Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-31
THE MURDERER cONFEssEs.
A Newspaper Cut Clears mp the Fair
mount Park Murder Mystery.

mount Park Murder Mystery.
PHMADELrnA, Dec. sl.-As.was telegraphed
from here last night the mystery surrounding
the finding Of the mutilated remains of man
in East Paramount park ON "Wednesday last has
been solved. the corpse identified. and the
murderer placed in prison. The murder is
shown TO have been diabolical one. The mo-
tive for the deed was 10 obtain the money OF
the murdered man, but all that the murderer 10
known to have realized by his dastardly crime
Is $50. The case had bafded the police author
ities since the finding of the body and many
clues have been run out"
THE MOST PROMISING CLUE,
which held out the greatest promise, was that
the mutilated body was that Of q man who
stopped for day or two at hotel in Hoboken,
N. j. In fact the proprietress Of the hotel,
Mrs. koehler, had visited this city and posi-
lively identified the body at the morgue as that
OF her boarder, whose name was kruetzman.
Several others who had seen kruetzman at
Mrs. koehlers hotel and who viewed the body.
were equally positive in their opinion that
kruetzman was the man who lay dead in the
morgue. That the body is not that of kruetz-
man was proved last night, as was also that the
A NEWSPAPER CUT SOLVED THE MYSTERY.
young man named Keefer. residing near
Gillingham and Cadwslader streets, in the
northeastern section of the city, saw cut Of
the murdered man in one Of the Sunday papers,
which he thought resembled the features of q
German named Schelling, who had lived with
another German named Jacob Schroop, at the
corner of the aboven-amed streets. He i'm
parted his suspicious to policemen Of that dis
trlct, and was taken TO the morgue, where. on
looking at the corpse. he Immediately identi-
fied II as that of Schelling. The police then
brought Schroop's daughter TO the morgue, AMI
she also identified the body as her fathers
boarder. Antoine Schelling. Officers were then
sent to Schroops house and took him into GUS
tody. When the officers entered Schroop's
house and informed him that they wanted him
at the police station the German
EXHIBITED THE MOST AFFECT TERROR.
and when taken up the steps OF the station
house his trembling limbs refused to support
him and he fell. Several officers then carried
him into the lieutenants room. Schroop is
about fifty years of age, and Scheling. his vic
tim was about thirty years old. The two men
were partners in a small grocery and provision
store at Gillingham and Cadwalader streets.
Schroop lived in the house with his wife and
daughter and Schelling boarded with them.
The parties rented the store about four
months ago. Only a small business was done
at the store. the two men going about the city
in q wagon huckstering their wares. Schroop.
when questioned by the police officials at the
station-house, denied any knowledge Of the
ments. and about midnight was locked up in u
cell. Officers were sent to his home and Mrs.
Schroop and her daughter were placed under
surveillance. the officers remaining in the
house all night. 1t is believed that Mrs.
Schroop is an accessory to the murder and
butchery. Numerous evidences of cleaning
and scrubbing are plainly seen in the house.
1t is stated that Mrs. Schroop attempted to
choke herself in the night. but was prevented
by the policemen on guard.
THE MURDERER ooNFEssEs.
Chief of Detectives Wood went to the pris-
oner's cell shortly after midnight, and when he
came out, about 2 o'clock this morning, he
said the man had confessed to the murder, but
he refused for the present to give the prison.
er's statement to the public. How the murder
was committed and the manner of the subse-
quent removal of the dismembered body to its
hiding place in the park has not vet been
learned, though it is surmised that Chief Wood
has all this information in his possession. The
place where the body was found in the park 10
or miles distant from Schroops house.
BLOODY TOOLS RECOVERED.
The hatchet axe and saw used by Schroop
were found in the cellar of his house this morn
ing. These implements were covered with
blood. and bore marked traces of the terrible
work they have so recently been used to per.
form. They were taken charge Of by the po-
lice. and will be preserved as evidence at the
trial.
The body, either before or after life was
extinct, was carried into the cellar, where it
was evidently, judging from the little clot OF
blood, allowed to remain until the following
morning. when. after having been cut into
pieces and placed in bags, it was removed to
the place it was found in East Paramount park
In the house was also found a red-colored
pulse-warmer. which is evidently the mate of
the one found on the murdered man. The
wooden floor with which a portion of the
cellar is covered, is blood-stained in many
places and resembles a slaughter-house more
than portion of a human habitation.
Schroop's wife, who is prosprated on account
of her husbands arrest is in the custody OF
officers. and viii most likely. be removed to q
hospital until she RECEIVERS from her shock,
when it is likely that she. too. will be placed be-
hind the bars on the charge of having had .