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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Cruel Murder of Mina Miller - -Author: Unknown - -Release Date: December 17, 2017 [EBook #56191] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CRUEL MURDER OF MINA MILLER *** - - - - -Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (Images Courtesy of Cornell University -Law Library, Trial Pamphlets Collection) - - - - - - - - - - WEDDED AND MURDERED WITHIN AN HOUR! - - THE CRUEL MURDER OF MINA MILLER - BY - KENKOUWSKY, alias “KETTLER.” - - The Guttenberg-Hoboken Tragedy. - - A THRILLING AND REMARKABLE CASE, WHICH - RECALLS THE MURDER OF MARY RODGERS, - “THE SEGAR GIRL,” WHICH TOOK PLACE ON - THE SAME SPOT, THE SCENE OF OTHER - MURDERS OF A LIKE CHARACTER. - - THE ONLY LIFE OF MINA MILLER PUBLISHED - - BARCLAY & CO., Publishers, - 21 North Seventh Street, Philadelphia, Pa. - - AGENTS WANTED AT ALL TIMES. - - - - - Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by - BARCLAY & CO., - In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. - - - - -THE MINA MULLER MURDER. - -MURDERED BY HER HUSBAND OF AN HOUR. - - -On Friday morning, the 13th of last May, a German, whose purpose was -to gather green leaves to sell to florists in N. Y. city, entered the -path leading from Bergen avenue, in the district known as Bull’s Ferry, -north of Weehawken. He had followed it eastward toward the river about -100 feet, and had turned aside to the right about twenty feet, when -he was appalled by almost stepping upon the dead body of a woman. He -hurried away to inform the police. - -Early in the afternoon Coroner Wiggins, of Hoboken, visited the spot -and made a careful examination. He judged that the woman had not been -over 25 years old. Along the top of the head, on the left side, was a -deep gash, and beneath it the skull was fractured. There was another -gash over the right eye. Both of these gashes were apparently made -with the edge of a stone. The nose was broken in the middle. The right -side of the head had apparently been crushed by a stone. The left ear -was injured as if an ear-ring had been torn from it. Search was made -for the missing ear-ring, but it was not found. Her face had become -blackened by the sun, which shone upon the spot where the body lay. The -features were small and symmetrical. She wore number one or number two -buttoned shoes. - -An investigation was at once begun by the coroner, but without much -success. - -On the 18th the young woman was completely identified as Mrs. -Philomena Muller, the wife of Simon Muller, a tobacconist, at 502 West -Thirtieth street, N. Y. Mr. Muller called at the Morgue at 3 o’clock on -the afternoon of May 18th, in company with a lady whom he introduced as -Miss Maria Schmidt, his wife’s sister. He said they desired to look at -the body. They were led into the damp vault, and at sight of the body -Miss Schmidt was overcome, and she retired to the adjoining basement. -Mr. Muller gazed upon the body calmly. The jewelry and clothing of -the dead woman were shown to him, and he positively identified them -as the property of his wife. He said that he had given her the cameo -brooch. Mr. Muller said that some time ago his wife deserted him, -and since then she had not lived with him. Miss Schmidt had seen her -sister about two weeks before. Mrs. Muller then informed her that she -had found a decent man, who was going to marry her and take her to -Germany in the steamer L’Amerique, which was to sail on the 4th of May. -When Miss Schmidt told Mr. Muller of this he went to the wharf of the -Transatlantic Steamship Company on the morning of May 4th, and remained -at the gang plank of the vessel until all the passengers had gone -aboard. He was certain that his wife was not among them, but he did not -know her paramour. - -Before this identification was made, the authorities of Hudson county -had obtained conclusive evidence of the fact that the murdered woman -was Mrs. Philomena Muller, and that her assassin had married her on the -morning of the day on which he killed her, and had taken passage on the -following day for Europe. As Mrs. Finck, the wife of an alehouse keeper -in Pierce Avenue, West New York, was sitting in her saloon on the -afternoon of Tuesday, the 3d of May, a man and a woman entered and sat -down at a table. The woman ordered drinks, and called for a glass of -beer. Her companion drank soda water. While they were there the woman -talked almost incessantly. She said that they came from Morrisania. She -seemed to have plenty of money. When she paid for the refreshments, -Mrs. Finck noticed a large roll of bank notes in her pocketbook, -besides some silver and gold. Before going away, the woman borrowed -a corkscrew to open a bottle of Rhine wine which she had with her. -She said she had bought the bottle in Union Hill. Mrs. Finck minutely -described the woman, and the description tallied exactly with that of -the woman who was murdered. Prosecutor McGill was so impressed with -the accuracy of Mrs. Finck’s description, that he specially detailed -Detectives Swinton and Fanning to trace the movements of the unknown -couple. They began their search on Tuesday evening, May 17th, and -Wednesday the 18th they submitted to the Prosecutor a circumstantial -account of their discoveries. - -They began by looking for the person from whom the bottle of Rhine wine -had been purchased. Every saloon along the Boulevard and the Hackensack -plank road was visited, but to no purpose. Continuing their inquiries, -they entered an inn kept by Edward Stabel, on the Weaverstown road. -When they questioned him he said he remembered that on the day -indicated by them a woman had called at his place and asked for a -bottle of Rhine wine. As he did not have any he sent his granddaughter, -Lizzie Haas, to Mr. Eberling’s store, in Bergenline avenue, for a -bottle of it. While the girl was absent the woman chatted pleasantly -with Stabel. She told him, among other things, that she had just been -married by the Rev. Mr. Mabon, the pastor of the Grove Reformed Dutch -Church, and that she wanted the wine to celebrate the event, and to -treat the minister. She also said that she was about to sail for -France. When the girl came back with the bottle of wine the woman paid -her fifty cents for it, and gave her ten cents additional out of a $5 -gold piece that Stabel changed for her. On leaving the saloon the woman -was joined by a man. Stabel could not recollect anything in particular -about the man, except that he had stood outside on the street while the -woman bought the wine. But he gave a very accurate description of the -woman and her dress, which tallied both with Mrs. Finck’s description -of the woman she had seen, and with that of the murdered woman. Mrs. -Stabel furnished additional details. She said the woman came to the -saloon on the 3d of May. She was sure of the date, because on the -same day there was a burial in the Grove Church Cemetery which is -only a short distance from the inn. The woman told Mrs. Stabel of her -marriage, and explained that it had been secretly performed, because -her brother disliked her husband, and had objected to the match. She -also said that she had been married once before, and had attended a -cigar store which her former husband kept in N. Y. city. Mrs. Stabel’s -circumstantial description of the woman tallied yet more accurately -than her husband’s with that of the murdered woman. - -The detectives then