen persons
that the murdered man had been recog.
nized as himself, appeared in person to
show the falsity of the rumOr Early in
the day Captain Donovan, the Chief of
Police, acting upon an impression that
the wounds upon the head and face of
the murdered man were similar to the
wounds made by a Car-hOok upon the
late Avery d. Putnam, went down to
tLlt ttitllLllUS VI iLt ldiAIOdNl IliEGS anu
examined the car-hOoks and switch
turner's upon each of the cars as they
came in. Upon one Of the cars of the
new Hoboken City railroad line, car
No. 101, he found a switch-turner which
was stained with a substance that APP
peared to be blood. The car is attended
by only one person, who is both driver
and conductor. He was at once arrest
oil nd of IL.
name as Charles Berger. The drivers of
cars Nos. 102, 103, and 104, whose names
are Emile Brehn, Frederick Scldenack,
and Henry Renack, were also arrested.
The greatest excitement was caused by
the arrest of the drivers, and no less
than 500 or 600 persons called at the po-
lice station and the Coroners office in
the course of the evening. The sus-
picion, of course, attached principallyto
Berger, and an examination was made
of his Clothing-both that which he wore
when he was arrested and that which
was laid away in his house. Upon the
coat which he wore at the time of his
arrest was found great clot Of blood,
which had entirely saturated and stiff
fencd the lower corner of the skirt 1t
was proved by Berger's own admissions
and by the statement of his wife that he
had worn on the night of the murder a
wooden cardigan jacket" This was
found laid away in his house, at No. II
Grand street, and 1t was also stiff with
blood on the part reaching from the
throat down. Berger's shoes were taken
from his feet, and they were found to
correspond exactly to the impression
taken by Coroner Parsloe of the shoe
prints in the snow near the spot where
the murder was committed. Asingular
investigation made by DR.. Benson
brought out another startling and hor-
rible evidence of guilt. He took the car
iron and fitted it to the clearly cut
wounds on the head and face of the
murdered man, and they fitted exactly
in every case. A reporter visited Ber-
ger in his cell at II o'clock last night,
and also conversed with Mrs. Berger.
They denied any knowledge of the muir
der, but admitted the suspicious charac-
ter of the circumstances which pointed
to the completely of Berger in the crime.
At midnight there We're numbers of per-
sons in the vicinity of the police station
and the Coroners office eagerly discuss
ing the events of the day and evening.
- World. I'uesday.