Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-29
Another Mystery at West Haven
 Shore.

panneIIesi-A Ghastly Wound in the
 Forehead-One Blacken ed Eye-Ident1-
 fled as Theodore Schneider, Late Of
 Newark, Md.
 Yesterday afternoon at about three o'clock parties in boat out sailing in the lower part of the harbor when near Riggs oyster guard house. of Neck Point, West Haven shore, saw the body of @ man floating in the water The parties sailing were Joseph R. Doolittle, of Southington, 30 or 35 years of age, and three young men of this city, Frederick Schiller of 16 Martin street, Walter Berklee of 54 Dewitt street, and Louis Gates of Edgar street. The body was in three and a half or four feet of water and four or five rods from shore. The party made the body fast to the shore, and two of the young men went up and made known the fact They were directed to Justice Booths, and re- paired to the residence of the justice, who | being informed of the case dispatched the | news to Constable Babcock, who got team at Mr. Clark's stable and the remains | were brought to the West Haven morgue. | The news of the finding of the body created much excitement at the shore and a crowd had collected before the | body was removed. n1duy V1oWoA GAo ID l mains, which were those of man about 35 years of age. Tn the forehead over the left eye was deep irregular gash, or wound, which looked as if it had been made by heavy | blow with some blunt instrument or by a fall, or caused by the remains being struckby the paddle wheel of vessel. The following jury of inquest was impannelled at Thomp- ! Gr1o 0T1 main floor over the morgue: Foreman Pros I per Warner, Silas Thompson Samuel L. Smith, Elam Hull (of the Cramer jury), Dr. John F. Barnett, Rollins Hlne They viewed the remains finding the following de-
 scription:
 l forehead wound three-quarters of an inch
 in length and gaping. extending through scalp and the bone beneath slightly roughened At intervals of half inch from this are four or n9e tsse | wounds being quite superficial. Over the left satenSs thrauas gu5s the the lid xiso another such mark on the right side of the neck the left leg two sores which evidently had there The rest of the body showed no marks or signs of violence.
 In the pockets of the deceased were found lot of papers. Among them were many | business cards of saloon keepers, ink manu- l lecturers, etc., all of Newark, N. J., also l sheet of paper on which was written in Ger man a store account, made up of small ten cent items for bread, sausages, etc., and on the back of it long list of names of persons in various cities, written in neat hand. Among these were the following: Alex. volheyer, Shooting Park, vailsburg, South Orange, NJ ,o- .,;., ....o. Nau, rz.von Conn.
 L. Bauerband. Elizabethport, N. J.
 Joseph Halle, Paterson, N. J.
 Mrs Hartwig, 25 Adams street, Hobaken, N J. A. Hildebrand, restaurant. Bayard street. Tear Carl Traager, Beethoven Hall, New York. Mrs. Bischof, corner Bay and Cooper streets, J. F. Preyer, P. o. Box 13 East Cleveland Ohio !; also names in Cleveland Milwaukee, Washington, Baltimore and Savannah
 Also there was lot of printed receipts for ! small payments on the L0terne, signed by Paul Julius Immergruaum in printed letters, I and underneath in writing Tn. Schneider, secretary,-which name, as will be seen later, proved to be the name of the deceased. There was in one of the papers the name of l John Myer, 109 George street. New Haven. l The jury sent Constable Babcock to~this city to try to find MT. Myer and bring him before | them. In his absence they examined papers and discussed probabilities as to the cause of ! might have fallen from passing steamer, and Dr. Barnett deemed that the remains had ! not been in the water over SC hours, as in in- I serting the probe in the wound in the fore head fresh arteriaE blood flowed. The garb of the deceased consisted as follows: Dark, well worn pants checked with white, jacket
 of cheap stuff with blue buttons shirt rag
 gedin front, with an ivory collar button and
 black tie Deceased was in his stocking feet.
 His stockings were blue with white toe tops. At about nine o'clock Constable Babcock ar rived and brought with him MT. Myer, g | German, about 35 or 40 years of age and who it was found was the publisher of the L0- ter7ae. He was taken down into the morgue, accompanied by the jury, and the light being thrown into the face of the dead man, he was | asked if he knew deceased. He exclaimed |: | My God dat ish schneider!'
 On returning up stairs MT. Myer, upon be- | ing enquired of by the jurymen, said that he 1 knew the deceased but little. He saw him in Newark where he (witness) published the LGternc and the deceased collected bills for him. He knew the deceased there about three weeks, but saw little of him and knew but little of him there. He was obliged to l suspend issuing the LGterne which was ! semi monthly paper, he said, of literary | character, and he then came to this city and boarded for while at 1O9 George street, and was now living
 AT 66 NASH STREET.
 His family were there. He saw Schneider about ten minutes in this city That was a
  later received postal card [exhibited to the l juryl from the deceased. It said that Schneider would come and see him. He never saw Schneider, however, again. As to the character of the deceased he knew but little, but thought he.might be at times in- temperate. One of the jury asked if de- ceased was man likely to commit suicide Witness shook his head and rolled up his eye brows and said he didn't know and could hardly form an opinion. Mir. Myer is an in- telligent looking man, plainly dressed, who received some education in Germany and said he had been in. this country thirteen years He said Schneider had been here four or five years. He said he found that Schnei- der had
 COLLECTED $50
 belonging to him which he never got.
 Constable Babcock said that he heard that the deceased had taken meals or lodged at the Germania House, kept by MT. Hoffmeister on State street, below Grown street.
 Mir Myer said that the deceased talked of going to the RepubIikaner office to try to get 8 job, but thought he was not a compositor Deceased told Myer that he had had wife | and 8 child, both of whom were dead, and that the wife
 WAS AN ACTRESS
 at the Thalia Theater, New York Myer was asked if he had seen the row of marks on the forehead. He was taken down again to the morgue and shown the face again Oh. he said in reply, those marks were not new marks; he had noticed them on the forehead of the deceased when the latter called on him in this city. This helped the jury on that subject. MT. Myer saw the heavy cut on the forehead. That, he said, he never saw before, and he seemed to think it an evil dence that the deceased
 HAD BEEN MURDERED