Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-18
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ITS Absence taken aS Clue to the
Piitzcnmeyer Murder at Chester, Pa.
MEDIA, Pa, Dec. 12.--When n carriage
drew up in front of the county Jail on
Thursday night, containing Caroline
Schmidt and her husband Henry f., a
throng of people watched the suspects as
they alightcd and passed into the prison.
Here they will remain until March next,
when they will be called upon to answer
the charge of numbering Emma Piitzen-
meyer, the sister of Mrs. Schmidt at
Chester.
Two cells CHANGED to be empty that were
exactly opposite to each other on the first
corridor, and into these the pair We're
placed, but the solid oak doors which
closed over the latticed iron ones prevented
any communication between them.
In the early morning different arrange
ments were made. Schmidt was trans
ferred to Il cell about midway in the long
line, and his wife was placed near the en-
trance, where she received attention from
the matren, who gave her coffee and other
good things from her own table,
AT 10 o'clock Detective Nevins of the
Pinkerton bureau, called. and after a con
ference with the inspectors was admitted
to Mrs. Schmidt's cell in the presence,
however, of one of the board She had
nothing to say either one way or the other
and stated that she had told the truth
before the magistrate, and could only do so
again when the proper time should come
While the conference was in progress,
Edward Ill. Hail. the attorney Of the in.
spectors, appeared, and protested against
any interviews with either of the prisoners,
except in the presence Of their counsel,
whereupon Warden Rowland cleared the
cell of all outsiders.
Mrs. Schmidt was extremely nervous
during her examination by the detective
and asked that she be allowed to rest with
nttt inf lNr nfl . a
woman above the average height, strongly
built, but without any tendency to obesity,
and a pronounced blonde. Her husband
IS below the ordinary height of men, has
black hair and eyes and an aquiline nose,
suggestive of Hebrew ancestry. He was
born in this country, but his wife is
native of Germany
Coroner l.. NJ. Bullock contributes an
Important point to the case. lie states
that despite his closest search not single
piece of clothing worn by Mrs. Schmidt at
the ball can be found. The query natur-
ally Isl; What has become of it and why
has it disappeared? 1t will be remembered
that six hours elapsed between the time
THAT the murder was discovered and the
arrival of the coroner, and this afforded
ample opportunity for DESTROYING many
traces of the murder, should the perpetra-
tors be so disposed.
The theory ofthe prosecution in the case
Is sttlu 10 De lut tllt CTllllt WIS committed
by Caroline Schmidt; that she had been
warned by her sister, Mrs. Walther, to
keep an eye upon her sister Emma; that
Emma came home from the ball first and
entered by the hall door Mrs. Schmidt fol
lowed and entered by the store door, as
that was the only key she possessed, des-
pite her denial nj The coroner's inquest.
She saw no light in the kitchen, and sus-
pecting something wrong, picked up the
big knife used for cutting dried beef Mrs.
Schmidt went direct to Enma's room, the
girl was not there. She went to her hus-
bands bedroom. Emma was afterward
found dead in that room. The girl was
rendered senseless by one blow across the
back of the neck that sundered the spinal
cord. The husbands bloody shirt was
found concealed beneath the mattress in
the baby's crib. The dress Mrs. Schmidt
wore at the ball cannot be found. ii was
upon these facts that the arrests were made.
There is other testimony equally as i'm
portant that will be produced at the trial.