Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1874 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1874.

FRES3-ROO.M BILL. BRET HARTE. Read at the annaal dinner of the Bos!on Press Clob, at the Revere House, Nov. 7, 1874. " ;. ' Bill was the cuss; Slept all nhjht on a pile of stock " Hard as a rock. But what 'd he eare ! He'd no friends That would mate a muss : If he eiept In the streets, Bo he sends For a pot of beer, and a bit to eat In the press-room Where with J es' room " To stretch out straight lie d wait -Till the boys got round la the upper region, And by legions He feed the sheets to the hungry maws, And iron jaws , Of the press. You can guess How he loved the .nachlne and his work. He shirk? When he gave bis word That settled it sure. Whatever It was You could be poz That he'd do as he said, if It took a teg. Not a peg . , Would he move, whatever he saw or heard. To break a promise ,' Was farthest from his Thoughts of what was the duty of man, And where the law of right began, One night the boss (Member ot Congress now, they say) Carne down stairs, Putting on airs (His usual way). Pretty soon he came across Bill, who was putting the forms In place; "Bill." said he, "I want a copy brought up to me At four o'clock in any case ; For I leave at five Uy an early train, So lock alive; Or" here his language became profane "You'll do it, Ulli?" Says Bill, "I will." That night, at Jnst about half-past one, The bells begun The awful clangor that tells of Are. 'Twas our old place That was being burnt. - When Bill learnt The fact, by his linen coat tails' blaze, The room was getting about red hot. There was Just one spot That tne fire had managed, so far, to spare, And the press stood there. " Bill wasn't a crier, And when he saw There was no use trying to save a thing Outof the fiery dragon's maw, He gave one spring For the stock : there wasn l an atom left. Bill says the heft Of his heart, when he found there wasn't one Identical sheet that he could use, was raor'n a ton. In his two hour's snooze, He hadn't taken his garments off. They came off now. That is he strlppea, as if for a row, Down to the buff. Let us draw a veil, And end this tale With a scene that morning sharp at lour, Bid knocked at the door Of the boss's house, and out he came. Not knowing the place was 11 atlame; "Got the paper?" Ways Bill : "You're right. Thed d ol 1 oilica burnt down to-night, There wasn't no one hurt. And I got you a copy." Here he gave The boss, who was Just thinning to rave. An impression Strock oiTon his shirt. P.S. Twas Bill's shirt.not the boss's I tell you Bill was oue of the bosses. Nov. ö, I 74.

NEWS AND GOSSIP. Aimee's "real" name is disclosed as Marie Jorchon. ! Geb. Joe Hooker continues to suffer se-; verely.froni partial paralyses. "Barry Cornwall's" library is to ' be sold at auction in London in December. The death Is announced of Mr. Henry LanscTon Childe, tbe jnventor of dissolving views. . At the request ot General Garibaldi the subscriptions for his relief have been suspended in Italy. . Julian Hawthorne has the first series of papers upon Saxon studies in the Contemporary Review for November. It i3 reported that John Morriesey will be a candidate for fcergeant-at-arms in the United States house ot representatives. Barry Cornwall declared not long before his death that it was while going to business on an omnibus that he wrote all bis poems. President James R. Newland, of the Mount Auburn Young Ladies Institute, at Cincinnati, died suddenly on Sunday morning. The Ohio State Journal says: The third term had no more influence on the Ohio election than G. Washington's old breeches In the patent office." "Where is parts unknown?" asüed a correspondent of the Danbury News; to which Bailey answers very truthfully, "where they don't advertise." A builder, when returning thanks to those who drank his heahh, modestly observed that he was "more fitted for the scafiold than public speaking." The mortal remains of Calderon, the great dramatic poet of Spain, have just been transferred from the church of San Francisco, In Madrid, to the cemetery of San Nicholas. Mayor Eastman, of Poughkeepsie, is the possessor ol "Old Tom,'.' formerly the favorite saddle horse of Martin Van Buren, and later a steed which Gen. Scott was pleased to mount. Father Charles Montor, late confessor of Napoleon III, died lait month at Vienna. In his last will he left 150,000 francs to the son of Napoleon, and another 150,000 to the pope. J. Is. Umahnnu.ro ("Texas jack") is re turning East with the Earl of Dunraven and the rest of the amateur huntsmen who have been scouring the plains this season under. bis leadership. i Mr. Wm. I Kingsley, of Yale College and editor of the New Englander, will, by request, deliver a course of lectures In Philadelphia on the history, literature and art ot Northern Staiy. Irving, a distinguished young actor of London, is about to play the principal part in ' Hamlet." Gmt cariosity is evinced to see what new interpretation will be made of this composite character. Mr. Charles Callaway, late assistant In palaeontology to Prof. James Hall in the New York State Museum of Natural His tory, ha3 been appointed curator of the new Town Museum in bheihslu, iimgland. "Why you ses," she began, "you take a chestnut