Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1875, Page 1

EAMBALL'S PLANO WAREROOMS, Cor. State & Adams-sts, PIANOS FOR SALE. PIANOS FOR RENT. REAL ESTATE. . A Mansions For Sale. Marble-front 30x60 feet}, on Indisna-av., basses Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth- B2., with Loz 55175 feet, east front. Brown-: Stone-feny of 14 rcoma on Thirty- Hsird-st., near the laxe. = So Stroma Si tone-Tronts on Wabash-av., wner of Thirty-second-s! CRReio Houses are well batt, and bave all modern improvements, and are ready for oo- capancy. Also 100x180 feet, e2st front, cn Jadicua-ev., between Hichteenth and Twen- teth-cts., at a bargain. P.O. VIERLING, 186 Deavborn-st., Boom 18. FOR SALE. The most deeircble residence in Tako Forest, inciuding at te fongrnre, ovmplete: three splondid Horses, four rrikete, agen, tre Sicighs, he ore is abut ait (@ scree iz ths residences lot, ou wich there arp all kinds frak tre-e and small fra:f, with fine ror~tabie xarden. $0 ans a part of 14 house urcrn ma new b Iiard forex, woth first-cises Lill'ard table. Ho* asd cald water, Bathroom, end tho roost improved gis arrem nuns. ‘The abeso property, entire, At about $5,066; will be wcid for cxeh, balance in thme years, or exchanged for eat S00" 4 TY Howe Side, or improved Soo: dike. HBMEL Room % Exchange Building. WANTED. RESIDENCE LOTS OM THE WEST SIDF in THANGE for vacant Seuth Bide Properry UNINCUMBERED. [Wi acsumse modexats igcurabraucn or pay cash. omni EE PATTERGON, bo Lake-et, For Sale or Exchange. EASY PAYMENTS, AND CHEAP. Aine deme, new houre, iwo-storrand basement brick, front, with barn: all m Suprerements: ait ti aberhwod, Nocth Side, neas surevtand uae frame, a ‘aated ins five neigil steam cars and Ie ich ———————_———E BALTIMORE & GHIO RAILHOAD. Balto, & Gio Railread. ANOTHER Great Reduction ¥o Baltimoreand Washington $10 ¥o Philadelphia... 12 To Baltimore and return. LM. COLE. General Ticket Agent. HAIR CUTTIN' G. BA HAIR CUTTING. SPECLSS. NOTICE. MR. ALEX. 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JUST PUBLISHED: A full and cemplete Colored ‘Map of the Diack Hills, shewing Custar’s route to sud from; with a full description of the Black H5ls country and the different routes thereto, tables of distances, etc, For sale by Newsdealers, or esnt by mail on secaint of price, Toc. Addrsse RAND, McNALLY 2 ©O., Pablishors, 79 and §1 Madison-st., Chicago. 2 anrenteos sstisfactinn. Cattiny MILLINZRY GOODS. Spring Opening 1875 ARMSTRONG, CATOR & CO, TMPORTERS AND HAXDFACTURERS OF MILLINERY White Goods, Nos, 237 and 239 Baltimore-st., BALTLYORE, ND. Will open OVER THREE HUNDRED STYLES of PARIS PATTERN BONNETS and HATS, together with a complete stock of FRENCH FLOWERS, IMPORTED CHE, STR2zW, and LEGHORN BATS, RIBBONS, SILES, SCARFS, and alt the LATEST NOVELTIES in PRENUS MIL. LIVERY, of our own importation, on ‘Wednesday, Feb. 24,1875, ct 9 o’clock 2. m. AJl dealers are most respectfully invited to be present. WN. E,---We shall be happy to receive or- ders jor sample lots from those unable to be present, which will receive the most careful attention. DIAMONDS. Diamonds! Wo tnvite lovers ef Diemends, and especially of some- thing elegeut in tha way of sotttaires, to examine the dis- play we aro now maxinz, Doa’s torget to price thom. 2 FURNITURE coQ., Corner State and Adams-sts, An unusually Iarze assortmest ef NEW GOODS zt the Lowest Passiblo Prices. FINANCIAL. Union trast Co, SAVINGS BANK, Northeast Corner Clark and Madison-ste, Interest allowed on all deprsite at tho rate ef six per cent per annem for ail fui! caloudar mouths. WRENN & BREWSTER, BANKERS AND NOTE BROKERS, Buy and sell Notes, negotizte Short Loans. NO. 96 WASHINGTON-ST. TO DOAN ON OITY REAL ESTATE: $3,000 for two cr three years. — $1,200 for twe years, Apply to C. F. MARSH, 9 LaSaile-st.. Eoom 17. LOANS. ‘We cen mako lcens on Chicago real estate in sums af 21,000 oud upward: wis! also buy some good first mort- gece in} amonnte. 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MILLER, THVT EEER, 61 Washington-st.. between State and Dearborn E.C. COLE &CO., Stores & Dyrellings Rented and Reuts Collected, 138 TeaSalies-st. SPEARTNG TUBES INSERTED Practical Lockamtthing and Bell Hanging at J. ¥, WOLLENSAR’S, 53 LaSallo-st. SPECTACLES. HIyS ex RAZILIAN PEBBLE SP) ct ispection at ete Pinaene Batdin REMOVAL. fie EUGENTE DE ROODE RICE, TEACHER OF PIANO AND VOCAL COLTURE, . ATTESON BOUSE, Wabesh- wt eat receive Has tothe M. av. ser Chonats ‘whore sbe will be pleased te ber popils. “months go by. ily CHICAGO, SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES AT LAST. A Murder of Four Years Ago Probably Ex- plained. The Mystery of the Head- less Corpse Un- raveled. ASon Accuses. His Father of -the Horrible Deed. Recital of the Discovery of the