New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-27
THE MURDER AT ORANGE
purRE pAULLlN's STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.
,xnYcArroys OF A FIERCE AssACLT-No GLE" ~
THE MURDERER-AN AUTOPSY.

..,,,.,,o~e oF A FIERCE AssAULT-NO cLEw TO
THE MURDERER-AN AUTOPSY.
r,,o snot where the body Of the murdered glfl
phnbe Paullin was found on Sunday, III Mesii
Orange n is about quarter S Oi The Centreyille
road John Wachter keeps oeerish fp jToI live
quarter of a mile beyond and the girls faS on
in two-story frame farmhouse mile iu 1h hoO 0
Between the Paullin and Wacher places rs thG hoSe
of family named Anderson, WIN WHOM r 20
was acquainted 1t was the girls custom u - mr. ~
Orange either in a wagon or on 10Ot 10 lhdbo Pul
chases The road from the Paulln mouse 20 oianso
has treatment turns and is not much travelled. 49,.
On saturday oG ~ nSy and Man sts She also bought
some dry goods and stopped at the post-otce ana
Constable William Murray at half past o'clock;
and he spoke 10 her and she was seen again d ia
Washngtons going toTa arr C ner about half
mile east of Eagle Rock says that he saw her alter
6 O'clock walking up the mountain road. ,noro
John WachteT the German liquor dealer, drove
with his four children to st. Johns Church, III
Orange on Sunday morning. Returning, ne T hs
driving along the Centrevllle road When one g GeId
sons Said he saw a bundle of clothes IN a nel ~
Wacbt@r GOT out of the wagon and walked to the
nlace Indicated when he discovered that the oplSco
was the mutilated body of q young woman. GU 5Ho
was lying on her face, her cl0thlhg MoSr Ler
arranged and her hat was on her head. Near , Hoa
Law small vase brown paper package anu h bep
bundles of cotton. Her face was DloouS an" NV
throat was hacked in several places. =. hotrroon
The Comfy Physician saw the DOdy DelWGton
3 and o'clock ana i nj t5e throat which had
ne ionu ~ ;dre vein and the carotid artery.
The wounds ragged; as II i mn ooves She
,vore were bloody and her arms above inc WIlsus
shaved the marks of bloody fingers. 1t was eVicnt
fhot She had been brutally assaulted. Two pools vi
ooS Inv We're fonnd in the road and there wasa swath
through the bushes leading TO the place W hclS lno
girl lay where the murderer had dtaggeo M ~ th
fhe road 1t is supposed that he met lhe gin III t ~
road and overcoming her dragged her mo IN, tne
bushes Recovering consciousness she IoHgnt IdH az
and perhaps, recognized HIM; as there Is %
% StrnCgIe and then the murderer gashed her throat
The murdered girl was seventeen years oIi. noi
father is David S Panln age 90 % a6 seven n
children Phoebe being the sixth She kept no G G;
many and bore good name she was goou-i;ooohln9
and of lively disposition. Mrs. FISHER slsteI vi
Ph,ebe stated Yesterday that week ago shc accom-
panied Phpbe to Orange to order some coal IL
they passing Rosedale Cemetery t"4 b nn and
were at work setting posts accostGIH ILL., Fiid Of.
PhDbe remarked: "Therc Is man l III alIllu VI
he ALWAYS speaks to me whenever he sees me o pn1,
Mrs Fisher spoke also OF tlcket aEcn' . drnS5e
who ottemnted to sneak to Phoebe when thcy uIoNc
nm in the wagon Chief McChesney stated that q
niece of postal card dated Orange, had 1een l9unu
inar ,ybere the body Law. He said that he had UNI
deTstood there was a young man VINO had peeli by.
ing attentions to Phoebe and II was o o se
She had been seen in the company OF a man Oh seN-
eral previous occasions on her way nome Hoh
Orange. ,,o1 arl William and
Joscph Paullin, ages respectively twenty-elghl anu
twenty-SX, agreed IN saying tlaI lnelI S's w
Phoebe was exceedingly muscula6 anu last and
She had as good grip as man ana W;ts l'St i ,u
tjreless walker. She would walk INTO orange tllIeSS
and four times week, and on one occasion sio i"
gone there and back twice within the same udy'
They said that their sister kept company WIN ITO
one She lost the sight of her right eye Wheh iour
years old by the accidental falling OF lamp WHICH
Che nulied down on herself, and glass eye was
bought for her last August. She was mncn llheu
wherever she Went Last summer ene nl"uo ai Vi
iightbody with whom she correspondent. Oh illo
day that She was murdered she sad TO her Dlo g
William feel there is letter lor me iI"i
Mis- ;Gbtbodv and am going to Orange. Don
You want me 10 fetch you somethlns rom t tI
drug stOre7n She went 10 Orange ana got We
family mall consisting of weekly paper ana iilG
expected letter, aud these were found Ill inc S"'ci
which she carried ~. o..o,,o.o &C N,,,
ark arrived at the house shortly after o'clock anu
was soon followed by Dr. y. Hewlett, County my
stefan, and Drs Richard Diehenbach ana hoDeI'
F. Giilin, all of Newark. A jury mad been ,empan-
eled at Orange. The body was IN an ADJOINING f
room covered with white sheet Wc mt 1 fare 80
that it looked as dark as that of an Italian or
Spanish peasant girl but she had been gooa ioUh boz
mo She had a fine forehead well-shaped eye,
I,S,vS n Handsome nose curved lips and a rounded
chm After viewing the body the inquest was ad-
The doctors then made an autopsy with the fol-
lowing result: They found three wounds Ill the
neck. The first was large wound OH INC l,g nI
side nnder the angle of the lower jaw; TINS Was
snnericial and did not laCerate any artery. Inc
second was on the left side an L-shapcd wound
about three inches i'll length; this was an messed
wound penetrating the trachen and cutting the
carotid artery. The third was on the lsit side,
small puncturcd wound, which indicated thaE i ii
weapon used was small probably pen-knle
There were unmistakable tokens of brutal assault
The funeral will take place on Wednesday at
o'clock, and the body will be laid III the httle
churchyard of Pleasant Valley, between orange
Mountain and Second Mountain: =, ,
The County Physician, in looking over the ground
and the vicinity of the place where the murder Oc-
cnrred found the closely defined tracks OF Il horse
and wagon that!had been driven from the direction
of Orange The wagon evidently had been turned
off the road and halted behind three cedar trees.
The tracks show that the horse w2s led out II ON
behind the trees by man walking backward ana
that il was turned and driven back toward Orange.
IN has been ascertained that no wagon has been
driven in the manner indicated since the murder
was discovered and il is remembered that the ram
on Friday night obterated all wagon-tracks pre-
yiously made. The discovery suggests Two theories
that the giIl was offered ride some distance lacR
NV the driver of the wagon or that he drove ahcao
OF the girl and leaving his teama behind the trees
waylaid her when she passing l he use OF tn'
wagon also suggests that the murderer liNcd II
West Orange and strengthens the belief that Tie
girl knew him. ~
1t is the purpose of the wealthy residents o.
Jjewllyn Park to spare eXcrtion or expense II
hunting down the murderer of Phoebe Paullin. Ib'
suppOstion that the murderer is tramp ha
aroused a strong feeling against tins fraternity
throughout Essex county, and II IS prOOaple Una
vigorous measures will be taken to get IId OF th