Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-14
wHnsE BODY IS ITa

DIOded-The IheOFy AhAt IAo hAuH- der was Done in the Slaughter House Growing Stronger-Was 1t a Cerr.an Butcher Now Missing.
 Yesterday WAS another day of surprises to the quiet people of Wallingford whp are eti1a ta l unusually stirred ST ---is1 eAclceo @oouO
 shoe box murder mystery. Early yesterday | morning Constable Rod. Austin recelveo ' feleoram from Deputy Sheriff Alexan"eo-
 ,T ss+-z at Na,p.eun, Conn., to the
 .. mat he had seen Charles Manville no
 M bap12 o'clock Thursday noon. This
 ~ .t".,oa4xploded the theory that the body 1, 3on,,sa san the shoe box was that of Manville,
 .,o aportant witness in the Morse arson
 oa.s This left the people entirely in the : ;,tk for some theory to talk sbout, but dur
 lag the day 8 theory arose to the effect 2 that German butcher whose first name was Martin, and who was formerly employed at 1 Youug's slaughter house near Yalesville, but who has been missing for the past two ! months. is the victim of the foul murder. l This butcher obtained work at Young's l slaughter house about two years ago and re- 1 mained there until about two months ago, 1 when he mysteriously disappeared and has 1 not since been seen or heard from. It is re-
 norted on good authority that this German I was very quarrelsome and ferocious man, | and when under the influence of liquor l would as soon knife man as not The { theory now is that this man got into fight ! with some one while at work in the slaugh- | ter house, and was killed accidentally; then that the party or parties fearing detection cut up the body, packed it in this box, and l after hacking out the name on the cover with 1 a cleaver placed it in wagon and drove it | up the Yalesville road and secreted it where | found. It is also said that party has been | found who claims to have seen the | riprr 6ny hT1tahnr'a | from Yalesville ill the direction of the spot 1 where it was found. This man, it is all legged, is positive that he knew the ! driver of the cart and he has no doubt that l the box contained the remains. He is quot ! ed as having told the coroner that he saw the box on the route about six weeks ago, although he cannot fix the date positively. ! This fits the theory that the box had been l lying in the swamp for long time. This witness is also thought to have described the box to the coroner exactly, without having seen it after it was found, and when the cor oner exhibited to him the sides of the box that are preserved as evidence, he readily ! identified them as having belonged to the box be saw on the wagon. He was particularly sure of this. so the I story goes, as he remembered well that one l side of the box had marks the side gouged out as with chisel or clesver. This struck him at the time as being peculiar, al though he did not think anything about 1t until he read about these peculiar marks in the newspapers. This important witness claims to have noticed these marks, it is
 said, by reason of their appearing so white
 against the almost black background made
 by the box.
 That the State has got some important
 clue has been admitted by Constable Rod.
 Austin, who states that something interest
 ing will turn up in few days. This may be
 the clue which the State is working, al-
 q 1a oir raI fo,t
 Said one of Wallingford's most prominent
 citizens yesterday and man who is
 thoroughly interested in the case and has
 made some investigations into the matter on
 his own account: "The theory that the mur
 der was committed in the slaughter house is
 good one and you don't want to go much
 further until you have thoroughly investi-
 gated it. That the body was brought from
 Yalesville way, and not from towards Wal
 lingford, I am almost positive. Had it come
 from Wallingford there are hundreds of
 places even better along this back road
 where the body could have been secreted.
 But if it came from Yalesville the spot
 where it was found was the first
 place where it could be secreted.
 I am also nearly certain," continued
 the gentleman, ''that it had been there for
 from one month to three, because I believe
 Maschmeyer's story to be true, and he stated
 that the branches of the evergreen which
 
 when I them they are now. l cut
 some of the evergreens Sunday night and
 they are fresh now when cut them, which
 also shows that the box must have been there for some time." This gentleman also stated
 that a more close examination should have
 been made of the box and the body. He
 states that the cover of the box was sawed
 very roughly and uneven, as if it had been
 done by man more used to saving bones
 than wood, and he thinks that 8 microscopic inspection of the cover would show that the
 board had been sawed with saw such as is used by butcher. The man further states that the body was washed before it was ex- amined and that the tarred paper, which he thinks was felting and not tarred paper, had to be torn from the body to get it off, and that the examination should have been held before the body was washed. Constable Austin was not to be found yesterday afternoon nor was Coroner Mix, and it is thought that they were out working up a clue somewhere. Constable | Reilly was found, but he either don't know much about the case wants to appear to | be a very mysterious person, for when he was approached by COURIER reporter yester- day and asked what was new in the case, he | avoided answering the question and started | off down street. Detective Brewer, of this city, said yesterday: 'In my opinion the man found in the shoe box was not killed at Wallingford or near there. but was brought | lAeIo HUH u CoASlOoldDAS OlSlduC0. IA'oAJ- thing about it indicates that the shoe box with it's ghastly contents had taken a rail road journey, everything points to a railroad journey for the shoe box, and suggest that the coroner work the two depots. I think the body came down the road. The 1 fact that there were no addresses on the box proves nothing, as letter card might have been tackled on and removed without leaving | any trace after the tack holes had swelled up when the box was exposed to the weather. | My theory is that the box came down the road on some dark night to some station not far. from Yalesville, was placed in a team and left at the first comparatively secluded | spot passed by the murderer The fact that | it was not buried nor left in the swamp, where discovery would have been highly i'm | probable, instead of under bush, sure to | be found very soon, indicates that it was not ! done by local hands,"