Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1887 — Page 3

JOHN M. WILSON HANGED.

A Crime Which Nearly Led to the Hanging of Another Man for Murder. The Singular Circumstances Connected with Wilson's Arrest and Conviction. [Norristown (Pa.) special.] John M. Wilson was hanged in the jailyard here, on Thursday, for the murder of Anthony W. Dealy, in February, 1885, in Montgomery County, near the Philadelphia -city line. Wilson read a speech from the scaffold. He confessed hi s guilt, and said Jris death in expiation of the crime should Be a warning to all persons who had become victims to strong drink. His body was cut down and handed over to a physician to ■whom he had willed it.

The history of the crime for which John M. Wilson paid the extreme penalty, and Ihe manner of his conviction, are probably without parallel in the annals of criminal history. But for a confession, which the murderer afterward denied, the death of Anthony Dealy would never have been ac--counted for, and probably another and an innocent man would have been hanged for another crime which is most curiously interwoven with that for which Wilson suffered. In October, 1885, Frederick Stahl, a butcher who worked for Albert Dieterle at No. 305 Moore street, Philadelphia, sud--denly dropped out of sight. He had lived with Adolph Scheuringer, a saloonkeeper, at No. 307 Vine street, with whom he had deposited S7OO for safe-keeping. Weeks passed, and Stahl was not heard from. Then Scheuringer said that Stahl had been mur--dered, and accused Albert Dieterle (who ■owed Stahl money) of the crime. In the following March the headless and dismembered trunk of a human being was found floating in the Wissahickon Creek, in-Fairmount Park. A further search was

made, and one leg and one arm were found. Scheuringer’s charge that Dieterle had murdered his employe was renewed, and when at the inquest the body was identified -as that of Stahl, Dieterle was arrested. On Sunday, Oct. 4, 1885, a peculiarlooking man walked into the West Twelfth Street Station in Chicago, and said that he was a murderer. He said he had killed a man named Anthony Dealy near Philadelphia in January, and after sewing the body in sacks had thrown it in the Wissahickon Cheek. The next day he repeated the same story, but in more detail. He said he had been employed by one Anthony Dealy for ■several months on a farm near Philadelphia. He quarreled with Dealy about S3O which was due him, and then, picking up a -cleaver, struck the man on the head, killing him instantly. He then cut off the "victim’s head and hid it between two feather-beds, dragged the body to the harm, and, cutting off the legs and arms, hid them in a feed-box. Then ho went to "the creek and selected a place in which to throw the dissected body. That night he ■put the head in a bag along with a lot of stones. The body and limbs were placed in other sacks, and, with the aid of a sleigh and horse, Wilson took his ghastly load to the place selected and threw it overboard. He then went to Philadelphia, and, after spending his money for drink, returned to the house and set it on fire. It was entirely destroyed, and he said Dealy’s family supposed he was burned up in it. The trial, which was begun March 8 last, lasted several days and was very sensational in its character. Stahl’s brother, his friend, Scheuringer, and others who knew Stahl well still swore that the body found in the river was that of the missing butcher. A score of others swore that it was that of Anthony Dealy. They related the burning ■of the house and the disappearance of Wilson, who was known to them as “Sailor ■Jack,” the day of the fire, and when the police found the watch which had belonged to Dealy and proved that it had been taken from Wilson while drunk a few days after the fire the evidence was complete. Conviction quickly followed. The whereabouts of Frederick Stahl are still a mystery. The resemblance of the two men, Stahl and Dealy, was remarkable. They wore the same size hat, both were left-handed, both had their right shoulders higher than the left, both were of medium height, both had scars on the Tight hand, both had small mustaches, red hair, and bald spots on the top of their Leads. Had not Wilson’s confession been corroborated in every particular his conviction could hardly have been had, in view ■of the remarkable resemblance of the missing butcher.

PRINCE NICHOLAS.

