The New York herald., 1876-07-15
THE YHILH0RN TRAGEDY.
Recovery of the Murderers' Dead
Bodies from the Passaic.
Exciting Scenes at the Coroners In
quest Yesterday.
AMELIA THILHORN'S STATEMENT.

creased rather than diminished as the details became
known tho magnitude OF The horror having increased
with the unravenent OF facts All day long yesterday
nothing talked of the savascke attack OF the
Thilhorns on those who stood in their way or whom
lhcy imagined to have wronsed them. Tho universal
sentiment Of the city appreciation OF the fate which
The savaacs met at the hands OF Dawson's worxmen
THE MuRDgRERs' BODIES
Yesterday forenoon the body OF Albert Thilhorn was
hshed out OF the Passac aer twenty hours ceaseess
graphing II presented q sight horrible beyond
description. In life Albert coarse. repusive look
ing In death his appearance was simply horrible
About halfpast O'Clock the third body, that OF
Adoph Thilhorn, dragged up from the bed OF the
'Passac 1t removed to the Morgue on Market
street Tho three bodies placed in clean deal
board collins Al Six O'Clock when the HERALD
representative visited the Morgue crowded with
morbdly people, whose curiosity had TO be cut
short BY the undertaken through their being uncercmo-
niousy ordered leave Tho lids Of the collins had to
10 kept closed rghtiully sckening was the cfnuva
which each body emitted The heads of all three were
covered with cots OF blood from the stonng 10 death
in the river. Each was attired in coarse worklngmens
clothing and apparent that the art OF the under
taker had not been exercised hnecrs stretch In the
direction of making them appear ioa better than
when they were hooked from the The corpse of
Charles slayer poor Fischer and Albers presented
II possible, more shocking sight than the others In
The rencontre at the factory, when the workmen drove
The murderers from the place, Charles had his hand
nearly severed at the wrist by hack from work.
mans knife. 1t hung by shred and yesterday it was
entirely of and flung into the coffin with the corpse
ol the murderer. The two will be buried side by side
In of the Newark cemeteries, where, seems they
held tho aced Tor a lot
coRoSER's INQUEST.
Yesterday forenoon Coroner Osborne empanelled the
following jury TO hold an inquest ON the SIX bodies OF
those kilcd-Esden, Fischer, Albers aud The three
brothers:-David Anderson, Edward Cone, Henry NJ.
Burnett, Aaron +. Anderson, Timothy stiles. Will
lam n. Durand, shepard NILS John A. Bonneil James
Courier, Joseph L. Miller. James A Arnold.
Alter viewing the bodies the jury adjourned Till alter
noon, when they reassembed ut the Court House at
past O'Clock.
Charles II. Meyer tho foreman Of Dawson's factory,
was the nrst witness He testified US follows, corrooo-
rating the HERALDs account yesterday II live ut No
FIJI Ferry street, | foreman of the tannery Of Mr.
Dawson, on River street; knew Adoph, Albert and
Charles Tnichorn or about three years. thcy have
SISTER, who lived IN New Yoik city; Two Of them were
lock smiths; they have worked under Dawsons
tannery; Albert worked about year; he worked az u
iaborer; Charley was about thirty years OF age; 1
think the others older; / had no intimate
acquaintance with them; lthcy were not discharged
they left OF their own accord; they have not worked
NJ the shop for two years; when they lett they
stopped me in the street and said If did not pay
them witzers money they would shoot me; spoke
10 WIze about their money; he had borrowed some
money, about $40 or so from them; got witzel to
agree TO pay them each month; wzel paid them III
fuiI; it passed through my hands; Charley Thclhorn
aiterward had quarrel with Wtze and stabbed at
him; my law and Fischer with Whzel
10 The station house make complaint; anerware
complaint made before Justice Paulin and Charley
1hislhorn convicted and sent to State Prison
Charley served ais time out; few days ago they
Inc on the street and threatened 10 shoot Aibers
fischer and w''ael they threatened az 10 shoot me
make . complanst against them warrant was issued
by Justice Jessup aud they about to be
Charley got Of State Prison ago last
September; never had any of their money: only
paid them their wages they were que; | believe
Their arrest yesterday was occasoned by my com
plsint about Two O'Clock yesterday afternoon Thurs
day, July IL, 1876 was IN the shop; | saw Charley
AMI Albert Thclhorn In the tannery; heard pistol
shot and Fischer shot; don't know which
bred At Fischer; my son.n-law Albers came down
a,rs and took hold OF Albert and took his pistol away
lhc other Thielborns shot Albers; they both fired
Albers is TO the floor, did Fischer Also they have
iicd from the ercets Vi the wounds received from the
pistol shots; concealed myself because knew they
we're alter me- don't know where the men went to
looked after my son-in law; don't think the Thief
horns sane; don't think they were drinking
they came from Prussia; have only Charles
FISCHER and John Aloers since the riot have not
Any OF the Thelborns; don't know why they had any
frudgc against witxe have heard that they threat
ned others they seemed to threaten TO shoot anyone
Who came across their path
Chef OF Police Mills was next placed on the stand
HIS testimony show that he had knowledge
ther neighborhood WAS dangerous the warrant for
thcr arrest Tor simple breach of the peace; no
impoTtan was attached to it was gwen TO Olnccr
Elsden in the usual way.
