Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-01-12

ing of her husband with Winter, be-
cause he had told her nothing about it,
and, in explaining the presence of the
shoes and other things in the house,
she, in her terror and confusion, made
her story contradictory and myste-
rious. Kunkel was placed in York jail
until the necessary papers could be OBJ
tanned, and then was removed to Balti.
more for trial
she was in prison there ten months
before his trial came on, and during all
that time his mind remained in such a
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 Kunkel
was convicted of the murder of Mrs.
Cooper and sentenced to be hanged the
following September, on day which
proved to be the anniversary of the
murder Executive clemency could
not be obtained, although the bishop
of the diocese earnestly interested him
self in the condemned mans behalf, as
did many prominent and influential
persons, among them the late Judge
Jeremiah $. Black. All hope was gone
for the unfortunate man, but not until
eight days%efore the day his sentence
was to have been executed did he
show that he appreciated or under
stood his awful situation. On that
day Kunkels counsel was surprised to
receive message from the prisoner
asking for an immediate interview.
The counsel on entering Pauls cell
saw that 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 a
connected statement of his movements
from the time he left Baltimore. He
described Winter infinitely, and salts
fed his lawyer at once that he was the
victim of q 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 Kunkel 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 blacks NTH shop
there. lie 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 Baltimore newspaper, and
when the Kunkel murder trial came up
he was interested in it, and, at Winters
request, read the accounts of the trial
to him, Winter being unable to 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 Kunkels
house, Winter remarked that that was
evidence to hang any man, and that he
hoped Kunlkel would hang On the eve
of the hanging, when Winters fellow
workman read him the story that Kun.
KEEL had finally been able to tell, al.
though Winter had not changed his APP
pearance from what it was as Kunkel
described him, the workman did no,
! suspect that he and the man Kunkel
described were one and the same. II
was not until three days afterward that
the truth was flashed upon his mind in
an instant. He was talking with Winter
| about the strange case, when the Ger
man took pinch of snuff from his box,
as he had often done before in the shop
and offered HIS fellow workman 6
pinch Then the man noticed that the
box was a handsome silver one, anC
that on the inside of the lid was en-
graved the word Cooper That in
slant he knew the murderer stood be
fore him and had been with him fol
nearly year. He dropped the box
Winter told the latter that he had beer
discovered. He made dash for the
door Of the shop, but the workman
seized him before he could get out and
shouted for some one to get an officer
Winter was secured, and the Maryland
authorities, who had failed to get any
trail of him, informea-ef his capture
He was taken to Baltimore, where i
came out for the first time that he wa!
Conrad Winter, who had been sen
fenced to the penitentiary seven year
before for horse and sheep stealing
He was tried and convicted and on tn,
scaffold he confessed
ION his trial for sheep stealth,
he had insisted that he had beef
forced to the crime by his mis-
tress, Mrs. Goodwin, whom, he bein,
bound to her, he supposed he wa
obliged to obey in everything. In hi
confession to the Cooper murder h
said that while he was in the peniten
tiary he had made VOW to have ven
geance on Mrs Goodwin as soon as hi
term was out, On being discharged h
went straight for Mrs. Goodwins. O
his way he overlook Mrs Cooper walk
ing home from the village. He though
she was Mrs. Goodwin He sneaked u
behind her and smashed her head i
with a heavy stone. Dragging her t
the roadside he saw that she was no
Mrs. Goodwin. He took the things sh
had and covered her with brush. H
slept in the woods near by, and mex
day, when he saw Kunkel, he conceive
the idea of casting suspicion on him a
the murderer, and palmed her propert
off on him with that end in view. II
said he always intended to dispose {
the snuff box, but for some reaso
could never make up his mind to do
) after falling to get Kunkel to take i
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