The New York herald., 1877-02-28
JERSEY JUSTICE?
Mrs. 0schwald's Prayer to the Writer
of the Anonymous Letter.
A HOME OF SORROW.
Weak Spots and Faulty Links in the Evidence
Against Her Son.
VERDICT IN THE RYAN INQUEST.

We have received the following extraordinary and
deeply touching appeal FROM the mother OF Oschwad.
who executed Tor the murder Of oficer Brock
NEWARK. SUNDAY, FEB. 25
To THE EDITOR or rHK HERALD
have read the letter OF the woman published in the
HERALD in regard TO the murder oi officer Brock.
Now my pool. son is dead and the law Is appeaacd.
Nothing can harm her husband, and mplors her TO
let the world know who the guilty person. Since
my sons death have well nigh lost faith IN all man
kind. But II could only know that the innocence OF
my poor boy could be made clear to all the
world IL would be the only consolation ! can now
have. II is the law that after man IS executed Tor
cannot be punished. Therefore, II the writer OF the
letter IN the HERALD has indeed woman's heart she
will speak and tell her story TO the world Tnis
Is from the mother OF Charles II. Oschwald
GERTRUDE OSCHWALD.
p s. am deeply grateful for the kind sympathy
you have shown us.
THE HoMEsrEAD.
The poor sorrowing mother, in her Ignorance, may
we'll be pardoneo in supposing that the cxp
alton Of a crime by party aiterward found to have
been relieved the real criminal from subse
uuent prosecution II no discovered But the
traordnary character Of this appeal by mother who
has no longer her life to save, but only his repu
taton and her own, led the writer to pay visit to
Frau Oschwald at Newark yesterday. She lives
near tho intersection Of Thirteenth and Fair
mount avenues, in tho outskirts of Newark
The residents OF this locality mostly respectable
mechanics and the smaller class OF tradesmcn who
occupv litto modest frame houses. Frau Oschwald's
is one Of the humble in its exterior, but the
terror is neatly and even comfortably furnished She
answered the ring At the bell herself, and led her
visitor into parIor, rather nicely furnished apart
ment for people in her station of liic. There
numerous family pictures, photographs and Sketches
on the walls one OF tho photographs revealing Herr
aud Frau Oscnwald IN group with SIX children
among them tho hapless Charles. This photo
haan akAn
ior he looks a mere boy She tearfully pointed this
photograph which represents joyful, happy family
group The erect porty form Of her husband in this
likeness and his 0eamng face, reflect his pride in his
wife children. and in the face OF the recent
ton of of these smiling, happy boys it certainly
pointed gloomy moral
Frau Oschwald seemed to be plain, good. decent,
neatly clad woman, slight in stature and evidently
bent with grief. Her face pale. her eyes
swollen and there was a nervous trembling her
motions which Indicated that she was still PROSTATE
IRON The terrible blow she had received
She spoke very broken English, but ex-
pressed herself fuently in the German tongue,
in which the conversation was carried on. The cor
rectness OF her diom showed that she had received
lhiug really gentle refined III hcr manner unpre-
tcntious aud simple las II was
A MOTHERS APPEAL.
..Oh for Gods sake' che burst out during tho in
terview ''pease publish this letter so that they may
longer be able 10 deiame his memory! II is enough
10 have executed innocent man--let them at least
v,ndcate his reputation and let the guilty man now
come forward and acknowledge the deed he has done.
Frau Oscnwald closely questioned as to the
grounds which she believed her son to be innocent
aud what stated in reply is certainly Important
enough to be laid before the public and the authortics
She broke down recital several times, and coud
pny with great difficulty control her convulsive Sob
bing; but, upon the whole, her points seemed to bo
clear and displayed considerable intelligence and In.
gcnuity in the weighing OF evidence
Her hrst point-ana .na' On wnicn sne a.a more
been made into the strange anonymous letter
which was received by Oschwald's counsel Mr. Nor
Death She brought pile OF newspapers from the
bark paror showing that she had carefully Kept every
hing relating to the trial and conviction OF her son,
ana called special attention to the following newspaper
extract describing the contents of the letter.
THE ANONYMOUS LETTER.
mail letter from some town in pennsylvana
in Which the T .n Sa Sal ne a ws
innocent he described the shooting and smoE other
shooting DONE wrapped 1t up in silk
n@emss nra No. ss street. night
ing the shooting on Of y onsabs ,ns se Tomas was
kins and hvebaIresd syerpiaed revolver was found
rev1iSer found contain an empty cartridge Upon
examination the bullet taken from Brooks body was found
ihe revolver however, Tree from and apparently
hc Six which revolver wrapped
identified as tie property OF M sae @ G w,e
thrown down the well lew days before it was found
Now she urged with tears coursing down her
II the writer The murderer. or dd not at least,
know all 1t, how could he tell exactly the spot
where the pistol to De oundY insisted that The
I,tler should be published ana the writer discovered,
bat 1t all of no avail Governor Bedle got tho
letter from Mr. Morrow, and he has 1t STILL went 10
the Governor and asked him to let me see the
letter but ne would not He said he must
return to Mr.. Morrow, from whom ,one ne
stated IN some of the newspapers that the Governor
treated rudey, but he listened to me IKE a man
vino had up his mind to pay attention TO any
thing might say Now Mr. Morrow told me also that
the writer this lettcr, says that Brock shot hrst,
and that he tho writer shot Brock, and also That
Blanchard Zone OF Ryans pals who turned states evi-
and really planned the burglary was to have re-
n owed the stolen articles from the house on Inc
evening OF the day which Brock was killed"
QUESTION OF IDENTITY.
Two respectable women, Iinderhait and Holman,
had come forward after the CONVICTION and sworn that
they saw the burglars on the morning of the
murder, that they answered the description as given
by most of the witnesses and that thcy were positive
these men were not Ryan and Oschwald. why, Mrs.
Znderhaft was here even last sunday, exclaimed the
poor woman wrnging her hands, land she cried bit
ierv. declaring ali the time that she knew OschwaId
was not the man because Ryan had beard and be-
cause both the men she saw hau smooan 'ae Ws mesu
and ready to swear TO their statements upon tne
stand, but they could not because no new T'a' was
granted.
Now as TO Brooks identification OF Oschwald.
Brock IT. will be remembered, aiied 10 identity Ryan,
but ,dentiticd Uschwald, anu Frau Oschwad claimed
that this identification was vated by tne iact that
Brock. while yhg in the hospital t"ia ,ciow R,'em' @
named Stamford, an Engshnan, that II was 700 uark
10 distinguish any lace IN the struggle. Stamford
went to England before the tr'l, ana ,,s e''uonue' @
therefore could not bo given He did not return
until liter the trial over, ana thch no cou" hot
testify, because new trial was granted - 49,.
Another ponl raised by Frau Oschwad was that
Roe, keeper OF tho resort Tor thieves, where he
tell tale bag containing the stolen artccs vas '"un"'
stated after the triat thai Bancnard and not osch-
wad brought the bag there white nc (soc) was paying
checkers win Mills, the Chief OF Ponce
LETTER THE HERALD.
Tho good also insisted that an invcstigatioh
should have been made into The o the letter.
aIac.sniIc Of winch was published oy tho hkAtp ne
woman who wrote that letter acknowledged that her
husband the murderer OF Brock and why was ihis
assertion not investigated? Frau Oschwald bad no
Idea as who the authors oil eitlcr
o the anonymous letters. Speaking oi
Blanchard, who mas been suspected as The possible
real murderer OF Brock, she sad that she could not
guess whether the author Of the letter TO the HERALD