, 1876-03-11
A CHASTITY CRIME.
sEocKtNG DETAILS OF THE RECENT
BacOKLYN HJRROR-THE STORIEs
TOLD BY THE MUhpERER
AND HIS WIFE.

One of the most h0rril IL lutcherieS ever
perpetrated IN this country was recently
brought to light IN the city Of Brooklyn,
some vi the particulars vt which have been
men,,o in our news columns. as received
by telegraph. Late New York papers a.
hand enable US 10 lay be'or. pur readers
some additional particulars OF this most
terrible tragedy. The murderer, j, seems,
Travelled In this country unGcr an assumed
rSm,-.Victor Kr TIE. The wife Of III. mur.
derrr tells this story: Nv. W. Simmons
came to aur house about 8 O'Clock Thursday
evening, bringing doll for my little girl.
house, and, after drinking the beer, Fuchs
drank beer and Simmons said he was
might stay and sleep With Fuchs. and
would sleep With Ellen. We had only two
rooms. Simmons agreed tu this. My hus-
band says slept on tue floor and that was
unfaiihiul, hut was 50 drunk ] knew moth.
ing Of 1t. Ny husband sad child put me- "
bed, and while they were doing 30, ! fell on
the door and cut my face. When got up
in the n.orning ! saw bo'ly on the foor' Of
the kitchen, and Fuch, taking il by the heels,
dragging it into q bedroom to cut 1t up
When saw il I called out We will le.
hupgr But Fuchs said hs would make 1t
all right. drank too much Friday, and
did nOt sec the bo,ly cut up"
As the woman told this story she wept
bitterly, saying egain and again that II
she Lad lsrp solar the murder would not
have been committed.
Andreas Fuchs, or Victor Krct1e, as the
murderer callS himself, sys he hud known
Simmons and worked with him fos three
years, but had once had . difficulty with
lin, on account OF which he LET, The factory
for six months. He said Simmons was in
the habit OF. visiting b. wife while he WAS
Az work, and that sbout six months ago he
had detected them in crime. lie said that
Simmons came 10 his house Thursday even.
ing abaut . O'clock, and, as he had some
leer, both drank OF it. Simmons then
gave him money u buy more l*er, and
when he returned he detected what he
considered satisfactory evidence that his wife
had ie,n unisi,hiul to him. Calling bis
step child, Ellen, who was sleeping on the
bed, as q Witness Of her mothers crime, he
sized y hatchet which lay behind the stove.
and struck Simmons dead with one blow On
the neck. He asserted that he struck Sim.
mons head of with one blow. hut aiterward
accounting for the cuts about the reck by
saying lie had 20 hack it 0ff next morning,
as it was not entirely severed He declared
thar he intended to give himself up. hut his
wife persuaded him not to do So, and Fri
day be dragged the body into bedroo
and cut IL up, packing The pieces away in
different places until he could g,s rid of
them.
Tie officers who first inspected Fuchs
apartments reported that there were pals
In the kitchen and bedroom containing
meat. They thought they might lle pieces
Of picked pork. A close examination Of the
premises was then made. and in Cool chess,
under the hed, was f,und heavy, sNlid
hammer, thhf bore bood s,ains, and com.
nNn hai dsaw stCep, d with llood snd
firing ed With bits Of hair. There we,e also
heavy hatchets or axes. and these ware COY.
cred with hall. obi terated blood marks. In
another conner, under u couch, Was small
tin pail, 6led 70 the rim with fragments Of
3 human body, Gu. into pieces not more than
two or three inches in length. At the side
OF che bel was large pine chest, dyed in
every part with blood, as though ahleeding
body had been hastily ;smmed into it as
temporary receptacle. In u common black
leather travelling trunk wa, found another
portion Of the musilated body, strips oi fesh
and pieces Of skin. In another part of the
chamber WAS large tin wash boiler nearly
filed with portion Of the mani limbs
pieces Of arm $, of hands, and Of legs and ieet.
IN che midst Of these remains was the trunk
cfa body, ths ribs stripped clean Of skin
and hesh. The officers n.xt ararche,l the
bed, and, turning up the ticking, uncovered
other fragments of human body. Then
they went through the kitchen, ap't, digging
deep under the bricks Of the fire place,
hroughs out many other remsins similar 10
those discovered in the bedroom. They
gathered the bloody iragments together.
and sent them to the Morgue. The axes,
saw, snd hummer were taken 20 the police