went to the parsonage of the Grove Reformed Dutch -Church, where they found the Rev. Dr. Mabon. He recollected having -married a couple on May 3d. The woman, he said, entered his residence -alone, leaving the man in the yard, where he paced up and down as -if absorbed in meditation. The woman asked Mr. Mabon if he would -perform a marriage, and upon being told yes, she went out and returned -immediately with the man. As the couple had not provided a witness, the -clergyman called in John Schuman, a barber in Union street, Union Hill. -The man and woman made satisfactory replies to the usual questions, and -they were married in legal form. After the ceremony they subscribed -the following record of the marriage, which is now in Mr. Mabon’s -possession: - - On Tuesday, May 3, 1881, Louis Kettler, single, aged 33, - bricklayer by occupation, and residence 1511 Second avenue, New - York, married to Mina Schmidt, single, aged 34, residence, 1247 - Third avenue, New York. Father of bridegroom, Louis Kettler; - father of bride, Anastasius Schmidt. Both of the contracting - parties were born in Katenheim, Germany. - -The woman did most of the talking, and seemed to be in excellent -spirits. She exhibited a bulky pocketbook, and asked Mr. Mabon how much -his charge was. He replied that she might pay him whatever she thought -proper. As she had no small bills she went out to get change, and came -back presently with the money and a bottle of Rhine wine, which she -offered to the clergyman. When he refused it she tried to persuade him -to take a drink, but he declined, and, after a few more words, the -strange couple quitted the parsonage. Mr. Mabon could not recollect -anything about the dress of either of the parties, but his colored -servant girl told the detectives that she had particularly noticed the -man as he was striding up and down the garden, and acting as if his -mind was troubled. She said he was stout, with a full face and dark -moustache, and wore a high, flat-topped Derby hat. - -Mrs. Sarah Rigler, who lives in the neighborhood of the church, saw the -couple before their marriage. They came along the road, and the woman -stopped and asked Mrs. Rigler: - -“Can you please direct me to a priest?” - -“Do you want a priest or a minister?” Mrs. Rigler inquired. - -“I want a Protestant priest,” the woman responded. “I am going to be -married, and I want him to marry us.” - -Mrs. Rigler’s description of the woman was almost precisely the -same as Mrs. Stabel’s. The man, she said, was quiet, and did not say -anything in her hearing. When the couple were last seen by the people -in the neighborhood of the church they were walking together toward -West New York by a road that led in the direction of Finck’s saloon and -the Guttenberg ferry. - -[Illustration: MARTIN KENKOUWSKY.] - -[Illustration: MINA MULLER.] - -The detectives next went to 1247 Third avenue, N. Y. city, the number -that had been given to Mr. Mabon by the bride as her residence. There -they were unable for a long time to find any trace of Mina Schmidt. -Finally the daughter of the janitor remembered that a woman answering -Miss Schmidt’s description had been living at service with a family -in the house. But the family had moved, and the servant had gone with -them. An expressman named Body had taken away her trunks. After a -tedious search Body was found. The young woman whose trunks he had -removed proved not to have been the murdered woman. But Body said that -about the 1st of May a woman whom he knew as Mrs. Mina Muller offered -to sell him some articles of furniture, as she was about to move. -They were unable to agree on the price. Mrs. Muller returned shortly -afterward and left an order to have an express wagon call for her -baggage at 1511 Second avenue, where she was then staying. Body sent -William Norke, one of his drivers, to the place, and the man received -from Mrs. Muller four trunks, a bundle of bedding, and a valise, -which, by her directions, he carried to Theodore Scherrer’s Hotel, at -178 Christopher street. Body and Norke described Mrs. Muller, and the -detectives were satisfied that she was the woman who, under the name -of Mina Schmidt, was married by Mr. Mabon in the Grove Church. A man -whom the driver did not know, but who, from his appearance, he believed -to have been the murderer, superintended the transfer of her packages, -and rode in the wagon with Norke to the hotel. On the way there he told -Norke that he intended soon to sail for Europe. - -At 1511 Second avenue, whither the detectives next proceeded, -they found a German woman named Mrs. Schwan, who keeps a dyeing -establishment. She did not know any man named Kettler, but she said -that a man who answered in every respect the description of Kettler had -lived in the house, but had moved about the first of May. He had lived, -she said, with a young widow, to whom she had heard he was married. -Mrs Schwan described the woman, and again the description tallied with -that of the murdered woman. Mrs. Schwan had been told that the woman -had another husband living in Thirty-ninth street. Charles Rost, the -landlord, said that on March 3d Mrs. Muller had engaged three rooms, -front, on the top floor, and had furnished them comfortably. She told -Rost that she was working for Hahn, the butcher, in Third Avenue. Her -husband, Mr. Muller, she said, had died of consumption, and had left -her $1,000 insurance on his life. She was away all day as a rule, and -returned to her apartments in the evening. - -“One day,” said Mr. Rost, “about five weeks after she came here, I -had occasion to go to the roof. Her room door was wide open, and Mrs. -Muller was at work within fixing up her curtains and arranging her -room. I said to her in fun: - -“You ought to have a husband here, Mrs. Muller.” - -“‘Oh! I’ve got one,’ she said. ‘My name is Mrs. Kettler now. I’m not -Mrs. Muller any longer.’” She said, too, that her new husband was a -mason, kalsominer and paper hanger, and was getting good wages. A few -days after that Mr. Rost met him in the hallway of the house for the -first time, and asked if he lived there. He also told Kettler that -he believed Mrs. Muller had another husband living. His suspicions -had been excited by the woman’s talk of her dead husband and her -inconsistent lack of mourning attire or demeanor. On May 2nd, they sold -their furniture, and moved their trunks and bedding, no one then knew -whither. “The man,” said Mrs. Rost, “was a greenhorn,” and this was the -testimony of others in the building who had noticed him. - -Among the persons by whom the woman had been employed was Moise Hahn, a -butcher in Third avenue. He said that she worked for him until May 1st, -when she quitted, as she intended to go to Europe. She was then living -with a foreigner whose name Hahn did not know, but whose description -corresponded with that of the groom in the marriage ceremony in Mr. -Mabon’s house. She told Hahn that she was going with him to Mulhausen -in Alsace. - -Mr. Scherrer of Scherrer’s Hotel at 178 Christopher street, to which -place Norke had carried the trunks and bundles belonging to the woman -who gave her name as Mina Miller, informed the detectives that on -Monday evening, May 2, a German went there with an express wagon -containing four trunks, a bundle of bedding, and a valise. - -“The man,” Scherrer said, “afterwards introduced a woman who he said -was his wife. She was very talkative and had all the money and paid -all the bills. The man