The sun., 1897-11-18
STEIGER'S PAL CAPTURED.
SAID TO NAVE HELPED MURDER
BELLRING ER STELZ

was with stciEer. Toe. the Poiicc say, when
Hc KILLED Policeman smith In This city
The Arrest BrouEht About by Atoel
Pigeon - Dutch Pete the Now Prisoner.
Peter Deistel, or Dutch Pete, who hns
been implicated In tho murder OF Bclringer
Stelz in Williamsburg by the confess
sion OF Fritz Meyer, or Stclgcr. tho
convicted slayer OF Policeman Smith of this
city. was arrested last night by Detective scr.
goants Reap. Holland and Sam Pricc of Capt.
McCluskys staff, and locked NJ at Police Head.
quarters.
He was found at 304 East Eighty.third street,
where he had gono to housekeeping with .
young woman. recently nurse in the POST
Graduate Hospital. whom he married week
ago.
Besides Dutch Pete the detectives also
brought to Headquarters Mary Muller,
Louis Schmidt, alias Cock Eyed Louis;
Frank Smith. who says he lives Mt All
East Sixth street, and Julius Burlnger, a
jewelry storekoepcr, 253 BoNcry.
All OF these are held rs witnesses at present,
although 1t is possible that one or two OF them
may have to face some charges hereafter in con-
nection with either Of the murders or with tho
abduction of Brewer Ochs in which It Is quito
sure Stciger was the principal.
The work that led to Dutch Petc's arrest was
begun while Stegcr was locked up In tho
Tombs awaiting trial. A man who was await
ing trinl in the Tombs prison for larceny was
used as stoolpigcon and was locked up In the
cell with Steigcr. lie gained Siciger's con-
fidence and assured him that, ns he
expected to get out almost any day, he would do
all that he could to help him to get free also.
Under these circumstances Stegcr told him all
about the murders both in Williamsburg and
here. Steiger said that ho had been discharged
from Auburn prison on July %, and shortly
after that went to live with Dutch Pete and
Mary Muller at 343 Fifth street. ThOday before
the murder in Williamsburg he and Pete went
over there to look over the ground. Tho next
day they robbed the church and killed Stelz.
The sexton came to ring tho bell while the
robbers were at work and they killed him. They
took his watch and what little money ho had .
and came to New York. Steigcr kept the watch
for more than month, and then gave it to Kate
Landers to pawn. She is n bedmaker at the
| lodg ng house at 121 Orchard street.
Steiger told the stoolpigeon how ho md Pete
went to rob the Church Of the Most Holy Re.
deemcr of this city and of the killing Of Police.
man Smith When he thought the stoolpigeon
| was about to leave the Tombs, Steiger said to
| him:
| my family live at 1876 Scholes street. Brook
| lyn. Don't speak to my wife. but sec my daugh-
! ter Louise and afterward go to see Mr.. Bruins,
| the barber who lives down stairs. Tell them not
| to identify meS'
He also asked the man to get him some NOR
/ phine pills so that he could commit suicide.
The stoolpigeon was not discharged in court
that day, and when he got back to the cell he
gave Steiger half dozen cathartic pills, which
he assured him were morphine. Tho next time
he was taken to court. Steiger gave him letter
to Mary Muller. In which. after asking her for
some clothing. he begged her also to send him
some morphine pills concealed in cake. The
man was sent back again and declared that he
had destroyed the letter. although 1t had beer
The third time he went out Stciger wrote a
second letter. which shared the same fate. In
the Steiz crime upon him. He. acknowledged
that he was guilty but begged Mary Muller tt
gether that night somewhere else. In the thirt
letter he introduced tho stoolpigcon to her as 4
a tod hsf to Put Se h hn IN
''T The TO fourth % letter M % was "a addrosscd % ITO th
Honorable Judge" and purported to be con
murder Of Stelz and begged the Judge not to le
an innocent man tSteiRerl suffer for It. AS !
derer. Steiger drew Il line about his own pecu
sry nmSd Ain hand making GSnr on sn
last THURSDAY Detective Price took The SECOND
hdd sad jail ah se S Rf To
Muller with them. she was deceived,
| She gave Price the clothing asked for and
made an appointment for him to meet Pete
| That day, Capt. McClusky says one of the Brook
lyn police went to the house inquiring for Pete
Pete came to tho house TINT night, and. hearing
Of this inquiry for him, packed up his thing
and skipped.
Schmidt. on hearing that Steiger wanted poison
went out and bought a box OF paris green. whicl
he gave to Price to be taken to Steiger. Th
poison is now at Police Headquarters
Price spent two or three days with Schmid
off and on. and last night Schmidt told wher'
Dutch Pete WINS to be found. At o'clock th
detectives went to his house and arrested him
Then it was that they found that he was
newly married man. He married weel
ago In ST. Josephs Catholic Church to Glare
Weiss, who, Capt. McClusky says, knew nothing
OF his bad record
After he was arrested the detectives went +,
2O4 Allen street, to which place Mary Muller
and Louis Schmidt had removed, and there the,
found her and Schmidt. Frnnk Smith. and Bur
linger. In Schmidts pockets they found skele
ton keys jimmy. n glass cutter, and some small
butcher knives, ard in his room we're more keys
and a small baseball bat was under the pillow
of the bed.
The former Tombs prisoner who betrayet
Steiger Is supposed to be Isaac scott, and 81,
pills which he had in his possession when h,
went to visit Steiger few days ago were sen
to Chemist Marten Of the Health Board yester
day for analysis.