Year: 1876




selves Each new item in the thrilling story turns the
mind aghast for II Is shocked hendish GOODNESS
Of the German murderer and butcher The story Of
the murder as II now stands Is II not the peer the
otng companion OF the most atrocious crime de-
sailed in the famous calis. cslebre.


The apparent unconcern with which Fuchs-or as
be calls himself Kretzregards the whole transaction
Is In its way much OF wonder the he dis
played in mutilaiing the remains Of his victim. The
story OF the method he adopted to destroy the evidence
Of his crime was not all told yesterday; for at
that time no thorough search had been made
search OF the apartments occupied by the Kretz
family revealed the fact that the murderer had sought
TO make away with part Of the by the baking
process az the body OF Parkman treated by DR..
Webster In the oven of the stove which the Dread
and meat of the family were cooked the detectives
found the lungs, heart and liver of simmons in par
TALLY charred condition. Dreaded with lime When
found the horrible frlzzlng and seething and
would have been baked hard and dry, so that
Eretz could easily have reduced 1t to had he
been discovered In the front crate OF the nre frag
mentsof bone were found, and these too, would
have lost their Identity, for when found they
sed heat


OF SIMMONS DISCOVERED


From Mrs. Kretz the wife OF the murderer the in.
formation was CLEANED that Kretz had gone out
with basket, supposed to be filled with the
With this Information the HERALD reporter went to
Kretz his cell and asked him where he had the
of the basket His answer to the plain ques.
tion very characteristics he made attempt to
deny that he had gone out twice. and finally told the
spot where he had disposed OF baskcfu of the dis
sected body of simmons Later he led the detectives
to the spot swamp whore he had dumped the
unwhoesome load, and while at the place seemed much
less concerned than the police who attendance
He frisked about, laughed, and as he smoked cigar
seemed as one whose interest far remote from the
bloody crime On the road to and from the swamp he
chai,ed, only once reverted the story of the
deed when he complained in a sententious way about
the family troubles he had experienced.


THE MURDERER's DOUBLE LrFE-


1t is always the when is suddenly brought
full in the public gaze that great many facts
developed which In the privacy OF quiet life
known to his most intimate friends 1t often happens
that the who his caresses his sympathy
and his support wholly ignorant Of that side OF his
character which It Is the object OF his life to keep
turned toward himself From tntimation had yester-
day II would appear that Kretz was such man. He,
like thousands of other gners, to this coun-
try bury the past aud begin life anew, hoping in
alias TO lose former self There hundreds like
him who keep within themselves their own secret his
tory, and Il is sometimes buried with them That
Kretz assumed an alias when he came to America is
already known. he was known 10 MS Wiio aud bis
fellow aborers as Fuchs and it was only yesterday
they were informed by the HERALp Of tho deception
which for four years had been practised upon them
During the time he has been using the assumed
certain little difficulties iransprcd and complications
seemed inevitable; but being Of great force OF
will and adept at assembling he parrled suspicion
and went on his way with clear road ahead. As he
had kin in America he could have had he so
wished been tred sentenced and hanged as Andreas
Fuchs broke the silence OF four years when he
was asked by tho HERALD reporter the question,
"what is your manner" Tor he replied, "Krciz-
KI.e tz"


A POSTAL "REMINISCENCES.


That he wished TO throw or the selfimposed mask is
evident; for after pronouncng his name he took oc-
caslon to spell ii out in order that there might
be no mistake about IT, The publication OF this
little incident awakened In the recollection Of Mr. Jacob
Schick, former employer Of Kretz, trivial crcum-
stance which for OF provocaton might never have
REQUIRED 10 him Trivial the incident seemed at
that time Is the pivot which may be turned
10 the public eye picture OF the past life Of Kretz
About three and half years ago, when Kretz
first began 10 work, he employed by
Mr schick, whose shop Graham ave-
Que, under the name OF Fuchs One morning
some months subsequent to his advent In the shop,
postman entered and asked # named Kreiz was
employed there. For some time there was no an
swer, and the letter carrier about leave when
Fuchs came forward and claimed the letter He
senced the curiosity Of his fellow workmen by some
plausible tale, and there the matter ended The letter
he received on that day from France. and often
during the subsequent months OF his employment with
Nr Schick he received letters in the same hand from
the same place, but all addressed "Fuchs"


Though Kretz was man OF convivial habits and
free drnker always ready TO do his share meeting
the expenses Of spree, there that about him
which repeIed the sympathy OF his fellow workers
HIS friends we're Of the shop, and good they took
10 leave the shop behind when work was over Be-
yond the precincts OF the shop very few OF the men
would so with Krctz, for his conduct seemed to them
20 Indicate that he deep man, who dangerous
n not treacherous


The letters which Kretz received from france were
Il is stated good authority, from his wife 50 that
he now appears in the double role Of murderer and
bgamist


II seems strange that be should have committed him.
self unqualiledy TO our reporters as all the ndca.
tons point TO the conclusion that he has always been
careful to destroy any evidence which might lead
identity. OF the many letters be is known have re-
ccived not found BY the police when they
searched his house Not even scrap Of paper was
discovered which would IN any way compromise him.


he seems to have always been a very clear. headed
man, aud his nerve did not fail him IN the awful
dilemma When he left his house with the head
wrapped up In paper under his arm he stopped al
liquor saloon and took = drink with much evident
relish. He seemed at tha, time bland and
unrufned as though be were going 70 work or
90 take walk There can be. no doubt that
Kretzs nerves have been tempered the school Of
war and who knows bat THAT the sights at Graveotts
or Sedan prepared his mind and nerves 10 stand the
shock OF the butchery which has JUST been porormed


scESn noRcuH


The Jury had been summoned 70 meet AZ the Morgue
a nine O'Clock yesterday morains Twelve we're
called, but only eleven appeared, AZ less number
would meet the requirements OF the law the Coroner
Mr. Frank Nolan, decided 70 proceed wnhou, delay.
The Morgue, 90 called, bears resemblance 70 the