told me that they were going to sail in the -steamship L’Amerique on the 4th inst., and were going to Mulhausen, in -Alsace. On the day they came to my place the man, who said his name -was Kettler, left the trunks here, but spent the night at Mr. Boker’s -place, two doors further down the street. On Monday, May 3, Mr. and -Mrs. Kettler and I had a long chat about the old country, and about -noon they left my place and went to the direction of the Christopher -Street Ferry. Mrs. Kettler promised my wife that she would come back -to bid us good-by. Late on Tuesday night Mr. Kettler returned alone. -I asked him where his wife was, and he said she had gone to spend the -night at her sister’s house, and was to meet him on board the steamship -in the morning. He seemed to me to be very much excited and uneasy, and -his behaviour struck me at the time as peculiar. The next morning he -had his trunks sent to the steamship wharf, and went away. That is the -last I saw of him.” - -Louis Groth keeps a lager beer saloon in Thirty-ninth street, near -Ninth avenue. A friend of his living at 1511 Second avenue, in the same -house with Mrs. Muller, told Groth of her being there with Kettler. -Groth told Mr. Schmidt, Mrs. Muller’s brother, who lives at 555 Ninth -avenue, and he informed Mr. Muller of his wife’s whereabouts. - -Mr. Schmidt was at his home at 555 Ninth avenue last evening. He told -our reporter who called that he saw his sister for the last time on the -Sunday before the murder. Previous to that, upon the information from -Louis Groth that she was living with Kettler in Second avenue, he saw -her there, and remonstrated with her. He also had a talk with Kettler, -who, however, said nothing of any proposed marriage. He said, however, -that he knew Muller. Muller told Schmidt that he didn’t know Kettler. -Schmidt says that when his sister Mina called at his house on Sunday -she got a bank book containing $40 which he had been keeping for her, -and told him that she had sold her furniture, and had altogether $116. -She was going to marry Kettler on Tuesday, May 3, and go with Kettler -to Alsace, which was his former home. Her brother says he told her he -did not want her to marry again while she had a husband, but she said -she was determined to do so. - -Mr. Schmidt has a brother August, a musician, living at 49 Avenue A. -and two sisters now living one of whom is married. Muller, he says, was -attentive to the unmarried sister, and Mrs. Muller and he continually -quarrelled about this intimacy. Their disputes were so violent as to -attract the attention of the people in the house where they lived in -Thirty-ninth street, and once Mr. Muller was badly whipped, it is -reported, by some friends of Mrs. Muller. - -Muller and his wife were married in 1874, and lived for three and a -half years in the house at 338 West Thirty-ninth street. Muller made -cigars and kept a small store there. When he and his wife could stand -each other no longer, said Mr. Schmidt, they separated, and Mrs. Muller -for a while lived in a house in the same block. About three months -previous to the murder she left the neighborhood and secured employment -in the butcher shop of Moise Heahn in Third avenue. Muller sold his -store out on April 1, and removed to his present place in Thirtieth -street. Mr. Schmidt said that Kettler, after marrying his sister, -undoubtedly led her to the lonely place of the murder for the sole -purpose of killing and robbing her of the $116 which she had, and the -gold watch and chain. - -As Mrs. Muller left her brother’s house on Sunday she said to the -saloon-keeper on the ground floor, “I’ve got another man--a nice man -now--and I’m all right again.” - -Kettler had been only seven months in this country. - -Attorney-General Stockton directed Mr. McGill to telegraph to the -authorities at Havre, describing Kettler, and requesting his arrest on -a charge of murder. Detective Edward Stanton was to sail for Europe on -Saturday in pursuit of the murderer, but subsequent events proved this -unnecessary, as the reader will learn by following this complete and -dramatic recital. - - - - -TRACKED AND ARRESTED. - - Wildly Declaring his Innocence, yet admitting that he was in - Hoboken with the murdered woman--“She Led Me Astray”--A very - Touching Scene with his Wife. - - -Martin Kenkouwsky, alias Louis Kettler, the murderer of Mrs. Mina -Muller, was captured on the night of May 19th, 1881, by Policemen -Morris Fitzgerald and Richard Tregonning of the Thirty-seventh street -police station, as he was walking in Thirty-sixth street, near Tenth -Avenue, New York City. The clue which led to his detection was -discovered and followed out almost to the end by Gustavus A. Seide, -a reporter for a Jersey City newspaper, and compares, as a piece -of amateur detective work, with the detection of Chastine Cox, the -murderer of Mrs. Hull. Seide recognized that there was a flaw in the -theory that the alleged murderer had gone to Europe in the Amerique. -There was no certainty that the baggage which was taken from Sherrer’s -house on the day the steamer sailed was delivered at the pier of the -French line, nor was there positive evidence that Kettler himself had -been seen on the pier that morning. Superintendent West of the French -pier said that on the day the Amerique sailed, a man answering somewhat -Kettler’s description had applied to him for a ticket, and he had -referred him to the purser. Baggage corresponding to what Kettler was -supposed to have taken with him the Superintendent had not seen on the -pier. - -Seide came over to New York early Thursday morning, May 19th, and -proceeded at once to look for the man who was supposed to have taken -Kettler’s baggage from Scherrer’s Hotel to the pier. Scherrer had seen -the man in the neighborhood quite frequently, but did not know his -name or where he kept. He, however, described him to Seide as a tall, -well-built man, with dark moustache and dark complexion. The reporter -started out, and visited the truck stands between Christopher and -Twentieth streets, but could not find his man. Returning to Scherrer’s, -he found a man, whom he describes as a “dilapidated individual,” taking -a drink at the bar. Seide again asked Scherrer for a description of the -truckman. Scherrer gave it as before, adding that he drove a red truck -with one brown horse. Here the “dilapidated individual” spoke up and -said, the truckman might be found at Christopher and Bleecker streets. -On inquiring there Seide learned that he changed his stand a few days -before; but where he had gone no one in the immediate vicinity could -tell. He, however, discovered that his name was C. A. Strang. He then -made inquiries for Strang’s whereabouts in various smithies and liquor -stores, and in one of the latter he ascertained that Strang lived in -Greenwich street, on the west side, a few doors below Christopher -street. - -At this point Seide telegraphed over to Detective Stanton of the New -Jersey force, and awaited his arrival. Then they went to Strang’s -house, where Mrs. Strang informed them that her husband was at the -new market, corner of West and Gansvoort streets. There they found -him. They asked him if, on the morning of the sailing of the Amerique, -he had taken baggage belonging to Kettler to the steamship wharf. He -replied that he had not; he had taken the baggage to a Mrs. Clifford’s, -at 179 Charles street, and about ten days afterward he had removed -the valise and three