New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-30
HELD FOR ANNIE DowNEYs DEATH.

CONCLUSION OF THE INoUEsT-EDwARD TIaiM COM
MITTED FOR TRIAL.
The inquest in the case of Annie D0wney, who
was found dead on January II at No. III Prince
st. was continued yesterday at the Coroners office.
Edward Timm, the prisoner was present with conn
sell He appeared TO take very little interest in the
proceedings except when several of the witnesses
identified him as man they had seen at the
house in company with the young woman. HIS
wife and mother-in-law were seated near him.
August Schmidt testified that his wife kept the
house No. III Prnce-st. He reached home about
1890 a. M Oh January II. and saw Annie Downey
in his wifes room. He said he heard no noise in the
house in the night. In the morning he went out by
the front door, which was locked,
Blanche Schmidt testified that she had known
Annie Downey for eighteen months. About .. H.
on January 10 q man visited Annie in the paror
She heard him say, when be was going away, Good
bye Annie,' and she replied, Goodbye, Eddie
Annie told her that the man was friend she had
known uptown. and that he had promised TO re-
turn in the evening Coroner Knox asked her If
she saw the man in the room, and Mrs. Schmidt
said, while pointing to the prisoner. " That's the
man he bad long hair then" Mrs. Schmidt said
that at 1890 o'clock Annie came into her room and
said that the man had returned as he had
promised. Annie left her room in good
spirits. and she did not see her again alive
testified that she opened the door for Timm on the
afternoon before tle murder; She saw him and
Anne talking fOgetner ana Wnen ne lcIt tne room
she heard Annie say. Goodbye Eddie" and he an.
swered, 20 Goodbye Annie III be back tonight"
She said the brOther-inlaw of the prisoner called at
the house on Wednesday and threatened TO fix 4"
her FOR identifying the prisoner.
Charles Mcdonnell. police captain of the Eighth
Precinct. said he had been told that a Mrs. Schor-
tau had made remark that shewas glad Annie Dow
Dey dead for her ughteTs sake. He found that
Edward Timm lived there with his wife. He
arrested him, and the prisoner was aftcrward iden,
tilted by the inmates of the house. Tmm admitted
being in the ncghborhood OF the house on that day.
Mrs Schortau. mother-in-aw Of the prisoner denied
that she had ever made the remark
Pm glad Annie Downey is dead because my son
will stay at home now" She said she heard
of the dead girl before she saw the published ac-
counts Mrs. Muller testified that Mrs. Schortau
made the remark about Annie Downey to her.
The jury again retired and returned at
O'Clock with the following verdict. We find that
the death of Annie Downey the result of q
homicide, and consider the evidence sufficient to
hold the prisoner Edward linn. for trial"
In answer 10 questions Iimm said he was twenty
one years old and was pocket-bOok cutter. BY
advice of counsel he said !: =" have nothing to say
other than that am innocent OF the offence with
which am now, to my surprise. charged"
Two letters addressed % To be opened and reado
were received in the Dead Letter Department of the
Post Office yesterday, having been taken from
downtown letter boxes. One Of them, which was
written with lead pencil on scrap Of paper, was as
follows:
al am the murderer of Annie Martin and drowned
myself ,.,.... 81, PETER TER SiLLE' ios hi'ins'on
A ThIBUNE reporter visited No. 164 Rivington-s st.
last evening, and found IT to be tenement-house:
f'be housekeeper said that no one named Gie lived
there. Inquiry among the neighbors failed to dis
cover any such person. The other letter. which was
taken up on January 81. read as foowsi
q IL police will make proper inquiries they Will
and one who was at Ill Pnnce-st. the night of the