Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17

AS soon the door had closed and the
| husband wife were left alone Schwartz
exclaimed:
You fool, you have put rope around
Watts and my necki"
why, Harry, 1 had to tell something,
he knew so much. You can trust him.
anybody
The man walked back and forth n prev
to the most violent emotions, his wife try
ing vainly to quiet him. Suddenly he burst
out:
What did you do with that coat-tbe
one you cut the mask out of"
oh that's all right: it's in the wood
shed. under the whole woodpile."
They continued to talk for over an hour,
referring to the murder and robbery re.
peatedly and furnishing evidence enough
to establish beyond any question the guilt
of both Schwartz and Watt.
Meantime Watt had been arrested in Chi.
cago also charged with murder. and in sew.
eral examinations had shown signs Of
breaking down and confessing. but In each
instance had recovered himself and said
nothing. The evidence of Schwartz himself,
however, in the interview at the jail, taken
with the mass of other evidence that had
accumulated, was sufficient to secure the
conviction of, both men, who were con-
demned at the trial to life imprisonment in
the Joliet penitentlary. Watt has since
died but Schwartz at last accounts was
still in prison.
About year after the trial Schwartfs
Chicago wife died of consumption. On hsr
deathbed she made a full confession. She
said that her husbands mind had been In
famed by the constant reading Of sensa-
tional literature of the dhme-novel order:
and that under this evil influence he had
planned the robbery. believing that It would
be easy to ntimidate weak little man like
Nichols and escape with the money without
harming him. Nichols, however, had fought
like tiger up and down the car. and had
finally forced them to kill him. In the
fight he had torn of the mask that Mrs.
Schwartz had made out of one of her hus-
bands old coats. 1t was Watt who fired
Schwartz had given Watt 5000 of the
stolen money and had kept the rest him.
self. He had carried the money away in
an old satchel bought for the purpose.
A most unusual place of concealment had
been chosen. and one where the money had
escaped discovery. although on several oc-
casions, in searching the house, the dstec-
tives had literally held 1t In their hands.
Schwartz had taken a quantity Of the
cartridges he bought for his shotgun and
emptying them. had put In each shell one
of the $50 or 500 bills. upon which he had
then loaded in the powder and the shot
In the usual way, so that the shells present
the drawer The detectives had even picked
out some of the shot and powder in two or
three of the shells; but finding them so like
0tHer cartridges iiau never tItouSift OF PROD
ing clear to the bottom of the shell for a
crumpied-up bill.
Thus about $4,000 lay for weeks IN these
ordinary-looking cartridges, and was
finally removed in the following way:
While Schwartz was In jail a well-known
lawyer of Philadelphia came to Mrs.
Schwartz one day with an order from her
husband to deliver the money over to him.
She understood this was TO defray the ex-
penses of the trial and to pay the other
lawyers. Superintendent Robertson remem-
bers well the dying woman's emotion as she
made this solemn declaration- There was a $
flush on her face and her eyes were bright
with hatred as she declared that not one
dollar OF that money WAS ever returned to
her, or ever used in paying TIE costs Of her
husbands trial. Nor was one dollar Of Il
ever returned 10 the railroad company &c
to the bark of3eialSs wl5o were the RIAL