ordinary yellow trunks to 510 West Thirty-sixth -street. The other trunk, which was long and black, he had not seen -again. He was not sure whether he had taken the first load on the 3d -or 4th instant. He at first refused to go with them to the house in -Charles street, saying he was too busy; but when Seide and Stanton -offered to pay him for his time, he consented. - -Mrs. Clifford said that a man answering Kettler’s description had -come to the house either on the 3d or 4th inst., and she remembered -that Strang had brought a valise and four trunks. Kettler had remained -at the house about ten days, paying her regularly. Once he paid her -with a five-dollar gold piece. She did not notice anything peculiar -or restless in his behaviour. He kept to the house pretty closely, -though he was generally out nights. She saw, however, that he read the -newspapers very closely. He told her that he was going to California. -When asked if on his departure he had taken all his baggage, she -said, no, he had left a long black trunk, which they would find in -the wood-shed. They opened the trunk, and found it full of crockery -and cooking utensils. They carried it to Strang’s truck, and directed -Strang to carry it to the house in Thirty-sixth street, to ask for -Kettler, and if Kettler was there, to give them a sign, as they would -remain outside. Strang inquired for Kettler, but was told that no -man of that name lived there; but that a man corresponding to the -description lived one flight up with a wife and two children. Strang -took the trunk up stairs, and found a woman, a young boy, and a little -girl in the room designated. The woman said the trunk belonged to -Martin Kenkouwsky, her husband, and offered to pay fifty cents for its -delivery. Strang then signalled to Seide and Stanton that the man was -not in, and the reporter and detective went to an adjoining house, and -received permission to watch from the windows. Seide went out again -to speak to Strang, and while he was talking to him in front of 510 -West Thirty-sixth street, both were arrested by Policeman Tregonning. -The police of Capt. Washburn’s precinct had been looking for the same -man, and had traced him to this same house. This was the cause of -the arrest of Seide and Strang. When they got to the station, Seide -explained to the Captain who he was, and the Captain sent him back with -a policeman to get Stanton to identify him. At first they couldn’t -find Stanton, and the policeman wanted to take Seide back. In the -meantime the Captain had sent Policeman Fitzgerald to aid Tregonning -in arresting Kenkouwsky. The policemen, Seide, and Stanton, who had -meanwhile relieved Seide of his embarrassment, waited for about three -hours, when they saw a man answering the description of the murderer -walking up the street. Policeman Fitzgerald arrested him. He offered -no resistance, and his only exclamation was in German: “Was ist? was -ist? was ist?” He was at once taken to the station, where he was locked -up. Sergeant Brown was sent down for Scherrer, and a policeman was -despatched for Strang. Scherrer arrived about twenty minutes after the -arrest, and identified the prisoner as the man who had been at his -house under the name of Kettler. Strang also soon appeared, and he too -identified Kettler. Meanwhile Policemen had entered the room at 510 -West Thirty-sixth street, notified the woman of her husband’s arrest, -and taken the four trunks and the valise to the station. Our reporter -was present when the trunks were opened. Almost the first thing found -when one of the yellow trunks was opened was a letter addressed to -Mrs. Mina Muller, 338 West Thirty-ninth street. In a corner of the -envelope was printed “Germania Lodge, No. 70, K. of H.” It contained a -request for her to attend a lodge meeting on Jan. 10. The trunks were -full of articles of female attire, and in one of them was a pair of -men’s gloves of white leather, stained with dirt and badly torn, as -though whoever wore them had been handling some rough object. It is -thought that Kenkowski wore these gloves when he was married and when -he crushed Mina Muller’s skull with stones. A gray wrapper, and a straw -bonnet and table covers were among the other objects found. - -[Illustration: MARRIAGE CEREMONY WHICH TOOK PLACE AN HOUR BEFORE THE -MURDER.] - -[Illustration: MURDERING MINA MULLER IN THE WOODS NORTH OF WEEHAWKEN.] - -At about half-past 9 the prisoner’s wife arrived at the station with -her boy, who was crying bitterly. She asked why her husband had been -arrested, and why the trunks had been taken away. When asked what his -name was, she replied, “Martin Kenkouwski,” and added that they had -been married ten years ago in Alsace, and had only been in this country -a little more than half a year. Her husband was a mason and kalsominer. -When asked if he had been at home regularly lately, she said he had -been away about ten days in the beginning of the month. - -“Do you know,” asked the interpreter (the woman and her husband spoke -in German), “that he married another woman, and killed her?” - -“I don’t believe it,” she replied firmly, while the boy cried more -loudly than before. “I don’t believe it!” she reiterated. “Let me see -him! Don’t cry my child” (turning to the boy), “or you will make me -weep. Don’t cry!” Here her voice faltered, and she burst into tears. - -She was then led to the cell. Here a heart-rending scene occurred. She -threw herself with her child against the grating, sobbing and calling -for her husband. He was far back in the cell, and when he heard her and -the child, he shrieked from out of the darkness: - -“Katrina! Katrina! Merciful Heavens! My child! My child! Great God, are -you here!” - -Then he rushed forward to the cell door, pressed his face against the -iron trellis work, lifted his hands and called out: “Before God I stand -a guiltless man, and if I die I die guiltless. I was misled by the -wicked woman; she led me astray. My God, Katrina! Katrina! Give me your -hand!” - -Here he thrust his hand through the cell gate, and his wife clasped it. -She was too much overcome to speak for a while, and the child moaned -and sobbed. Kenkouwski continued reiterating his innocence, when he -called out again. “The wicked woman misled me; she led me astray.” - -His wife exclaimed: “Have I not been a good wife? Have I not prayed to -God for you?” Then she sobbed again. After a while she said to him: “I -don’t believe you killed her! I don’t believe it!” After this she and -the child were led away, and he called after them: “By God, Katrina, I -am innocent. I am innocent.” - -The woman said he had always been a good husband to her, nor did she -seem to know anything of Mina Muller. She said nothing when asked what -she had thought when her husband came back with three yellow trunks -after an absence of ten days. - -Shortly after the woman left, Kenkouwski was led before the Sergeant -for examination. He looked wild and nervous, and gesticulated -violently. “He must be watched well to-night,” said one of the -policemen, “or he’ll hang himself.” As he approached the desk, he -suddenly threw up his arms and exclaimed: - -“Now, I will tell you the truth. If it is not the truth you may take a -knife and cut my throat, like this,” (here he pulled his finger across -his neck.) “Mina Schmidt told me the other day that she knew I was -married, but she wanted me to marry her and go to Germany with her, -where she had very good parents living. At that time