Connecticut western news., 1874-11-20
A MURDER IN CINCINNATI.
The Victims Body Burned in the Crate
 ef Furnace.

The victim's Body Burned Inn the Crate
 ef a Furnace.
 A terrible murder was perpetrated in Cincinnati, the details of which are f,iven as follows Herman Schilline was employed in the tannery and slept in one of the outhouses next to the stable, acting as private watchman. He was attacked by two men, who stabbed him with stable fork and beat him with clubs until he was dead or in- sensible. He struggled with them in the small stable until overpowered. The blood marks show that they must have fought around and under the horse that was standing there, dumb witness of the horror.
 They dragged him, Q distance oi thirty or forty feet to the furnace, opened an iron door about fifteen inches square and jammed him through into hot-air chamber under the boiler, the grate of which, acting like an oven, consumed him beyond all chance o1 recognition. When the remains were found and dragged out, they were in fragments. The trunk was shriveled, charred and completely baked. There was but little of the skull left, and the thigh bones were taken out separately, with but little flesh left on them also the bones of fingers, toes, etc.
 Two men were arrested on suspicion, under strong circumstantial evidence. The first one arrested is Andrew Egner, @ German, forty three years of age, in a cooper shop immediately adjoin- AH,o e&o%1n Gnhs1ISrcp &hn ed man, boarded with Egner last spring. He was accused of having seduced Egner's daughter, and o1 being the father of her child. On the p6th of June this girl died in the hos pital of the city in childbed. On that day Egner and his son, a boy of fifteen years, attacked Schilling with clubs in this same yard and bruised him badly. Had not assistance come to him they would have killed him.
 The second man arrested is George Rufer, also employed in the tannery. There is evidence that he was hanging around the place shortly before the murder. When arrested, his face was found to be badly scratched, which he says was done by his wife. There are also evidences of fist blows on his eyes and forehead. He and Egner were to- gether drinking in Egner's saloon. There is difference of hours in their stories as to the time of their separa- tion. They both deny any knowledge whatever of the affair. The most re- markable feature of this thing, next to the hideous completeness of the mur der, IS the fact that but for the stupidi- ty of sixteen-year boy Schilling' s life might have been saved, or, at least, his murderers caught on the spot. This boy was in the act of going to bed in his room in building within forty feet of the place when he heard the noise of scuffle and as of 8 man choking. He ran down to the alley and shouted through the fence to Schilling, "Her- man, is that you ?" Schilling answered "Yes," and that somebody was killing him. The boy, who is big and stout enough to handle any ordinary man, states that he shouted "Wateh P walked around the square, could not find a policeman, failed to mention the circumstance to private watchman who was standing near by, came back to the place, yelled to the murderers to quit, as the police were on hand, went to bed, passed Q sleepless night, and never spoke of the affair to anybody until short time since, when he told his mother,