Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-26

age began az Media Monday. Mrs, Caro-
line Schmidt was placed on trial before
Judge Waddell for the slaying of hel
pretty sister, Emma Ptitzenmyer, at Ches
ter in the early morning of December 4th
Henry Schmidt who is accused of having
guilty knowledge of the murder, elected tC
have separate trial in order that he might
60 upon the stand, if called upon, to give
testimony in behalf of his nearly broken
hearted wife.
rang with the Gathering feet and noisy
laughter of such cosmopolitan crowd az
attempted monday to take possession OF
the handsome old marble counterfeit pile
which il pointed to with pride as the court
house. At 10 o'clock the court room was
crowded. Shortly after the accused per.
sons were brought into the room. Mrs.
Schmidt was IN deep, mourning and seem.
ingly very weak. When the latter entered
her sister, Mrs. Walters, rushed up to her
with the pitiful cry, MY poor sister p'
and tenderly embraced her, sobbing all
the while. The scene was pathetic one
indeed and much affected the great crowd.
The lawyers for the defence are w. b.
Broomall. O. b. Dickinson, Perry NJ.
Washabaugh and Garnett IL. Pendleton.
For the prosecution District Attorney Han
mum will conduct the case. Both pleaded
not guilty when formally arraigned. A
Jury was selected without much trouble
and late in the afternoon the district attor.
ney opened the prosecution and Officer
Stringer was put on the stand and related
the facts of the discovery of the body of
the murdered girl. Then followed the tes-
timony of the undertaken who dressed the
body. From neither of these witnesses
was any thing new gained.
The trial Of Mrs Caroline Schmidt of
Chester charged with the murder of her
sister Emma Piitzenmaier, was in progress
at Media all of Tuesday, and was full of
interest
An important witness was DR.. f. r.
Graham. who failed to answer Monday
and for whom bench warrant was issued,
and his evidence, although he was called
by the commonwealth, chcered up the de
PENDANT considerably. About O'Clock in
the morning of the fatal night, he was
awakened by Henry Schmidt and he threw
NJ the sash in his chamber to answer the
call from his garden gate. Henry said:
doctor an accident has happened to my
wife's sister, she did it herself, come to the
house rs soon as possible"
Hlrrledly putting on some clothes the
medical man fastened on his errand and
when he reached the place he met Officer
Stringer and went up stairs hastily with
him to the bed room, where he saw
Emma's body stretched out on the floor.
He made clrsory examination and pro-
nounced life extinct.
He could see the gaping wounds in her
neck, except those at the back of it, which
were concealed from the position of the
body.
She lay with her head toward the heat
ing drum and pointing toward the door a
few feet away, her feet toward the rug at
the west end of the bureau. There was a
basin of clean water on the washstand
made bloody afterwards by him and the
nttipnF hnth nI Nhntf1 XruQhpA THAR hat de
in il after they had taken heavy gold
ring from the little finger of Emma's hand
There was very little blood on her person
or clothes and everything was orderly in
the room. He did not raise her clothes,
but saw that she had clean white stockings
on without any blood stains on them.
Upon cross-eXamination by Mr. Broom
all the doctor said he was sure he was cor
rect as to the position Of the body The
knife was shown him by Officer Stringer,
who held it in his hand, but he did not
see where he got it, II was bloody. The
only place he saw blood in any quantity
was on the rug in front of the bureau
He did not know Emma well in life, but
had seen her. She was large, well-de-
yeloped, robust girl, about five feet six
inches tall and weighing, he thought, 40
pounds or more. He gave the weight
by the weakest guessing as he was a
poor hand ut this when the subject was d
woman.
COUNSELLOR BRooMALL's REALISM.
There was general rising of the audience
when Mr.. Broomall threw himself on the
floor in the midst of the furniture taken
from the room of the tragedy and asked
The doctor to place him as he found Emma
Judge jury and attorneys crowded in to
bee the act and the doctors gray head was
been bobbing up and down us he stopped
over to perform his part amid black cir
Gle Of people who surrounded him
There was no struggle in the room, he
thought, or the furniture would have been
displaced. He and Stringer left the room
together and the doctor went into the
Kitchen, where he witnessed scene of the |
iirest distress, Carl. Emma's brother, was
sitting with Caroline, the alleged muir
ieress, in his lap, her arms wound around |
his neck, and both moaning in their grief, |
He turned his head away and soon de- |
parted.
Eugene F, White was recalled and said
l clean chemise was placed over Elnma's |
body in the ice box. Crumbie had opened /
he bureau drawer with his bloody hands |
md taken this out. He too had taken the |
ieadly knife and carrying it into the store |
had wrapped It in straw paper and laid it
ln the meat block.
David Crumbie was called to tell his
tory. He arrived at the scene at 4.3O or
" tibth w tlllt anu several
others there. He found the head of the
lead body pointing toward the drum, thus
DR., Graham. The ball dress
was lying ON the floor stretched ont beside
he body and parallel with it, and the
Knife was at the foot Of the bureau.
Under the body was a bodice and on the
Jug was pool of blood.
He procured a bucket of hot water and
owels and carried them upstairs; then,
tripping off the clothing, he washed the
body as carefully MS he would for any one,
md at 5 O'Clock he had it in the ice box.
DC stepped on the mat and, kneeling
here, his trousers at the knees were
tanned with blood which his wife after
vards washed on. Emma's clothing was
lot much stained until she was disrobed,
md N this process it was dragged through
he blood.
When cross-examined by Mr. Dickinson,
rumble said he found light in the room
when he entered it. He put the bucket of
water ON the rug beside the body, and
when the clothing was taken off it was all
brown in heap in one corner of the
DOM, with the wet towel used at the
Washing, He was told it was a case of
uicide, and he thought of nothing else
when he got to the house. AS to the knife
lie wrapped it up in paper as had been
tated. He had carried il from the house
n the first instance, but took it back, and
gave it to the CORNER
FROM THE DANCE TO DEATH.
Mr.. Crumbie was listened to with rapt
ttention when he said he had danced with
he dead girl at the ball between 8 and 10
o'clock that night and laid her in the ice
'oX at . in the morning.
Mrs; Crumbie. his wife. testified briefly
S TO the call made by Schmidt for her hns-
and services, He stated that his wifes
lster had committed suicide. She went to
he house, entering through the store,
bout O'Clock on the 4th, and entering
ne Kitchen, saw Caroline, who sad
Amt it awful? n Mrs. Schmidt had a
ong Newmarket coat on and the baby was
sleep on the lounge She was much