Evening journal., 1889-05-18
HINCKLE'S BLOODY DEED.
He Butchers a Young Bride and
Then Gashes Himself.
ONLY THREE WEEKS MARRIED.


Man and Wife Strangers to Those Around
Them, and to All Appearances Lived
Happily Together - Jealousy Said TO
Have Been the Cause.
NEWARK, N j., May 1s-Murder in one
Of its most brutal forms has been committed
in the basement of tenement house at No.
IA Alyea street. The victim was Mrs. Savlla
Schertzer, wife Of John Schertzer, sign
painter, rather young and comely woman,
who had been married TO Schertzer only
twelve days Her assailant was Heinrich
HinclSle, and Immediately after stabbing her
until he thought she was dead he turned his
knife upon himself and made desperate and
probably successful attempt to end his own
life.
Bespnttered with Blood.
AT . o'clock the wild screams OF the woman
attracted the attention Of the police, who hur
ried 70 the scene. The cry had also brought
a woman from the upper floor, and while she
was in the act Of forcing open wooden shut
ter on the side ef the house leading into the
basement the police arrived They saw
half clad woman bespattered with blood maxi
ing frantic efforts to raise the window from
the inside, and just behind her, prostrate on
the floor, lay the form OF a man weltering in
pool of blood
Scene of tho Tragedy.
Down into the basement dashed the officers,
but the door leading into the room was
locked. In another moment, however, il had
yielded and opened upon a sight that caused
the officers to pause upon the threshold in
horror. Flat on her face lay woman, APP
parenty % years Of age, her hair and cloth
ing disheyeled and wet with her life blood.
BY her side lay the body Of man, apparent
ly dead, with blood issuing from a terrible
series Of gashes in the throat. His limbs were
also blood stained from wounds in the groin.
A small bed in one corner of the room and
the wall near il were spattered with blood.
The woman's struggle for her life had evil
IDENTIFY been terrible one
The Wounds Declared Fatal
A number Of police who had been attracted
to the spot hurried after a physician, and
word was dispatched to police headquarters
DR.. Robinson and the police ambulance and
patrol wagon were prompt in arriving.
The physician at once pronounced the wounds
In both cases fatal The woman said she was
Mrs Savilla Schertzer, wife of John Schert-
zer, a sign painter by trade and apparently
a respectable and intelligent mechanic. She
was lifted from the floor, placed upon a
stretcher and removed 70 St Michael's hos
pital. Hinckle was sent to the City hospital
in Camden street
His Weapon a JaclsLnIfe.
The weapon with which the double crime
had been perpetrated was picked up near the
window through which the unfortunate wo
I man had attempted TO make her escape. Il
) proved to be large iron cased jackEnife
c such as is found on the person Of every Ger
< man emigrant Chief Of Police Hopper tool
i possession Of it, and also issued orders to al
+ rest as witnesses all who had been in th
vicinity when the affair occurred.
Terribly autilated.
At the hospital it was found that Mrs
j Schertzer had been terribly cut. One dee
!, wound extended from her eye to her ear
I another from mouth to ear and still anothe
y across the face. Her right hand, in whcl
she had evidently grasped the murderou
knife, was gashed to the bone In the bacl
and body other wounds two inches deep wer
Z discovered. There were ten wounds in all.
. County Physician Hewlett was summone,
to take Mrs. Schertzer's ante-mortem state
ment, but when he arrived she had lost con
2 sciousness. Hinckle's wounds are equally
severe. The throat had been cut in thre
/ places but the windpipe had escaped unin
/ jured No important artery or blood vesse
had been touched. He had gashed himsel
three times in the groin and once in the leg.
Hinckle Was Jealous.
But little can be learned concerning Mrs
Schertzer or Hinckle Accompanied by tn
woman Mr.. Schertzer came to the Alyei
, street house about three weeks ago. Tw
:, weeks ago Sunday the couple were married
! They were strangers to the other people in th
( house, and to all appearances they lived hap
:, PLY together.
Mr.. Schertzer, when seen by reporter
: stated that Hinckle had visited them last Sun
= day night, and that he had been introduces
as a man for whom his wife kept house on th
Plank road previous TO her marriage Be
e yond this he knew nothing.
County Physician Hewlett does not believ
= that either the man or woman can possib
y recover