St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-01
SCHROOP AND HIS SPOUSE.
Quaker City Detectives Run Down a
Couple Guilty Of Diabolical Murder.
CONFESSED THEIR CRIME.
American imitators OF slack the Rip
per" Weaken When Charged With
Homicide.


murder is shown to have been dia-
bolicai one. The motive for the deed
was to obtain the money of the muir
dered man, but all that the murderer
is known to have secured by his das-
tardly crime is $50. The case had baff1ed
the police authorities since the finding
of the bodyaand many clues have been
run out" The clue which conveyed
the greatest promise was that the mutt
lated body was that of man who had
stopped for day or two at hotel in
H0bOken, n. j. 1t was said the pro-
prletresS of the hotel, Mrs. Koehler,
had arrived in this city and
positively identified the body as
boarder named Kreutzman. The per-
sons who saw Kreutzman at Mrs. Koch
ler'S hotel were equally positive in their
opinion that Kreutzman was the man
who lay in the morgue here. That the
body is not that of KreutZman was
proved, as we'll as that the murdered
man was not from HOboken. A young
man named Keefer, residing near Gill
ingham and CadWalader street. in the
northwestern part of the city, yester-
day saw sketch of the murdered man
in one of the Sunday papers which he
thought reSembled the features of a
German named Scbilling, who had
lived with another German named
Jacob Schroop at the corner of the
abOye-named streets. He impaired his
suspicion to policemen of that district
and was taken to the mOrgue, where,
on looking at the corpse, he
IMMEDIATELY IDENTIFIED
it as that of Schiliing. The police then
brought SchrOop's daughter to the
mOrgue, and she also recognized the
body as that of her fathers bOarder,
Antoine Schilling. Officers were then
sent to SchrOOp'S house and took him
in custody. When the officers entered
Sehroop'S house and Informed him that
they wanted him at the police station
the German exhibited the most abiect
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
fifty years of age, and Schilling, his
victim, was about thirty years old. The
two men were partners in a small gro
Gerry and provision store at Gillingham
and Cadwalader streets. SehrOop lived
in the house with his wife and daugh-
ter, and Schilling boarded with them.
The parties rented the store about
four months ago. Only small business
was done at the store, the two men
going about the city in wagon, huck-
STEERING their wares. SchroOp, when
questioned by the police officials at the
station house. denied any knowledge of
the murder. He told many conflicting
statements, and about midnight was
locked up in cell. Officers were sent
to his home, and Mrs. Schroop and her
daughter were placed under surveil-
lance. 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 4by the
policemen on guard. Chief of Detect
ives Wood went to the prisoners cell
shortly after midnight, and when he
came out about2 o'clock this morning
he said the man bad confessed to the
murder, but he refused for the present
to give the prisoners statement to the
public. How the murder was commit
ted, and the manner of the subsequent
removal of the dismemhered body to its
hiding place in the park has not yet
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 is three or
four miles distant from Schroop'S house.
The Ratchet, 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
h fo
They were taken in charge 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, judy
ing from the little eliot 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 where it was found in East
Park. The wooden floor with which a
portion of the cellar is covered is blood
covered, and resembles slaughter
house more than portion of human
habitation. Schroop's wife, who is
Frustrated on account of her husbands
arrest, is in the custody Of the officers,
and will most likely be removed to
hospital until she RECEIVERS from her
shock, when it is likely that she, too,
will be placed behind the bars on the
charge of having hand in the murder.
The murderer was given hearing be-
fore magistrate to-day. He gave his
years, and said that he was born at
Romanshorn. Canton Thurgan, Switzer-
land. A police official testified to
Schroop having confessed the murder
of Schiiling, and the prisoner was then
formally committed to await the action
of the coroner. Schroop was then taken
to the mOrgue. On reaching the dead
house the prisoner showed great agita-
ton and trembled violently. He was
hurried through the crowd assembled
outside and taken to the room where
the dismembered
CORPSE LAY ON A SLAB.
He seemed to breathe easier after get
ting safely through the crowd. The
only sign of emotion when brought be-
fore the corpse was the tears which
trickled down his face. He stood at the
foot of the slab looking at the severed
legs and the inclined position of the
BODY and head. Part of the time he
Kent his ewes downcast and once or
twice he turned his head partly away,
as if to avoid the sight. In reply to
questions by the officials he then stated
that the corpse was that of Antoine
Schilling; that he had killed the man
and had cut off the legs. He was then
driven to the Central police station, and
few hours later was taken to the
county prison. Late this afternoon
Chief Wood gave to the newspapers
copy of the confession made by SchrOOp,
in which the latter says he killed Schil-
ling about o'clock in the morning of
Christmas day. He says he arose from
bed about that hour and went to the
kitchen to get some food for his wife,
who was sick. On looking in the cup
board he found no victuals there and
turning to Schilling, who was in the
room, he accused him of having eaten
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