Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-05-27
4 MURDER MOST FOUL.
THE DETROIT RIVER GIVES UP A
BLOODY MYSTERY.
An Old Woman Murdered Months
Ago for Her MOney---The MUIR
dcrers I'm jail.

Mrs Anna Schultz some years ago
invested her entire fortune in
farm with her brother-in law,
John Klump, two miles west of
Taylor Center in Wayne county.
She was of IN eccentric nature and
though living with her sister and hus-
band would tramp over the country
begging and trading and was away SD
much that the neighbors scarcely
noticed her coming and going.
The latter part of January her alb
sence was of longer duration than
usual and inquiries were made but re-
vealed nothing, but certain circum'
stances and remarks Mrs. Schultz had
made aroused suspicious against the
klumps. 1t was we'll known that the
klumps owed Mrs. Schultz money on
mortgages aside from her interest in
the land, but one Of the most suspi-
cious circumstances was noticed some
time after the disappearance.
she had loaned to Joseph Miller, OF
Taylor Center S95, for whichhe gave "a
note payable January /. A day or two
later Mrs. Schultz called on Miller, and
when he offered TO pay her refused to
accept the money, saying the Humps
would rob her of 1t. The note in
question she always kept carefully
hidden from the family according
to the Millers. On January ~
John Klump called at Miller's
and inquired when Mrs. Schultz
was there last, On Jan. 81 he
cJme, again, and in roundabout way
asked Miller if he did not owe Mrs.
: chultz sos and finally presented Mrs.
Schultzs note. Miller refused to pay
the money to Klump and the latter is
claimed to have said, shell never
come back. She must be dead or she
would not stay away so long" Shortly
after this Assistant Prosecutor Britt
made some inquiry into the matter,
and interviewed the Humps but moth
ing was learned, and the true story of
the disappearance of old "Mother
Schultz" was indeed mystery.
Last Friday Charles Poupard, a
gardener, found body floating
in the rear of an ice house in the
village Of Trenton. A Justice of peace
was called and the body taken ashore
where 1t was at once seen that victim
of foul play had beenfouno. The body
was removed to an undertakers and an
inquest ordered. Several men viewed
bhS cONJ hho pOoipiNOiy ~ 90
that of Mrs. schultz whom they we'll
knew.
An examination of the body was
made by DIR. H. Holden, of Tren-
ton. There are on the body
four external wounds evidently
made by bullets. DR.. Holden
removed one bullet, evidently nodded
rifle ball, from point four inches
below the right shoulder blade and
two inches from the spinal col
umn. The face is terribly mutt.
lated, and some frighsful blows must
have been struck. The upper and
lower jaws are broken and The nose
completely crushed. There Is also a
lacerated scalp wound on the left side
of the head three inches above the eye
brows
Assistant Prosecutor Britt was sum
moned and immediately on arriving at
Wyandotte called upon DepuGy Sheri II
James McCloy to go to Taylor Center
and arrest the entire Klump family in
Guiding John Klump, his wife and two
sons. The deputy called to his aid
Marshal f. Murphy and three others
who arrested the four under suspicion.