Year: 1876

saw such sight in all my life In trunk which was
locked and nailed and il took considerable strength
and an axe to open IT, found the and legs In
small boiler We found the trunk OF the body, divided
and skinned and the entrails taken out Quicklime
was placed among the remains to destroy them moro
readily There was blood the floor which had been
secured and scrubbed for the purpose OF removing all
traces OF the tragedy Not soul either up stairs or
next door heard any disturbance the house on Thurs
day night, when the murder committed A dress.
which belonged to Mrs Fuchs, and which had been
washed was found TO have been stained with blood
before had been submitted to the process OF soap and
water. Well the woman admitted that she had washed
the floor in compliance with her husbands COM
mands You sec, he in the habit OF making
some three kinds OF liquor-strong medium and mild
The treated his friends TO- the second the prs-
drank himself and the mild the wife partook or
When Simmons called there on Thursday night he
drank the strong stuff and became stupid from its
effects The little daughter of this woman saw the
whole thing She says her father cat his neck with
hachet and then cut him up The girl stepchild OF
Fuchs. He has been married three or four times.
Mrs. Fuchs is as homey stone fence, and as
fellow said, 'one would suppose a
would as lief be cut up as 20 after her. The
child was only alarmed for fear that her mother
would be harmed in any way. She will make good
witness When the prisoner reached the station house
he took out his knife and his right hand across tho
back twice. rubbing the blood which came from the
against the front OF his pants Stop; what are you
doing that forr exclaimed the Inspector 'why
don't you wrap it upT But the fellow paid atten-
tion till compelled to do The Inspector then
covered that Fuchs really trying to obliterae
old blood stain which was on his pants by covering it
with the blood from the cut He did not acknowledge
the murder till he confronted with the fact that
the body belonging to the head had found his
house. TheE he owned up and said he had caught
Fuchs In criminal intercourse with his wife and cut him
with the Ratchet But the worst thing fellows
yet Is that all the time 'the COON the station
house on Saturday night, telling where Simmons
was gong-to Greenpointhe actually had in his vest
pocket the silver watch and chain of the murdered
man. That it is the watch Simmons there
be doubt II has identified by the foreman
of the shop where he worked and by the people who
boarded where he did. The girl says Fuchs took So
and some cents from Simmons when he killed him.
The prisoners will all be taken before Superintendent
Campbell this morning. copy of the Brookyner
Presse, similar to the one in which sthe head
wrapped when found, was got in Fuchs house.
don't think Simmons had very much money about him
that night"


TIE PoRExAN's STATEMENT.


Mr.. David O'Connell, the foreman OF Jones &
Henry's axle factory says that Friday morning he





O'Clock. Fuchs hand and asked If he should
light the fires at the forge Simmons had not come
yet and he did not believe he would. In reply TO the
question to whether ne had Simmons on Thurs
day night he said, No; he goes to Greenpont TO
some womans." Fuchs then sent to Mr.. Bucks to
find out il Simmons had left the house. and he actually
called there inquired for him and returned with the
formation that he had not been at home for the night
So the fires not lighted and work done at
the forge for the day.


| WHAT THE POLICE INSPECTOR SAYS.


Inspector waddy says he does place the slightest
reliance upon the statement OF Andreas Fuchs with
gard 10 the condition In which the prisoner said he
found his wife when he entered the room Thursday
night The Inspector believes the story of the little
girl who sat in the and witnessed the buchery.
She says that the deceased, the prisoner and the
woman, her mother, all under the influence
Of liquor when the two quarrelled. Deceased
fell of his chair finally insensbe and while PROSTATE
Fuchs assaulted him with the hatchet, cutting him
on the neck They had had quarrel some time pre-
vous to this and they not amicaby disposed tow
ard each other when they met Thursday night.
The child said, when asked why she did not tell
about what she had witnessed BEFORE that she did
want her mother TO be arrested, they told her she
would be II anybody heard what had happened