National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1877-03-27
ADIAB0LICAL MURDER.
Tho Tragic Fate of Joseph stahi-satuaied
with Kerosene oil and burned TO DeasA-

Tho Tragic Fate of Joseph stahl-satsaied
with Kerosene oil and Burned TO Doash-
tBy Telegraph to the National Republican,
New YORK, March o6.-0n Friday evening
Joseph stahl, . powerful young German, who
had been employed as q driver by Messrs. Koh-
Ter x Kamena. the owners OF the Gutenberg
brewery, was told that his services were no
longer required. He remarked that 1t was
hard to be discharged after he had served the
firm well and truly for three months. but he
supposed he must put up with the trouble as
best he could. Amer supper he went into the
boiler-room Of the brewery, where the fires
had been allowed TO 20 down. Here he re-
manned chatting and smoking with one Of ths
brewery hands until about 10 O'Clock at night,
when the man told him that he had had hard
days work, and as he felt sleepy he would 70
to bed. Stahl also said he would 20 - bed,
and the pair left the warm ssat, where they
had been enjoying the warmth Of the furnaces.
stahl's companion went 70 his room after bid
ding him good night, and Stahl also left, but,
for some unexplained reason, returned 10 the
boier-room. He remained there Till near
midnight, when another OF the hands en-
ployed in the brewery came into the place aud
cbatted with ~. While they talked together
. noise was heard in the yard, and At first the
men thought 1t was caused by some horses
that were loose In the stables, but they soon
agreed that II was Valentine, a driver, who
had Just returned with his team, and In this
belief the men were right. They parted soon
after this, and Stahl, instead Of going to his
bed, remained stretched out on the bench In
the boiler room.
LIVING MASS OF FIRE.
When Stahl was next seen he was com.
pletely enveloped In flames. He was in a room
next to the boiler ROOM where he had been
1Ntn md nj Ultn, In de-
tiDguish the scorching fire with horse blau-
ket. His clothes were saturated with . burn
ing fluid, and the fearful agony he must have
endured can scarcely be imagined. Two men
who slept over the room In which he Was,
hearing his awful cries for help ran to his as
attance. They covered him with blankets
nd subdued the flames, bat not before he was
- badly burned as TO render his recovery
almost impossible. Through all his terrible
suffering he retained consciousness.
THE VICTIMS DYING STATEMENT.
The services Of DIR. Rave, physician resid-
ing In the neighborhooi, were called into requi-
sition, and the following Is what the Doctor
tells as the dying mans story to him:
81 was In the bouer-room," said Stahl,
"half sleeping and half waking. when som
| tody-a man-came into the room and poured
petroleum over me and set me aflre. IL was
| all done quicker than ! can tell II. ! saw 1t
was q man by his clothes. pursued the
| hound TO the yard but could not catch him.
and then instantly rushed 10 try and put the
flames out with the horse blankets"
DR.. Rave stated that the dying man repeated
the story to him three times, telling him sub
stantially the same story each time. HIS
mind appeared TO be perfectly clear, and I do
not doubt" said the Doctor, "his bein. in
perfectly rational condition. He fully recog-
nized the fact that he could not recover, and
spoke with the earnestness Of n dying man ~
RELIEF IN DEATH.
Shortly before five O'Clock Saturday morn
Ing he became unconscious, and at ave o'clock
died, after suffering the most circulating
pain.
Last evening Coroner Crane, of Hoboken,
impaneled a coroner's jury to Investigate. the
case. The foreman is Judge Dwyer. The
jury, after viewing the body, visited the boiler
room, where kerosene marks were found on
the bench In the boiler room. The body AZ
rived at the Morgue in Hoboken At about eight
O'Clock last night. 1t has q most frightful ap-
pearance. The inquest IL to be continued this
evening at the brewery. II is rumored tina.
there Is q woman In the case.
A Stock Man and His Son Murdered by Q
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