The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-15
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YOUR MEN KILLED AND TWO WOUNDED
At NEWARK, d. j., ON THuRsEAY-HoR
b RIFLE FATE OF THE THREE Mu.2DER-
ERs-sToNED TO DEATH IN THE PAssA,C
RIvER-FULL PARTICULARS OF. THE Az
FAIRLY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. TX
Our telegraphic dispatches published yes-
terday morning gave brief account OF the
killing Of seven men and wounding OF two
others at Newark on Thursday. The New
T York Tribune says: This startling tragedy,
begun in resistance to an arrest Of three men
by IN officer, ended in the death Of seven
men, two Of them belonging to the city po-
lice, three being notorious desperadoes, the
others having been killed by the three vii
| hins without provocation or assault OF any
kind. For many years three brothers,
named Charles, Albert, and Aditf Thiel-
hausen, have been conspicuous in the
police records Of Newark and other New
gerous has been thoroughly under
stood by the officers Of the law. By
trade they were tanners, and for some
time were employed at the establishment Of
r. W. Dawson, in River street, from which
they were lately discharged, owing in part
to misconduct and in part to general bad
character. Yesterday afternoon at 2 O'Clock,
after they had been on a drunken spree, in
which they had become troublesome to the
neighborhood, Police Officers August Dick
erson and Benjamin Elsden, with warrant
issued by Justice Jessup, attempted to ar
rest them for highway robbery and attempt
to extort money from Mr.. Meyer, the fore
man of T. n. Dawson & Co.'s tannery. The
men lived at No. 101 jackson street, where
the officers were met by them ut the door
and at once fired upon. Elsden fell dead at
the first fire, and Dickerson retreated
with serious wound in his back.
The men then ran down the street to-
ward the tannery, and rs they came out OF
their house encountered Mr.. Cahill, Of No.
103 jackson street, whom they shot down
on the spot. A state Of excitement at once
ensued. People were attracted by the pis-
tol-shots, and gathered to the scene Of the
vino almost Immediately congregated in the
street, the Thielhausens made their escape
by rushing through the crowd, pistols in
their hands, and threatening any one who
might dare oppose them. The wounded
men were then taken to the statton-house,
and Dickerson was soon cared for by a
physician and every means used for his re-
lief, but in vain. He died in few hours
afterward. Meanwhile some of those who
had gathered at the scene followed the MUIR
derers, and others watched them from the
streets in their passage through the city.
On their way they fred upon two citizens,
wounding both. Reaching the tannery in
River street, where they had formerly
worked, and from which they had been dis
charged, the three brothers ut once called
for the foreman Of the establishment, Mr..
Meyer, who had given them their dismissal.
| Mr.. Meyer was absent, and after repeated de-
mands for his appearance, with no attention
from the men in charge, the murderers began
an indiscriminate firing upon the shop. They
finally entered it, and fired at random
through the rooms, Wollnding one man,
went up to the second floor and called for
large knife in his hand. With one blow he
nearly severed the hand of one OF the ruff
fans from his arm. They fired upon him,
wounding him near the heart, another shot
passing by him to a man near by, who was
wounded by it. The whole shop was in an
uproar, and with their leather knives
in their hands the workmen rushed
upon the assassins, who hastily retreated.
DEATH OF THE MURDERERs.
BY this time large crowd had assembled
around the tannery, and loud cries were
uttered against the desperadoes, which be-
came the more intense as they emerged
from the building. The workmen turned
out in full force, to the number OF over 200,
and pursued the villains towards the Passaic
river, where their only possible means OF
escape would be in swimming the stream.
On the road stones were thrown at the re-
treating brothers; knives and clubs were in
the hands OF many of the workmen, who
rushed over each other in their mad pursuit,
and sought an opportunity to strike blow
with their clubs or cut cash with their
knives. Several were successful in this, and n
hand-to-hand encounter took place, in which
the murderers were severely cut about the
head and body, but they made their escape
as far as the river. With the blood stream
ing down their bodies they were followed
by 4 frantic crowd which every moment be-
came larger. When the river was reached
the men attempted to cross it. A shower Of
stones fell upon them, and in the midst of
furious cries on the shore they plunged in,
from blows that had been given them with
stones and clubs. They swan with diff
Guilty, being nearly exhausted. Still the
stones and other missiles were thrown upon
them from every hand that could find any
thing to hurl, until finally, when far out in
the stream, they sank with exhaustion, and
soon were dead.
The following is the
LIST OF DEAD AND WOUNDED:
Benjamin Elsden, dead Augustus Dick
erson, dead; Charles Fisher, dead; John
Albers, dead; the three Thielhausens, dead;
John Cahill, wounded; Frederick Slutz,
wounded. E.eS
by Telegraph
New YORK, July 14.-In the rooms Of the
three German brothers, at Newark, was
found target perforated by hundred
builet-holes, showing that the three had
practiced with pistols. The weapons used
were ordinary navy reyolvers-four shoot
ers-and had been loaded from new box
OF cartridges, from which only twelve had
been taken. -, J..
The murderers were entirely sober vixen
the shooting occurred. The three brothers
were aged respectively fortythree, thirty
two, and twenty-siX years. They are
OF Swedish not Swiss parentage; but
were born in Prussia, and served In the
army OF that kingdom before the days of
the present empire. They were all unmar-
ried and without families, and had come to
this country only year ago, having in their
possession about $1,000. Recently they in
herited an estate in Prussia, and were about
to return home. The bodies Of two OF the
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