and cut round the hull with a sharp knife, and you take one-half the chestnut in your month, and your fellow takes the other half in his mouth, and pull, and the hull comes right off." A national electrical society was farmed at Chicago, yesterday, by some 40 or 50 of the most prominent telegraphers in the country. Gen. Anson Stager was chosen president; and a list of vice-presidents, secretaries and an executive committee were.elected. Tom Scott, tho railway king, and Gen. Walker, of Texas, have sailed for Europe to establish immigration agencies on the continent, through which to Invite the hardy and industrious sons of Europe to a denizenship in mo ifrviio nxiu promising south. Dr. Holland says a reign of Infidelity and unbelief 13 approaching. It has already ap pruaciieu is is cere, n me apogtle Taul was lnstaiiod, to-morrow, he'd preach to empty benches, unless it was proved he'd iwuiuiubuouioi neaven ror nirting with

Jephta's daughter, or Hanah More or some other Bible woman. New York Letter. Leprosy is said to prevail to a considerable extent in tha little village of Tracadie, at the mouth of the Miramiclei river, Canada. The inhabitants of the village, who are all of French descent, have established a hospital for the worst afflicted of the citizens. The disease is understood to have been brought to Tracadie by a French yessel, which was wrecked ofl the coast some eighty or ninety years ago, and on which was ä quantity ot clothing from Asiatic ports. . ' ' ' A DIABOLICAL CRIME. THK BCKSreO AND ROBBING or A HOUSE BY bubo lars in pittsbcra 4 woman but. nt to death. . . : The Pittsburg Commercial, of tbe 3d inst., contains the following account of a terrible crime in that city: Mr. Jacob Fell, his wife, two sons Solomon and Joseph, aged respectively 22 and 23 years and a servant named Margaret Lynch, resided in tbe house No. 224 Federal street, not far from the scene of the great conflagration in July last. Mr. Fell is a man of considerable means, and sometimes had large sums of money in bis bouse Saturday evening the various . members of the family retired to bed at their utual times, from s) to 11 o'clock, leaving the house securely locked, bolted and barred, as they thought. The father and mother slept in the second story iront, and two sons in a room immediately over the dining room, also in the second story, and the girl in a back room in the third story. Nothing disturbed the repose of the family until about 3 o'clock yesterday morning, when one of tho boys (Joseph) was aroused by screaming and cries of t're proceeding from the room occupied by Marpparft Lynch, tho servant girl. He at once woke up his brother Solomon, and the two started to the room occupied by Miss Lynch, but upon reaching the door at the head of the first or lower ttairway, they were met by a thick volume of smoke, and they soon discovered that the entire stairway, from the first to the third floor, was in flames. Joseph started down the stairs with the hope of escaping through the front door. In running down the stairway a feat which he accomplished in the face of a fierce blaze he stumbled and fell to the bottom.but immediately recovered himself and reached the front door. Here, to his horror, he found the door locked, and the key out, and was compelled to retrace bis fiory pathway as far as the parlor, which he entered and escaped through a window. He was terribly burned about the bead, breast and arms, and "t is doubtful that he will recover. Solomon escaped by jumping from a second story window into the back yard, receiving only slight injuries. Mr. and Mrs. Fell procured a bed-cord and made it fast to some article of furniture in the room, and succeeded by that means in reaching the ground in safety, but with hands severely lacerated by the rope. Mm. Fell, as soon as she heard the alarm, opentd

a bureau drawer and took thereirom a roll t greenbacks containing A THOUSAND DOLLARS, which ehe placed in a pocket of her dress. She did not again think of tho money for abont throe .hours after her escape, and she then fund her pocket empty. As to what became of the money she has not the remotest knowledge. An alarm had been promptly soundod, and as promptly responded to by the department, and the fire was extinguished fifteen or twenty minutes after the discovery. Two of the firemen, when informed of the whereabouts vt Miss Lynch, rushed at once to her room, but only to rind her prostrated upon the flooV in a dyirg condition. They removed her to an adjoining bouse, where she died in about two hours after. The coroner held an inquest on tbe remains, the jury returning a verdict to the effect that her death was c.tused by suffoca tion from smoke and heat. Deceased was an unmarried woman, aged about 30 years, and was a sister ol James and Patrick Lynch, two well-known citizens of Uniontown, Pa. The investigation indicated that the houe had been entered by burglars ; that they had effected an entrance through tie rear door; that they had ransacked the house from cellar to attic, finding nothing that they wanted, save a lot of silverware, valued at about 150, which they carried away, and that they then, out of pure maliciousness, set fire to the premises in three places in a large sideboard in tbe dining room, in the cellar, and in