Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-01-10
THE soHILLINa MURDER.
SchrOOp,s Daughter duplicates HcI
Pseudo Stcp.nOther iu the grag-

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Daughter duplicates Her
Pseudo Stcp-uOther in tle grag-
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PHrLADE1pnIA Jan. 3.--susan Schroop,
the daughter OF the murderer of Anton
Sohillinz, was brought face to face with
her father at the central police station
Yesterday, and made an affidavit to Mag
istrate Pole in which abe duplicates her
pseudo step-mother as an accessory to
the crime. The substance OF her state
ment is that she YVES brought to this
country by her father with Anton Schill'
inq's money, and that after arriving here
her step. mother told her it had been
planned previous to her arrival that che
should marry Schilling to get his money.
This she refused to do. She was then
ordered to put poison in Sehiiling's soup,
which she made believe to do. The step
mother thought 1t queer that the dose WIS
having no effect, and made her father
procure iaudanum and give dose OF it to
the intended victim in his coffee. That
night q rope was procured, and it was
arranged 10 tie it around Schilling's neck,
strangle him, and then hang him to the
fenca in the back yard, snd declare he
had committed suicide. They could not
do this, owing to Schillipg remaining
wake oil night from the effect of the
drug. Mrs. Schroop begged her husband
during the night to knock him on the
head, saying;
"God hes sent uB the man, and we
must have his gold"
After that the girl left the house and
went to work outside. On Friday, De-
oenber 2ath, she returned TO her fathers
house and asked where Schilling was.
Her step-mother told her that he had
gone to the country, and she was glad or
| it. The girls affidavit was read TO her
father, and when it was finished he I'D
mitted TINT il IL had not been for his
wife schilliDg would be alive today.
Tho Philadelphia detectives were in the
city on Friday looking up further testi
mony against Mrs. Reichter known Of
Mrs. Jacob Schoop) to be tried as an
aocomplice to the killing of Anton Schiil.
ing for which crime her paramour il
under arrest As result Of the investi
cations, Philadelphia paper prints the
following;
"The woman was continually at her
husband, Jacob Reichter, to get his
father and mother TO sell their property
in Boston and come to Wilmington to
live with them. Her argument was,
Then can help you al tailoring while
they attend to the house, Finally Jacob
Reichter consented and wrote his parents
persuasive letters which resulted in them
sacrificing their Boston property for $500
and coming TO Wilmington.
uMrs. Reichter OF once had many
schemes TO get hold of this money, hui
her husband would not hear to it. Not
long after the srrival of the old couple
Rose Hetrich's husband enc day ran into
the house and said Rose Rose whai
do YOU think, Jacob Reiohter and hi.
father and mother are sll very sick
There was poison in their victuals
arsenic, and Mrs. Reiohter has been ~
rested for It,
s,Jacob Reichter himself came neal
diving from the poison and his rnothel
and father were less seriously affected
When they had recovered several German
families persuaded Jacob Reiohter not &c
prosecute his wife for the sake of German
fame. He agreed to this and she was re
leased from jAil, but Reichter and his
father and mother Of once abandoned bel
and wen. back to Boston.
''After this Mrs. Reichter hung around
wilmington and was an unwelcome visito
at the house of Rose Hetrich, where shI
met the boarders, Jacob Bchoop snt
Anton Schilling, both fast friends. Sh'
became intimate with Sehoop, and it wa
soon announced that they were married
Then schoop, through her scheEling per
sua5od SchilIing to come and live will
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