A woMASs TESTIMONY.
Mrs Josephine vandcrhoet next testihed:-I live At
No. lOl Jackson street; have lived there since March
J. 1876; the brothers Tbiehorn have lived At that
number Tor about three years; they have not worked
sncel have known them; they had plenty to eat:
have OF them drunk; they seemed TO havo
plenty Of money: they lived alone; think that The
largest Albert; Que OF ths little ones
did all the marketing and cooking; they went TO the
to lsh every morning and returned early and
NAMED home all the rest OF the day. they were all At
The house yesterday; Thursday, about two O'Clock,
policeman Knocked AT the front door and asked for
somc men whose names did not know; tho policeman
upstairs aud Knocked At the door, presently tho
other policeman went up the door OF the room was
opened by one Of the men aud ,he policemen went
into the room; there seemed TO be some loud talking
going upstairs; heard tho front windows let down
and the door SMUT aitcrwsrd beard some lve or elk
shots in rapid succession sister with me; she
ran Of iny alter the nring; as she
out oi the upstairs the big one fred At
her; never spoke 10 them; saw the big man shoot
n Cahill who lived next door; beard one of them tell
The policemen TO get out CT the house heard one OF
ihem say TO his brother that he would take good
many lives before he died. heard him say that the
soop; heard the coored policeman say that he Was
shot.
Georgiaua Miller corroborated her sister, Mra Van
dsrhoeE
picKsRsoS's Axrx-xoRrxx srArsnxyr
A. this stage OF the inquest Co Osborne put IN
evidence the following ante mortem deposition Of
Policeman Augustus Dickcrson, which was taken At
81 Michael's Hospital
Dickerson states that Esden asked him TO aid In
making the arrest Of tho Thsilhorns, as there
three Of them Elsdon said nothing about tho des-
psratc character OF the men. They told by .
woman In the lower part Of the house that the men
were In their apartments Eisden went up and re-
manned tho sidewalk heard Elsdcn rnp al the
door and then tell the woman down stars to tell me to
come up When went up struck the door with my
Est Inc ooot wal oPchcu Wioc ahu We "~Neu III.
There but IN the front room when
We went IN. Elsacn read warrant, and asked the
the front II hat was his name, and lie said
yes We then into the back and
men In bed. Elsdcn then read another name from
the warrant, and man with a bald head raised M
and said that's not my name" The other man on
the bed raised up and said that ~ my name Elsdcn
then read another name from the warrant and then
abe bald headed raised up and said that was hIs
name, aud he asked Eisdcn 'Wha, Tor do you want
me pa Elsdcn said he had summons as Understood
him for $50 aud odd cents Tor breach OF
thc peace Then they got oil the bed ana began TO
put ON their clothes, and kept talking among
themselves Then the man In front came into the
rear room Eisdcn aud | were stancIng III the door
way between the rooms. supposed they were dress
ing to so along with us There were Two navy re-
voIvers lying on stand something IN the front
room The bald headed mau seemed TO have his re-
voivcr with HIM One OF tue men. little one, passed
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