Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-31
A TERRIBLE MURDER.
Brooklyn the Scene Of Frightful
Atrocity.
A Husband XIII. the scduccr or
His Wife

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"a Husband Kills the scduccr of
| HIS Wife =
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And Cuts the Body into Hundreds Of
s Pieces.
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I NEw YoRK, Jan. 3l.-The horrible
lmurdcr and mutilation of w. w.
Simmons, in Brooklyn, causes great
Fexcitement in this ncighborhood.
mrs. Fucho, wife Of the murderer,
tells this story Of the butchery: Sim,
mons came to the house about nine
O'Clock Thursday evening, bringing a
doll for little girl. There was some
brandy and beer in the house, and af-
ter drinking beer. Fucho went out to
\ get; three pints more. All Of us drank
beer, and Simmons said he was
ashamed to so home drunk, so said
he might stay and sleep with Fucho
and l would sleep with Ellen. We
had only two rooms. Simmons agreed
to this. Fucho said l was unfaithful,
but was so drunk I.know nothing of
IL. My husband and child put me to
bed and while they were dong SO l
fell on the floor and cut my face.
When I got up in the morning saw
a body in the floor of the kitchen, and
Fucho, taking it BY the heels, dragged
it into: the bed Feom to- cnts L up;
When I saw. it l. called. out: s We
will be hung;;" butLFucho said he
would make it all right. / drank<too
much Friday, and did not see the
body cut up. AS the woman told
this story she wept bitterly, saying
again and again, thstif she had only
been sober, the murder would not
have been committed
AndreWzFucho, or Victor Kretz, as
the murderer calls -himself,says-.he
I had known Simmons and.worked with
l him for three years, but once had q
/ difficulty with him, on account OF
which he left the mandatory for six
months. He said ssimmons was ia
the habit Of visiting his wifeEwhlehe
vas at work, and that about six
months ago he had detected them in
crime. He said Simmons came to his
house Thursday evening about nine
and as he had some beer, both drank
oft. Simmons then gave him money
to buy more beer, and when he re-
turned he found his wife violating he,
marriage vow. Calling his step
child, Ellen, who was asleep on the
bed, as witness of her mothers crime
he siezed a hatchet which lay behind
the stove and struck Simmons dead
with blow on the neck. He asserted
that he struck Simmons head off al
one blow, but afterward ssccountec
for the cuts about the neck by saving
: he had to hack it off the next morning
as it was entirely severed. He de
clared he intended to give himself up
, his wife persuaded him not to do SO
p and Friday he dragged the body int.
the bed room sndS out it up, psckinl
, the pieces away in diaereot pkoa
: until b could |get:sd ofsthe8 Gh|
!. officers who first inspected Fucho'
apartments, reported that there wer'
! pals in the kitchen and bed room con
tanning meat. They thought it nigh
!, be be pieces of picked pork A-elos
> examination Of the premises was ,hel
: made, and in a tool chest under tn
bed was found heavy solid hamme
that bore bloody stains, and con-
mon hand saw stepped with blood an
frlhged with bits ofhair. There wer
: - n
g . also heavy hatchets oryaxet, and thes
!. . were covered with half obliterate
blood marks. III another corner III
:. derthe couch was a small tin pa
:. filled to the esbrim with fragments Of
human BODY out into pieces not NOR
:, than two or three inches in length
: : At'the side Of the bed was larg
: pine chest dyed in every part wit
3 blood, as though a bleeding body ha
!, = been has.ilysjammed into itas into
: temporary receptacle. In commo
y black leather = tEaEesiaa- g. trunk
: found another portion Of theimutilate
body, and strips Of flesh and pieces,
lsi skin Tn ano. her at nc tho ,S,o :, Il.