The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-02-16
MURDERS THAT WOULD OUT
Parallel Cases to the Crime Of the
Brooklyn Butcher.


CRYING OUT FROM THE GROUND.
PROOFS AGAINST MURDERERs FURNISHED BY
THE VERY MEANS THAT THEY EMPLOYED
FOR CoNCEALMENT - PARALLELS FOR
FUCHs's CRIME.
The New York Sun of Monday says: The
discovery of the mutilsted remains at Green
point calls to mind some notable cases that
ssem to confirm the popular belief that
whatever disposition may be made by a
murderer of the corpse of his victim, sooner
or later it will "cry out from the ground"
against him. In England what was known
as ''The Waterloo Bridge Mystery" about
| fifteen years ago, created great excitement
there, remains OF a human body being found
crammed into carpetbsg, as did recently
the discovery of the murder of Harriet Lane
by her paramour, Wainwright, by
the, finding in cab package containing
part of her remains. In America, the kill
ing of poor Alice Bowlsby of Paterson, n.
j., by Rosenweig, discovered by the finding
of the body crushed into trunk for trans
mission to Chicago, is still fresh in the recol-
lection OF the public. From a number of
cases showing the difficulty of keeping
murder out of sight, the following three
cases. which have become historical, are in
terestipg examples: The case of Prof. Web
ster, who was hanged for the murder of DIR.
Parkman, was one in which guilt was
brought home to the perpetrator through
separated limb from limb, submitted to
chemical process, and to the inordinate
heat of a furnace, and mingled with the
unnumbered
BONES OF ANATOMICAL SUBJECTS.
1t was shown that Prof. Webster had urgent
pecuniary motives for getting DIR. Parkman
out of the way. The prisoner lived at the
Medical College, Boston. He made an APP
poin' ment to meet DIR. Parkmar at O'Clock
on Friday, Nov. 70, 1849, to discuss money
matters. DIR. Parkman was seen entering
| the college at quarter to o'clock, and was
never again seen alive. The prisoner said
that the doctor did not keep his appoint
ment, and was not in the college at all that
day. For whole week no traces of the
missing nan we're found. On the Friday
week and the day following were fonnd in
furnace connected with Webster's labora-
tory, in the college, fused together indis-
criminately with the Stag, the cinders and
] the refuse of the fuel, large number of
bones and certain blocks of mineral teeth.
found. Other bones were discovered In
vault under the college, and
in a tea chest, imbedded In a
quantity of tan, the entire trunk of human
| body and more bones were found. The
parts thus collected from different places
made the entire body of a person of DR..
Psrkman's age, about go years, and the
form OF the body, when reconstructed, had
Just the peculiarities of DIR. Parkmsn. 1t
was further shown that the remains
had been separated by a person possessed
of anatomical skill, though not for ana
tomical purposes. Finally, three witnesses,
dentists, testified that the mineral teeth
were those made for DR.. Parkman three
years before. mould of the DOCTORS jaw
was made at the time, and 1t was produced
and shown to be so peculiar thai no acct
dental conformity of the teeth to the jaw
0Onl6 rnzzihlU N the
This clinched
THE EVIDENCE AGAINST THE PRISONER.
The murder OF samuel Adams a printer In
New York, by John G. Colt, teacher of
bookkeeping, and brother of the late Col.
Samuel Colt, of revolver fame, is another ex-
ample. As in the case of Prof. Webster,
the motive was to get rid of an importunate
creditor. The scene of the murder was the
building on Broadway and Chambers street,
now occupied by Delmonico, the restaura-
teur. John G. Colt occupied a room in this
building for his business. One September
morning In lS4l, Adams, who was printing
for him a work on book keeping, called for
500 or 500 due him. and was not seen again
alive. Inquiries were made by his family,
and it was ascertained that he was last seen
going into Colts apartments, In
Chambers street. On the day of
AGams's disappearance, suspicious noises
were heard in Colts room.
The body finally came boxed, directed
to gentleman in st. Louis, by way of New
Orleans, and was traced back to New York
to Colt, and he was arrested. Colts story
was that Adams and he had dispute as to
the correctness of the bill presented, and
that the latter called him a liar, which he
resented by slspping him in the face. A
scuffie ensued; Adams seized by the
throat and Colt, in self-deiense, caught up
hatches lying near by aud struck him on the
forehead, killing him. He went out of bis
room and locked the door, hurrying to the
City Hotel, where his brother, Samuel Colt,
was staying, intending to tell him his secret
and take bis advice. Samuel Colt, who was
in the barroom with some friends, told his
brother to go up to his room anu that he
| would Join him In few minutes. The Pris-
orer waited, and his brother not coming, be
| went back back to the room in Cham bers
street. The body lay there,
| COVERED WITH BLOOD.
He took large box, crammed the body
into it, wrapped in a piece of canvas, tying
up the legs close to the trunk, and then
scattered salt and sawdust over all. He
washed off the marks of blood on the wall
and floor, and smesred them with ink to
hide their traces. He stayed in the room
until late at night and then returned to his
lodgings in Monroe street. Next morning
he nailed up the box sent for a carman and
had 1t put on board the steamer Kalamazoo,
lying at the foot of Maiden lane. Colt was
convicted of wilful murder and was SEN
fenced to be hanged. On the day fixed for
the hanging he stabbed himself in the heart
| A remarkable murder trial In Boston, in
many respects like that of Prot. Webster
but resulting in the acquittal of the prisoner,
was that of LeavitL Alley, who was
accused of killing Abijsh Ellis.
Some workmen near the Cam
bridge Gas Works, discovered two barrels
containing the mutilsted body floating In
the Charles river, They were packed with