The New York herald., 1879-01-01
THE NORWALK MYSTERY DEEPENS
How Palmer Killed the COu-
rageous Policeman.
THE HARLEM BRIDGE MANTRAP.
A Verdict Rendered Against the
Gate Tender.

Investigation progresses. The court room where
the inquest held to-day crowded to suffoca-
tion by citizens and others who never knew
that such an eccentric individual was living
in their midst and extraordinary taking oil by
an apparently well laid plan has excited their curl
osty TO the very highest pitch The authorities OF
the city of Norwalk, at loss to know what to do
with the murdered mans body. though not as to his
money which they safely lodged in the FIRST National
Bank yesterday afternoon sent the following cable
despatch to Germany
Friedrich W. SCHULTZ Grossen Holthausen. near bort
Johann Heinrcn Schultz has been murdered What
snail DC Gone ~H THE ns Mayor Of soHrm SoRwALX
To this the following reply received by Gable
this morning.
beg Of you it that the body of my brother is
pr9PeTy m to you TO %
form me at once by cable hs IS sees enc nase oes
OF OF bsSsse he lsR w%
Grosen Holthausen, be Barop.
THE GERMAN coSsUL's INSTRUCTIONS.
Mayor Quntard and Selectmen Charles b. Smith,
who are acting administrators of the murdered
mans effects. cogitating to an answer to the
above despatch, when Mr.. Gustav Wolfram, repre-
senting the Imperial German Consul in New York,
made his appearance here, and after showing the
proper crpdentials at made the necessary ar
them to Germany with the North German Lloyd
steamer which sails ON Saturday next. The Consul
representative showed Mayor Quntard the following
despatch received by him in New York this morn
ing:-
DE-, JULIUS SCHUMACHER, General Imperial Consul, New
The Mayor South Norwalk Conn has just teegraphed
that Johann Heinrich Schultz has been % a. and
once have ordered that the remains mains
issyns5e~issr, sr,~schaIte, who has been residing in
sah Swa near e s. o w
the deceasd to be denthed and give oieaa notice S his
phaa The necessary expenditures are a. your disposal
order Il brother has great deal of specie with
him and that be taken to secure all these
ELECTS Please siPa
Land owner in Grosseu Hothausen, bel Barop.
rHE ADMINISTRATORS AT WORK.
That the effects were all secured became at once
evident to the German Consuis representative; that
all of the money found the body. and which the
rnurderers had not discovered. amounting in all to
: about S2o,OOo. which had been securely hidden in
schultes ldcrshir pocket, had since been depositeS
In the First National Bank in addition to the specie
found in a small iron chest which the murdered Ger
man kept at of j. NJ Layton, who acted as his
zeal estate agent in this city. The money found
his body and which is in the bank consisted of
seyenty-two bank notes of l,O00 marks each twenty
notes of 500 marks three notes OF 100 and S939 i'll
United States greenbacks. the remainder of the
money, rather the amount which he received in
exchange from Bischof. the German banker in
New York, having been stolen, along with the gold
watch on which his name was engraved. This made
total of $4,000 marks lin paper found on his body,
now in the bank and by the advice OF the admins
TRAITOR, the specie found i'll the iron chest being 100
gold pieces each ~ francs. was added to the special
bank deposit.
ISvEsToaY or THE MURpERxD NAN's EFFEcTs.
At the suggestion OK Secretary Wolfram an inven-
tory was subsequently taken of the contents OF the
iron chest and most of the documents, legal and
otherwise in German. considerable time elapsed
before the administrators could get at an accurate list
estimate of the murdered Schultes wealth the fol-
lowing list prepared. which includes the deeds
and acknowledgements found in his chest:-
Certificates bearing the stamp Of district gov
ernment of Dortmund, in bhenish Prussia.
dated july Is, 1877. acknowledging deposit
Certificate of sale of ninety-dve acres of land
to Rhenish Railway for which the above
amount had been received.
Mortgage on property near Dortmund. dated
January ~ 1863. .......................... 10000
A list of interest due him various proper
ties i'll Germany for the year lSTs-ainount
of interest at per cent-sOoo marks. 900. .oOO
Memorandum of shares OF Rhenish railway
stock. -.'...-.... 4o,oN
Marks. 74s.5ti
Value in American dollars .slS7, l3s
Twenty frame pieces found III chest. 5OO
Creenhacks found on his person. .............. 93g
Amount now in bank By order of adminis-
traitor. ........................ 2o.0Oo
Deed OF farm near Norwalk. ................. 5000
Total value. s2l3, ,577
Mr. G. W Smith, one OF the administrators, after
even this partial list had been made up said to the
representative OF the German Consul:-''You would
not have thought on looking ut his place and the
manner in which he lived that was worth all this
money He seemed to have lived for money only
Je had small. miserable iron bed which he even
did not have pillow, using some sort OF satche TO
rest his head upon But few OF us knew him around
here he attracted but little attention. and what
could have induced man possessed of such an
estate to purchase such farm aud live in such q
style surpasses my comprehension"
Various other papers of private character were
found ia the chest. and the German Consul repre-
sentative requested the administrators to keep
charge of all OF them until further orders.
TaE INQUEST THE STATES ATTORNEY.
While this examination of Schutes effects was
progressing Judge Craw and state Attorney Oinstead
were actively engaged in penetrating the mystery.
William DuchhOltz, the servant who WAS with
his master few minutes before he was laid
low in death was in the court room under
the surveillance of an officer. but of AL the wit
nesses he was the coolest and most stolid. lie
gave his testimony in excellent German, showing him
10 be a man hey ond the ordinary run of Gennaps of
that class; and often when the dictation of the
States attorney tue interpreter would ask him
n question which he had previously answered
in part he would say with yigor, and
often in an angry tone, II have already told
You so before" For four long hours he quietly sub
nittcd to being baogcred by the states Attorney bat
In not single instance did he contradict himself.
lie was astonished at nothing not when his own pis
found in the lot adjoining the farm were
suddenly placed before his eyes. Not even
the three spots of blood Of the
pistols moved him in the very least From
beginning TO end he told his story apparently with
entire selfpossessi0n, even ACKNOWLEDGING that n.
lett Sun Hotel, in Pearl street, New York. where
brhult ehad engaged him, without paying ms board
bill OF s35. though he did have plenty OF money III
his possession
II have not paid him yet" said Duchhoitz; "but
will pay him..
"But why did you not pay him" asked the States
Attorney.
because Schultz told me that we going to Cal
iforn4a one of these days. and thought. being in
strange land, might get sick, aud would hoid on
fo the money n had bad about $3.50 whom came tc
South Norwalk The reason wrote to Germany toi
,uore money was because intended to go u Austria
liza. This before Schultz spoke to me about Cali
kornia"
scHULTE's SERVANT HEARD FnoM
when asked whether he knew the man Who acted
o. Schutes servant before he was engaged. ne SAID
that he did not know him, never heard his name
thought he was engaged in barber snop Al latei
pt1pe OF the proceedings the states Attorney laid be
fore the Jury the following received this morn
L.. fr..r, N..y Nnrk