the closet of the apartment occupied by Margaret Lynch. MARK TWAIN INTERVIEWED. rHB RESULT OF A SET INTERVIEW MARK , READY TO ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS. In the forthcoming volume, The Lotus Leaves, the following is the contribution of Mark Twain : Q. How old are you ? A. Nineteen in June. Q. Indeed ! I would have taken you to be thirtv-five or six. Where were you born? A. in Missouri. Q. When did you begin to write? A. In 1836. Q. Why, how could that be, if you are only nineteen now? A. i aon't Know, it does seem curious somehow. Q. It does, indeed. Who do you con siaer tne most remarxaDiy man you ever met. A. Aaron Burr. Q But you never could have met Aaron Burr ir you are only 19 years A. Now, if you know more about me than I do, what do you ask me for? Q. "Well, it was only a suggestion ; noth ing more. How did you happen to meet Burr 7 A. Well, I happened to be at his funeral one day, and he asked me to make less noise and Q. But good heavens, if you were at his funeral he must have been dead; and if he were dead how could he care whether you maae a noise or not 7 A. I don't know. He was always a par ticular kind of a man . that way. Q. Still I don't understand it at all. You say he spoke to you and that he was dead. A. I didn't say he was dead. (J. But wasn't he dead? A. A ell, some said he was, some said he wasn t. v Q. What did you think? A. O, it was none of my business. It wasn't any oi my lunerai. tj. uid you, tiowever, we can never get this matter straight. Let me ask about something else. What was the date of your Dirth.7 . A. Monday, October 31, 1693. Q. What I Impossible! That would make you ISO years old. How do you account for that. A. I don't account for it at all. J. But you said at first you were only 19, and now you make yourself out to be ISO. It Ls an nw ful discrepancy. A. Why, have you noticed that? Shaking hands. Many a time it has seemed to me like a discrepancy, but somehow I couldn't make up my mind. How quick you notice a thing! This was but the beginning. Before that interview was over there mast have been one, at least, of the race of inquirers who had his curiosity satisfied. A New York letter says : I have the assuranco from Mr. Norvell, editor-in-chief, and one of the principal stockholders in the Republic, that it will, when the proper time arrives, earnestly support Grant for a third terra. Then, if not before, sure death to the Republic.

HARVEST HYMN.

JOH2J O. WHITHER Once more tbe liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than Rems of gold ; Once more with barvext sone and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told. ... Our common mother rests and sins Like Ruth amoDg her garnered sneaves; Her lap is fall of poodly IhlDsrs, - Her brow is bright with autumn leaves. Oh, favor old, yet ever new; Oh. biedKltiK wltn tbe sunshine sent? Tbe bounty overruns our due. The fullness shames our discontent. W shut our eyes, the bowers bloom on ; We murmur, but the corn -ears fill; We choose the shadow, but the snn That casta Its shine behind us still. Give us, with our rugged soil. The power to make i'.Aden fair. And richer fruits to cruvrn our toll. Than summer-wedded lfJands bear. Who murmurs at his lot to-day ? Who scorns his native fruit and bloom. Or sighs for dainties far away, Resides the bounteous board of home? Thank heaven, Instead, that freedom's arm Can change a rocky soil to gold ; That brave and generous lives can warm A clime with northern ices cold. And by these alters wreathed with flowers, And fields with fruits awake again Thanksgiving for the golden hours, The earlier and the latter rain. A VIOLENT CRIME. HORRIBLE CREMATION. A MAN MURDERED AND BURNED IN A FURNACE THE VENGEANCE OF A FATHER A STORY OF SEDUCTION AND REVENGE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE. The Cincinnati Enquirer, of the 9th inst., contains a full account ol a mo3t diabolical crime in that city on Saturday night, from which the following extracts are taken: Scarcely have we done recording the particulars of one of the greatest conflagrations that has occurred in our city for years thanwe are called upon to describe the foulest murder that has ever darkened the escutcheon of our state. A murdei so atrot ious and so horrible that the soul sickens at its revolting details a murder that was probably hastened by the fire; for, though vengeance could be the only prompter of two of the accused murderer?, fear of a dreadful secret coming to light may have been partly the impelling motive that urged " on the third to the bloody deed as will be found further along In onr s-tory. The scene of the awful deed was H. Freiberg's tannery on Livingston street and Gamble alley, just west ot Central avenue, and immediately opposite the mins of M. Werk & Co's candle factory. Herman Schilling, the murdered man, and Andraes Egner, George Rufer and Frederick Egner, his suspected murderers. The story, as near as wo can obtain it, and divested of unnecessary verbiage, is as follows: Herman Schilling; the deceased, has been em ployed by Mr. Freiberg for some time, and lormeraliy boarded with the elder Egner, who keeps a saloou and boarding bouse at No. 153 Findlay street, on the lot immediately west of tbe tannery, and connected with it by meansof