I didn’t know she -was married. We went to Guttenberg to get married, and when we got -over there we went to the Schutzen Park. Two men there came up to me -and told me that she did not love me, that she loved another. When she -heard this she sprang up and ran away from me, and I have not seen her -since.” - -He was then led back to his cell. He was again brought from his -cell at about 11 o’clock to be looked at by the reporters assembled -in the Thirty-seventh street station. He had been lying down, and -the light dust from the cell floor covered his back. He looked in a -bewildered manner at the throng about him, spoke a few words in German, -reasserting what he had previously said in regard to the murder, and -was taken back again. His eyes were bloodshot, and he spoke in a -nervous manner. - -“Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu!” exclaimed Kenkouwsky, “does any one speak French? - -“I do!” replied another reporter, addressing him in French. - -Kenkouwsky sprang from his seat and, with tears falling fast, seized -the reporter by the hand and said: “Tell them that as our Saviour, who -was crucified, was innocent, so am I!” - -“Of what?” asked the reporter. - -“Of the murder of Mina Schmidt. I married her that day, although I -have a wife here. She told me she loved me. I did not tell her I was -married. After we were married we went to Schuetzen Park. There we sat -at a table drinking, when two men came by. They greeted Mina as old -friends, and we all drank together. One of the men took her away, and -the other then told me that Mina had said that she did not love me. -They all left me, and I, after hunting for them, came back to this city -and tried to find her.” - -Chief of Police Donovan of Hoboken, who had been standing by all this -time and listening to what the reporter quickly translated, touched the -reporter on the shoulder and said: “Ask him if he was not in Jersey -City last night.” - -The reporter asked the question. Kenkouwsky staggered back and -repeated, “Jersey City! Jersey City! Where is that?” The reporter -repeated the question. - -Kenkouwsky replied: “I was with my wife last night.” - -“In Jersey City?” asked the reporter. - -“No; I was with a woman there.” - -Chief Donovan’s eyes brightened, and he then said: “Last Monday a -young girl, whose name I cannot now mention, was taken into a house by -this man. He made her drink wine, and as she was partly stupefied, he -locked the doors and assaulted her. It was for this offence that I and -my detectives were hunting him up to-day. We did not then suspect that -he was the murderer of Mrs. Schmidt. Last night he was to meet another -girl, but she became frightened and did not stay where he told her to -until he came. He eluded us by ten minutes.” - -In the prisoner’s pocket was found a clipping from a German paper of -the account of the hanging of Mrs. Meierhoffer and her paramour last -winter. To the reporter he said he had not read any account of the -Guttenberg murder until the day previous to his arrest. - -At midnight Chief Donovan had the trunks of Mrs. Mina Schmidt taken -over to Hoboken. - -Detective Stanton told our reporter that an empty watch case had been -found in the room at 510 West Thirty-sixth street. On the yellow trunks -labels were pasted with the address: - - +--------------------------+ - | MONSIEUR JOSEPH REYMANN, | - | | - | No. 52 Rue Clissant, | - | | - | Paris (France). | - +--------------------------+ - -The purpose of this address was, it is supposed, to induce Scherrer to -believe that he was to take the French steamer. - -Seide says he has ascertained that on Monday night, May 2, Kenkouwsky -applied at Becker’s Hotel in Christopher street, for a room, but -refused to write his name. The entry is in the hotel clerk’s hand. -“Louis Kettler, Room No. 1.” - -Coroner Wiggins began an inquest in the case in Hoboken on the -afternoon of May 19th. Simon Muller, the husband of the murdered -woman, testified: “Coroner Wiggins told me on Wednesday that my wife -had been found murdered in Guttenberg. I told him that it could not be -so, for that she had gone to Germany with a man from Alsace. I went -to the French steamship wharf on the day I heard they were to sail, -and watched for her until the ship sailed, but she did not come. I was -married to her five years ago. Our married life was unhappy, and on the -5th of last January she left me. She had then between $75 and $100.” - -Carl Schmidt, the brother of the murdered woman, testified: “I last -saw my sister Philomina at my place, 555 Ninth avenue, New York. She -came to my house on Sunday, May 1, at about 5 o’clock in the afternoon. -She told me she was going with a man named Louis Kettler to Mulhausen, -in Alsace. I asked her why she was going. She replied that Kettler was -well off at home. ‘You know,’ she said, ‘what treatment I have had -from my husband.’ I told her that I knew he did not treat her right, -but that she should not go with this man, as she did not know him at -all. And further, I told her that she must first get a separation from -Muller before she could go with another man. She answered, ‘I don’t -care how it will result, I will go with him. My husband tried to shoot -me.’ She also told me that she had known Kettler for four weeks, and -he had told her that he had property in Mulhausen, and that he would -give her a good home there. Kettler, she said, was richer than the -whole Schmidt family. She left me at about 6½ o’clock to go to my -other sister’s house in Tenth avenue, between Nineteenth and Twentieth -streets. I never saw Kettler but once, and that was on a Sunday in -April in Second avenue, near Seventy-ninth street, in my sister’s -apartments. On May 2nd a cousin of my wife met Kettler on the street -and asked him when he and Mina were going to Europe. He replied that -he was not going to Europe. The cousin then asked what Mina would do, -and he said she would go to the country, where she had friends to stay -with. Kettler then suggested that the cousin and he should go off -together, and leave Mina behind. Since the 3rd of May, on the 9th or -10th of the month, I think, the woman Sacks saw Louis Kettler passing -up on the opposite side of the street. When she noticed him she called -my wife, who was in the room with her, to the window.” - -The Rev. Dr. Mabon, the pastor of the Grove Reformed Dutch Church, on -the Weavertown road, at whose house the murdered woman and Kettler were -married, testified that he had performed the ceremony. - -“When I asked the man,” he said, “if he took the woman for his lawful -wife, he answered ‘Yes,’ and at the time I noticed a tear in his eye.” - -The inquest was suddenly adjourned on the news of the murderer’s arrest -in N. Y. city. - - - - -THREATENING TO LYNCH HIM. - - The Scene at his Parting from his Wife and Children--Angry - Throngs in Hoboken--Giving Away the Murdered Woman’s Watch--The - Testimony. - - -Over in New York Martin Kenkowsky was closely watched. He was so -agitated when he was led back to his cell on Thursday night, that -Policeman Finerty was detailed to watch him, as it was feared he might -attempt to kill himself. The policeman says that the prisoner was -restless until after sunrise. At first he paced the cell like a caged -animal, stopping now and then and pressing his face against the gate, -his bloodshot eyes glaring through the trellis work. This continued -several hours. Then, for the first time, he gave way to his feelings. -He threw