The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-03
SACHS HAS BEEN ARRESTED
ACCUSED OF MURDERING GAME
 KEEPER HOTCHKISS.

raigned Before Justice Lane Charged
 With Murder in the First Degree
 Pleaded Not Guilty-He is Held Without
 BniI-Sachs Refuses to Talk.
 Killingworth, Conn.,, Sept. 2.-Her- man Sachs was arrested at his home
 here tonight, charged with the mur-
 der of Bertrand l.. Hotchkiss last Fri
 day night. The arrest was made by
 Sheriff Brown, Deputy Sheriff Scoville
 and Detective Herbert w. Bearce of the
 Pinkerton force of New York.
 The suspected man was at once
 brought before Justice Harvey Lane or
 Killingworth, charged with murder Tn
 the first degree. He pleaded not guilty
 and was held without bail until next
 Saturday, when he will be given pre-
 liminary hearing, to take place at the
 Killingworth town hall at 10 o'clock in the morning.
 Sachs was at once taken to the Had dam jail, where the party arrived shortly before midnight. Sachs took
 his arrest very coolly, and absolutely refuses to speak on the matter.
 Since the night that MT. Hotchkiss was killed at his home by some un- known person firing at him through window suspicion has been directed to- wards Sachs, and, while he has been under constant surveillance, the au- thorities did not intend to arrest him
 until more was known. In view of de- velopments which came to light to-day. but which Sheriff Brown says he is un- willing to divulge at present, it was
 decided to arrest him without further delay. Sheriff Brown states that he considers he has a very good case.
 The supposed murderer has not yet
 reached his majority, being only twen- ty years old last May. He was born in Germany and came to this country when but twelve years of age. He came to Killingworth from New York last October, and it is said that he was last employed as a bartender in New York.
 He had been employed by MT. Hotch- kiss for several months, but he showed
 such decided infatuation for Mrs. Hotchkiss that when she called her hus- bands attention to it he decided to dis pense with his services. Sachs, how ever, secured work on farm adjoining Hotchkiss' and endeavored at every opportunity that presented itself when the husband was away to renew his attentions He is said to be not par ticularly intelligent.
 Middletown, Sept. 2.-Curiosity con- tinues to attract many visitors to the Killingworth farm house where Ber- trand L. Hotchkiss met tragic death at the hand of an assassin last Friday night.
 Mrs. Hotchkiss has since had hardly a moment when she was not under
 questioning by visitors. The reporters had hardly obtained their story when the officers of the law began their in- vestigation, and since then the resi- dents for miles around have been call ing at the house for later particulars of the story which they have read in the newspapers or heard from others. reporter of the Associated Press visited the scene of the tragedy Wed nesday afternoon, and half mile north of the Hotchkiss farm met Sheriff
 Brown, Deputy Sheriff Scoville of East Haddam and Herbert w. Bearce, who is understood to be the superintendent of the New York department of the Pinkerton detective agency. None of | them had any information to reveal. At the Hotchkiss house a number of ympathizing neighbors were found
 with Mrs. Hotchkiss. The latter was certainly as self-contained as any of the party. There has been no time since the death of her husband when
 she has given away to excessive grief. She talked freely of the crime and of her husbands former hired man, Sachs, the young German, who has been ar rested. She was not severe against him, and, in fact, remarked that she
 ought not to speak harshly of him as
 he might not be guilty. She admitted
 that she had resented attentions paid
 her by Sachs during the absence of her
 husband and said she had always
 snapped him up" when he loitered about the kitchen and tried to fool with her or to playfully lay his hands on her.
 He had left the room and gone about his business, when told to do so, until about month before the tragedy, when
 he became bolder. Mrs. Hotchkiss then complained to her husband, and Sachs was told to keep away from the house altogether. He was dismissed from his employment there.
 Mrs. Hotchkiss is blonde of medium height, and slight figure. Her eyes are deep blue. She is rather attractive in appearance, and especially so when she
 smiles, as she frequently did during the talk with the reporter. She seems pos
 sessed of remarkable self-possession. She announces her intention of remain ing on the farm to care for herself and two little daughters.
 When Sachs was asked to show to the officers his shot gun, he produced an old weapon, which, it was evident, had not been fired for a long time. It was afterward disclosed that he had traded a cornet and watch for bet ter gun. A day or two ago he produced this second gun from the attic of his masters house. It Is a 12-bore weapon, and Sachs insisted that he has never used it for any other purpose than to shoot woodchucks.
 Mrs. Hotchkiss said to a reporter Wednesday that she intended to re- main on the place where her husband
 was killed, and try to take care of her | self and her children. She felt sure that she could not get much for the place If 1t was offered for sale. and if rAf n