The evening world., 1889-04-04
"A MAN STRUCK Me-"
Startling Testimony at Krulisch's
Trial To-Day.
WeChSuns'S Last Words Appear 10 YIN
dictate the Boy.
Three Former Clerks in the Store
Knew the Cash Drawer Combination.

Assistant District-Attorney Jerome Is the
weaver who Is spinning the web of
tHal evidence from a score of witnesses in winch
he expects to rnsuaro slNteen-year-pld Willie
Krulisch. conyIcting him of the brutal and
bloody butchery Of Drug Clerk Guenthcr Wech-
sung.
James McComb, an employee in Hugh Nc
Creary's plumbing shop, testified that he saw
Wechsuug in the drug store at from two To ten
minutes after : o'clock on the morning of March
I, and McCreary related that he found the clerk
yeltering in his own blood at twenty minutes
after 7 o'clock.
door leading into a hall connecting by a
flight OF stairs up and another down with Third
avenue was open a few inches. Druggist
Doepfner was in his room, a few feet In the
rear Of the ante-room where Wechsung
was found, and Wechsungs bed had been IN
touched the, night bcforej the witness also
noticed a bung-starter, In, a box Of tools
on the floor, and said that when Doept,
% Rfr MHs S WSs drunk NIX '@f later, 'apdihnng;
the cash drawer opened, eXclaiined; -, NOW
reporting that WeshSung sometimes slept on the
sofa.
DT. Doepfner, mn excitable man of font. five,
was cross-examincd by Mr.: Purdy, and the fol
lowing pointr were elected, krullsch all the time
expected from G boy on hs first yisit to Court;
MIR. IurNy-lO GU tnUlDyeu. Nt'INlIS 'hNt'
discharged him aud afterwards hired him again,
How lid you como to discharge Wechsung2
A. | forbade Ho him to Pgy, G SSt Sisa6 nfi@S b II m the
Q. Did he, have q day of A Yes he was
90. Was he in the i,Siit of getting drunk A.
He was once, Never before nor after,
Q. Then Why did d yoT r say the t'T W.T. thip Wic that It
man has been ont ali night-it was my first sus-
plClOn.
rara. Cl,YnhnJ nynr WpChsunQ'g pmDty bed in his
room; tried the, door, from there to tho ante
room, found it locked und then raised the win
He says q minute and n half after he pounded
on the hall door to y2mr room bSSk OF 70 w -%om
right. 49,.
his d~utfes-to build a Are or otherwise : A.
Q. When th;s boy returned 70 he store s he did tRi
S SttSSS$$ E a5S.H aiS $fSSfE: hey 9YS w.; 4. r. Ttv,n nan .,'.a a4 ,a
| Wechsung's bed the night after the murder. A.
Mine. / thought ought to have some one with
q. Didn,k you have q grown man to stay with
q. Now didn't you think that II Willie refused
point 70 h him h as the ,o %prd tnS 3oo1 pia ang
how it twas was nc The deteotivos tackled him and
5ietnsr said ought 70 make the boy stay The
y Mr.. JeromeNYou have had other clerks,
Mr.; poSPt GEGTgo 4, Sss, after slE, DR. . few Ti 5Syst S mS
pne : o one WorESa far me S' a year once ' Before. I
discharged him for receiving too many female
callers, Another one was with me a few weeks
{. Did they know tho combination on the
money-drewer As 1t WA on the day OF the muir
DR.. ffoicpfner said. the ,mallet found. on the
floor ne Wu WechsEnmT's body wa" not MS or pa at
mallpt was uApI in ODpuluK the
fall entrance 70 the rear OF the store; Dr..
Docnfnsr sGid tRSt his bed was fifteen feet from ,m9
partitions between. He heard no unusual noise
In the room. ,,,
and DR.. Doepfner retired from the stand.
DR.. Constantine j. Mqguire, OF IA East
Fitty-sixth street, testified tnat he wIS GHiied at
drug store. He found a crowd there and Wech,
sung, sitting on a chair surrounded by pools GI
blood, hopeles-ly cut and wounded. His sku!
was fractured and brain matter oozing out,
though hc was c,3nnsciogs., 4,
He said, family; Tint he. got n lick ON tho hea'
and tell down while putting on his shoe; that n
he fell forward lie was hacked. lie didn't se'
.. Was Krulisch there A. He was.
u. DID, the, defendant gay anything A.. Yes
he said he had called for me twice to come t,
'0fEcer abraham Phillips, of the Twenty. THIRD
Fifty-thirl street, going down Third NycnuC, u
40, on, the morning OF the murder. Iur"lnE
he passed up, ana reaching tht IruR STORE, a
fifty-siXth street at 20, was told by l!umbc
McCreary that IL man WAS hurt inside. II tool
fifteen minutes for tho officer 70 walk from
Fifty-ninth street to Fifty-third street go.nl
down.
Mr.. J~eromo-Pleaso give the exact word
. of the deceased to you at this time. \
: - was struck on tho head at about 7. 10 by
r man. l put mp my hand to protect my head.
did not know the man. i let William into th
4 store"
Here was another sensation. Willie Krulisch
A underlined and the daily companion Of III
wounded mar. rpull mt lC nlHLAhpn for "A man
: and Wechsung knew him also.