himself upon the floor and moaned piteously. Then he sprang -up again, leaped to the gate, and tried to shake it. After that he -again paced the cell, wringing his hands wildly and calling out German -words which the policeman could not understand. Toward morning he -became more quiet, but even when lying down he tossed about and did not -sleep. Finerty says that Kenkowsky is one of the most powerful men he -has seen; that when he tried to shake the cell gate he could see the -muscles moving beneath his sleeves. - -The news that the Guttenberg murderer had been captured spread rapidly -in the neighborhood, and by eight o’clock in the morning some 400 -persons were in Thirty-seventh street, pressing toward the police -station and standing on either side of the station nearly all the way -to Ninth and Tenth avenues. A little after 8 o’clock a woman with a -young boy at her side and a little girl in her arms was seen trying to -make her way through the crowd. Whenever it was so dense as to impede -her progress she spoke a few words, and those in the immediate vicinity -fell back and allowed her to pass. The boy was crying bitterly, but -the woman’s features were firmly set, and the little girl, who seemed -to be about 6 years old, was quiet. When the woman had made her way to -the station door she hesitated a moment. Then she entered, dragging the -boy, who seemed unwilling to follow, after her. She was the prisoner’s -wife. People now began to climb upon some empty trunks near by, and -even women with babies in their arms were seen on the wagons. Up to -this point the crowd had been quiet. But when the coach in which -Kenkowsky was to be conveyed to the Jefferson Market Police Court -appeared, some one shouted, “Kill him!” and an angry howl went up from -the dense throng. - -“Lynch him! Hang him to a lamp post!” was shouted by others. No -attempt, however, was made to carry out these threats. - -Meanwhile Chief of Police Donovan of Hoboken and Detective Stanton had -arrived, and the prisoner had been led from his cell. When he saw his -wife and children he burst into tears. His wife also wept and called -out: - -“Why did you not take my advice? Why did you not stay away from her?” - -“I swear to God I am innocent,” he called out. “Let me kiss you, -Katrina; let me kiss you and my children!” - -He stepped toward her with arms spread as though to embrace her, but -she started back in a half frightened way. The boy, however, sprang -toward him and clasped his arms around his neck. The woman turned her -face away and only allowed him to kiss her neck, while the little -girl pushed him off and then shrank away. Just then the crowd without -howled. Kenkowsky turned ghastly pale and trembled, while his wife -fainted and fell upon the floor, and the boy wept louder than ever. The -little girl leaned over her mother and patted her cheek with one hand, -while with the other she made a repelling motion toward her father. The -prisoner was led away, and as soon as the wife came to her senses she -went away with her children. When the door closed on her she stood for -a moment gazing in a dazed manner at the crowd. The people seemed to -pity her. One man took her hand and led her down the steps, and then -she passed through the crowd unmolested by either word or act. Her -face was pale but calm, and the little girl was as quiet as she had -been throughout all the trying scenes, but the boy, who clung to his -mother’s skirt, was still crying bitterly. - -Kenkowsky was again led back before the sergeant at the desk as soon as -his family had gone. He was then quite calm and collected. He turned to -a policeman and said in German: “I am innocent. I suppose you will let -me go home soon.” - -“Why,” replied the policeman, “whether you’re guilty or not, you’ll -be mighty lucky if you get off.” - -[Illustration: FINDING THE BODY OF MINA SCHMIDT, ALIAS MULLER, ALIAS -KENKOUWSKY, WHERE IT HAD BEEN LEFT BY HER HUSBAND] - -The prisoner was then asked if he would go quietly to court, and he -said he would. He was manacled, and between two policemen was marched -out of the station. His appearance was a signal for another howl from -the crowd, who pressed around the party so closely that the policemen -used their clubs. The prisoner turned pale, and trembled as he had done -in the station when he heard the angry cry without. He was hustled into -the coach, and as soon as the door was closed the driver whipped up -his horses, and they started off at such speed that the crowd had to -fall back. Many, however, ran after the coach several blocks down Ninth -avenue, and some boys followed it all the way to the Jefferson Market -Police Court. - -The prisoner was taken into a small room, and when court was opened -he was led before Justice Morgan. Capt. Washburn, Coroner Wiggins, -Chief Donovan, Detective Stanton, and G. A. Seide were in court. Capt. -Washburn stated the case to the Justice, and said the New Jersey -authorities wished to have the custody of the prisoner. The Justice -called up Kenkowsky and asked if he knew why he was to be taken to -New Jersey. The French interpreter translated the question, but the -prisoner said he understood German better than he did French, so the -German interpreter was called in. Kenkowsky replied in the affirmative. -He further said that he knew his legal rights, but that he was willing -to go to New Jersey without any formal proceedings. The Justice then -endorsed the warrant and Capt. Washburn handed over the prisoner to -Chief Donovan. Kenkowsky’s manacles had been taken off, and he asked -that he be allowed to have his arms free. His request was granted. - -Kenkowsky was then again placed in the coach, which was driven -hurriedly through West Tenth street to the Hoboken ferry and upon the -ferryboat Moonachie. - -Kenkowsky’s coming had been anticipated in Hoboken, and an immense -throng had gathered at the ferry on the Hoboken side, rendering the -streets leading to the river almost impassable. As each boat reached -the slip the policemen on duty there experienced the utmost difficulty -in restraining the crowd that pressed forward eagerly in the desire -to get a glimpse of the prisoner. When at last he landed on the New -Jersey shore the carriage was driven as rapidly as possible through -the multitude in the direction of Police Headquarters. Some one in -the throng recognized Chief Donovan in the vehicle and shouted to the -bystanders: - -“There’s the murderer! There’s the murderer!” - -The news spread like wildfire, and was received with mingled threats -and shouts of exultation. Cries of “Hang him!” “Lynch the wretch!” -“We’ll fix him!” were heard on all sides. The coach dashed up Newark -street to Hudson street, pursued by over 2,000 persons, shouting at the -top of their voices. Chief Donovan deemed it prudent to avoid the still -larger crowds that swarmed around the police station on Washington -street. He therefore directed the driver to pull up his horses at the -end of an alley that led to the rear of the building. The prisoner was -conducted through this passage to the station. He was placed in a cell -at the end of the corridor. - -While he was lying in jail awaiting the opening of the inquest, -which had been adjourned until 2 o’clock, another link in the chain -of circumstantial evidence against him was being prepared. Regina -Herkfeldt, 20 years old, of 153 Newark avenue, told the police that on -Monday, May 9, she went to an intelligence office in Mott street to