Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-03-10
STILL A MYSTERY.

STILL A MY SIEh1.
The findiug OF The dad body OF Wal
ierF Schulz lsst Sunday morning q
abort distance north of Spring Park, on
the Washington, Alexandria and Mount
Vernon Railroad, is still subject OF
considerable comment aud speculation.
MANY theories nave been advanced TO sx-
plain how the throat OF the dead mao
was cut, some tending 10 show IT was
case of suicide; others that
cold. blooded murder was committed.
There were virtually no new develop
nents 10 the case TO-DAY. The body OF
the dead man is still at Domaine Il Sons
undertaking establishment. The fact
that 1t has not so far been positively
identified, has tended to delay the
forwarding Of the remains.
Demaine g. Son today received dis
match from Ellen Dorothy, at Sioux
Utv The dispatch is 10 the form OF sn
affidavit setting forth that the sender is
q sister Of the deceased.
The Washington papers continue to
devote considerable space to the nndiDg
of the body, and theories substantially
those advanced at first, but which the
circumstances 10 connection with the
case fsil to substsntia,e, are suggested.
Most people, however, believe Schultz
was s victim OF foul play, but the per-
petralor or perpetrators are still unknown
TO the authorities.
Some Alexsudrians who viewed the
remains are positive In declaring
that they saw the deceased with some
strange men Oh Saturday afternoon. 1t
is also said that Schultz entered q store
aud endeavored to purchase can OF
baked beans at lower price then re-
tail rates. This would seem strange
considering the fact that he had money
and money orders 10 bis pockets at the
time.
All the movements, 80 far, toward ex-
planning the mystery have turned out 10
be cold trails, and an addition has been
made to the list of mysterious deaths
committed ia Alexandria.
Ohief Goods snd Officer Sampson,
this evening have been on the grounds
where Schuliz's body vas found, looking
for q knife or any instrument that might
have been used in the mans murder or
suicide. The suicide theory is now the
one most generally adopted.
1t ia said that Chief Goods has two
witnesses who will testify that at IL
O'Clock Saturday they were within tea
yards OF the spot where the uan's Dody
WAS found but that no body was there 81
that time; also that two railroad men
will testify that when they passed the
spot at 8 O'Clock Saturday they saw
dead body where Schultz's body was
found. If this is true it will show that
the man came to his death between noon
aud s o'clock on Saturday.
A little over three years ago George
N. Curtin was brutslly murdered and
his remains placed in the dock at the
foot of Fayeits alley. The perpetrators
of this horrid crime are still at large.
Nearly forty-fOur years ago a Young
soldier Was stabbed to death 10 the Wilkes
street tunnel. The murder was commit
ted between five and six o'clock on
bright summer evening. The party or
parties who committed the crime were
never identified. The victim wore new
clothes and there was every reason to
suppose be had enlisted in order to pro-
eure several hundred dollars bounty.
he hsd been lured into the tunnel,
where he was murdered and robbed.
A short time before this murder some
bends who hsd murdered q man placed
his dead body upon the track at the
western entrance to the tunnel. The
head of the corpse had been placed on
che rail and q passing train crushed 1t.
Many years sgO the dead body oil
man whose throat had been cut from
ear to ear was found on the Washington
road a short dis auce north of Alexsn-
dria. The remains were brought to the
Jail in this city, where 1t was viewed by
many people. The murderer was never
found.
Other revolving crimes the authors of
which were never known, have at times
been committed in this city and vicinity.
The lstest addition to mysterious muir
ders seems destined to prove 10 be equally
as impeDetiSble, sDd the murderer or
murderers may escape The penalty Of the
law aud remain unknown until that
great day of assizes when, we are told,
that which has been done 10 secret shall
be proclaimed upon the housetoPs.