agate. Egner possessed a daughter Julia, about fifteen years of age, whose morals, from common report, were none ol the bist, and ehe and , the deceased. became very intimate. In fact, so in'.imate did they become that Schilling was found by the father, late one night, IN HER BED-ROOM, under circumstances that proved that they were criminally so, and Schilling only escaped the father's veDgeance at tho time by jumping through tbe wmdoAv to the ground and temporary safety. Egner claimed that Schilling had seduced his daughter, which charge was denied by the accused, who, while admitting bis criminal connection with the girl, alleged that he was not the first or only one so favored. At all events, the girl became pregnant and died at the hospital on the Cth of August last from cancer of the vulva, being seven months advanced in pregnancy at the time. Ihe tame day i,gner and his son Frederick attacked Schilling in the tanyard with oak barrel staves, and in all probability would have killed him then and there but for the interposition of bv3tanders. Schilling had the Egners ar rested for this assault and battery, and they were tried ana convicted before 'Squire True, each being fined ?Ö0 and costs for tbe oltense, and being bebt in 5200 bonds to keep the peace toward him for one year. Alter the trial tne eider fcgner swore, in bis own bed-room,that he would have Schilling's life for the wrong be had done him, and ho has repeated these threats on several occa sions since. After tee discovery of the crim inal intimacy with the girl, Schilling left Egner's house and took his meals thereafter at the honse of C. Westenbrock, 120 Findlay street, and sleeping in a room in a shed of the tannery. Last Saturday night Schilling left Westenbrock's bouse atoui 10 o'clock for his sleeping apartment, and as far as is now known this was the LAST TIME HE WAS SEEN ALIVE by any one who knew him except his murderers. About 10:30 o'clock a stout youth of 16, named John Höllerbach, residing on Central a venae just above Livingston street, came home and entered his residence by the rear of it yard, opening on Gamble alley. He proceeded ' to his room in the back of the Becond floor of the dwelling, and disrobed for bed. He had scarcely done so when he heard the noise of a violent ecu file, apparently proceeding from the alley back of his house, and hastily donning his garments again he dashed down stairs, to find that the noise came from the stable of the tannery, and knowing Schilling well he called to him in German: "Herman, is mat your" ine reply came, "Yes, John, John, , John, come. And help me. some one is Killing me," uttered as if the speaker was being choked or stifled. "Who is It," was the nextquerv. Tbean swer was so indistinct that nothing could be made of it, and Hollerbach shouted "Murder, murder, let that man alone, or I will come in and shoot you." No response was made to this threat save the gurgling noise of the strangling man, and Höllerbach, frightened almost to death, starte! out tne aney and down Livingston street in quest of a policeman. He saw the light of the lantern of the private watchman of Werk's place, but not knowing that he had the power of arrest, so runs the boy's strange story, he did not call his attention to the matter, and after vainly seeking for a . policeman on. several streets without calling or making any outcry for them, he returned to his room, passing by the stable where tbe foul deed had beeu committed, bearing, he thought, a dragging noise as he went by. Upon regaining his room he was afraid to go to sleep, and sat up all night in fear and trembline. About 7 o'clock yesterday morning, Schilling's boarding, boss, Westenbrock, who is also an emplove of Mr. Imberg, came to the grated Gamble alley gateway of the tannery to groom the horse in the etable. He found the gste locked, and called for Schillin er. Of course he received no response, nntil his repeated calls attracted the attention of Höllerbach, who looked out or his window and said, "I shouldn't wonder if Herman was killed last niirht" "Cnm harn rirf HmV tha ernta " said Westenbrock. Höllerbach did as de sired, and opening the gate admitted his

panner. xne pair at one cund that a

dreadful deed of blood had been committed. The stable showed signs of a desperate conflict, being Bplashed with gore, while a : , SIX-PRONGED PITCHFORK; - standing against its side was smeared with blood aud hair, as was a broom ami a large stick near by.. Traces of blood were found leading from the stable to the tioor of the boiler-room. adittance of over one hundred feet, and upon examination these traces were foun! to lead directly to tbe door of the gas chamber of the furnace. The horrorstruck men stood app-iiled for a moment as the realization of their worst fears burst upon them, and thfn spread the news with all the speed possible. Messengers were dispatched to the Oliver street station bouse, and Lieut. Bierbaum arrived on the scene about half past 8 o'clock, accompanied by Officer Knoeppe. It did not take them long to determine that tie bodv of the murdered man bad been thrown into the furnace, and, aided by the spectators who had cathered to the scene by hundreds, they dampened the fire with water and then .fished fir the remains. These were found to consist of tbe head and a portion of the trunk and intestines, burned to a crisp and beyond recognition. Suspicion at once fell upon the Egners, from tbe fact that the gate in the fence between the

