The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-12
MURDERED AT HIS WORK.
ENGINEER KUCKEL HORN's BODY
FOUND BADLY AlANGLED.

re was to Have Lert yyiiey's Lithogrnp hinE
Establishment At Five O'Clock on satur-
day Arternoon-IIo Talked with Police.
man Skuiiy at Four-lndications that the
Murderer had Planned to Cut or His VIC
TINS Head-The Engineers Pockets Empty
Emil Kuckelhorn had been employed as
engineer in Thomas Wilev's lithographing
establishment at 1872 and 1874 West Twenty
fourth street for several years. He was sober
and Industrious and always attended to his
business. and the firm considered him one OF
their very best men. He was murdered some
time on Saturday afternoon. His skull was
crushed by a blow from an iron bar with
heavy iron nut ut tho end OF It What the mo-
tive for tho crime could be is a mystery.
Saturday is n half holiday for tho employ ees
in the lthographing place. with the exception
OF tho engineer. Two buildings on either
side OF the factory are supplied with heat and
steam power by wiley's engines. and Kuckel.
horn had to stay until o'clock In the after
noon. when the work in the other buildings
was finished. Tho employees are paid Mt noon
and go homo 1t was Kuckelhorn's custom
to let the fire in one furnace die out
early in the afternoon and to clean
the furnace out and MI it up with wood. ready
for starting early on Monday morning. He
would begin to bank the ilro in the other fur
mace shortly after 4 o'clock. and when
o'clock came he was ready to start for his
homo at 2S6 Willis avenue. near both street.
which he would reach about @ o'clock. Clean
ing out the furnace was the dirty part OF his
work. When he had finished that he would
dress up In his street clothing.
He did this on Saturday afternoon. and went
upstairs and out in the street. Policeman
Skuliy was standing in front OF tho building.
and they talked together for fifteen or twenty
minutes. kuckclhorn went inside the build
ing then. remarking that 1t was time to bank
his other fire. and then he would GO homo.
That was the last time he was seen alive. He
had friend. Louis Deal who is an engineer
in another building on the block. He had
seen Deal in tho morning. and had
asked him to como to his house on Sunday to
dinner. Deal was Just leaving his house in
Twenty eighth street at II o'clock Yesterday
morning to so up town and keep tho appoint
mont when kuckelhorn's eldest daughter met
him and as cd him II he had seen her father.
lie hasn't been home, since yesterday morn
Deal walked with her around to the litho-
graphing establishment and pounded on the
Me on
Job uncomplcted. and the foreman and three
workmen had agreed to come around on Sun.
The foreman arrived while Deal and Miss
Kuck elhorn were standing there talking about
matter, and they told him.. He opened the
door and went up stairs. while Deal ran down
into the engine room. The girl stayed at tho
door.
The engine 1oom Is The oe zen There
front. near the sidewalk; Around them for ten
feet is a clear space. All the rest of the room
heavy photographic stones. The racks reach
to the ceiling and run from the front to the
rear OF tho building. They are about three
immnssdiate!y in front Of the engines is q little
floor. and tho engineer. when he has any fixing
About ten feet from rom the furnace and almost t
bench which Is also used as settee.
The moment peal re-; reached h, the basement he
and streak q blood loading from, it to the
| furnace, pit where there was another cl1t.
ur w nnd Ss hs Sr stood
waiting. Out into the street he ran. and up, to
Sixth avenue. Policeman Reinhart was Mt the
corner. Deal was almosttoo eNrit ed to tell what
he had seen. but ho managed to impress on
Reinh2rt that something had happened. and
tell the girl that there had been an accident.
nads her g" home and he would he
eonli not find drop Of blood except what
lie then went w the different alleys between
the racks. In one he found n bar, of iron al
emf. Tie nut was stained with blood. In
another hc found two hand saws. The blades
fast FAST with TO dr"i blood In looking more closely
at the floor about the bench Eeinhart
o sT2 s'an lad sFe sssn drucwd
Tie ssSs tH ass to r.
It was on its back. The face was cut and blood;
stained. The hands were covered with blood
the the m urdercr had seized the collar and dragged
s s;t ns III HsHs Street
came. Another search. Of Tho premises was
any clue to the murderer. The location of the
blood about the engine made 1t appear that
banEin. tho lire In tia second furnace when
he was struck; He possibly had struggled
99t and had been nit again at th9 bench inch
! though what his object could have been was
not plain. He must have known that it would
body removed to Bcnedict's undertaking shop
viii" This sxain i showed what had been the
fury Of tho, murderer, DR.. Donlin found four;
as"n saHr Tn.y Wors small! and 1 sharp and
i"otei something like stab wounds. made
perhaps. by cl.isel or by knife. Tho skull
a compound fracture ct tho top Of tho
forehead. and tho whole frontal bone
was crushed in. From the shape of these
wounds il Was judged that tho weapon used
was the bar Of iron with the heavy nut. The
Lack Of the neck Was cut in several spots. The
nesn was torn from side to side, Apparently
snail amount Of blood that had come, from
the wounds it Was thought that they had been
deror had turned the body oyer on the face and
had started to saw the head on. Perhaps he
Intended to cut tho body up and put 1t In the
furnace to be burned lie may have hoped to
conceal his crime in that way. but becoming
dragged the body down tbs alley.
There were numerous gashes and cuts on
tho hands and wrists. Some looked as II they
had beer. received in an EFFORT to ward of
blows. Others might have been made with q
saw IN an effort to cut the members of after
death There were altogether no less than
twenty-five wounds on tho body.
CAPT O'Connor set his men at work the mo-
ment he reached the building. There we're
one was that the murder had been committed
Skully. who reported to Capt. OConnor as
soon as he heard OF tho finding Of the body.
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