Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-01-03
A HoEz1BLn surcHsnY.
The Dismembcrsd Remains OF q
Man found in Fairnaount Park
Phiiadaipitia.

boys white playing Ia East Fairmpun
| Park yesterday near the new city reseI
voir, found two bundles In section O
the new SO Inch water main stored there
line Of the boys cut the string OF one o
the bundles aud Was horrihed when
human head rolled ont. They immsdi
ately ran to park official and Informed
him of their CHASTITY .'findo The polio,
authorities were At once summoned ant
further investigation developed the iao
that the bundle frat opened contained
aiso the Remembered trunk Of human
body. The other bundle on being
opened, disclosed the legs belonging "a
the trunk found In the other package.
Evidently O most horrible murder had
teen committed and the condition of the
remains indicated that the deed had beer
done within "a honrs of the finding OF
the remains. The body is evidently that
OF German or italian, probably abou.
35 years of age.
Near the place whore the bundles were
placed was found q portion Of news
paper dated December 9Th On the mar
gin OF the paper was written in English,
the writing being evidently that OF a
German, the words " Kohler Hslsb, Ho
boken Hotel" and just under this .'Mra. -
repeated several times. Tho chief OF de-
tectiyes is working on the case. assisted
by several Of his best men, but the clues
sre slight.
Late Tuesday night gardener living
on the border OF the park, near whsre the
remains were found, was awakened by the
furious barking OF his dogs. He seizsd
his revolver and ran out doors He saw
/ m niNtaaf nNsn<. -
the park and hailed it. Receiving no re-
ply he attempted to fire his revolver, but
the weapon would not SO OF. He went
TO the Reservoir Hotel, at the Columbia
avenue entrance to the park, and told
the proprietor, John Ernst, who also wont
out into the darkness and saw a man
walking from the direction OF the reser
yoir. He called TO the man to halt, but
mis- command received no attention, and
the mysterious visitor to the park disap
peared in the dsrkneos.
fridays Philadelphia Record saws, The
following private dispatch received at the
Record office last night throva food OF
Iight upon the probable identity of the
man found murdered in the East Park on
Wednesday:
HoBoKEs, N. j., Dec. 27.-Mrs, Koehler. a
boarding house keeper at No. II Second
street. this city, lays the descriutlon OF the
murdered man tailies in every particular
with that OF George E'zold, aged about 30
years, swede and stone cutter by occu-
patton who boarded with her for two years,
HIS parents live in Newburg, NY.
he LEFT this city at 2 o'clock on the
morning OF December 18th, accompanied
Dy q man named Smith Schoolmaker, and
NAY NraE Nttnx e.. Dh.4l. 49,
where they expected to arrive Mt 10 O'Clock,
.. N. Ezold carried with him a sum OF
money, gold watch and chain OF copsid.
cradle value and trunkful OF clothing.
plain but substantial. Sohoolmaker Ia
about six feet In hight. a blonde, wears a
llSht moustache and wore dark suit OF
clothes and lawn tennis shirt when he
~ mere. HIS nome ls at Black Lake, Sui.
ivan county. N Y.
CHARLES DONOVAN, Chief OF Police.
The brutality OF the crime Is shown by
a statement by DR.. Formed. who made
tue autopsy on the body Thursday, He
said that life was not extinct when the
Ampntation OF the legs was begun, fact
which was shown by the great tension OF
Hhe 7ioraturS masC,os. bYep ir lsis un
consciousness, with the back OF hi 8kull
crushed in, the man must iiaye been zen
sltiye to the great pain attending tine am.
putstion OF the legs, ns the nerves and
muscles were highly contracted. That
vas the only important feature brought
ont by the autopsy.
Ohief Wood, in speaking Of the prob.
able murderer, said rhur,d4y: II sup
posed ct first the man was an Italian, but |
now l believe that he IL German or a |
Swede. Had he been an Italian the muir.
der would in all probability have been
committed by one OF his countrymen who
as suie, are averse to mutilation. This
work was the deed OF man with a nerve |
OF IRON, and he did IL we'll, although he |
vent to good deal of useless trouble In |
emitting the legs Of as the injury to the |
skull produced death"
PHILADELPHIA Dec 30 Yesterday af- |
sarnooh Mrs hoehler, who keeps a |
ooaruing'house IN Hoboken, came to this |
CITY and recognized the body found in
raismount Park on Wednesday as that
George hurtzmann, who came to her
aouse three weeks ago last Monday from
oolorado and after remaining over night
LEFT the following day to meet his wife. |
VINO was expected to arrive On q steamer |
that day. Mrs. Koehler was accom-
panied to this city by her aon-in-law,
John RAINING, roundsman on the Ho.
ooksn police force, who had seen Kurt
mann while at his mcther-in. laws house
and who thinks the murdered man re-.
sembled him. -
The detect We authorities are inclined
70 think that II is cass of mistaken
,nehtity, as hutt2msnn ia deBcribed nv
MRS hoenier as being well. dressed.
prosperous appearing man, who carried
gold watch and chain and had money.
whereas the body now at the moraue Il
evidently that Of man who has sean
very Lard times, what clothing there was
ABOUT the body being Of the oommonsst
sort, end all the conditions indicated that
the man had not been taking yefy vood
care OF himself, Mrs. Koehler and
houndsmaG Tanning will TO day teatifv
az the coroner's Inquest.
PH1LADELPHIA, Dec 3l--The Faipnoount
tark murder mystery has been holyed
The remains Of the man found in tha
Sacks and hidden in the pipes have bean
identified as Antone Schellino. Tha
Identification was made BY acme naich.
oors OF Jacob Schroot, of No. 1910 nsS
walsder Etreet, who visited the norgna
Yesterday and, after viewing the trunk Of
the body, declared that it was Schellino.
bosrder at Schroots house.
Schroot, bis daughters and several
other persons were arrested last night and
locked up in the Tenth district station
house. a quantity of bloody clothing
WIS found by the police in searobjne
sohroots residence on Oadwsladsr strest
and the probability Ia that the BODY Of
scoelling was butchered there before
being removed to Engelside.
PHILADELpnrA, Dec. 9i.-The hstchet
axe and saw used by Schroop were foupd
IN the cellar OF his house this morning