Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-30
THE VEIL LIFTED.
The Murderer Makes a Full Con-
fesslon.
He Killed Or. Schuchardt Because, He
Claimed, He Ruined and Then
Poisoned His Mother.

Guenther Schnelle tells thrilling story.
At the Jail, yesterday, in conversation
with his brother, he lifted the veil from
the murder, telling why he had committed
it and filling up the gaps in the, stories
already told of what took place between
him and the Doctor, Just prior to the
shooting. Like Hannibal. he was pledged
to vengeance when child, and now his
task wrought, be is willing to die
INA socIABLE MOOD.
Yesterday be was evidently feeling in
better health and spirits than since he had
turned his pistol against his life and talk
ed quite freely of the murder, its cause
and his future prospects. He even calmly
discussed the location OF the gallows on
which he might swing. He said
Ever since was small boy, before my
Door mother died, promised her and my
self that would avenge the injury done
her in her lifetime by DR.. Schuchardt and
for the manner in which she died under
his treatment, for
he POISONED HER"
Describing what took place in the office,
at the Schuchardt drug store, before the
shooting, he said:
81 went into his drug store, and no one
knew my purpose and intention, but God
and myself; certainly none Of my brothers
did, and after had got in behind the
counter, my brother called the Doctor out
from the dining room II was not in any
part of the private part OF the building,
mean the famiry partl and we we went
into the Office together, and asked him If
he knew me. He looked at me and recog-
nized me at once, and said: You black
s-n of BIB, get out of here at once
and don't you ever put your feet
again on my carpet He then put his
hand in his bosom as though feeling for
pistol, or something of the kind, but
showed no weapon in either hand.
/ then jumped up and said: You shall
OF call my mother BIB; you ruined her
in the first place, and now you shall not
fired at him, shooting him through the
head, and as he fell he fell on his face, and
not on his back.
DEATH BEFORE IMPRISONMENT.
II then tried to shoot myself, because
did not want to 60 to prison and lie there.
held my pistol on old Dickescheid for the
purpose of keeping him away from me, but
Since, / have wished had shot the old s-n
of b-h. shot the Doctor in the drug
store behind the counter, and not
in the Office, nor in the
family part of the building. went in there
for the purpose of killing him, and did 1t"
lie then said that when he first went to
live with DR.. Schuchardt, the doctor took
HIM up in his arms and blessed him, and
said, that he had not a drop of Schnelle's
blood in his veins, but
THAT he WAS HIS SON,
and that he would do good part by him
in the way Of giving him money and prop
erty. He told of many things that had
happened him in his short, but event.
full life, in very pleasant way.
He said no one knew anything about his
intention to kill Schuchardt; he never
hinted it to any body, and when he went
into the drug store, il was for the purpose
OF shooting him. and he did it. He said
that Schuchardt not only seduced his
mother, but that he also killed her with
poison afterwards, and when boy he
promised his mother to get revenge.
THE DOCTORS CAREER.
The cause of the trouble and bad feeling
between Schnelle and the Doctor, in addi-
ton to that furnished by the Doctors
treatment of his mother, was the discov-
cry of letter in one OF his books, called
his Patients Book" by his wife, written
by him to girl over at Martins Ferry, o.,
to whom he afterwards had to pay 5000
a compromise in bastardy case. He al.
ways accused Guenther of telling his
wife, (which he never did, about the let
ter. He said the Doctor was always in
trouble of this kind, and that he was a
very dishonOrable man among his hired
girls, and paid a large amount OF hush
money 10 girls whom he mad deceived.
SAW VISION.
He said that after he had shot DR.. Schuc
hardt, he saw his mother distinctly, and
she told him to get up and face what he
had done. When asked why he had shot
himself, he answered by saying that he
had never been in prison in his life, and
for that reason only he preferred death to
imprisonment. He said he was much re-
lieved now about his heart, (meanng his
conscience) since he had killed the old
man. He talked freely about where he
would be hung, whether in the Jail yard, or
up at "Jonathan's Gut" He was ready at
any time, he said, for the event.
DICKEscHEID's PLAN.
In the interview he also said that old
Wendell Dickescheid wanted his brother
Robert to marry his crippled daughter,
Otella, and Robert wouldn't do il. DiCke-
scheid, he said, was a shoe cobbler by trade.
He said his wife died about two years
ago, and also his little girl, and that he has
no children now living. He was burnt out
at Garfield, up in the Pennsylvania oil re-
gions, and lost everything there. His
wife's parents went back to Lancashire,
England, since the death of his wife.
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