New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-13
THE CHILD MURDERERS HELD.
EXCITEMENT AT THE CORONERS INQUEST.
uAAs's nRoTHER GIVES DAMAGING TEsTIMoN,

uAAs's nEorHER GIVES DAMAGING TESTIMONY
THE MOTHER AN AccoMPLIcE.
The inquest over the body Of the child OF Wary
wcrthcmcr. who was brutally murdered Dy rc'c'
Haas and Adam schultz the young mothers admirers
4 week ago, was held last night by Coroner Lindsay.
The prisoners were brought from the Sixth Precinct
BY Detectives Campbell and Lyons. platoon OF
officers in charge Of Acting Captain Brown accom-
panied the prisoners in order to prevent any at"mP'
to mclest them while the street. As early rs 1o
ococH hundreds Of people, mostly women, fnd gati-
cred in front OF the station house. Many threo's
were made, and when the detectives and the twenty.
i've officers appeared the street Win the PRISONERS
they were greeted with boots and yells The crowd
followed them. and for a time the police expressed
fears for the safety Of the prisoners. charge was
made the crowd In order 10 drive uich oaoh'
When the COroner's Office reached the piace "aS
found TO be filed TO sufocation.
The trio placed in corner OF the roo'i
As soon as the young mother was seated, she purst
into tears for the first time since the crime "mic
,chuze ard Haas tremblcd with fear. D'strict
Attorney Ridgway present to conduct the cAaml-
nation for the people The first witness calico was
Valentine Haas brother Of one OF the prisohcrs'
In his testimony the witness said that nc saw "''
child last on May .. 1t few minutes before
IL O'Clock when Haas ana schultz entered MS nome
nj No Il Brcmen-st Mary Werthemer was INinb
there with his sister. When the men entered schuh
asked where the child was and May WertieiNoi ~
piled that 1t was sleeping
Il want to take the child to "a Cch'raia'e'
,,id schultz where it will got good care
IIao, then went OH tell how the mother look the
child from the bed where 1t slumbcing and, wrap
plng n shawl about 1t, gave IL to SCHULTZ bciore
chtz left the house the witness said that the mo'hci
asked for the child and taking 1t in her arms, nursed IT,
she then placed 1t in Schutz's arms. and both schu1
and Hans left the house Ihey returned asan IL
o'clock on Tuesday morning.
81 asked them, said the witness, "what they mac
done with the child and Schultz replied that it was al
right
Two DAYS later the witness found Schultz and Haas
conversng together. 10Th appeared TO be in grea
state OF excitement, and when the witness approache0
them HAAS remarked Il am afraid nc is going oncN
on me-, The witness asked his brother II they hao
killed the child For tho first time they then told o.
the murder.
Hans told the witness that Schultz had attempted t6
choke the child and had then tied his suspender about
It's neck TO one end was fastened stone Inc CHIC
was thrown into he water but the stone slipped, nho
tho child came to tho surface II was iShed out and
began to cry Il Wis then that the hole was dug and
The child placed In IT.
NV brother, said he "told me that Mary Vert
hclmer had asked them to do away with the child she
said shc had been to the Charity Commissioners Office
but they hal refused 10 care for the child
clothing worn by the child, and Old how the motheI
had frequently expressed desire to get rd OF ~ VII
ness had made the dress the child wore when found or
the day it taken away. Annie Haas corroboraco
her mothers Each Identified the suspenders
lied about the childs neck those worn by SCHULTZ
Detective Campbell testified 10 substantially the same
confession that Valentine Haas had told Of Dr. Joseph
Crramer who made the autopsy the body said that
death had resulted from stinnglllatlon.
The was then given 70 the Jury VINO iouha "a
he murder and Mary Werthelmer rs an accessory to
the crime. The prisoners we're taken back TO the jan
amid the shouts OF the crowd.