New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-07
PAYING THE DEATH PENALTY.
THE HANGING OF MARTIN KrNKowsKr.

enacted yesterday morning by the hanging Of Mar
| tin Kinkowski. the murderer IN the Hudson County
jail In Jersey City. The arrangements for tho
hanging were smoothly carried ont. At ten minutes
! before IL o'clock Thursday night the doomed man
threw himself on his cot after heartrendng parting
with his wife, He slept soundly until o'clock when
he awoke and complained of feeling cold Deputy
Sheriff Liddell. who, with Deputy-Sheriff Krause.
was keeping the death-watch, put some additional
coverings on him, when he quickly fell asleep again
and did not awake until 8:15 O'clock. In the mean.
time, the Rev. Mr.. Mas had arrived and sitting
quietly by Kinkowskis bedside As as Kin
kowski his religions adviser he burst tears
but he soon reganed his composure and engaged in
devotional exercises with tho clergyman. Att
o'clock the murderer partOok sparingly Of break
fast of steak, fned ham. rolls and coffee
Further religious exercises followed breakfast, and
then Kinkowsk took leave of Jailer Allen and the
jailers wife, well of his keepers and others
who have been associated with him since his incar-
ceration. He shook hands with Mr.. and Mrs. Allen
Rugged the keepers in very demonstratiye manner
and thanked everybody for kindness done him. He
reiterated his innocence, and declared that he
would die a martyr. When Mr.. Brglieb.p of his
counsel, arrived and informed him that he had tel
egraphed to Governor Ludlow asking if his decision
to refuse 20 interfere was final and the Governor
had answered that it was. KinkOwsld wco had
entertained some slight hope of reprieve, became
visbly depressed In short time he asked for PEN
ell and paper and wrote two farewell letters one TO
Mr.. Brgieb and the other to the Rev. MT. Mas
The 10 Mr.. Brigeb was as follows:
Farewell from MARTIN KINKowsKI, 10 my true htend
ARMINIUs BRIGLIEB.
thank you for the true and honest way which you
have acted to me. God will give you luck and bless
and hone that meet In tho other world at
some future day, and He will bless you the end OF
and prosperity TIL eternity MARTIN KINilowsRL
The letter to Mr.. Mas was as follows:
Fd,eiceH OF MARTIN KINKOwsKT.
o, blessed father how thank you that you have
mained to mea true spiritual adviser May lie give
MARTIN KrSKowsKI, before death.
| 1t was then nearly 10 O'clock, and KinhOwski was
warned to prepare himself for the final scene. He
! and Mr.. Mas engaged in prayer, and Kinkcwsh be-
came weak and fell in half faint on the floor; it
was necessary to administer stimulants TO revive
| him. He did not again show any signs OF weakness
until he first caught sight of the gallows. when q
tremor shook his frame. Just before 10 o'clock
Sheriff Cronan and the jury appointed to witness
the HANGING marched from the Sheriifs Office 10 tho
| Jail, and the Sheriff went to the condemned mln's
cell. He shook hands with KinkOwski, and read the
death warrant TO him in low voice, Albert Hoff-
man, one of the jury, repeating it in German
to the prisoner. Kinkowski listened atten-
lively and when the reading was completed
| declared that he was an innocent man and would
| die as martyTaud not a murderer. When his
| arms were about to be piniOned he objected, and
asked to be permitted to walk to the g.llows free.
| This was refused. When the moose placed about
| his neck KinkOwsld began to importune the sheriff
for delay begging him to postpone the hanging
until the afternoon aud then asking for two hours
| or an hour. After the murderer had bade Mr.
Briglieb farewell Sheriff CrOnan gave the signal 20
| move, and Kinkowski was conducted down short
flight of steps and into the western corridor at tho
! extreme southern end Of which the gallows
stood. Sheriff Cronan led the procession
| FL 10 in ia oil
| Sheriff Wright, of Essex County. The condemned
man and Mr.. Mas followed, the Clergyman reading
| from prayeT-00ok in a low tone. The procession
| passed the jury, which drawn up IN line on
either side of the corridor, and halted close 10 he
gallOws Kinkowsld nodded to the jurors as no
| passed and shook hands with several of them. As
| he was placed III position under the moose with
Deputy Sheriffs Allen and Krause on either side and
Mr. Mas close to him, he began To speak in German
and III a loud but nervous tone. lie said in SUBJ
Il call on God the Father, the Son. and the Holy
Ghost to witness my innocence of the crime for
which am to suffer am TO be hanged by tho
State of NewJersey unustly and it is disgrace TO
the State"
His legs were then pinioned and the black cap was
drawn over his face. Sheriff Cronan and Mr. Van
Huyse s.epped behind screen, Deputy Sheriff
KrauSe fastened the moose and after a moment OF
suspense the spring behind the screen was touched
at 1016 O'Clock. and Kinkowski was ierked from
the toor his head almost touching the cross-beam.
He did not struggle in fact, there scarcely a
cOnvulsive movement noticeable. The body swayed
from side to. side for a few seconds aud
hung
verse and DIR. Burdette kept record of tho
pulse beats and the pulsatlon of the heart.
At 1882 KnkowSh was pronounced
found that the neck not broken by the fall and
that death was caused by sufocaton. The moose
was drawn so tight around the neck that it was
necessary to cut ii before it could be removed The
body was taken 20 Undertaken Nolks shop IN
Palfade-ave. Ii will remain there until Sunday
afternoon when il i'll be buried in the Weehawken
Cemetery in the grave furnished by the Rev. Mr..
Mas
court where 1t prepared report of the execution
of the sentence to be submitted TO the Court OF Oyer
and Terminer, III accordance with the law There
was little excitement outside the Jail, although q
crowd of about two thousand persons had collected
in the neighborhood The police were under command
of Chief Murphy. The streets Mere kept clear and
no one was allowed inside the Court House grounds
after 10 o'clock without pass
HISTORY OF THE CRIME
On May 13, 1881, Adolph Raab, florist, while
gathering ferns IN the woods at Guttenberg dis
covered the dead and badly mutilated body of q
woman in q clump OF bushes abOnt 100
feet from Bergenline-ave. lie informed tho
authorities and when the body was being removed
the woman's bat and parts of her clothing wero
found concealed under large bouders in the vicinity.
half emptied bottle Of Rhine wine and copy OF
the Staats-Zetung were also found near the body;
these proved TO be the clews by which the murderer
was discovered. Finally through the shrewdness OF
GustavuS A. Selde u report"I anu Dete'hNUS ''ah'
ton aud Foley, of District Attorney McGils office,
thc remains were identified and the murderer was
captured. The murdered woman proved 10 .e Mrs
Pbiomena Muller, the wife of Simon Muller,
a cigar maker, who had separated from her husband
She became acquainted with knkowskl through an
advertisement and they lived togethern YORK,
although Kinkowski had wife aud two children,
Alter making arrangements TO sail for France on
MAY 3 Kink0wski having represented himself rs
single man and as owning large property IN Alsaoe,
| they went to Gutenberg on May = ana were mar
ric3 bv the Rev. Dr. Mabon. MIS-. Mnller had pre-.
vionsly drawn all her money out OF tue bank ant
III i,y;, her nossesson The pair were traced to