The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-10
Hartmann
LAN|QA[)Y.
RELATES
PLANT
Testifies Butcher Always Sold
Her Lean Meat, Cheap
and Tasty
By S. d. WEYER,
International News Service.

COURT ROOM, HANOVER,
Dec. 10.-A butcher shop where
Fritz Hartmann, the meat vendor,
practiced his grisly trade upon
human beings was the picture
which took form today before
judge and jury in the trial of the
vulture murderer.
This horrible phase Of Haar-
mann's years-long experience as
a killer for pleasure and gain had
been indicated in previous testi-
mony, despite the pre-trial an
nouncement that the prosecution
intended to delete some of the
more CHASTITY aspects of his dis
position of the bodies of hiF
twenty-seven victims.
Meat Always Lean
Frau Engel. the mild-mannered
little landlady, who testified she
knew nothing of the murder shop
Haarmann made of his little attic
room, was the prosecutions star
witness today.
She told how Haarmann had sold
her as much as thirty-five pounds
of meat weekly.
1T was always the same size
always lean pieces" she testified.
She got steady supply of meat
from her lodger, and told how she
also purchased clothes from him,
always at the cheapest prices.
Made Sausages There.
Haarmann came into Frau Engel's
kitchen and asked her to put water
on to boil. she said. He then went
upstairs and returned soon with q
pot containing meat, already cut
into cubes. He poured these into
the big pot for cooking.
He also made sausages in the
Engel kitchen, she said.
Frau Engel testified that she
thought it was horse meat or pork.
She said it tasted good.
Frau Engel complained of public
feeling against her. She testified
that the mother of one of Haar-
mann's victims cried at her:
You murderess! You ate my boy"
Rats Over-ran House.
The Engel woman is an enigma
to police. She has peen watched by
corps of clever detectives for
months, in vain attempt to get
her to admit knowledge of Haar-
mann's murders. During the year
that Haarmann was tenant in
her home, Frau Engel worked as
scrub woman at the police station.
She said she never saw blood
stains in his room, or noticed any
thing suspicious. The house was
200 years old, she testified. but had
never had rats until Haarmann
came, when it was over-run with
them.
Neighbors testified that attempts
to interest police in the hacking
noises in Haarmann's room were
futile.
Two girls testified they saw the
body of a boy lying on Haarmann's
bed with its face to the wall.
A youth, who was placed on the
stand as witness against Haar
mann, said that Grams. Haarmann's
alleged accomplice. had tried to per-
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mann's attic, and that he had had
n "hunch' and refused.
This statement annoyed Haar-
mann. and, rising, the killer shout.
ed Grams knew my taste, and
am sure he wouldn't have brought
this youth to me. / never took
youth over twenty, and this one lie
at least twenty-four."
George WHEEL, the father of one
of Haarmann's alleged victims, then
confronted Hartmann. AS Witzell
took the stand the Judge turned to
the police and said:
"As soon as you see this man or
wife raise a hand against the pris.
oner, you must stop them"
Witzell identified a skull as be.
ing that Of his son, saying he recog-
nized the teeth.
A woman living below Haarmann
said Haarmann's hacking crumbled
her ceiling.
Edgar Allan Poe would have