The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-01
MYSTERY CLEARED UP.
The Corpse Found in FairmouOt
Park Identified,
THE MURDERER ARRESTED
Ari ConGesses-He Realized hui
Eighty Dollars by killing His
Partnep-womau HELD as Access,
sOry-Awrul Crime paII hare.

ANAAASAAt WIN VII W GAlSnNNl laat ApA
been solved, tho corpse identified ant
the murdererin nprison, The murderer Il
showH to have realized on his dastardlN
crime $50. The case had baiIled thu
police authorities since finding Of tht
body and many clues have been rur
out. The clue which held out the great
est promise was that the mutIlateC
body was that OF a man who had stop
ped for day or two at hotel in Hobo
ken, N, j. In fact, tho proprietrcss o.
the hotel, Mrs. KOehleF, had visited thi.
city and positively identified the body
ut the mOrgue rs that OF her boarder
whose name was Kreptsnan. Several
Others who had seen KrentsmRn ut Mrs
Koehler's hotel aud who viewed the
body Were equally positive in their
opinion that Krentsman was tho mau
who lay dead in the morgue. That the
body is not that OF Krentsman was
proved last evening, us was also the fact
that tho murdered man was not from
Hoboken, AyOung man named Keeier,
residing near Gillingham and Cada-
wallader streets in the northeastern sec
ton OF the city, yesterday saw a cut OF
the murdered man in one Of the Sunday
papers, which he thought resembled
the feature OF a German named Schil-
ling who had lived with II German
named Jacob Schroop at the corner OF
the above named streets, He impaired
his suspicious to policemen Of that dis
triCt and was taken to the morgue,
where on looking Mt the corpse he im.
mediately identified II rs that OF Schil-
ling. The police then brought SchrOop's
daughter TO the morgue and she also
recognized the body asthat other fathers
boarder, Antoine Schilling. .
Officers were then sent TO SChroOp's
house and took him into custody.
When the officers entered Schroop's
house and informed him that they want
ed him at tho police station, the Ger
man exhibited tho most abject terror
and when taken up the steps Of the sta
ton house histrembling limbs refused
to support him and he fell, Several
officers then carried him into the Lien.
tenants room. SChroop is about so
years OF age and Schilling, his victim,
was about 80 years old. The two men
were partners in u small grocery and
provision store ut Gillingham and Oada.
wallader streets. ScroOp lived in the
house with his wife and daughter and
Schilling boarded with them.
The parties rented tile store about
four months ago. Only smallbusiness
was done at the store, thetwo men going
about the city in wagon huckstering
their wares. SChroop, when questioned
by the police officials at the station
house, denied any knowledge of the
murder. He told many ConGiCtingstate.
ments, and about midnight was locked
upin Il cell. Officers were sent to his
home and Mrs. schrnop and her daugh.
ter wero placed under surveillance, the
officers remaining in the house all night.
II is believed that Mrs. sChroop is an
accessory to the murder and butChGry.
Numerous evidences OF cleaning and
scrubbing are plainly seen In tho house.
1t is stated that Mrs. SChrOop attempted
to choke herself in the night, but was
prevented by tile police on guard, 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 tho MURDER but he refused for the
present to give the prisoners statement
TO the public. How the murder was
committed aud the manner OF the subse-
quent removal Of the disnlembered body
to its hiding place in the park has not
yet been learned, though 1t Is gurmised
that Chief Wood has all this inforlna-
ton in his possession. The place where
the body was found in the park Is three
or four miles distant from Schroop's
house.
The hatchet, axe and saw used by
SChroop were found in the cellar Of his
house this morning. These implements
were covered with blood and bore
marked traces Of the terrible work they
have recently been used to perform.
They were taken In charge by tue police
aud will be preserved as evidence atthe
trial,
The body, other before or after life
was'extinCt, was carried into tue cellar,
where 1t was evidently, judging from the
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nntl! the iol'OWlhg noFg' % mE',r aiana,l S.ei
haVlng oGcn Cts iso i,aS plSSes "Y JISv mISca
where 1t was found in East Park. In
the house was also found rod pulse.
warmer, which is evidently the mate oi
the one found on the murdered man.
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ol lhe ceiiar u covered, 10 yioYu'sSnJ sSS,,i,
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IN tho tSS newsnanarS . n rnnv of the ooIIies
sion made by SChroop, III which the lat
ter says he killed scllilling about