get -a situation as a servant. There she met a man answering Kenkowsky’s -description. He engaged her to do housework, and took her to 149 -Charles street. There he locked her in a room and assaulted her. He -then led her to the street and left her. Afterward he followed her into -a saloon and took her pocketbook and a ring from her finger, and left -the saloon with them. She followed him to Thirty-fifth street and Tenth -avenue, where she lost him. Three or four days afterward the man went -to her brother’s place of business (her brother is a galvanizer in the -Pennsylvania Railroad shops), and told him that he wanted to marry the -girl. After that he went to her house and told her he would marry her, -and they went to Canal street, New York, to her sister’s house. Last -Sunday the man went to her house and told her he was going to Chicago. -He said he wanted to give her a gold watch and a ring. The watch was a -lady’s hunting case gold watch, with flowers engraved on the outside -case. The inside case did not look like gold. The ring was chased, and -had one round dark blue stone set in a crown setting, with four claws -which held the stone. He would not let her keep the ring, but said he -would send her one from Chicago. He went back on Wednesday, the 18th, -and told her she must get a situation, and he would send for her from -Chicago. The girl could not remember the man’s name. - -When Chief Donovan heard this story he telegraphed to Jersey City for -the girl, and she was taken to Hoboken by Detective Bowe. Kenkowsky and -a number of other persons were admitted to the large drill room of the -station, and the girl was then led in and requested to point out the -man. No sooner had she entered the apartment than she walked opposite -to Kenkowsky, looked at him steadily for an instant, and then, as she -waved her umbrella toward him, exclaimed: - -“Das ist der man.” - -“Ask him,” said Chief Donovan to Aid Ringe, “whether he has ever seen -this woman before.” - -The aid interpreted the question and the prisoner grunted out a -negative answer. - -At 2 o’clock in the afternoon, the hour appointed for the continuation -of the inquest, a great throng swarmed in Washington street between -Police Headquarters and the Morgue. Kenkowsky was led through this -crowd by Chief Donovan and an escort of policemen. The prisoner’s -appearance was greeted with the same threatening cries that had been -uttered on his arrival in Hoboken, but he bore up against the clamor -with real or well-feigned indifference. When he entered the hall and -was being led to a seat at the side of the Coroner’s chair his eyes -accidentally fell upon the lay figure that had been draped with the -clothing of the murdered woman. When he saw it he averted his face with -a perceptible tremor. He almost immediately recovered his composure and -dropped into his seat. - -The Rev. Dr. Mabon, the pastor of the Grove Reformed Dutch Church, -testified: “To the best of my knowledge I think the prisoner is the man -that I married under the name of Louis Kettler.” - -Sarah Jane Rigler, who had directed the couple to Dr. Mabon’s house on -May 3, testified: “I recognize the prisoner as the man who was with the -woman who asked me where she could get a minister to marry them.” - -John E. Schumann, the barber who had been called in by Dr. Mabon to -witness the ceremony, said that he believed the prisoner to be the man -who was married on that occasion. - -Regina Herkfeldt testified concerning her acquaintance with Kenkowsky. -She identified a watch that was produced as the one that he gave her. -On cross-examination she considerably modified her previous account of -the prisoner’s assault upon her. - -John E. Luthy, a watchmaker of 315 West Thirty-fifth street, testified -that the prisoner called at his place on May 16 with the watch and left -it there, taking a receipt for it. - -Charles H. Peters, a roundsman of the Twentieth Precinct, this city, -testified to a conversation he had had with the prisoner at the station -on the night of the arrest. Kenkowsky admitted to him that he knew -Mina Muller. He at first denied but afterward confessed that he had -given a watch to Luthy to have repaired, and that it belonged to Mina -Muller. He told the roundsman that after the trunks had been taken to -Christopher street, Mina proposed to him to take a walk, and they went -over to New Jersey and visited the Scheutzen Park. They strolled into -a saloon on the Guttenberg road and had some beer. After leaving it he -told her he wanted to go back to New York, and she objected. As they -were talking, two men, he asserted, came along the road. One of them -said to the woman: “Hello, Mina! what are you doing over here?” When he -heard this familiar language he turned to his companion, and said: “If -you are that kind of a woman, I’ll have nothing to do with you,” and -then he parted from her, leaving her with the two men. - -While the inquest was going on the wife of the prisoner entered the -room and managed to force her way through the throng. When she turned -her eyes toward her husband she threw up her arms and fell unconscious. -She was carried down stairs to the station, where restoratives were -applied. - -In the evening Kenkowsky was taken to the county jail and placed in the -cell formerly occupied by Covert D. Bennett. - -In the trunks in Kenkowsky’s possession was found, in addition to a -lot of female clothing, a white shirt. The sleeves from the wrists to -the elbows were spotted with blood; the bosom, too, was marked with -similar stains. On each side of the shirt at about the waist there were -marks of bloody fingers. A pair of buckskin gloves with very small -spots of blood on the back was also found; the palms were soiled, as if -they had been used to handle some rough and dusty article. - - -THE MURDERED WOMAN’S FUNERAL. - -At 11 o’clock on the morning of May 20th, Martin Sanger, an undertaker, -removed the body of Mina Muller from the Hoboken Morgue and placed -it in a plain coffin, which was put in a hearse and driven to -the residence of the deceased woman’s brother, Carl Schmidt, 555 -Ninth avenue. On the lid of the coffin was a silver plate with the -inscription: “Mina Muller, died May 3, 1881, aged 34 years.” A shield -bearing the words “Ruhe in Frieden,” was also on the coffin. A wreath -of flowers inwoven with the dead woman’s name rested upon the head of -the coffin, surrounded by bouquets. A throng of Germans, mostly women, -were waiting in front of the house for the arrival of the body. When -the hearse appeared at about two o’clock, the sidewalks for nearly -a block were almost impassable. Vehicles blocked the street in some -places, and many men and boys had climbed upon the elevated railroad -columns. Six carriages containing the husband and brothers of the -deceased woman, and the officers of Lodge No. 70, Knights and Ladies of -Honor, accompanied the hearse to the grave in the Lutheran Cemetery. -Louis Schlisenger, the president of the lodge, read its ritual. Mr. -Muller wept during the service. - -Mr. Schlisenger said the Lodge would pay the sister of Mrs. Muller -$1,000. Mrs. Muller joined the Lodge several years ago. She originally -assigned the money she was entitled to as a member to her husband, but -on May 3 she revoked this and assigned it to her sister. When Mrs. -Muller saw Mr. Schlisenger she told him she was going to France, and in -case of her death she desired that her sister should receive the money. - - -THE PERSON WHO CAUSED KENKOWSKY’S CAPTURE ARRESTED AS AN -ACCOMPLICE.