The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-04-29


OF Che woman wa3 sa. 40 tna umo Ie
was about 3D. years oid with thtussi.-
nuca of her brother reter Gulan. La.us
searched the country fuaud wide for her.
but Co no avail
The next event was when he WINS caurNr
with Johnny Irwin i'm the cigar store Oi
Portuonda q Co. at Broad and Chestuu.,
in November 1873, and was sent t. prisol
for three years and nine months. TAs
sentence was Immediately followed by tNo
years for robbing houses in Roadin-, an
again, on Aug . 1886, he was given six
! years for another burglary His last SEN
| tence was ten months, imposed or Jun"
%, 1892, for robbery and after his rcleu
| on April 22 1893, he was lost sight of un-
| til he gave himself up to Coroner Ash
bridge.
AT the time Of her disappearance the
woman wore a pair of diamond earrings,
| diamond finger RIG, a gold wedding ring
given to her by Logue, bearing the inscrip-
| tim 81. l.. to j. L.. and a gold watch and
chain The weddingring was found upon
the finger of the skeleton. In the bosom
of her dress at the time were four $1,000
/ government DOn Is. When tn2y moved to
the Eleventh street house in 1879 Logur
/ secreted seven of these bonds under the
carpet of the stairway, telling no one but
| Sutaiar where thcy were. When he re.
| turned from New York he found that Gu
| taiar had stolen one of the bonds and sold
it to Drexels for ST. 045. OF this money he
| gave 81, 600 to Sallie f. Camp, who after
| wards became his wife, but upon Logue's
/ threats he got the money back and re-
turned 1t to him. Cutaiar and his wife
| lived at the house for year after Johan-
mas disappearance, when the foul odor
| coming from the boards of the kitchen
made the woman so sick that they were
compelled to move away. After that the
| house had numerous tenants up to the
time of the discovery
| The warrant for Cutaiar's arrest was
sworn out by Logue on April of this year,
| and six days later he was taken into Gus
| tOdy. Then search was made for Eckert, the
iourneyman, and he was found at work in
a New York barber shop.
Fricke was found in Philadelphia, and
then came another startling feature. He
is a nervous, excitahleyoung German, and
had always been a tri1e unsteady in
mind, but when he found himself in
| volved in the story his mind b"rHme un-
hinged, and it became necessary 90 send
him to the insane department. of the Phih
delphia hospital. After he had been sent
there it was found that, by some strang'
fate, the superintendent of the very ward l..
| which he was lodged was none other than
| AlphOnsO Cutaiar, Sr., father of the ac-
cused murderer and Fricke was hastily
transferred to another ward.
After Cutaiar's arrest several attempts
were made to eXtOrt a confession from
him, and he narrated a number of detailed
stories of the crime, naming Logue as the
perpetrator, but eventually he broke down,
and on April II he told the true story. He
said that when the woman signified her
intention of returning to New York she
was intoxicated, and he induced her to
wait until he could accompany her to the
station. He took her up stairs to the sec
ond story back room, and made her get
into bed, with her clothes on. Then, he
AYERS, to prevent her getting away before
he could go with her, he bound her hand
and foot This was at Z o'clock in the
evening. Four hours later he found hel
lying on her face, with her head under the
bolster, smothered to death in an evident
attempt to break her bonds. The next day
he buried the body under the kitchen floor
He admitted having taken her jewels, but
denied any knowledge of the $1,000 bond.
which she was said to have in her bosom.
The original story told by Logue was
borne out in every detail by the investi-
cations of the coroner and the detective
but they further found that Cutaiar haC
for years been pursuing a crooked career
His story of the woman being accidentally
smothered is generally discredited and il
is believed that he deliberately murdered
her.
The official inquest in the case will b,
held on We'd. .esday.