Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-20
RIBBONS OF FLESH.
Chicago Reports a Bloody and
Barbarous Murder.
THE VICTIM TERRIBLY slAsHED.

Fifty-Seven Stabs and Cuts on All Parts
of His Body-The Scene of the Crime
Fairly Reeking with Gore-Three The
cries as To the Perpetrator-DiaboIi al
Doings of an Ohio School Superintendent
Run Out of Town.
CHICAGO, Dec 20-Max Mantuelle, a Ger
man laborer living at 10 Pleasant street, was
killed by some unknown person in the base
ment of his dwelling about o'clock last
night. The assassin laid in wait for him evil
IDENTIFY, and with some heavy, sharp pointed
instrument, probably chisel or large dirk,
literally hacked the body into ribbons Of
flesh and bone. Mrs. Mantuelle is practical
ly in custody, not because she is supposed to
have had any part in the killing, but because
there is a suspicion that somebody of whom
her husband was jealous may have had a
hand III the crime
fifty-seven Gashes In the Body.
The body was taken TO Speakers under
taking establishment, where it was found
that no less than flfty-seven wounds had been
made upon his body, any one OF fourteen OF
which was sufficient TO cause death. The
wounds were evidently made with large
chisel or long and very sharp knife. Just
below the right ear was a terrific slash reach.
ing half across the face A second cut Just
below this had severed the jucular vein. On
the left side of the throat were two horrible
wounds, each nearly five inches in length
and of such depth as Ia nearly sever the head
from the body
Face. Arms, and Hands Slashed.
The face was covered with cuts and
al has nd ha
fortunate man were almost hacked TO pieces
In the vain efforts to ward off the rain OF
murderors blows Another terrible cut,
dealt upward with tremendous force, had
taken nearly all the flesh from the outside
upper portion of the right arm, stab two
inches wide, reaching into the lung. had
been made just below the right collar-b bone
and over the heart was cut two and one
half inches, where the deadly knife had gone
clean through rib cutting it in half, deer
into the heart
Evidence Of Desperate Struggle.
The hack of the murdered man was so GU,
and chopped as TO make a literal net work OF
his shirt. The murderer must have Jumped
on the body of his victim as he Law dead OF
the floor, and hacked and cut away, in .
paroxysm of maniacal rage. The floor O
the cellar was deeply indented with mark.
of boot heels, showing that the struggle mus
have been a desperate one during the shor
time it lasted
| Revelry of Blood.
The walls of the little room were smearet
/ and stained with blood, and even upon tn.
| Joists of the floor above We're spots anC
| splotches made by the crimson fluid, as /
spurted from the severed juCular veins
Upon several pieces of washing which hung o,
line reaching from wall 10 wall of the eel
lar, were marks made by the bloody hand
| of the murderer as he brushed them aside
in his mad rush for the window. Upon the
bottom and sides of the little apertur,
through which he dragged the body wher
his BLOODY work was done were to he foun,
the plain marks Of his blood-stained hands
The sash, too, was bed aubed with blood
| Theories Of the Police.
The police last night were working upor
three theories in regard to the case. one 81
which was that the work was done by /
sneak thief whom Mantuelle surprised in the
cellar, another that Bruno Eheling. a hos.
carpenter, whose attentions % Mrs Man
tnelle have caused gossip, is the perpetratol
/ Of the crime, and the third that an insane
man was responsible, a. the police thought
| that no sane man would do 50 much unneces
sary cutting.
LATER has been found an,
clearly proved his innocence