Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-25
BLOODY BUTCHERY.
Additional Details of the Milwaukee
Child.Marders-A Sight So Terri
BILE That Strong Men
Were Uuable to Look Upon It, and
Turned Away Sick Mt Heart-A
Chapter OF Horrors. .

MILWAUKEE, January 24.-The name Of
the Bohemian mother who butchered her
three young children yesterday forenoon in
8 horrible manner is not Zumbruck, but
Zsmperck. she is the wife of machinist,
twenty.three years old, married about five
years, and came to this country little over
two years ago. The children, all three
girls, are four years, twenty months and
four months old, respectively. When re-
porter reached the dingy apartment where
the deed was committed he beheld q terrible
sight. On the left of the door stood
large, low bed, and on the scanty, dirty bed
and clothes lay the PROSTATE forms OF the
three little girls, the oldest apparently four
or five years of age, the youngest Il babe OF
only q few months. They we're a ghastly
group. The little bodies were nude and cut
in a terrible manner. The oldest girl mad q
large number of gashes made with butcher
knife all over her little body. The arms of
the second girl were cut of near the shoul-
ders. The lower extremities hung to the body
by thin shreds OF flesh, and the little body
was completely disemboweled. The small
body of the babe was cut into ak pieces, the
head and extremities being completely sew
cred from the trunk. Nesr the foot of the
bed a young woman only partially dressed,
with dIsheveled hair, crouched on the floor,
held down by two strong men. Upon table
near by were the remnants of the frugal
breakfast, and carelessly thrust among the
cups and saucers lay the ugly looking
butcher-knife, the blood dripping from its
blade, and a cooper's knife, or scrape, with
two handles, also smeared all over with
blood. The woman had been caught in the
act of hanging herself to the knob of the
door leading 10 the adjoining room, At the
same time the lifeless and bleeding forms of
he oh lfsaauaraI fho bod The
bu' cherry was horrible, blood dripped from the
bed on the uncarpeted floor, forming large
pool. The whole surroundings were exceed
ingly squalid. The bare floor looked as if
it had not seen the cleaning brush for
months. The plaster on the walls was
| cracked and fallen in patches on the floor,
| where 1t had been trodden under the feet OF
| the inmates. Close to the door opposite the
bed stood an empty cradle with a few dirty
covers laid over it in a careless manner.
East of the empty cradle stood a cooking
range, which, with the table and few
chairs, denoted that the room served as a
kitchen, sleeping and sitting-room. From
| this room a door standing open led into a
front room, whose furniture consisted of q
| rickety table and four cane bottom chairs
| the whitewashed walls being adorned with a
few cheap imprints of Catholic saints. Pow
erty and uncleanliness gave the rooms a
dreary look, which was not improved by the
bitter cold atmosphere. The young won an
held down was the murderess. Her
hands were smeared with blood
and the front of her dress wa,
| dyed in gore. "A satanic smile played about
her mouth, and her whole appearance wac
that of an insane person. She was a fair
haired young person, and her features were
| not bad.She is about Eve feet three inches
| high. Over her head was q bed-quilt, and
| when she had been placed before the Ere in
| the police station she told her story. in
broken German. When asked how shs
murdered the children she said she stabbed
| one in the breast and another in the shout
der; they cried but little, as she made quich
work OF the butchery. She smiled as che
pronounced the last word. The woman
used draw shave and two small carving
knives. With the former she shaved Tn
| children's bodies, and with the latter chs
stabbed and disemboweled them. While
their bodies were shockingiy mutilated, tn.
| heads were untouched. When asked wha
had caused her to do the fearful deed she
replied: ~ read it in the book" Her in
sanity is of religious form, and she think
she. has made great sacrifice. She KEEP
smoothing back the hair with her bloody
| hands, looked at the crimson stains anG
smiled. Her eyes had a wild look. TIT
4 sight WAS 80 terrible that the officers turned
away sick at heart. The hacked and cut ant
stabbed and chopped legs and arms, horribly
severed from the body, is the butchery de
scribed in the shortest way. The HUSBAND
stated that ever since their arrival in thi
country they had trouble, as there had beer
considerable sickness among the children
In answer to a question as TO whether o.
| not his wife had ever shown any signs Off
sanity previous 10 this morning, he replied
| that she had not. He then recollected tina
about Christmas time she had read some
thing in a paper that seemed to have had ,
great effect on her. Since then abe has spen
whole days looking at small prayer-booi
in her lap, cooking no food and not ever
heating the room. She is doubtless insane
worrying because the sickness of the chill
dren prevented her attending church.