The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-18
SUPPOSED BRUTAL MURDER.

| ARREST OF THE HUSBAND CHARGED WITH
THROWING HIS WIFE FROM THE WINDOW
| The MURDERER AND HIS vIcrIM--THEEATs
| OF AN ATTEMPT AT RESCUE FROM HoBoKEN
JAIL.
Mr.. Alexander Stoltz butcher residing In Paterson
avenue, near Clinton, in West Hoboken, heard some
grooming in the yard OF tho tenement house ad
joining his residence, about two O'Clock yesterday
morning As he listened he heard the word, water"
vatcr," "vater rapidly repeated and hastening 10
tho spot ne found MIRA E;kert, tho VILE OF Henry
EcKer silk weaver, Lying on the third door Of the
tenement, lying on tho ground unconscious and sur
ferIng much pain from the injuries she had received
Mr. Sotz took up the UNCONSCIOUS woman aud carried
her to her husbands apartments where Sue died in
about hour. From her position in the yard and
the nature Of her injuries 1t plain that
shc had either fallen been thrown from tho
window OF her apartment and suspicion at at
tached 10 Eckert the perpetra:or OF vito murder
as foul any in the annals OF crime in Now Jersey.
The injured woman unable to speak, and she died
without explaining the affair Stoltz had no doubt
that Ecker had thrown his vile from tho window,
and (atter carrying Mrs Eckert TO her ROOM he
SAID to the husband. "Where Is your wiieP" Ecker
was bed and apparently sleeping, but he answered
the question brutalIy ANY wife 60 hell,' he SAID
and affected sleep again. In the meantime tho
nelghbors had been aroused, and as the dying woman
passed away word carried from mouth 10 mouth
that a dreadful murder had been committed, and
strict watch was kept upon EcKert until the police
could DO summoned and the arrest OF the murderer
ELECTED.
THE SUPPOSED MURDERER.
Eckert, the supposed murderer, ~ German, about
forty years oil and lie has been mnrred about ton
years HIS wife about lvo years his junior. rhey
married IN Germany ten years ago. but emigrated
TO this country IN 1872 ana have ved nj west HOBO
ken Tor the last three years. Both followed the
patton OF silk weaving. and though Eckert was gen.
orally regarded as an industrious man, ne pore the
reputation of beng desperate character. About u
year ago he broke into house Union Hill aud tried
10 XIII lady with an axe, Tor when nc underwent u
term OF Imprisonment at the Snake Hill Pcnitentary,
and he had been released oniy lew months when he
again. US alleged, gave rem to his murderous in.
stiucts Ho rs u man Of medium height and build, not
being more than live leet ak inches In STATURE and
weighing, probably one hundred and htty-hve pounds
Mrs. Eckcrt was diminutive, even IN comparison with
her husband, not beng than four feet live inches
Il would have been easy Tor the husband 10 throw her
from tho window, especially II she mad been previously
uisabled and IL is the opinion OF those who have ex
amncd her wounds that she Kicked In the stomach
before beng thu own from the window. Her left arm
broken in Two places, and she had received inju-
besiae, both on the head and stomach the latter
appearing us II having been produced by a kick 1t
was generally believed that the able bodied man
maltreated his vile aud then hurled her from the
window In Two or three weeks Mrs. Eckert would
have become Il mother.
Information the affair carried TO Coroner r.
N. Crane, Of Hoboken, early yesterday morning. and
he at once Instructed Ohlcer Hal to take Eckert into
custody until the matter could be investigated This
done, and the Coroner proceeded 70 inquire into
to the usual questions Ecker said That he in led
und asleep, aud knew nothing about the way IN which
his vile 10 her death, but his brutal answer to
Stoltz when no bore the dying woman INTO the room,
and the testimony of the family who live in the lower
part OF the house. were regarded damaging 70 his
case. He overheard quarrsllng with his VILE
about hall an hour before the tragedy occurred. so
general is the belief IN his guilt that u was reported
yesterday morning tnat the people OF West Hoboken
We're threatening 10 lynch him; but 1t turned out that
some OF his associates among the silk weavers had
talked OF rescung the prisoner, and 1t was TO this
threat mat the excitement was owing. "Every man
who attempts Eckerts rescue from the lookup will 90
County jail with Eckert," the Coroner sad
the moD and his resoute words had the effect OF over
coming tho proposed resistance to the law Al eleven
O'Clock Eckcrt was committed TO tho County jail OF
Hudson county by tho Coroner TO await the action OF
the Coroner's jury. which summoned later in the
day. tier viewing he body the Investigation was de-
ferred until Monday evening next, when the testimony
OF MIR Stoltz and othcr persons cognlzant o the err
cumslances attending the death OF Mrs Ecsert will be
taken at the Town Hall of West HoUoken.
EcKERT's STORY.
A reporter interviewed the prisoner In his CELL
While his intempcranco anu other habits have given
HIM hard name IN the locality, he we'll dressed
anu looked by no means vicious, as bis reputation
would indicate. He said he came home drunk on tho
previous evening ana found his wife bed;
that ne soon Tell ss'eop, but shortly aiterward
looked around aud could lind her nowhere; he looked
out OF the window over the aileyway anu could not
any thing as II was too dark; he did not his
wife again until tho officers brought her no tried
! TO wake up his vile, and she said "My GOD If this
will only pass over" He says the doors were locked
at the time lie looked around for his wife, and he had
locked them himself before he retired When he says
he missed his wife he found them still locked and yet
he made no search but, according to his story,
turned to sleep again. He admitted having been in
Snake Hill for three months for having trouble with
| his vile.
! THE PRISONERS BRUTALITY.
Mr. Frederick Siegrist employed IN grocery store
at the corner OF Putnam and Clinton avenues,
said to HERALD reporter:--"The prisoner ana
hts vile used to board in my mothers
house at Union Ii III There he repeatedly
threatened TO take his " c's liic We glad when
he lett the place. as we were always afraid OF some
tragedy occurring. The conduct OF his wife was
cellcnt always She worked like slave for her brutal
husband, who spent all her earnings In drink.
They lost their only son. boy OF four, about the end
oil last year. The deceased about twenty-seven
years old but looked forty Three weeks ago she
away II ON her husband Tor twentyfour hours on
count of his brutal treatment He nearly chokcd
her to death in my mothers house."