Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-01
The Bloody Mystery at Philadel-
phia Has Been Cleared Up.
Sharp-Eyed Detectives Unearth the Per-
petrators of a Foul Crime History
Of Dismembered Body.
The Confessed Murderer Taken to the Corpse of
His yictim-The Manner In Which the
Crime Was Perpetrated.

has been solved. The corpse is identified
and the murderer is in prison. The muir
der is proved to have been diabolical
one. The motive for the deed was to OBJ
tain the money or the murdered man,
but all that the murderer is known to
have realized by his dastardly crime is
$50
The case had bafled the police authori-
ties since the finding of the body
out. The clew which held out
the greatest promise was that the
mutilated body was that of a man who
had stopped for day or two at a hotel at
Hoboken, n. J. In fact the proprietresS
of the hotel, Mrs. Keller, had visited
this city and positively identified the
body at the morgue as that of her
boarder, whose name was Kreutzman.
Several others who had seen Kreutzman
at Mrs. KeeIer's hotel and who viewed
the body, were equally positive in their
opinion that Kreutzman vas the man
that
LAY DEAD IN THE MoRGUE.
That the body is not that of Kreutzman
was proved last night as was also the tact
that the murdered man was not from
Hoboken. A young man named Keefer
residing near Gillingham and Cadwallader
streets in the northeastern section of the
city, yesterday saw the cut of the muir
dered man in one of the Sunday papers,
which he thought resembled the features
OF the German named Schilling who had
lived with another German named Jacob
Schroop, at the corner Of the
above named streets. He impaired his
hot snR
and was taken to the morgue where, on
looking at the corpse, he Immediately
Identified it as the one of Sehilling. 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 we're then sent to SehToop s
house and took him into custody. When
the officers entered Schroop's house and
informed him they wanted him at the po-
lice station, the German exhibited
MOST ABJECT TERROR,
and when taken up the steps of the sta
ton house, his trembling limbs refused to
support him and he fell. Several officers
sthen carried him into the lieutenant IS
room. Schroop is about fifty years of
age, and Schilling, his victim, was about
thirty years Old.
The two men were partners in small
grocery and provision store at Gillingham
and Cadwallader streets. Schroop lived
in a house with his wife and daughter,
and Schilling boarded with them. The
parties rented store about four months
ago Only small business was done at
the store, the two men going through the
city in wagon huckstering their wares
4 Schroop when questioned by the police
l.,
knowledge of the murder. He told many
conflicting statements, and about mid
night was locked up in the cell. Officers
were sent to his home, and Mrs. Schroop
and her daughter were placed under sur
VIGILANCE, the officers remaining in the
house all night. 1t is believed that Mrs.
Schroop is accessory to the murder and
butchery. Numerous evidences of clean
ing and scrubbing are plainly seen in
the house. It is stated that Mrs. Schroop
ATTEMPTED TO CHOKE HERSELF
in the night, but was prevented by the
policemen on guard.
Chief of Detectives Wood went to the
prisoner IS cell shortly after midnight and
when he came out about 2 o'clock this
morning he said the man had confessed
to the murder, but he refused for the
present to give the prisoners statement
to the public. How the murder was
committed and the manner of the SUISSE
quent removal of the dismembered body
to It's hiding place in the park has not yet
been learned, though it is surmised Chief
Wood has all this information in his pos
session.
The place where the body
was found in the park is
three miles distant from Schroop's house.
The Ratchet, axe and saw used by
Sehroop were found in the cellar of his
house this morning Those implements
were covered with mud. and bore traces
of the terrible work they have SO recently
been used to perform. They were taken
in charge by the police, and viii be pre-
served as evidence at the trial. The
body, either before or after life was ex-
tinct, was carried into the cellar, where
it was evidently, judging from the little
cloE 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. In the house was
also found a Ted-colored puIse-warmer,
which is evidently the mate of
the one found on the murdered man. The
wooden floor with which portion of the
cellar is covered is blood stained liz many
places and resembles slaughter house
more than portion OF a human habita-
ton. Sehroop's wife, who is Frustrated.
on account of her husband IS arrest, is in
the custody of officers and VIII most
likely be removed to the hospital until
She RECEIVERS from her shock, when it is
likely she too win be placed behind the
bars on charge OF having had hand in
the murder.
The murderer vas given a hearing be-
fore magistrate to-day. He gave his
name as Jacob Sdhroop, age fitty-three
years, and said hl was born at Romanzs
shork, Comtenth srgan, Switzerland.
police official test Jed 20 Schroop s haE
ing confessed tha murder of Schilling
and the priscneg as then formally ec<
I1itfesi 10 avail action of the coro