The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-24
A MONSTER OF INIQUITY.
HIS HoUsEKEEPER swEARs 1T.

HIS HOUSEKEEPER SwEARS 1T.
SHE CHARGES HIM WITH ARSON AND MUIR
| DER = BESIDES HAVING LED HER AWAY
| FROM her HUSBAND AND DESERTED HIS
| OWN WIFE AND CHILDREN-HE CALLS HER
| A GRADUATE OF THE OHIO STATE PRISON.
! In the Sentinel of Sunday morning there
appeared, by telegraph statement OF the
terrible charge of arson and murder,
brought against one William Gsrbrick, in
one of the Chicago courts. The Tribune
furnishes the following details. with the
handsome housekeeper's melancholy story:
In the early fall of 1865 Mr.. Sterrett, a con-
| ductor on one of the Ohio railroads, wooed
and won beautiful girl of sixteen summers,
la native of the fair city of Cleveland. She
was beautiful Gas poets dream" and was
as innocent as a child. Sterrett loved his
young wife devotedly, but, being several
4 years her senior, could not under
stand the feelings of a mere girl, and applied
Il himself occasionally to the flowing bowl.
Brakeing on the same train which he ran
was a person of Pennsylvania Dutch"
blood. William II. Garbrick by name. This
man had wife and four children, and kept
a boarding house. he was, at the period of
Sterrett's marriage, about 40 years of age.
The Garnricks kept a boarding house, and
Stesrett's finances not being over extensive,
he and his young bride went to board with
tue bralzeman's family. The conductor
/ drank little too freely, and the Gsrbricks
for some reason poisoned the child-wifes
mind against Ter lord. After residing with
them TOR some months, the Garbricks,
, man and wife, induced her to
J leave Cincinnati, where they were then
living. and fly with them to country place
ten miles distant from that city. Mrs. Gar
brick went so far as to dress the girl up in
her own clothes, so as to destroy al trace
of v<h0rp1hOnfG- She never St6r-
rett more. What the object of the female
, Garbrick was can not be surmised, but,
e whatever it may have been, she paid dearly
I for it. Six weeks after their removal TO the
country, Garbrick, who pretended to be
: afraid that Sterrett would discover them, in
: duced the girl to fly with him to Chicago.
:. Here they remained for short time, and
: then went to Raymond, Miss. Meanwhile,
G the unhappy Mrs. Sterrett found herself to
: be enceinte, by her husband she AYERS, and
e in due time,
y BORE DAUGHTER,
/ who is still living. After remaining South
! about one year, she returned with Garbrick
:. to ChicagoA He secured work at the new
v Northwestern Railroad shops and got a
7. house from the company. This house is sit
er uated near the corner OF West Kinzie and
d Forty-fourth streets. There Mrs. Sterreti
70 lived with him as his housekeeper for some
u years, and it was generally supposed they
n were man and wife, although a more strik.
>, ing physical contrast could not be imagined
al But OF this more by and by. In June, 1874
>. =. the 7th OF that month, during night
- of tremendous rain, wind and thunder
e. the dwelling house of Jerome II. Davis
at watchman, employed at the new shops
ne also, was burned to the ground, and hi'
l 1e pretty little daughter, Carrie, persisted mis-
m erably in the flames. The house was stu
r. ated almost Immediately opposite that oc
ed cupied by Garbrick and his housekeeper
The general impression at that tipue wa
oy lightning stroke. A justice OF th'
peace held an inquest on the girls body, an,
rp a verdict of accidental death" was returned
in the customary form. AS Mr.. Davis is
m very inofensive man, OF excellent rePusa
% ton, nobody could imagine that any feeling
or of fendish revenge would urge any
ie body to fire his premises. The heus
belonged to respectable Ger
~ man family named Krsnz, and
IS as It cost more than the insurance could pos
te sibly bring, no suspicion of arson attached
ne to them. The affair was soon forgotten, ex
o. cept by the family that suffered the sad bs
's, reavement of that night, and, doubtless
I'D the black crime would never have been dis
ed covered had not the victim OF GaTbrick'
o. lawless lust possessed conscience whicl
lt. would not permit her to rest-if her stor,
d. be true-until this most foul murder wa
~ brought TO light. About week ago, Depu
nd ty Superintendent Hickey was waited upol
er in his Office by lady of extremely prepos
Sc sessing appearance, who stated that she nat
ut something of great importance to commu
re n!cate. The deputy heard her story, whic
will appear in the evidence, as given furthe
on. VIM. II.
he GRABRICK WAS ARRESTED
is last Wednesday by officer Scott, on th
VS. double charge OF murder and arson. II
nd manifested some nervousness, but wen
he quietly with the policeman, who locked hir
Is up in the Central Police Station, where b
ut was safely kept until yesterday. At
is O'Clock yesterday afternoon, Garbrick wa
N. taken before Justice Scully and was ther
on confronted by his hapless housekeepel
u There were not many persons in the room
TO as the case was not generally known. Tn
lat prisoner was taken to the doc
ng by officers Scott and Flynr
if He presented q sunburnt, or6inar
)ss aspect, looking not unlike the rest of tn
of laborers employed around railroad yard:
nd Garbrick looks to be between 80 aud }
years of age: is about five teet ten inches j
VT stature, rather mesger in flesh, aud yer
much stopped. He mas lost the thumb an
index finger OF the right hand, the result
ne IAN accident while coupling cars. The man
lg- face is of a low Teutonlc type-stol:d in es
yer preston. His hair straight and darl
wn slightly mixed with gray. 1t is bEushe
ty carelessly aside from a Limited forehead
MS The beard is rat her thin and struggling. TT
as mouth it straight-cut, somewhat small
lay and decidedly thin-lipped. The eye
ere are small, gray and cblique to the outt
cv- edge of the face. likesthe Chinese optics. VI
sc- less the man stood charged with so grave
s. crime, nobody would have thought OF picl
an ing him out as horrible example of ra
,he cality. He appeared to be almost, if M
as quite, illiterate, and is certainly the vel
uc. last man whom any sane person wou
led select as the seducer of a young and mo-
tly than ordinarily pretty married woms
he Some women, however, have mys.eriol
lay tastes. The chief prosecuting witness, MI
Sterrett, appeared in the court room accon
panied by a lady friend, Mrs. Langress,
all No. Ill West Kinzie street.
M MRS. sTERRET1