Year: 1877

PROSPECTIVE nEoPENIN0 OF THE CAsE-oTHEn


WITNESSES TO BE HAD-wELsPIELs susPI-


cIoUs CONNECTION.


Among the people OF Staten Island the interest In
the mystery surrounding the death Of the unfortunate
Katie Riedel has not yet begun to The case
still the chief topic Of discussion, and the popu
lar feeling strongly inclined to regard Wespio the
paramour OF the deceased, directly connected with
her DEATH Dissatisfaction with sc result OF the inquest
is universal and all sides Is demanded that tho
investigation shall be rcopened and that the wit
nesses found by the HERALD be carefully questioned
to their knowledge OF affair." wcspcl in his exam-
nation mentioned the names Of nurses and other per-
sons baving knowledge the dead girl and her actons
and many OF tho jurors are loud in condemning the
officials for not having summoned them. "It's too
bad" Indignantly exclame aged resident OF
Quarantine yesterday that are to have our Island
used as a sort OF dead house by New Yorkers II we
are to the shame trouble and expense OF dispos
ing of all the drowned aud poisoned from the mo-
tropos then | am going 10 move"


Coroner dempsey states that he is ready to comply
with the popular wish and reopen the nques: II sne
his cstlmate or tho now testimony differs very
much from that OF other people, he Will
90 on with tho investigation without loss OF
time That the interest tho matter has been
by no confined 10 this portion OF the country IS
shown by the letters received every DAY from distant
cities asking for particulars about the deceased and
suggesting points the consideration Of tho officials
Last nght h letter was received from lady 10 St.
LOUIS asking photograph OF the deceased ana OK.
pre- sing the fear that II was one In whom she was IN
terested Tho letter written before the dead girls
Identification was published


LOOKING UP wIryEssEs


Chief OF Police Blake, Of Staten Island. spent yes.
persons supposed to have knowledge Of the and
IL probable that when he shall have discovered tho
nese he viii With Coroner Dempsey and have
the entre investigation rcopencd One OF tho persons
for whom the Chief Is said TO be looking is the young
mn .Iohn n
tho father OF Kalics two children.


Tho testimony OF such employers OF the dead girl as
examined and diligent inquiry among the
others fails to show that shc was intimate with any
other man than wespel Hc however, sworc that
she told him the father OF her two children was this
John Bass iresco painter, of this city.
careful consideration of the case leads TO tho
Nobody. far Is known, ever met that young
man. Even Wclspie himself does not claim to have
him In the flesh, and thorough search through
the city failed to reveal any who knew him. A
strong evidence OF his Imaginary character Is that the
sp,cl and when Of them put to with the
Wohlbachs he went across town almost every day 10
sec meet its mother. How likely Wespicl would
be Tor another mans cbild may be inferred from
the testimony OF the dead girls parents. that he
repeatedly declared that nobody should have Katie
but he; that he would poison any man to whom she
showed any friendship Whatever and that he used in
sly way to ask the persons with whom she lived II
sae had any visitors. SO far as known. she never
any him. There scoms, then, to be other
IN the Whoever killed the girl must have had
nd no S r na ne no
the two most common Incentives TO crime lacking
When Katie lett Mrs. Phelps employment Wclspel
he had quarrel with her. He says he accused her
dizziness leaving many situations and threatened
TO send her her parents she did not retain
tho he should procure for her. She CRIED he
says and promised to do better. Then she went 10
live with him in his In Eldrldge street. She had
money, no prospect OF employment ana her condi-
ton mado itself more visible every day.


wELspIEi's POVERTY.


Welspiel owed her a considerable sum of money
which She lent him several years ago to bring himself
aud family Cd from Boston, and this she probably
dernanded as she did once before, when similarly
situated. Welsp,el could not pay her, for he
earning only triae each week him.
self The evidence shows that about that
time he had begun TO visit his wife frequently. Ho
visited after leaving the deceased for the last time
and again tho following morning 1t would appear
that ho to live with her again, and since
his discharge by tho Coroner they have been living
Persons VINO talked with Mrs. Welspie before the
death Katie agree saying that shc complained or
the harsh treatment OF her husband yet upon the
witness stand he had always treated her
well aud that they had quarrelled. Some per-
sons think that If Welspiel knows any more than no
has told about the death of Katie Redc his vile shares
the knowledge with him. II the couple wanted TO


live together and money scarce II would be desra
bic got rid OF the pennilcss, vain and restve girl
likely TO bo comparatively helpless for long time