tannery and their yard was wide open when westeuDrocK and Höllerbach entered tbe premises. They were at once arrested and taken to the Oliver street station bouse, where a charge of suspicion of murder was placed asralnst their names. Coroner Maley was notified and rtsnonded promptly to the call.. A reporter visited the establishment some tours later, accompanied by Dr. Ma ley, and examined all so far discovered of Herman Schilling's charred corpse. The hideous mass of reeking cinders, despite all tbe efforts of the brutal murderers to hide tbeir ghastly crime, remain sufficiently in tact to bear friehttul witness against them. On lifting the coffin lid a powerful and penetrating odor, strongly resembling the smell of burnt beef, yet heavier and fouler. filled the room and almost sickened the spectators. But tbe sight of the black re mains was far more sickening. Laid upon the clean white lining of the comn, they rather resembled great shapeless lumps ot half burnt bituminous coal than aught else, at the first hnrried glance; and only a closer investigation could enable a strong stomached observer to detect their ghastly character masses of crumbling human bones, strung together by half burnt sinews, or glued one upon another by. a hideous adhesion of half molten tlesh, boiled brains and jellied blood mingled with coal. The SKULL HAD BURST LIKE A SHELL in the fierce furnace heat; and the whole upper portion seemed as though it had been blown out by the steam from the boiling and bubbling brains. Only the posterior portion of the occipital and parietal bones, the inferior and superior maxillary, and some of the face-bones remained the upper portion of the skull bones being jagged, burnt brown in some spots,.-and in others charred to black ashes. The brain had all boiled away, save a small, waited lump at the base of tbe skull about the size of a lemon. It was crisped and still warm to the touch. On pushing the finger through the crip, the interior felt about the consistency of banana fruit, and the yellow fibers seemed to writhe like worms in the coroner's hands. The eyes were cooked to bubbled crisps In the blackened sockets, and the bones of the nose were gone, leaving a hideous bole. . There is a horrible probability that the wretched victim was forced into the furnace alive, and suffered all the asonies of the bitterest death which' man can die, vrbile wedged in the Homing line. ' Iiis teeth were so terribly clenched that more than cne spectator ot the hideous skuil declared that only the most frightlul asony could have set those jaws together. Immediately alter the arrest ot the Egners, the police cot news that a man named George Rufer, who had b9en employed in the tannery.had been discharged Saturday evening, and that he bad blamed Schilling for his dismissal. Search was made for him at hi3 residence. No. 90 Logan street, but he had gone out, and his wite, in response to questions, at first stated that he had not left the house after supper. Afterwards she convicted nerseir, -saying that he had gone to Spring street, to a friend's house, in company with her, acd that be had retired at 10 o'clock. About 5 o'clock Lieut. Bierbaum started out on a fresh search for Rufer. Before he reached his residenc?, however, he found him on his way to the fetation- house, he having been arrested by officers - Paulus and Knoeppe at the corner .of Logan and rmdlar streets. , When taken to the station house he was confronted by Col. Kiersted, who ! ordered him to be stripped and examined. . His face was ' scratched and contused in a terrible manner, and presented every appearance of his having been en gagenj In a le'arful and prolonged strugrgle He appeared cool and collected, considering the fearful nature of tbe suspicion against him. i His clothing aid not present any traces of blood until he had removed his pantaloons; then the knees of his drawers were found stiffened with gore. He quickly exclaimed: "That is blood from tbe hides handled." A gout of blood was also found on the breast of bis undershirt. 5 HIS STORY ' was told partly in broken English and partly in German, and was substantially as follows: Last Saturday night Mr. Frei berg told me that work was slack, and that he would have to let me go for a, few days, Well, after supper I took my little child and I went down to Mr. Egner's, and I had a glass of beer, and then I paid Mr: Egner my beer bill. After I had had a couple of more beers, about 9 o'clock, I took my child and started home. , I stopped at a frame grocery at the corner of Logan and Findlay and took a couple or glasses more o beer and one of wine,' and then I ' Went to bed. Sunday morning I "got np bout 7 o'clock, and alter breakfast started to walk to ' Columbia to see the superintendent of a furniture factory there about getting job ot . work. I could not find tho superintendent, as two men told me he lived over the river. I met no one in Columbia that I knew, and I started to walk home after getting some beer. I got tired and got Into the street car and rode to the Elm street depot and then started home. when I was arrested. I did not have any trouble with .Schilling. I last saw him dressing hides when I left tbe tannery Saturday evening. He bad been in the habit of working at night. I did not know where he slept. 