■One of the Aspirants to the Bulgarian Throne. Prince Nicholas of Mingrelia, whose name has been conspicuously mentioned in connection with the Bulgarian throne, is

an ex-Caucasian Chief, who for twenty years has been a dependant upon the Russian Court. Bom on Dec. 23, 1846, he in- & herited the quasi sovereignty of the Principality of Mingralia, a district now included in Russian Transcaucasia, and lying Between the Black Sea on the west ana the Caucasus on the north. _'

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The Bohemian oatsand red-line wheat swindlers successfully practiced their game upon eight or ten of the wealthiest farmers in Deer and Pipe Creek townships, Miama County. Some time ag<h a pleasant-ap-pearing and voluble talker, accompanied by an elderly man, and, to all appearances, a Dunkard, approached the farmers and sold them the oats at S4O and wheat at S2O a bushel, taking their notes for the same. The farmers, becoming suspicious, went to Peru, and consulted with their attorneys, only to realize the fact that they were out about $5,000. The notes mature in September. It is extremely probable that later developments will show new victims.

—The Morton Club, of Fort Wayne, has elected the following officers: President, Gilbert E. Bursley; First Vice President, Augustus A. Chapin; Second Vice President, Frederick Beach; Third Vice President, James H. Simonson; Fourth Vice President, Henry J. Ash; Recording Secretary, Ed L. Craw; Financial Secretary, George W. Mullen; Treasurer, Allen H. Dougall; Directors, Joe W. Bell, James B. Harper, David N. Foster, F. H. Barnard, Dr. A. J. Laubach. —At Strawtown, the wife of W. W. Morris went to call on a neighbor lady, who is suffering with a broken arm, and left her 3-year-old daughter in the house alone. When she returned she found the child lying on the floor, dead, with its clothes burned off and the body burned. It is supposed the child’s clothing caught fire from the hot stove in the room. Mrs. Morris was almost completely prostrated with grief on learning the sad fate that had befallen her little daughter.

—The eleventh annual exhibition of the Northern Indiana Poultry Association will be held in the city of Fort Wayne Feb. 1,2, 3,4, and 5. It is believed that this will prove to be one of the most successful exhibitions of the season, as a very large number of entries of fine birds have already been made. Farmers and fanciers will find this an excellent means, of gaining information on a subject of rapidly increasing importance. —Fred Kuklehaun, a wealthy farmer in Root Township, Adams County, and a breeder of fine cattle, was perhaps fatally gored by a Holstein bull, a late Illinois purchase. He went into a lot inclosure when the bull attacked him, running its horn through his thigh and giving him serious internal injuries. Help arrived in time to save him from immediate death, and there is yet a chance for his recovery. —lt is understood that Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, of the Ames Agricultural College, in lowa, has accepted the appointment to, and will take charge of, the Department of Domestic Economy to be opened at Purdue University. Mrs. Ewing has been delivering a series of lectures throughout the country on “Domestic Economy as it Should be Practiced in the Kitchen.” —The pipes leading to the large range in the Bramble House, at Lafayette, exploded, the report being very loud and the force sufficient to awaken the guests, who leaped from their beds under the impression that a good-sized earthquake had come in with the blizzard. Oscar Harris, the colored cook, was severely scalded on ihe a ms and side. —A most distressing accident occurred at Lafayette, at the funeral of Mrs. George W. Cook, wife of Mayor Cook, of Leadville. As the casket was being lowered the strap gave way and the body was precipitated into the grave head foremost. The casket had to be taken out, the lid removed, and the body rearranged. The other day two drunken tramps were arrested at North Vernon. Toward midnight a crowd of men and bovs visited tie jail, broke open the door, and escorted tie tramps to the suburbs of the city. They then tied them up to a tree, whipped them severely and admonished them from visiting the city again.

—At Killertown, Harrison County, Charles Greene assaulted a Miss Briles. It seems that the lady had charged Greene with her seduction and he had fled, but he returned and attempted to take the life of Miss Briles by assaulting her with a club, breaking her left arm and otherwise injuring her. —An unknown man who was stealing a ride on a west-bound Big Four freight train was instantly killed near Hazlerigg Station by falling between the cars. His head was severed and his clothing all stripped from his body, and when found by the trainmen was lying naked in the snow. —The two-story frame farm residence of Hichard Gelling, situated two and a half miles North of Pendleton, was totally destroyed by fire. Only part of the contents was saved. Cause, defective flue. Loss, $1,290: insured in the Continental, of New York, for S6OO.

