Year: 1876

New YORK, Jan. CIV. w. Simmons,
of Derby, Conn, employed for some time
in wagon manufacturing establishment
in Brooklyn, has been missing since
Thursday last This afternoon his head,
partly wrapped in piece of newspaper,
and several pieces of his body, was found
lying between a lumber pile and fence in
that city.


THE MOST HORRIBLE OF ALL HORRIBLE


MURDERS.


New YORK, Jan. 3l.-The horrible
murder and mutilation of W. w. Sim
mons in Brooklyn causes great excite
ment in the neighborhood. Mrs. Fuchs,
the wife of the murderer, tells this story
of the butchery: Simmons came to the
house about nine o'clock Thursday even
ing, bringing doll for the little girl,
There was some beer in the house and
after drinking it Fuchs went out to get
three pints more. All of us drank beer
and Simmons said he was ashamed to
90 home drunk, so | said he might stay
and sleep with Fuchs and | would sleep
with Ellen, for we had only two rooms.
Simmons agreed to this My husband
SAYS slept on the floor and that was
unfaithful but l was so drunk that |
knew nothing of it. My husband and
child put me to bed and while they were
doing so l fell on the floor and cut my
face. When got up in the morning L
saw the body on the floor of the kitchen
and Fuchs taking it by the heels and
dragged it into the bedroom to cut it up.
When called out 1--WE will be hanged"
but Fuchs said he would make it all
right. ! drank too much on Friday and
did not see the body cut up.


AS the woman told this story she wept
bitterly and saying again ant gain that
if she had only been sober lh, murder
would not have been committed.


Andrew Fuchs or Victor Kretze, as the
murderer calls himself, said that he had
known Simmons and worked with him
for three years but had once had diff
Guilty with him on account of which he
left the mandatory for six months. He
said Simmons was in the habit of visit
ing his wife while he was at work and
that about six months ago he had de-
teCted them in crime. He said Simmons
came to his house Thursday evening
about nine o'clock, and as he had some
beer both drank of it. Simmons then
gave him money to buy more beer and
when he returned he found his wife vio-
lating her marriage VOWS. Calling his
step. daughter, Ellen, who was asleep on
the bed, as a witness Of her mothers
crime, he seized hatchet which lay be-
hind the stove, and struck Simmons
dead with one blow on the neck. He as
serted that he struck Simmons head off
at one blow, but afterwards accounted for
the cuts about the neck by saying he had
TO hack it off next morning as it was not
entirely severed. He declared he in
tended to give himself up but his wife
persuaded him not to do so, and Friday
he dragged the body into the bedroom
and cut it up, packing the pieces away
in different places until he could get rid
of them.


Officers who first inspected Fuchs's
apartments, reported that there were
pals in the kitchen and bedroom con-
tanning meat which they thought might
be pieces of picked pork. Close exami-
nation of the premises was then made
and in a tool chest under the bed was
found heavy solid hammer that bore
bloody stains and common handsaW
stepped with blood and fringed with bits
of hair. There were also heavy hatchets
or axes and these'were covered with half
oblterated blood marks, In another
corner, under couch, was tin pail
filled to the brim with fragments of
human body cut into pieces, not more
than two or three inches in length. At
the side of the bed was large pine
chest, dyed in every part with blood, as
though bleeding body had been hastily
iammed into it, as into a temporary re-
ceptacle. In common black leathern
trunk was found another portion of the
mutilated body, strips of flesh and pieces
of skin. In another part of the cham
Der was a large tin wash boiler, nearly
filed with portions of mans limbs,
pieces of arms, of hands and of legs and
feet. In the midst of these remains was
the trunk of TIE body, the ribs stripped
clean of skin and flesh.


The officers next searched the bed,
and turning up the ticking uncovered
other fragments of a human body. Then
they went through the kitchen, and dig
ging deep under the bricks of the fire.
place, brought out many other remains
similar to those discovered in the bed
room. They gathered the bloody frag-
ments together and sent them to the
Morgue. The axes, saw and hammer
we're taken to the police station.