The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-11-17

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damning report against him is that the de-
ceased, Herman Schilling, was cognizant of
the fact that
"RUFER HAD SET FIRE. -
to NJ. Werk & Co.'S candle factory FRIDAY
night last, and that be had intended to CD
prise the police of his inf)rmation. How
true this report is we can not DOW state, but
If true it would afford conclusive evidence
Of the reason that inclined him 20 share in
the deep damnstion of the murder. The
elder Egner II aGermsn, about forty-three
years old, slight and spare in figure. and
with a %forbiddipg but determined look His
son is a bearcfess boy, without anv distin-
gushing characteristics save a sullen look
OF stoiid indifference 10. bis fate. His tale is
that ne PLAYED tag catcher" etc, up till
8 O'Clock Saturday night, slept soundiy dur
ing the night, bearing no noise, and awaken
ipgat7 O'Clock IN the morning, and only
hearing Of the murder about s O'clock.
Egn5r keeps cOffee-bouse and a cooper
shop, just west of the tannerv. his saloon
being a. No. 153 Findlay street. Herman
Schilling was a native of Westphalia,
twenty-five years old, about five feet eight
inches high, finely proportioned, rudy
faced, with dark mustache and cross-eyes.
he was generally spoken of yesterday even
ing as a very good, companionable kind of a
man. He was unmarried, and has no rela-
tons that we could learn of ia this city.
Within a hundred feet of the stable is the
boiler-room, and this boiler is heated by a
furnace OF peculiar construction, being
built on tho principle of an air fur
mace for melting iron. Its fuel is tanbark,
emptled in a CRATE through two circular
openings in its top, and provided with a
brick fiue through which it's gases pass into
a chamber underneath the boiler where they
are ignited. Into this chamber is q square
damper opening of about twelve inches
| across and To this narrow dOnr tho violin
was. carried by his slayers. The fire in the
furnace had been dampened down, but the
Williams know well its mechanism, and, fore
ing the body through the narrow door, they
endeavor to push il through into the fue.
In this, however, they were baked by its
size, and their next work was to arrange the
furnace so that its fire would burn the re-
mains to ashes. How well they succeeded
our story has told. The circumstantial evil
dence is all as yet there is to found asus-
picion on, but we must say that it appears to
be of the most conclusive kind Especially
is this the fact in the case Of Andrew Egner.
h FIvE-PRoNGED FORK,
used by the murderers, either to kill their
victim, or to stuff his body into the furnace,
was found in the stable, with blood and hair
still sdheriDg to it, and q suspender-buckle
on the fourth prong. It is curious tina a
similar suspender- buckle was found among
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long stake, ~sharpened to a spear-like point
and dyed at the smaller end with blood, ap-
pears to have served in the deed of murder.
A small broom had evidently been used to
brush up the blood, as it was completely
| coated with thickly crusted gore. How it
happened that the murderers could have
been careless enough TO leave such damning
evidence against them, we can scarcely inn
agine. John Hollerbach, by order Of Chief
Kiersted, was arrested in his bed at 2 o'clock
this morning by Lieut.. Benninger, and
locked up in the Oliver street station house
as a witness. He stuck to his apocryphal
story. In conversation with a reporter this
! morning Rufer. said if he had killed Schil-
ling be would have put him in a better
place-a tank of saltwater under the
%tannery, where he never would have smeit.
THE sCHILLING TRAGEDY.
A FULL CONFESSION BY THE YOUNG BOY EG-
NER-How THE DIAB0LICAL DEED WAS
ooMMrrTED-THE coRRoBoRATING DETAIL
AS GIvEN ny OTHER
The Cincinnati Commercial of the 18th
inst. contains the full confession of Fred.
Egner in the horrible murder already fully
detailed in the Sentinel. Young Egner had
given conflicting testimony before the coro-
ner's inquiry, but afterward. in prison
made the following full confession: From
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! boy Egner was seized with a mortal terror.
; 1t took complete possession of his low
l british nature, and was manifested by
, averted looks, q constant twitching and
; restlessnsss of the hands and by periodical
: gasps as if he labored in the
: very act of breathing. The proba-
bility is that ne would have IN
. burthened his heavy heart any time yester-
: day had he not been "seen" by lawyers. who
q no doubt had %enjoined silence upon the dire
! facts in the case. He was well stuck to by
the coroner. however, during the examina-
!, ton at the inquest, and had not the firmBess
nor the tact to avoid giving testimony that
, only lacked the piecing out of the. testimony
Of others to make up the horri.
no rest in jail or out of it
and the result is the very full confession o.
= his completely with his father and George
IRufer in the murder OF Herman Schilling.
The confession was made about O'Clock IL
the Jail last njght-at first a verbal comics
sion, which was noted down by some re
porters present, but in order to give the mat
I ter emphasis, Rufer was confronted with
4 Egner, who was asked to repeat tie
= confession so Rufer could hear it anC
ask any questions be chose. Rufer listened
to. che damning detail with characteristic
d stolidness, and when asked if he had any
&c thing TO ask or say, replied that it was cal
La Cd id lie." Coroner Maley re
! duced the confession to writing, and theI
read it to Egner, who signed. his name u
8. the document, and was returned to mis- eel
= for the night. The following is the comics
sion:
cat 5 o'clock last Saturday evening Rule
y came to my fathers saloon, and said he wa
re going to get Schilling out of his job. NJ,
father said that was right. At half past
le myself, father and Rnfer went over in thu
" lanyard. Rufer had a key to the back gate
Of and we entered that way. Rufer hid himsel
1t behind the tan bark; father and myself hiC
1T behind the posts near the stable. NJ
/ father and Rufer said, befor we went over
le we will go over and kill that low
70 Dutch son of a b-h.' We watched half ar
1t hour until Herman Schilling came in thu
d gate fronting on Gamble alley at 10 O'Clock