--HOW KENKOWSKY SPENT SUNDAY. - -At half-past one o’clock on the morning of May 22d, Detectives -Heidelberg and Dolan arrested Philip Emden of 414 West Thirty-ninth -street, on the charge that he was an accomplice of Martin Kenkowsky. -Emden was locked up in a cell at the Police Headquarters. In the -morning, however, he was liberated. It was said that he was arraigned -at the Jefferson Market Police Court and liberated; but on the other -hand it was reported that he was not taken to court at all, but that -Captain Washburn of the Twentieth Precinct called at headquarters, and -that after a conversation the captain had with Inspector Byrnes, Emden -was liberated. The police were reticent about the procedure, but the -result was that Emden was freed. - -Capt. Washburn was indignant at Emden’s arrest. He said: “Emden was -the first man to give a clue to Kenkowsky, and I promised to keep -his name a secret. We are in the habit of taking informers’ names in -confidence; otherwise people wouldn’t give us information. Prosecutor -McGill also promised me that he would not disclose the name. I think -Kenkowsky’s wife found out that Emden had given me information, and -she tried, out of revenge, to throw suspicions on him. Emden has lived -three years in the district, and is a quiet, well-behaved man. Chief -Donovan was perfectly willing that Emden should be set at liberty. -Emden will accompany me to testify at the inquest. He certainly has not -behaved like a man who has committed a murder.” - -Philip Emden was found at his house, 414 West Thirty-ninth street. -According to his statement he met Kenkowsky shortly after the latter -came to this country. Emden is a mason, and found odd jobs for -Kenkowsky, who is of the same trade. On Feb. 19 last Emden married -Bertha Himmelsbach, and Kenkowsky was one of the witnesses to the -ceremony, though on the certificate his name appears as Martin -Karkowsky. Shortly after the marriage Emden was told by Kenkowsky that -Mina Muller, a friend of his, knew Bertha Himmelsbach, who, she said, -was a bad woman. This led to difficulties between Emden and his wife, -which ended in their separation on April 17. Since that time he has -seen very little of Kenkowsky, but he says that on one occasion the -prisoner showed him a gold watch and chain corresponding to those owned -by Mina Muller. Emden does not know whether this was before or after -the murder. - -On Thursday morning he read of the identification, and in H. Luhr’s -liquor store, 587 Tenth avenue, he mentioned that Kenkowsky had known -Mina Muller. Luhr, who knew Kenkowsky, suggested that the description -of the man who was married in Guttenberg tallied with Kenkowsky’s -appearance. Emden made up his mind to see if Kenkowsky was still at -his house, 510 West Thirty-sixth street. As his pretence for calling, -he determined to say that he had a job for the alleged murderer. He -found him in bed, and, when he asked if he wanted the job, Kenkowsky -said that he was engaged as a cook in a Jewish family on Fifth avenue, -and only came home nights. After working hours, Emden went to Capt. -Washburn and informed him of his suspicions, and a policeman was sent -with him to watch the house. In front of the house they found Strang, -the trunkman, who in the meantime had been tracked by Seide. Strang -asked Emden if he could speak German, and, when the latter answered in -the affirmative, requested him to ask the German woman up stairs if -a trunk he was to deliver belonged to her, saying he had left three -trunks there some time previously. Emden went up stairs and asked -Mrs. Kenkowsky if three trunks had been delivered there, and she -said they had not. When Emden came back to Strang with this answer, -Strang requested him to ask again, and this time she replied in the -affirmative; and when Strang brought up Kenkowsky’s trunk, she said, in -surprise: “Why, he told me he had taken it to where he was working in -Fifth avenue.” - -Kenkowsky’s wife was found at 510 West Thirty-sixth street. She had -just returned from a visit to her husband in jail. Her eyes were red as -though she had been weeping. - -“Philip Emden,” she said, “has been a good friend to me and my poor -little ones. When I told my husband this afternoon in jail that -Philip had been arrested, he threw up his arms and exclaimed: ‘Philip -arrested! Philip, who has always been so good to us? He is innocent, -Katrina, as innocent as I am myself.” - -Martin Kenkowsky spent Sunday quietly in his cell in the Hudson County -Jail at Jersey City. He ate his meals regularly and with much relish, -and slept for an hour after dinner. In the afternoon his wife and two -children visited him. He embraced them and had a long conversation with -them in the presence of a turnkey. In the course of their talk the -woman charged him with having stolen a five-dollar gold piece from her -room on the evening of May 3d. That was the day on which the murder -was committed. Kenkowsky admitted that he had taken the money. He said -that after he had left Mina with the two men at Union Hill, he returned -to New York city and went home. There he found the $5 piece, which -his wife had saved, and put it in his pocket. When he was told of the -arrest of Emden he seemed to be very much surprised. He said he knew -Emden, and had become acquainted with him only a short time ago. - -“But,” he exclaimed, “he is as innocent as I am.” - -The prisoner referred frequently to his former narrative as to the -circumstances under which he parted with Mrs. Muller in New Jersey. He -stated that one of the two men who accosted her in the Schuetzen Park, -and with whom he says he left her, was tall, and had a red moustache, -and the other was shorter and thinner. He was convinced, he declared, -that they murdered her. - -City Missionary Verrinder held divine service in the corridor of the -jail on Sunday morning. Kenkowsky, at his own request, was permitted -to attend the exercises. He sat on the foremost bench, directly in -front of the minister, and although he did not understand the sermon, -he bowed his head reverently whenever the name of Jesus was uttered by -the preacher. At an early hour he went to bed, and fell asleep a few -moments later. - -The reader who has followed us thus far will perceive that scarcely -ever in the records of modern murder cases has such a steel coil of -circumstantial evidence, in such a small space of time, so completely -woven itself around a murderer. Kenkowsky attempted to prove an alibi -by asserting that on the day of the murder, and several hours before -it could have taken place, he was on his way to cross the river, and -that on his way he had asked the direction to the ferry of a carpenter -whom he saw putting up posts for a fence. This carpenter was found, and -testified that a man on that date had asked him the way to the ferry, -but he failed to recognize Kenkowsky as that man. The bottom of the -alibi leaked, however, when the gentleman on whose property the fence -was being put up showed his diary, in which was recorded a mem. of that -particular job, dated several days after the date of the murder. What -verdict could a coroner’s jury bring in but one fastening the crime on -Kenkowsky? The trial will be read with great interest. - - -THE END. - - -[Illustration: MARTIN KENKOUWSKY, ALIAS KETTLER, IN HIS CELL.] - -[Illustration: AUGUSTUS A. 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