Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-31
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A MURDERER'S CONFESSION
HIS wlFE's PaRAmoUR BUrcHeRsD.
A BANE BURGLAR CONFESSES.
THE neutrality-suspicious..
LHN.
Confession OF the Murderer II retz He
Says his Victim ~ his Wife's Para

Says his victim W ~ his Wife's Para
Nav Work, Jan. 3I-The murderer OF the
man Simmons at Grcenpoint, Brooklyn. yes
;eTday, said his name was Victor ktetz.
though he had been called Fuchs. He wa
born I'm Alsace, and is now 32 years old. He
Is small, wiTy looking man. about i've feet
six inches in height, with black hair, NOUS
tache, and tuft on the chin. When de
scribing the murder he went through the
motions OF striking al his victim with the
DOWNWARD blow OF one chopping wool
He said he had been i'm this country for four
years, ana had been married about Sixtee 4
months. He had known Simmons. and
worked with him for three years, but had
once had di thculty with him, on account OF
which he let the mandatory for six
months. He said Simmons was in the habit
OF
VISITING MS WIPE
while he was 1t work. and that about SIX
months ago b" had detected them in crime
He said that Simmons came 10 his house on
Thursday evening about O'Clock, and as ne
rad some beer both drank OF IL. simmons
then gave him money TO buy more beer. and
when me returned be found his wife ViOl atinc
her marriage. Calling his step-child Ellen.
who was asleep on "A BED, rs n witness o.
which lay behind the stove and
STRUCK SIMMONS DEAD
win one blow on Tie neck. he asserted that
be struck simmons head OF al one blow,
but Afterwards accounted for the cats about
TIE neck by saying that he hal 20 hack L. or
the peXt morning, rs IL was not entirely sew
give himself mp To the authorities, but his
wife per- ua3cd him not 10 do SO. Rai on
Friday he dragged the body into the bed
room and cut IL up. packing the pieces away
III GlHerent places until he could get rid OF
them.
MRS FUCHS
Salt she was 30 years OF age. and was bN-a IN
County Waterford, Ireland. Her msidea
name was Mary Welsh, and her Il -st has
band was Michael i\ChOe, by whom she had
one child, Ellen. row girl OF eight years,
II ffa D. 4
always known her husband as Arthur
Fuchs, and had married him under that
name. She was very much affected yester-
cay weeping bitterly as she told her story,
ard saying again and aga.D that n she hal
only been sober the murder would lot have
been committed.
HER STORY
is as follows: Simmons came % the house
about O'Clock o. Thursday e-ening. bring
ing doll FOR the little girl. There WAS some
brandy ard beer in the house, ana after
drinking the beer Fuchs went out 20 g1t
three pints more. All OF rs drank the beer,
and Simmons said he was ashamed 70 90
home drunk; SO said that he miglt stay
and sleep with Fuchs, and l would sleep
with Ellen. We had only two rooms. SIM
mons agreed 10 this. Ny husband says that
slept on the floor. and that / was unfaifn-
fGl; but / was so drunk L know nothing OF
il. My husband and child put me 10 be-,
and while they were doing 80 / fell on the
llcor and cut my face. When l got up in the
morning saw the bojy on the iOOr OF tn
kitchen, and Fuchs taking 10 or the heels
dragged 10 iato the bedroom To cut IL no
When L saw it / called out, We viii be
hung" but Fuchs said he wonld make IL all
right. | drank too much on Friday, and did
not see The body cut up. FuchS was going to
dig up the bricks around the fireplace TO
bury II, and l said don't leave il here. sim.
mons and Fuchs had never Quarrellei: but
my husband was terri bly, Jealous. He would
have been jealous Of his own father. lie or
ten accused me OF being too intimate with
Simmons, but he had no reason fGrit. have
never heart him talk at all OF giving him sci Z
up: On Saturday afternoon Fuchs weag out
with
THE HEAD IL A BASKET
cover cd with towel, and later came back
with the empty basket. Ihave lived in this
country ior thirteen years. Ellen Kehoe.
the stepchild of the murderer cried b.ftarlv
when brought TO the station. she Is an in
tciiigent girl eight years of age. She said
tiidt Simmons came on Thursday evening,
and That while Fuchs went out for drinks all
sat and talked. All drank. and her mother
too bad TO be put 10 bed. Simmons SAT on a
chair in stupid condition, and her father
took him by the arm and pulled him over on
the floor While he lay there Fuchs ran and
got Ratchet and struck him with IL on the
head. The child So ID 81 was afraid he would
Kill mother too" In the morning father
pulled the body into the bedroom aud cat IL
up there and took some away.
HORRIBLE BUTCHERY.
The detectives who have examined The
murderers house state that under couch
was a small tin pail, that was covered with
cloth, nlled TO the brim with the fragments
OF human body; they were from all parts OF
mans frame, and were cut into pieces not
more than two or three inches !n length. In
Itathern travelling trunk was found many
other portions OF the mutilated boiy-strips
OF nesh and pieces of skin. In another part
OF the chamber was q large tin WASH boiler,
nearly nlled with portions of mans limbs
pieces OF the arms, of the hands, AMI OF the
legs and feet. In the midst OF these remains
was the trunk Of the BODY. The ribs were
stripped clean OF skin and flesh. One motive
assigned for the crime is that Fuchs wanted
10 get Simmons place.