ANOTHER HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 97, 15 March 1876, Page 4

ANOTHER HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.

American papers by the mail are r filled with reports of atrocious crimes. One of these in Brooklyn rivals the shocking Whitechapel tragedy. Particulars are conveyed by telegrams as follows . The horrible murder and mutilation of W. W. Simmons, in Brooklyn, causes great excitement here. Mrs Fuel), the Wife of the murderer, tells this story of the butchering. Simmons came to her house about nine o’clock on Thursday evening, bringing them a doll for her little girl. There was some brandy and beer in the house. After drinking the beer Fuchs went out io get three pints more. All of us drank beer, and Simmons said he was ashamed to go home drunk, so I said he might stay and sleep with Fuchs, and I would sleep with Ellen. We had only two rooms. Simmons agreed to this. My husband says I slept on the floor, and that I was unfaithful; but I was so drunk I knew nothing of it. My husband and child put me to bed. While they were doing so I fell on the floor and cut my face. When I got up 1 saw a body on the floor of the kitchen, and Fuchs, taking it by the heels, tl ragged it into the bedroom to cut it up. When I saw it I called out, u We will be hanged.” but Fuchcs said “ he would make it all right.” THE MURDERERS STORY. He said Simmons came to his house bn Thursday evening about nine o’clock, and as he had some beer both drank. Simmons then gave him money to buy more, and when he returned ho found his wife violating her marriage vow, Callihg his step-child, Ellen, who was asleep on the bed, as a witness of her mother’s crime, he seized a hatchet from behind the stove and struck Simmons dead with one blow on the neck.' ■ He assorted that he struck Simmons’s head off with oiie blow, but afterwards, accounted for the cuts about the neck' by swearing that lib had’ hacked it off next morning.’ , . MUTILATION OF THE BODY. The officers who first inspected the appartment reported that there were pails in the kitehen and bedroom con-

mining umat, which they thought might be pieeis of pickled pork. A close exit .dilation of ( the premises was then made, ii'i'ul under the bed was found u heavy solid hammer bearing bloody stains and a common hand-saw steeped in blood and tinged, with .bits ot hair. There were also heavy hatchets or axes, and these were covered with half obliterated blood marks. In another oorner, under a couch, was a small tin pail tilled to the brim with fragments of a human body cut into pieces not more-than two inches in length. At the side of the bed was a large pine chest dyed in every part with blood, as though a bloody body had been hastily jammed in it. In a common blackleather travelling trunk was found portion of the mutilated body. In other parts of _ the chamber was a lavi**c boiler nearly filled with a mans limbs, pieces, arms, legs, and feet. In the midst of these remains was a trunk ol a body, libs stripped clean ot skin and flesh. The officers next turned up the ticking and discovered other fragments of the human body. Then they went through the kitchen, and digging deep under the bricks of the fireplacu brought out many other remains similar to those discoieicd in the bedroom.