1 once heard Egner talking about Schilling and his daughter Julia's seduction, and he said that Schilling ought to be run through with a pitchfork. Another time heard the son Fred talkirg about the same thing, and he said that Schilling ought to have a ropa tied arouud hi3 neck and be held over the hot furnace. When, asked how he accounted for tbe scratches ou his face, ho became contraditcory, first saying that he got them by jumping from a shed the night of the fire at Werk'a factory, then that ha refused to give his wife any money Saturday night, and that f.he and him had a lieht, and that she bad torn his face with her nails, and again that be had fallen down on tho street. lie is a man about five feet seven inches high with a sinewy and strong frame, and is About thirty -seven years old. Our portrait is a fair reproduction of his appearance last night in his cell at the station bouse. The most

damning report against him is that the deceased, Herman Schilling, was cognizant of

nio ioci. tutu RUFER HAD SET FIRS" . . , Werk A Co.'s candle factory Fridav to M nfhk last, and tht he had intnd.vl to prie the police of his inf rmtion. , How true this report is we can not now state, but if tru it woü'd afford c inclusive evidence of the reason that inclined him to share in tbe dep damnation oi the murder. The elder Ener i a Gsrman, about forty-three years old, slight : and pare in figure, and with a forbidding but determined look.j His ben is a beaniteTOtxyTrUnout aov distinguishing characteristics !ve a snilen look t.-f stolid indifference to his fate. His tale is that he pHved tag.' "caU-her," etc., up till it o'c'ock Saturday nigbt, slept soundly'during the night, bearing no noise.acd aw&keuiogst" o'clock ia tus morning, and only hearing of tbe murder about 8 o'clock. Egner keep a cofloe-hotise aud a coopershop, just wext of the tannery, his saloon beins? at No. 153 Fiudlajr treet. Herman Schillinsr was a native of Westphalia, twenty-five years old, about five feet eight Inches high, finely proportioned, ruddyfaced, with dark mustache and cross-eyes. He was generally spoken of yesterday evening as a very good, companionable kind of a man. He was unmarried, and has no relations that we could learn of in this citv. Within a hundred feet of the stable is the boiler-room, and this boiler is heated by a furnace of peculiar construction, being built on tho principle of an air furnace for melting iron. Its fuel is tanbark, emptied in a grate through two circular openings in its top, and provided with a brick flue through which its gases pass into a chamber underneath tbe boiler where they are ignited.. Into this chamber Is a square damper opening of about twelve inches across, and to this narrow door the victim was carried by his slayers. The fire in the furnace bad been dampened down, bnt tbe viilians know well its mechanism, and, forcing the body through the narrow door, they endeavor to push it through into the flue. In this, however, they were balked by its size, and tbeir next work was to arrange the furnace so that its fire would burn the remains to ashes. How well thev succeeded our story baa told. The circumstantial evidence ball as yet there is to found a sus picion on, but we must say that it appears to be or the most conclusive kind. Especially is this the fact in the case of Andrew Egner, THR FIVE-PRONGED FORK, used by the murderers, either to kill tbeir victim, or to stuff his body into the furnace, was found in the stable, with blood and hair still adhering to it, and a suspender-buckle on the fourth prong.' If is curious that a bimilar susponder-buckle was found among the ashes of the furnace. Besides the fork, a lone stake, sharpened to a spear-like point and dyed at the smaller end with blood, appears to have served in the deed of murder. A small broom bad evidently been used to brush up the blood, as it was completely coated with thickly crusted gore. How it happened that the murderers could have been careless enough to leave such damning evidence against them, we can scarcely im agine. John Höllerbach, by order of Chief. Kiersted, was arrested in his bed at 2 o'clock this morning by Lieut. Benniuger, and locked up in the Oliver street station: house as a witness. He stuck, to nis apocryphal tory. In conversation with a reporter- this morning Rufer said if he had killed Schilr be would have put him in abetter place a tank of salt-water under- the tannery, where he never would have smeit. ' J THE SCHILLING TRAGEDY. A FULL CONFESSION BT THE YOÜSO BOY EO-NEIV-H0W TBE DIABOLICAL DEED WAS COMMITTED THE CORROBORATING DETAILS AS GIVEN BT OTHRR WITS ESSES. , The Cincinnati Commercial of the 11th inst. contains the full confession of Fred. Egner in tbe liorribte murder already fully detailed in the Sentinel. Young Egner had given conflicting testimony before tbe coro ner's inquiry, but afterward, in prison mado the following full confession: From the first moment of his apprehension, the boy Egner was seized with a mortal terror. It took complete possession of his low brutish nature, and