The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-12-08
TIE GREENFIELD MONSTER.
Jealousy Supposed to DO the Cause OF tho
Horrible Murder OF the Pretty Chester

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Jealousy Supposed to bo the Cnuso OF III
Horrible Murder OF the Pretty Cheste
Girl.
CHESTER, Pa, Dec. Emma Pitzer
myer, the pretty young German woma
who was found dead in her room, he
head almos. severed from her body m,
with dozen stab wounds in her neck an,
breast, Is now known to have been mur
dered. She was 90 years old and livet
with her sister, Mrs. Schmidt, the wifi
ola grocer. She had been in this coun
try two yeers. She was a bright girl, bu
was a little wild so the neighbors say
On wednesday night there was a ball II
a hall not far from the grocery ovel
which Schmidt and his wife and the
young woman lived. Mrs. Schmidt and
her sister attended 1t and left Mr.
Schmidt to mind tho baby.
At about l:30 o'clock Miss Plltzen.
myer returned home, at the request OF
Mrs. Schmidt, to see how the baby was
getting on. She found the infant asleep
in its fathers crms, and started to return
TO the hall. She left the side door open,
through which she could pass to the
street to her room without being seen by
Schmidt. She met her sister at the ball
again and returned to her a key to the
house. She disappeared then. Mrs.
Schmidt thought that she had Joined III
the dancing, and did not look after her
until after l o'clock. She was nowhere
to be found. Mrs. Schmidt concluded
she had got tired and gone home, and
she went homo alone. Schmidt was in
the back room holding the baby.
DISCOVERY OF TIE DEAD popY.
She asked him where her sister was,
and he said he did not know. She had
been twice to SEQ tho bsby and was
probably in her room. Mrs. Schmidt
went upstairs and found the young
woman lying on the floor OF her room
in front OF the bureau, dead. The car.
pet underneath her was soaked with
blood. There was cheeae-Enife
smeared with blood on tho floor near
her. 1t had blade nearly two inches
wide and twelve long. 1t was one Of
the knives that had been uaed in the
grocery.
It was at first supposed that the girl
had committed suicide. A physician
examined the wounds in her neck and
breast, and declared that they could not
have been made by the cheese.knife.
They were made by n smaller knife.
Three OF the six wounds were in such a
position that they couldn't have been
inflicted by herself. The cut which
nearly severed her head, the doctor
declared, was made alter the girl was
dead.
Her windpipe was not shrunk, as it
would have been had it been severed
while she was alive. The knife was ex.
amined, and it was found that the blood
on 1t had been smeared over it. The
stains were not such as would have been
made il the knife had been used to in.
tlict the wounds. A pair OF mems socks,
soaked with blood, were found on the
floor OF the room. The murderer had
left no other clue. After the finding Of
the body Mrs. Schmidt remembered that
Oh the way the ball young man whom
she did not know spoke to her sister,
and walked distance with her. They
talked to each other in whispers. Who
this young man was no one knows.
JEALOUSY THE SUSPECTED MOTIVE.
From the fact that the girl left the
door open when she lef. home for the
ball the second time, it is thought that
she might have made an appointment
with some one, possibly with the mys.
terious young man, and took him to her
room, and then he murdered her. The
girl is known to have had many lovers,
and the authorities think that it was one
Of these who killed her in Fl. OF jeal-
ousy.
The murderer, after the killing, ar
ranged things in the room and smeared
the cheese knife with blood SO as to hide
his crime, by making it appear that the
girl had taken her own life. He suc-
cessfully fooled the city authorities OF
Chester, and they have given no aid to
the District Attorney, and the Coroner
is investigating the case. MIR. and Mrs.
Schmidt are under police surveillance.
The county authorities will not permit
Schmidt to be aeen by any newspaper
men, nor will they mako public any,
thing he may have told them. n
The body OF the girl has been at the
house OF Otto Walther, near Upland,
since the autopsy and wss buried from
there to-day. While the funeral SER
vice was going on both Mr.. and Mrs.
Schmidt became hysterical. At the
grave Schmidt had to be held to keep
him from jumping in on the casket.
After the funeral the body was taken up
TO be examined by DR.. Formue, who has
the reputation OF being the best expert
in murder cases in this part OF the coun.
try. He lives in Philadelphia. Coroner
Bullock had sent for him 10 get his testi.
mony to the fact that the girl had been
murdered.