New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-23
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THE MURDER OF LOUIS SCHMIDT.

IuE MI Of SCnhfD''
ALL OF TIE SUPPOSED GUILTY MEN IN CUSTODY
BELIEF THAT ONE OF TIE MEN ARRhsiHD
HAS BEEN CONNECTED WITH OTHER SERIOUS
CRIMES.
BY tho efforts of the Brooklyn police all Of the A.
leoed murderers of Louis Schmidt, OF Amliyvlile,
Suffolk Co., l.: L., are now in custody Inc elm
occurred on the night of June 80. Schmidt was u
labOrer employed upos the farm of Thomas Martin'
near AmityvIlle. On June 80 he came TO new
York and returned IN the evening. Mr.. Martin anu
charge of the house and alone. After supper ne was
at the village hotel and drank enough to be
He was not seen alive after he started 10 10 r"used
bv cries Of tire and both the house aud barn. whcn
stood at some distance from other buildings, were ere
found to be in flames and they burnen, 70 e tno
ground. Those who first saw the fire heard gun gun
fired three times. No trace was 1onnd
of Schmidt Sch that hat morning mcf nor prevailed I
IN the village, that he had fired the buildings anu
disappeared. But on the following day Justice
Capen and Coroner Preston, on examining anp
premises found the body of Schmidt in the wen;
close f. the place where the house stood. ne hhu
been shot in The head and side, after he had nesm
reused from sleep. II is supposed De was partla,N
dressed and then the body had been disposed OF oy
being thrown head foremost into the we'll
Efforts were Immediately made 10 trace the pr pr
petrators of the crime, and Mr.. Martin secnieI tne
aid Of the Brooklyn police. Captain Kaiser. OF r rhc
Twelfth Precinct, having charge of the case. III
daughter of Jacob Pcarsall, who lives near Tue
Marin place. described three pedlerS VINO WI"
selling lemons and clothespins on tho day DrioT'
thc crime and suspicion was fastened upon them
Ry dig nj effort ID was asrerfaired that they came
from Brooklyn and at last CAPTAIN Kaiser obtained
ciews which led him ~ think that he coud pul I'VE
hands upon the wight mcn AZ Il late hour SatiIrGay
night J ines j. Hickey, OF No. l.oso Atiaht,c-'Nr
BROOKLYN. wa; arrested M ms home. HIS deIciln-
ii N corresponds with that of the pedier VINO dio'c
Iie wagon III Amityvilc. and he - ~ rue ha'it
OF gong out upon { 40 island tic claimed mat ne
was entirely inno rcnt of t1c matter. The suspect "a
cnnfederatrs of Hickey were William GIeen, o.
MaiIom- r. near Cnanncev-st.. and Edward lIege-
.,ls ,lEaIS = lac
were out 1909 "a trip ~ sell potatoes, aud learning
their rcntc h: started IN buggy 10 meet tLeh'
about midnigh.. After a two hours Gr've he came
to a pub,ic house IN BrnShviilr. wn'Ie a
pedlers wagon stood outside, and light
shonc through ths ba'ropm windows. In short
time he saw two men come ont. aud recognized one
as Hcgcuan. When the ncn Grove al IN the ped
ler's wagon. he followed ti"m ~ the bright monl-
light. As hc came NJ to them they jumped out oi
the wagon. He ordered t5cm 10 stop, ana tori
lIegeman that he was wanted. The latter iLqnlrsu
what for. and WAS asked II he was not III H3ih'
trouble ont on the island Oh, suppose ynu mean
trat - fire sorapc; that's all riGh'. have more
friends than Pcarsail has, AMI can snow
that was far enough at the time"
IPcarsall was the chief witness before TIE
Coroner'S Juryl iIcgcmans comrade did not
prove to he Green. and he was not detained, wh'ie
lie Captain took lIrgrmal 90 Brook yn ana placed
Inn III a cell Al officer was detulei 10 watcn lor
the retura Of Green, as It was tonnd that he had
gone to Rochaway. About O'Clock yesterday
morning hr was arrested he II ms mouse. ne OK
pressed great surprise, ana claimed to KNOW nothing
OF the crime.
The arrest If the supposed mUrd ,gcr' has created
considerable cxcitencat IN SAifOk County, "Eerc
one ~ them, Edward iIegeman, II well but not
favoratly known. 1t IS the general belief tDaC the
rgat persons nave been arrested. On the last day
of the inquest a witness testified fnat li"gctan
and Hickey at IangS saloon. q; Drrslan, or
the nIgnt after the murder. lAcY stastG lat ihcN
had come from Farningdale that dav, ana wllle M
Faymlngtlaic III the morning they had been tod mat
Schmd,s sod, bad been found in the well and the
house had becn burned. If llegema1 and Hickey
heard OF the murder of Schnlut before y p. M. on
the day on which they LAY they We're IN Farming
dale IL il said. they heard something Il NnoWE 10
Coroner Pres on. Justice GapGn and DINERS VINO
wer, ON the premises scar lllng Tor the body, and
did not iiud ii until about Ociock. beside, thls,
there are o. her and stronger circumstances pointing
10 the guilt OF the accu eel mcn and one other per-
con. who has not yet becn arrested. llc2t man Is
soii-in-aw of William Sndiliug ne former owner
of the Martin property. 49,
On the night of January 30. 1876 be DWELLING
house of David II. SkdmOrr. at Deer Park, was de-
stroyed by fire. and Mr. SKidmorc, Fleet Weeks.
Wesley and Mr.. Wright, the sole occupants ot the
house persisted IN the flames. In addition to the
four who were burned. there were ~ the time two
oi her members of the SlIiduOre hOusehold-Maud,
a daughter of Mrs. Wright and Charles IL. lYreiI,
"A man VITO worked for SkdmOre. Iyreil before
the Coroner testified that he had been arrested
plOy On the might of the fire Iyrel and Maud
went 10 hut a short distance frOH the Skldmorc
DIV cIling as they stated, to SIT up with Edward
UegclIan, who AZ that time lived IN tie hui with
his family, and VINO they say was III beyond their
evidence there nothing 10 show that iicRer nan
WAS H. and Ia VISITED the scene OF the ire raIlY IN
the morning after ITS occurrence j. was shown be-
fore the oronrr that the night of the fire iyreil
went Deer Park station, as c testified. Tor ncdl-
cine fpr Hrgcman. The medicine proved 10 he
wbIskcV. There not few VINO now believe
thAt yrol! and Hegeman had a hand in the skid
more tragedy