was manifested bv averted looks, a constant twitching and restlessmss ot the hands and by periodical casps as if he labored in tbe very act ot breathing. ite proba buitv is that he would have unburthened his heavy hearPany time -ester day had he not been "seen" by lawyers, who bo doubt bad enjoined silence upon the aire facts in the case. He was well stuck to bv the coroner, however, during the examina tion at the inquest, and had not the firmness nor the tact to avoid giving testimony that onlv lacked the piecing out of thetestimouy of. others : to make up the horri ble history -entire. He .was allowed no 1 rest in iail or out of . it. and the result is tbe very full confession of his complicity with his father and George Rufer in the murder of Herman Schilling. The confession was made about 9 o'clock in the jail last night at first a verbal confession, which was noted down by some re porters present, but in order to give the mat ter emphasis, ituier was conironiea wnn Egner, who ' was asked to repeat the confession so' Rufer could hear it and ask any questions be chose. - Rufer listened to the damning detail with characteristic stolidness. and when asked if he had any thing to ask or say, replied that it was "all a G d dd" lie." Coroner ' Maley reduced the confession to writing,' and then read it to Eener. who siamed his name to the document, and was returned to his cell for the night. The following is the confes sion: . "At 5 o'clock last Saturday evening Ruler came to my father's saloon, and said he was going to get Schilling out of his job. My father said that was right. At half past 9 mvself. father and Rufer went over in the tan-vard. Rufer bad a key to the back gate, and we entered that w ay. . Rufer bid himself behind the tan bark; rather and myselt hid behind the : posts near the stable. My father and Rufer said, befor we went over, We will co "over and kill that low Dutch son ot a b h.' We watched half an hour until Herman Sehillinpc catne in the gate fronting on Gamble alley at 10 o'clock. Georce ltuier naa a -long piece oi wooa. Herman Schillinsr lit a lamp and went into the stable to rub the horse. George Rufer went into the stable after him, and hit him j i-.. i i. .1 . l 1 1 1 : . IWO or mree iiuin uur tun ueau. - ocuimug fs.ll and got up 8 gain. . ltufer then . , STRUCK, HIM OX THE 1IEAD . and he fell , a second time. Then. be hollered 'Murder' and 'Watch.'. George Rufer seized him by the throat and. Herman scratched him on the face. My father then took the fivo-prong fork and stabbed him in tha bowels once or twice, and once on the lezs. Tbe dogs did not bark, as they knew Georce. He then got hold of Herman Schil lint?, bv the leers and pulled him out in the vard. and wanted to throw him into the vat. but George said we will be found out. Then he pulled him over to the furnace. George took him by the head, I had him by the body and father had him by the legs. I got hold of the rake used for ashes to push him in the furnace. but I could not do it. Then George took it and pushed him in. George then went to the beam honse and v.'ashed his hands. My father and mvself then went .home, and so did Georee Rufer. Q. Whowa3.it that proposed to put him In 'urnaceT

A. George Rufer. Q. Was he dead or alive him np? ...

before you took A. He was dead already. I could not see aim move.Q' Where were you when the murder was proposed T A. In my father's bar-room. Q. Who first proposed the killing? A. George Rufer, and when my father said that was. right, George Rufer said L should go along and help. And this ia all I have to sav. i ' . : 1 ,' Fred Eqskr. Attest: P. F. Maley. ! , ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF THE COSPBSSOH. Several hours prior to the formal confession to the coroner, this boy was interviewed by a reporter of the Volksblatt, Sherifi-elect Springmeier, Turnkey McCarthy and others. He was questioned closely, and commenced weeping, as uual. Ho finally concluded he would tell on Rufer. He first went on to repeat his testimony before tbe coroner's jury, but at last came to the point that was 60 eagerly sought for. He said, in the first place, that Rafer came to the saloon at half past 7 o'clock and naid he would kill Schilling, and old man Egner said that was right, that he and the boy would help Lim. They talked over how to do it, and agreed to meet at half past 9 o'clock ia tbe saloon. Then Ruler went away, going out at the back door. At half past 9 o'clock Rufer came back, and they hut up the saloon. The three then went to the little back door of tbe tan-yard. Rufer had a kev, which Schilling had lost two weeks belore in tbe bay loft. Rufer had found it and kept it. Rufer opened the door, and thev all went in. Itu'er taw Schilling first, and whispered to w I was standing close by. Schilling lett the door of the stahl and the three went in, Ku!er first, the boy second, and the elder Egner last. Schilling was standing with his back to the door acd his hand on the horse, when Rufer hit him on the back of the head. Schilling staggered, and while he was staggering itufer hit him two or three more blows, when he fell down bot be got up, and cried "Watch; watch!" and "Murder, murder " The elder Eaner then stuck him in the leg with the dung-fork, then in the belly, then in tne