Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-11-05
FOUND DEAD.
Tragedy With Some Resemblance to
the Smell Murder.

the smell Murder.
| CHICAGO, Oct 2s-An atrocious mur-
der, resembling in many respects the
slaughter four years ago Of Amos j.
Smell, the millionaire. was committed
Wednesday night at Melrose, q station
on the Chicago and Northwestern road,
twelve miles from this city. The VIC
tim was Ernest Kunneth, and aged
German capitalist, who lived by him
sell, had no enemies, and bore an excel
lent reputation as good citizen and
warm-hearted, genial man.
Kunneth always kept considerable
money In the house, but none of it was
touched. The murderers, for ther,
were two Of them, did not commit the
crime for robbery, but to gain possess
sion OF some documents which the old
man had in his possession. A box con.
''aining these papers, consisting Of
no.vs, deeds, mortgages and titles to an
estate in Germany, was the only thing
carried away.
At 10 o'clock Thursday morning
Dietrich Woehler, who was tenant of
Kunneth's accompanied by Mrs. Woeh-
Ter, called at the house to pay his rent.
He knocked repeatedly at the door, but
deceived no response. He then tried it,
and finding it unlocked, walked into
the little parlor, behind which is din
ing-room, divided from the front by
folding doors. They were closed, but
Woehler forced them back. The room
was dark, and he let the curtain up,
flooding it with light. Close beside the
table, sitting in his chair, was Kunneth.
His head and face were covered with
coagulated blood, and the room was
literally covered with dark red stains.
II was on the table and smeared upon
the chairs; it had been spattered upon
the walls, lay in ghastly pools upon the
floor. Woehler took one look at the old
man, and that one satisfied him that
Kunneth was beyond all human aid. A
swift, powerful blow had cleft the old
mans skull clean to the eyebrows. He
never thought or moved after the in
strument of death came down.
The alarm was quickly given and
search Of the premises made. In the
kitchen was found the weapon which
had gone crashing through the old
mans brain. 1t was huge corn knife,
with a blade fourteen inches long,
broad and heavy. So fearful had been
the blow that the heavy steel was shiv-
cred and cracked half across. Upon
the table stood bottle of gin
and three glasses. Two chairs were
facing that in which the blood
stained corpse was found, showing that
the men must have been with Kunneth
when the deed was done. Two half
smoked pipes were lying near the bottle
OF gin. Around the house were marks
Of cory hands, and OF feet wet with
blood. Marks of fingers were upon
door jambs and window sills. Bureau
drawers had been pulled open and their
contents overturned, as if the mur-
derers had made hasty search for
something and had been long in
finding it. Upon almost everything
they touched they left the stain of
their victims blood. Money they had
found, for it lay in open sight when
Woehler entered the house, but it was
not touched. The only thing missing
was the tin box in which Knnncth kept
his papers, and which was always be-
meath his bed. After securing this the
assassins left at once. The bloody
tracks of their feet were plainly to be
discerned upon the front steps of the
house and along the garden walk to
the gate, and there they separated,
going in opposite directions. They
could be traced only short distance
from the gate. There is at the present
time no clew to the mnrderers