The Washington times., 1921-05-24
BOY SAYS HE SAW
FATHER MURDER
ENTIRE FAMILY.
Connecticut Farmer to Be Tried
for Four Killings With Sons
As State Witnesses.

MIDDLETOwN. Conn. May e.
When Emil Schultz, the nfty-hres-
year-old German storekeeper Of Shall
erville, faces a jury charged with the
murder of Joseph Ball and his wife
and their son Joseph, and Dennis Le
Due. a farmland employed by Schultz.
two sons of the accused man will be
the principal witnesses against him.
Gus. the twelve-year-old son. says
he saw the murdered body of lie Due
in his fathers mill on April 20. and
julius, now twenty years old, saw his
father make preparations to burn the
house OF the Ball family.
1t was in December. 1915, the Balls
were murdered and julius was only
fourteen years old then and did not
dare tell what he knew.
1t was only when Schultz tried 10
kill the boys mother last week that
both Gus and julius told their stories
to Capt. Robert T. Hurley. of the
State police.
CREMATED BODY.
After Schultz had killed lie Due and
had allowed the body to remain hidden
for three days in his mill, he removed
it to the woods and cremated 1t.
Schutte's bad temper which i'm
PEELED him to quarrel with his neigh
bors and to try to boss" everyone
is what caused him to quarrel with
the Ball family and later with lie Due
and which ultimately led to. the kill
ing of these persons.
Schultz has been for years a stern
fgure in Shailerville, which is in the
town of Haddam, Middlesex county.
Short, squat stolid and domino ting -
so the people OF the village describe
him. He Is held prisoner in the
county Jail at Middletown in default
of $4,000 bail.
1t is believed that the farm hand
was murdered in his room on the
afternoon of April 20 and that his
body was removed that night.
Someone dragged the body to the
woods back of Schutte's house, cut a
mass Of bushes and underbrush, piled
i. on top of the body and then set fire
10 it. The pelvic bone had been sawed
or cut with some crude instrument
| like an axe. The skull was some dis
lance away from the rest of the
skeleton.
The only motive that could have
prompted anyone killing lie Due, so
far as is known, is that OF robbery.
He was a thrifty French-Canadian
sixty-seven years old. and kept his
savings under the pillow in his bed
room.
The deaths Of the Ball family in
1915 occurred shortly after Schultz
had been convicted of selling sugar at
| extortionate prices in his general
| store. The burned bodies OF Mr.. and
| Mrs. Ball and their son were found in
! the ruins of their home on the morn
ing after it was destroyed by Are.
SAYS FATHER KILLED BALLS.
Julius Schultz said that on the
night in question his father reused
| him from bed and ordered him to
! dress and follow him. The father
handed his son a shotgun and carried
another himself. Outside the house
the father picked up a can Of kero-
sene and Il bag OF shavings.
According to his son, his father led
him to the house OF the Ball family
and stared a fire a each end OF the
house. The son says the father told
him to take position twenty-five
feet from the front door OF the house
and to shoot to kill IL any member of
the Ball family came out OF the house
The son asserts that his father
stood near the door and shot father
mother, and son as they tried to es-
cape from their burning home.
Then, according to the sons story.
his father placed the bodies in a pile
in the front room OF the house and
watched while the flames consumed
them. Their bodies. were found on
the floor, and IL was never discovered
that they had been shot.
julius said that the scene had
haunted him day and night Shortly
after the crime he enlisted in the
navy, serving four years and being
mustered out on May 8, 1919.