New-York tribune., 1876-01-31

cell In the Fifth Precinct Station and permit them
to have communicable with each other. The wife OF
the accused was then taken 10 the Sixth Precinct sta
tion and locked up.
CONFLICTING STATEMENTS or TIE MURDER.
TRIBUNE reporter visited Fuchs and his wife yeeter-
day in their cells The murderer, who speaks English
very mperfectly said his Victor Kretz though
he had been called Fuchs He was born IN Alsace and Is
now 80 years old. He IL a small, wiry-loOhing man.
about feet inches in hight, with black hair, mus
tarhe, and tuft the chin. lie Is very exctable in
his nature, and talked very rapidly In German When
describing the murder he went through the motions oi
striking at his victim with the downward blow Of one
chOppng wood lie said he had been in this country FOR
four years. and had been married about sixteen months
He had known simmons and worked with him for three
years, but had had difficulty with him, on account
Of which he left the mandatory for six months he said
Simmons in the habit Of visiting his wife while he
work. and that about six months he had de-
teced them in crime lie said that Simmons came TO his
house on Thursday evening about O'clock and MS be
had some beer both drank Of il. Simmons then gave
him money to buy beer and when he returned he
found his wife violating her marriage Calling his
step-child Ellen-wLo was asleep on the bed-as
witness Of her mothers crime, he seized u
hatchet which lay behind the stove, and
struck Simmons dead with one blow on the
neck He asserted that he struck smmonss head of at
one ow but aerward ed for the cuts about the
neck by saving had hack IL of the next morn
ing not entirely severed lie declared that ne
intended TO 20 give himself mp to the authorities, but
his wife persuaded him 10 do so, and on Friday he
dragged the body the bedroom and cut 1t up pack
ing the pieces away In different places until he could set
rid Of them
Mrs Fuchs said she 80 years OF age, ana was born
In County Waterford, Ireland; her maiden name was
Mary Welsh and her first husband Michael Kehoe,
by whom she had one child, Ellen, now girl OF
Years and q witness OF the murder. She had
always known her husband Arthur Fuchs,
and lad married him under that name
ehe was very much affected yesterday, weeping bitterly
she told story and saying again aud again that
she had Ou been sober the murder would not have Deen
committed Her story is as follows; simmons came to
the house about o'clock Thursday evening, bringing
q doll for the little girl There some brandy and
beer In the house, and after drinking the beer
Fuchs went ont TO ret three pints more. All
OF us drank the beer and Simmons said he was
ASHAMED 20 go home drunk said that he might stay
and slgeD wlth Fuchs, and would sleep with Ellen.
We had only two rooms. Simmons agreed to this. Nv
husband says slept Oh the floor, and that was un-
faithful, bat was drunk that know nothing OF 1t
Ny husband aud child put me to bed, and while hey
were doing Fell the floor and cut my face. When
| got up ia the morning | stw the body ON th"
floor OF the kitchen and Fuchs, taking IL by the heels
dragged into the bedroom To cut up. When saw II
called ont, We will be hung" but Fuchs said he would
make It all right. drank TOO much on Friday, and did
not see the body cut mp. Fuchs going to die up the
bricks around the fireplace TO bury IT, and said, Don't
leave il here Simmons and Fuchs had never
qualrcod but my husband terribly jealous. He
would have been Jealous Of his father He often
accused of being too intimate with simmons, nut he
had no reason for IL. head him talk az all OF
gi ing himself mp. On saturday afternoon Fuchs went
out with the head in basket covered with towel and
later came back with the empty basket have lFed III
thi. country for l3 years"
Ellen Kohoe. the stepchld Of the murderer, cried
bitterly when brought To the station. She is an ntel
gent girl eight years Of sho said to TIE TRIBUNE
reporter that Simmons came on Thursday evening ana
that while Fuchs went out for drink I'll rat ara talked
All drank aud her mother too, and Lad to be put to bed
simmons rat a chair in stupid condition, ana ber
father took him by the and pulled hun over on the
floor While he lay there, Fuchs ran aud got iatchet
aud struck him with it the head The child said:
WAS afraid he would kill mother too. In the morning
father pulled the body into the bedroom and cut 1t up
there, and took some away"
DETECTIVE FROsI's STORY.
ExSerscant Frost OF the Brooklyn Detective Squad,
of the most active In working mp the case
SAID to TRIBUNE reporter last night that hs twenty
six years Of detective and police work he had never
known such horrible butchery, and that the pris-
oner Fuchs was one OF tho shrewdest scOun-
drcs he had ever seen. He said that when De
tcctve Guischard brought Fuchs TO the Firth Precinct
staonhouse Saturday night, he came In smiling and
entered into conversation with the detectives IN an appa
rently free and unres,raned manner This threw fhe
detectives off the right track. Yesterday morning De
iectyes Frost Corwin and Folk found the wachman on
duty on the docks near Engl-'s shipyard, where tie
head was found The watcnman sad that about day
break on Saturday he had man prowlinS around
the ship yard and acting I'm very suspicious manner.
lie described the prOwlcr short thick-set man, ana
described Fuchs accurately that the detect
t,.tp ,.l. ha NVn. he
pegson they wanted. They then went to his home and
found An there Detective Frost continued as follows:
Iueycr saw such sight in my life. In trunk, which
was ochcd aud uacd We found the arms and leS, III
small boiler found the trunk, divided ana skinned
and the utestincs taken out. Quick lime was placed on
tne remains to destroy tenl Not som up stars or
tIag4iy Marks of blood were discovered on "A dress
beon ing Mrs. Fuchs. Efforts had been made to WASH
mem away The said she washed the HDor at her
husuand- request Fucns's little glrl saw tue whoe
S, Soo V V".nrncr of tie man Fuchs exceed. anything
ever saw Mncu hr sat talking Ia us saturday nlsht
hs arn,y had the murdered mans watch and chan in
Lis poe kct Wen he arrested IN the statoihouse
yesterday he took his penhn from ms potkel AMI ct
gsh his hand ANA tnen rubbed the blood upon ms
pats lie WAS stopped by Inspector Waddy, who dis
covered that he was cndrayorug this manner Ia ohht-
crate all traces of previous blood stun obtained rom
the murdered lnls was before the remains Nte
discovered.
The house in which the murder was committed is
twostory frame building, with no STAIRS inside Dom
stories beng reached by steps outside Fuchs hNed Oh
the ground door, upon "hich arc TWO I"o'' A''"'"
and bedroom The Instruments found In the house,
which were used m the conmittal OF the crime and In
cutting up the body, TWO hatchets of medium s1e
hammer, knife, and saw, all Of which are NO" in the
posse ssion OF the police.
As reason for the crime, there was not only the Jca
ousy of Fuchs-who while charging his wle win mn
de ity had apparently been very intimate with SIMMONS
-but also the hope OF personal gain Fuehs was SIN
ops,s "heper" getting only 81 day. while suiinons'
,ho wa. ne xt above n, making from $50 to 500
week as trip-hammer smith, and ga Fuchs understood
h ,yorktng OF n trlp-hammer he would expect promo