Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-06-18

farm house at the time of the af-
fair, Nhad a conversation with the
prisoner after his return from Mil
ford and that he told her the District
Attorney said it was a shame to keep
him away from his dead wife. That
he. was sorry, but was better off
Pauline Vert, of Long Branch,
was also there and related the same
in Substance, and that the defendant
said they quarrelled and That his
wife drank.
Mrs. Johanna Thoden was the
first person the prisoner addressed
on his arrival at Wohlfarth's on
Frilay, mistalIing her for n land
ltly. That after enquiring of Mrs.
Wohlfarth if he could stay, his wife
Mrs. Smith as she was known then
came up and said, what the HI are
you doing here. He replied that Is
a Iics way TO talk.
The same evening, Lizzie Smith
came in and said in his pressnco,
that is my intended husband, to
which he made no reply She
looked scared. Next morning at
breakfast time she told me man
was after her but she did not want
him. That witness tened her about
it. That she saw them together at
dinner time Saturday, and that dur
ing the day the woman was around
doing her work as usual On Sunday
she saw them take supper together
Did not see the woman alive again.
When Schultz came back from Nil.
ford he said he had come to the
conclusion it was the best thing she
could have done, he never got along
with her and she was no good to him
anyway. This was also stated by
Mrs. Wohlfarth who further said
that Schultz told her he had no
money to buy a coffin or TO send
kilograms TO the boys, but that he
would go down to New York get
some money return and pay up
everything This was satisfactory
to her, but he did not come back he
was locked up
Charles Edmond Schultz a son of
the dead woman and the prisoner
said he lived at III Avenue B New
York and was 20 years of age. That
he had also passed by the name Of
Smith. He testified as TO the vari-
Gus places at which they had resided
in New York, that his father had
threatened to kill his mother several
times, had attempted to do so with
razor and had on various occasions
beat her with anything he could gel
in his hands. That he had said she
would die under his hands, that hi!
father had been locked up on vari
GUS occasions and that his mother
several times had pleaded for hin
and got him out. That in Septem
Der 1896 his father asked him for his
mothers address which he refused
to give him and he did not know how
he had obtained it. That after he
death the defendant came to hi
room on Thursday night and said III
had bad news for me, mother wa
dead, that she had an insane feeling
toward me. and that he wanted t.
shoot himself but Paul would not le
him.
Willie A. Schultz, younger son
related in subsistence the same a.
above as to the threats and beatings
Harry Steele who drove the de
fendant to Wohlfarth' s from Mil
ford after he was discharged, sal,
that in going up the turnpik
Schultz took out the pistol and sal,
this is the bloody revolver tina
killed my wife.
Testimony was here introduced a
to the burial of the body in tn
Woodtown cemetery on Tuesday af
ternoon, and also as to exhuming i
subsequently for the autopsy and t
identify it.
Sheriff Cortright identified tn
pistol as the one he received fror
cha New York authorities and state
) that when it came in his possessio
it had two loaded cartridges and
empty ones. John M. Krouch
detective swore that the pistol ha
empty and three loaded chambers
He got it when he arrested Schult
Sept. 20 last. 1t is a 32 calibr
double acting revolver.
George G. Lawyer described til
/ autopsy on the body, its decomposi
ton and the-tracing ands finding 0
the bullet under the scalp back c
and a little below the left car.
; DR.. E. B. Wenner also gave test
} mony as to manner of conductin
, the autopsy, location of wound an
: finding of bullet. Also said that
: his opinion death was instantaneoI
and that there was an immediai
z collapse of the muscular force. o
I cross examination he stated that Il