siae. ah this time Rufer was hittins him with a club. Schilling fell down, crying, "You are killing me." He saw Rufer's ' face, and was going to yell out his name, when Rufer grabbed hi m by the throat and choked- him, and in this stru?2le Rufer cot his face scratched. This lasted only a minute or so. and then the man was dead. ""We talked about what we should do with the body. When they got the body to the furnace, Rufer tried to lift him ud. but could not. and they all took hold of bim," as already stated. While Rufer washed his bands in the beam-house, the father and sc n washed theirs at the hydrant. They then w ent to the house to get a drink, but there was no more beer there, and they separated for the night. Tbe following additional testimony was given at the coroners inquest: Cornelius Westerbrook called and sworn. He testified to the following: , Live at 126 Findlay street. Am a tanner by trade, employed by, Freiberg. Worked for him abo"ut live months. Knew Schillina all that time. Was ' ft man -of steady habits, quiet and peaceable. 1U no'. Know or any quarrel be bad with' George Rufer. Schilling boarded with me . about ' five weeks took his meals but slept -at the stable. Don't know where' be boarded eelore that : . wai not ti.quainted with him , when he boarded at Lgn6r s. Seblliiug started from my house Saturday night at 10 o'clock, to 0 to bed at the stable. He had come at 6 for supper, and went to Freiberg's at 8 o'clock, and ook my little boy with him. -Then Le-cauio back and stayed till he read his German paper, and allien me what time it wa3. I told him 10 o'clock. Then be sai J, "I WANT TO GO TO BKD," and went away. That was the last I saw of him. lie had on a dark brown .soft hat, dark pants and coat, and knee boots. Saw George Rufer at 6 o'clock on Central avenue. between Findlay and Charlotte. He was walking over the street. He was going down Central avenue. I was going to supper. When he saw me he crossed the street. Did not see bim after that. He had on bis working clothes. When Herman Schil ling leit the house that night, I told bim I would be over in the morning at 6:30 o'clock, to weigh tho hides. I went over at 6:30 : Sunday morning, and knocked at the big gate in the alley, but nobody came. Then I called "Herman," two or three times. Then John Höllerbach looked out of his window,. ana saia, "Herman bad a big tight last night maybe he is killed.". Then I asked -him tocome down and help me to open tbe gate, as I had no key.- He came down and climbed over, and took the gate off the hinges, so we cot in. Hollerbach did not. say nothing when we went in, but after we searched for Schilling' he said maybe heis killed and thrown into-the vats. We found blood in the stable. I went to Schilling's room, but it was locked. We looked InthevatB in the beam-house; there wan lime water in them; then I put in tre ! ok and searched, but did not find him. Höller bach left, and after that I went home. Höl lerbach told me that Herman shouted: Johnny, help me, help me," but he did not say who they were. He told me Just the same he said on the stand yesterday. Witness then detailed the search lor and discovery of Schilling's remains In the flue under the furnace, and witness' statement that be could not recognize the remains as those of Herman Schilling. . - . : WM. OSTERHOLT CALLED.. . ... ' This witness testified that be lived at No. 00 Logan street, and is a tanner by trade. Knew Rufer for three months. He lives in the second story rear, and I live on the first . floor ' front. Never . saw Rufer drunk but . once. ' He was a nice man so long as I know -him. Never heard him quarrel with his wile. 1 saw bim in my room Saturday niarht, bstween 7 and 8 o'clock. I was at home ti,6 o'clock, but did not see when . Rufer came In. I was out a little about half past 8. He came into my room about half, past 7, and said he waa out of work. Thire was no fuss between Ruler and his wife. if there bad been any fuss I could have h-nl It; Ictmldhear every word going on. The. time I wa9 gone was for a little beer. L was .only gone about four minutes. Ituferonly stayed a few minutes, and tbei said he wanted to go up stairs. He waa not angry, and did not say anthing wrong that I know. He was clean in his face vsben 1 saw him. He bad no scratches. I did not see biio after ho l6lt my room till ho was. arrested od Sunday. ! i

Dil. PETERS treats and cores 'Ef.'.!epsy or Fits. Office and. residence No. TO North Liberty street, Indianap oils, Ind. Editor Independent I here stata that I have beeu tiiTlicied with consumption for years. I have been very much reduced; eoughed a goed deal. I thought 1 could not live lone, and my friends lost hr.oe of my recovery, nntil sometime ago I took treatment ,t Dr. C H. Peters, in Kichniocci, Ind., who has cartd me sound and well. I refer to' any of my neighbors three miles of Richmond. CALVIN' SULLIVAN. . April xs7i. State of Indiana, Wayne county, ss: Personally came before me, a notary public. In and for aforesaid Btate ard county, Calvin Bu Iii van, who, being duly uworn according to law, deposes and says that the above certificate of skill, given Dr. Veters, of his cure of consumption is true, to which I affix my notary seal. J. W. K. Lemon, Notary Public, Richmond, Inl. April 22, 1371.