Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-02-02
HQRRIRLE MURDER.
~ DfuAlten CNrOusal and its
Tqfrialp Results.
= asepetit iWM Of the Tarkmnn
Murder.

|. NEW YORK, Jan. 3l--Thc borr;b,a
MURDER ana mutilating of w. WI
simmons, NJ Prccklyn,j eauscs great
excltement IN this nejghborhood..-
AIRS. FUCHS, vale s@0f he n murderer.
tells this story Of the butchery.
Simmons came to the house abont
8 O'Clock on Thursday evening bring
ing doll fora little girl. There was
some brandy and beer in the house,
and after drinking the beer, Fuchs
went out to get three pints more. All
of us drank beer and Simmons said
he was ashamed to 60 home drunk,
so said he might stay and sleep with
Fuchs andI would sleep with Ellen.
We had only two rooms. simmons
agreed to this. My husband says
that 1 slept on the floor and that l
was unfaithful, but I was 80 drunk 1
knew nothing oft. NY husband and
child put me to bed, and while they.
were doing so fell on the floor and
cut my face. When ! got up in the
morning | saw Simmons body on the
flooriof the kitchen, and Fuchs TAX
ing it by the. heels, dragged 1T into
the bed room to cut it up. When |
saw it / cried out 1--WE will be hung,
but Fuchs said he would make it all
right. drank too much on Friday
and did not get to see the body cut
up. s.
AS the woman told this story She
wept bitterly, saying again and again
that if she had only been
sober the murder would not have
been committed. Andreas Fuchs, or
Victor Kretze as the murderer calls
himself, says lie had known Simm0ns
and worked with him for three years,
but had once had difficulty with
him on account OF which he left the
mandatory for six months. He
said Simmons was in the habit of Wis
ting his wife while he was at work,
and that about six months ago he had
detected them in crime. He said
Simmons came tolhis house Thursday
evening about nine O'Clock, and as he
had some beer both drank of it, Sim.
mons then gave him some money to
| buy more beer, and when he returned
he found his wife violating. her mar.
riage VOW. Calling his step-child,
4 Ellen, who was asleep on the bed, as
4 witness to her mothers crime, he
seized a Ratchet which laid behind
the stove. and struck Simmons dead
4 with one blow Oh the neck. He as.
serted that he struck. Simmons head
off at ono blow, but afterwards &C.
counted for the cuts about his neck
4 by saying that he had to hack it of
| the next morning. assit was not en-.
/ tirely severed. lie declared he in.
4 tended to give himself up. but his
wife persuaded him not to do so, and
on Friday he dragged the BODY into
a bed -room and cut ii up. packing the
pieces away i'm different places, until
1 he could get rid of them.
] The officers who first inspected
Fuchs apartments reported that there
were pals in the kitchen and bed.
room containing meat, that they sup
4 posed might be picked pork. A close
/ examination Of the premises was Their
! made, and in a tool chest under Tho
bed was found a heavy solid hannah
i that bore bloody stains, and q com.
mon hand-saw stepped with blood
i frmgcd with bits Of hair. There were
also some heavy hatchets or axes. and
these were covered with half obliter
\ ated blood marks. In another cor
I her of the room under a couch, was d
small pail filed to the brim with
fragments of a human body, cut in
TO pieces not more than two or three