—’J he Bohemian Oats Company, that sold hundreds of bushels of oats in Wells County, have brought suit to collect their notes given for Bohemian oats at $lO per bushel. Forty of the former victims havo organized to resist the payment. —The largest tree ever cut in Montgomery County was on the farm of John Demaree, near Waveland. It was poplar, and made one saw-log ten feet long and seven and a half feet thick, and fbur logs fourteen feet in length. —Wabash College has just received. SIO,OOO by the will of the late Preserve Smith, of Dayton, O. This amount goes' to general endowment, as does also the $50,000 just received by the will of Mr/ Sabin, of LaPorte. —The Delphi Oil nnd Natural Gas Company has been organized with a capital stock of $50,000. Enough stock has already been taken to warrant an experiment, and operations will soon be begun.

OBITUARY.

Death at New York of John Roach, the Well-Known Ship- ’ Builder. Alice Oates, the Comic Opera Singer, Passes Away After a Long Illness. Judge Rogers, of Chicago, Stricken Down While Standing in a Dry-Goods Store. John Roach. [New York telegram.] John Roach, the great ship-builder, died in this city on Monday morning. Mr. Roach was in great pain from the cancerous growth with which he suffered, and he was kept under the influence of morphine. He had brief intervals of consciousness, during which he spoke to his son Garrett, who was constant in his attendance at the bedside. Only a few intimate friends of the family were admitted to the house, and nobody

other than the nurses and the physicians were allowed to see the patient. The dying man sank rapidly, and when he passed away it was without a struggle. At his bedside were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F. McPherson, of Philadelphia, John B. Roach, Garrett N. Roach, Stephen W. Roach, Miss Emetine Roach, John Walton, a nephew, Mrs. Roach, and three grandchildren. John Roach was born in County Cork, Ireland, but was reared in America in the city of New York. Prior to his. starting in business on his own account he was a common workman in the Allaire works. At this place he soon advanced himself through his adaptability to business to the position of foreman, after which he established himself with a very small capital, but his old employers' recommendations assisted him to a moderate credit, and his natural force soon gave him prominence. In 18 >7 he was able to purchase the Morgan Iron Works for about 1400,030 and in 1868 the Neptune works for $150,000, and two years later the Franklin forge for $125,C00, and also a large property at Chester, Pa , where he subsequently put in operation the extensive works known as the Delaware River Iron ShipBuilding and Engine Works, of which corporation Mr. Roach was the President and owner. He was the builder of numbers of vessels for the United States Government, having been given the contract for the ships Dolphin, Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago. The Boston was finished in August, 1886, and the unfortunate Dolphin—which caused John Roach so much trouble by having been rejected under the Cleveland administration—was at last transferred to the Government through negotiations between Mr. Roach and Secretary Whitney.

Alice Oates. [Philadelphia dispatch.] Alice Oates, the well-known comic-opera singer, died at the residence of her husband, in this city, on Monday. Sbe had wasted away

Alice oates in 1870. It 6), when she was 20 years of age. Her voice gained her the part of Earl Darnley -in the burlesque of “The Field of the Cloth of Gold.” Her success was instantaneous, and after the first week she was billed as a star. She played a long time in Chicago without a

cnange of bill, and then brought' the burlesque to this city, where it ran at the Chestnut Street Theater over two hundred nights. This was her first and last appearance in burlesque. Afterward she devoted her talents to comic opera. Her husband died of consumption in 18Z0, and in 1872 the widow married* Tracy W. Titus, from’’ whpm, however, she was soon divorced. Mrs. Oates’ sang and acted with sue-*;

cess in New York, Alice oatf.s in 1886. and all over the United States. She became best known through her performance in connection with the Oates Comic Opera Company, of which she was both directress and prima donna.

John G. Bogers. [Chicago speciaL] John G. Rogers, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County, fell dead in a dry goods store on State street Monday. Up to that moment he appeared to be in perfect health.

The. announcement of his sudden demise was painful to the community where the deceased Jurist has lived for many years and where ho won hosts of warm friends and admirers >

greatly under a painful complication of diseases, and death came as a welcome relief. She was born in Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 22, 1849, and her family name was Merritt. Her education was begun , in her native town and . continued at Terre Haute, Ind. In 1865 >she married James A. •Gates, leading man at I WoodJs Theater in Cincinnati. Alice Oates first appeared on the stage in Chicago in

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