The New York herald., 1879-09-12
THE CEDAR SWAMP TRAGEDY.
Startling Revelations of a
Private Detective. ~.
$4,000 OF EHULYES MONEY RECOVERED
Euchotz's Damaging Disclosures to His
Supposed Fellow Prisoner.

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:, BRIDGEPoRT, Conn, Sept II, 1873.
The disclosures to-day in the Bucholtz trial were
astonishing. IL not startling. The great web of
doubt covering the preparation of the crime was
swept away and its pecuniary motive. II not It's
actual perpetrator. revealed in lurd coors. In the
first place the former servant OF the murdered man.
now barber boy working In New York. was pro-
duced to tell the story OF the original meet
ing Of Schultz and Bucholtz at the Some Hotel
in New York. He narrated the curiosity manifested
by Bucholtz to schultes wealth. and told how the
prisoner had expressed himself a. wishing to be
In the servants position. that he might run away
with old schultes coat fabled it to contain
the miser's boards OF money. This another link
in the circumstantial evidence which. 1t gen.
orally understood was the only kind Of proof the
prosecution could rely upon in its against the
accused 1t will be remembered that even the
weapon of the crime. which must have been
or hatchet. could never be found. But the
State had genuine surprise In reserve for every
body in the testimony OF private detective named
Stark. who last spring was put into the Jail with
Bucholtz. and wormed from him the hiding places
of 100000 of Schulte's money and more or less Of
the circumstances of the crime. This man told his
long tale this afternoon and II Bucholtz shall hang
by of the culpr may blame his slippery
tongue and his lack of shrewdness. Bucholtz is no
fool according to the ways Of the world. If he
mitted the crime imputed to him he did 1t with an
address and skill which until to-day left him In the
attitude OF person only strongly suspected. He
suspected the detective in the Jail to be detective
80 that IN sapping the fort of his own
defence by his condolences with this detec-
general prncipies all murderers are essentially fools
The connection with the case Of this detectives
German. by the way. selected for the purpose
of ready intercourse with the sccusedis an amusing
comedy in itself. He came to Bridgeport last March
in the pay Of the States attorney Mr. Olmstesd and
by concerted plan. Of which all were innocent
cept the few principals. he arrested ut Adams
Express Office for endeavoring to get money pack
age on ostensibly forged order. He was thrown
patiently bided his time and allowed Bucholtz
to make advances. He was looked upon as dan
who contemplated the pillago of the Brdgeport
banks. Bucholtz who first feared that Stark really
armed m that after while he unbosomed himself
of enough it is now conjectured. to send
himself TO the galiows II the ,,ss asssctivss evi-
rious part Of this comedy is the complete
deception Of the first retained Of the accused's
lawyers German named Bollman-who. too. sus-
pecting at arst that Stark was detective, warned
Bucholtz against him. but had his suspicions so
sSs Of nS %
Knocked almost speechls.s to-day when they
practised upon them by the detective. The
prisoner comprehended, Of course the nature Of the
edge Of English. and his anxiety and terror were
pitiable STARK 10 . refined looking man, with deli
cate and @ % ,.. fss.o,ss nc wo1d Os Os called
ably some scion Of . run down arstocratic German
family who has drif,ed to this country and in hi:
poverty taken to detecSve work. His story was told
without o smile. He was sll business"
THE rRYrS6oNY.
George G. SttllsOn, foreman or the COroners jury,
q druggist of south Norwalk, at whose store the
plaster put Bucholtz's face the night OF the
murder, was called to the stand; He was shown .
fed that he picked 1t up on Sunday afternoon
couple Of feet from the fence near the murder
of the tragedy aud indicated the spot. He con-
tinued:-After the murcer Bucholtz came to my
store one dsy; he motioned his desire for pocket
harbrush and gave u description of ono he said he
had lost; the same day on the other side OF the
fence picked up boz OF cartridges and paper
hobnails (the cartridges and hobnsls and bunch
of keys and revolver shown; found this revolver
about two feet from the hobnails; also found this
Schute's trunks at his aud small iron safe
belonging to him that had been taken to the First
shown; II hrst saw these in trunk in Schulte's
ROOM" Being cross-examined, he said:-A general
search made by the jury and the people on Sat
urdsy, after the murder. without discovering the
articles / found on Sunday; the cedar tree, into
which branches OF other trees had beon inter
from the side OF the path, standing this Sun
day, but Il cut down with an axe within week;
do not know by whom
Henry o. Koenig, . German newspaper reporter.
testihed:--I was at South Norwalk during the
Coroner's inquest; Bucholtz told me he handed tho
money to Paul Hercher because he did not wish to
have the money on his person; he said he had not
noticed the INK marks; he said Schultz handed the
money to him after they left Herchers that Friday;
the money was money which he had given, he said.
to Schultz for sate-keeping.
siegrried Grunewald testified through German
interpreter He said:-I came to America with
Schultz his servant; stayed at the Some Hotels
there first saw Bucholtz; told him Schultz
rich man; afterward told him that was about to
leave Schultz; he said was foolish; told him that
Schultz carried his money IN his coats Bucholz said
lie wished he could 40 with Bchulte aud he would
''mske IL different from what did; to the bost OF
my recollection Bucholtz said IL hc we're In my
place lie would run away with Schulte's coat.
Cross-examined, he said:-It generally re-
ported among the people at the Some Hotel that
Schultz had lots of money.
Otto Schwetzky swore:-I was the barkeeper st
the Some Hotel when Bucholtz and Schultz were
there; Bucholtz let his trunk there; IL was marked
s.Adeaide, via San Francisco; got two bank notes
from Mr.. Berger; passed them to the hotel pro-
prietor; therc were private marks on the bl--ng-
numbers made with black ink.
Lester &. Smith swore--I this box before
iron producedl; Schultz gave 1t to to put In
the safo 1t the South Norwalk savings Bank
NOTES EXCLUDED.
Walter G. Quintard said I'll received the box from
the administrator "a sheet of f6olscap covered with
figures here taken from the box. The paper
contains list of the numbers Of the securities,
bank notes and the like possessed by the de-
ccased.l
The prosecution desired to show that among the
numbers are those OF the bank notes passed by
Buc choltz ..
General smith. counsel for the accused, asked
paper exhibited aud until after its competency
evidence passed upon by the Court. He SAID
that this was an unusual course but he bsd it
followed In less important case than where mans
effect upon the jury II IL not to be admitted
The Court gave the jury o After argu-