The Delta independent., 1894-01-10

rious. KunkeI was placed in York jail
until the necessary papers could be OBJ
tained, and then was removed to Balti-
more for trial.
''He was in prison there ten months
before his trial came on, and during all
that time his mind remained in such Il
state that he couldn't be induced to
give any account of his movements
after leaving baltimore, and his coun-
sci and friends had nothing to rely on
for their case but his good character.
This was Of no avail, and Paul Kunlsel
was convictednpf the murder of Mrs.
Cooper and Sentenced to be hanged the
following September, on a day which
proved to be the anniversary of the
murder. Executive clemency could
not be obtained, although the bishor
of the diocese earnestly interested him
self in the condemned mans behalf, rs
did many prominent and influential
persons, among them the late Judge
Jeremiah S. Black All hope was gone
for the unfortunate man, but not until
eight days before the day his sentence
was to have been executed did he
show that he appreciated or under
stood his awful situation. On that
day Kunkefs counsel was surprised to
receive a message from the prisoner
asking for an immediate interview.
The counsel on entering Paul's cell
saw that a remarkable change had
come over him His mind had cleared.
and for the first time he seemed TO
realize his peril. For the first time.
also, he was able to give his counsel
connected statement of his movements
from the time he left Baltimore. He
described Winter minutely, and salts
fled his lawyer at once that he was the
victim OF o heartless scheme of the real
murderer. Detectives were Immediately
set to work searching for Winter, but
no trace of him could be found. A res
pite was granted Kunkel, TO give the
officers more time
Winter. having been unable to force
the silver snuff box on KunLcl or his
family, took it with him when he left
his victims house. a week or so after
that stranger appeared in Ashland
and secured work in n blacks mith shop
there. He gave Winter as his name. 1t
happened that another workman in the
shop had only recently removed TO Ash
land from Buffalo. He was sub
scriber TO n Baltimore newspaper. and
when the Kunkel murder trial came up
he was interested in it, and, at Winters
request, read the accounts 6 the trial
to him, Winter being unable 70 read
English. When the man read how
kunkel had been seen coming away
from the vicinity OF the spot where the
murdered woman's body had been
found, and how the tell-tale umbrella
and shoes had been found in Kunkcl's
hppSa Winter rlyai .b,. tho.
evidence to hang any man. and that he
hoped kunliel would hang. On the eve
of the hanging, when Winters fellow
workman read him the story that KIM
kel had finally been able TO tell, al
though Winter had not changed his ap.
pearance from what il was as Kunkel
described him, the workman did not
suspect that he and the man Kunkel
described were one and the same. 1t
was not until three days aftcrward tina,
the truth WINS flashed upon his mind in
an instant He was talking with Winter
about the strange case. when the Ger
man took n pinch OF snuff from his box.
as he had often done before in the shop.
and offered his fellow workman
pinch Then the man noticed that the
box was n handsome silver one, and
graved the word Cooper That in
slant he knew the murderer stood be-
fore him and had been with him for
nearly n year. He dropped the box.
and the gaze of horror he turned on
Winter told the latter tina. he had been
discovered. He made u dash for the
door of the shop, but the workman
seized him before he could get out and
IL a.
Winter was secured, and the Maryland
authorities. who had failed to get any
trail of him, informed of his capture.
He was taken to Baltimore, where /:
came out for the first time tha; he was
Conrad Winter. who had been SEN
fenced to the peni;cntiary seven years
before for horse and sheep stealing.
He was tried and convicted ana on the
scaffold he confessed.
On his trial for sheep stealing
he had insisted that he had been
forced to the crime by his mis-
tress. Mrs. Goodwin. whom. he being
bound to her, he supposed he was
obliged to obey in everything In his
confession to the Cooper murder he
said that while he was in the peniten-
tinry he had made VOW to have ven-
gcnnce on Mrs. Goodwin as soon rs his
term was out On being discharged he
went straight for Mrs. Goodwin's On
his way he overlook Mrs. Cooper walk
ing home from the village. He thought
she was Mrs. Goodwin. He sneaked up
behind her and smashed her head in
with heavy stone Dragging her to
the roadside he saw that she was not
Mrs Goodwin. He took the things she
had and covered her with brush. He
slept in the woods near by, and next
day. when he saw Kunkcl, he conceived
the idea of casting suspicion on him as
the murderer, and palmed her property
off on him with that end in vicw. He
said he always intended to dispose Of
the snuff box, but for some reason