Body in i871. Story Which Young Hassett Told to Capt. Buckley. His Father Hilled and Chopped Up an Upkaown Man. Preliminary Examination in the Police Court. Interviews with the Accuser and Accused. The Boy Reiterates Wis Story and the Old Han Protests Innocence. Visit to Hassett’s Family---They De. clare Him Not Guilty. Danicl Has Been Flighty Since He Had the Small-Pox. The Neighbors Say the Old Man Is the Best of the Family. Opinion of Police Officers. One of the murders committed “in this city years ago under such mysterious circumstances that the most keen and searching investigation hold at the time of its discovery, and continued for somotime thereafter, threw not the slightest light upon the identity of the mangled, headless victim, or gave the remotest clew to the perpe- trator of the horrible crime, has apparently been relieved of much of the obscurity which has surrounded it, The tdentity of ‘the murderer, there is “much reason to sup- pose, has been established, and he is now held aprisoner to answer to the charge of having committed one of the most mysterious and hor- rible murders ever perpetrated in our midst. Who the rictim of his crime was has not as yet been shown, but it is believed, since tho revela- tions which startled the officials at police head- quarters yesterday morning, that this part of the dark mystery will be also cleared away, and that another murder will be- taken out of the long category of “‘myaterious and unfathomable.” . Should the history of the murders that have occurred in this city be compiled, it would be found neceseary to classify a large number of them under this head. “SIURDERER UNKNOWN” has not been an uucommon conclusion of Cor- oners’ verdicts in cases of homicide in Chicago, and the old-timed fact of murderer never dis- covered could be written ageinst the names of the numerous victims of human’ violence reserved upon the records of the police and jetective departments. Tho mysterious mur- dere wherein the mystery bas never been torn away aro not a few, notwithstanding the acumen of our detectives when ferreting out a crime of this magaitude. i AMONG THE FIRST MUBDEES perpetrated in this city was that of the grocer on Randolph etieet, who was sbot by some party then and now unknown. ‘This bloody deed was committed fully twenty years ago, and who fired the fatal anot appears to be beyond the reach of mortal ken. i THE EDSALL MURDER was one of the most singular and mysterions crimes that has ever horrified our readers. It was done the day before the great fire of 1871, and though the intelligence of ths best detect- ives, the skill of experts of various eerts was employed to fzthom the bloody affair, and the mout thorough investigation followed the dis- covery of the crime, tha cloud that hides ita circumstances hag never been lifted. Latterly the murder of the old man on Whisky ‘Point road, found with bis brains dashed out and us corpse torn and maogled, furombes anotber example. And stilileter came the marder of the OLD MAN RUETZ, ; discovered in 2 pile of lainber on Goone Island, frozen to th» ground, with 2 horrible gush upon his head. Though still comparatively acrime of recent occurrence, when the first suppositions as to the perpetrators pointing to the old man’a sons were found at fault, efforts were re- laxed, and tho murder was regarded of tho “mysterious” kind. The boys havo been acquitted, the ax with the allozed stain of the old man’s blood upon it ia still preserved by the authorities, but the likelikood that the crim- inals will ever be discovered diminishes xs the aeons THE UNKNOWN DEAD, THE DISCOVERY OF THE HEADLESS CORPSE. ‘The following notice appeared upon the crim- jal record at the Police Headquarters about four years ago: ‘Sours Braxoa Potrce Srariox, Cmcaco, March m7, 1871,—SeaoT Hoop: At about 3 o'clock this p. m. the body or trank of s man wzs found floating in the South Brace of cules: an Ishad neither head Ef and was entirely nates * Bor les, AD" PATBICK O'AEARA, Police Officer, The name of tho signer,’ Patrick O'Meara, naturally, in connection with the narration of the present crime, recalls the deed of violence by which he fell st the hands of Chris Rafferty, wro afterwards oxpiated his death upon the gal- lows. z 5 Tus Tersuxe of the following day . contained the following in connection with THE DISCOVERY: ‘Yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock, 23 the tug-host 8, ‘V. RB Wateon wes starting out of Magazine Sifp, east of South Halsted-strect bridge, two of the deck-hands observed a portion of aan floating in thoriver. ‘The Csptain of the boat called ont to Policeman O'Meara, who was atanding on the. bridge, and he went to the bank and assisted the deck-hands in hauling the ra-: msins to the shore. “OMears repaired Branch Sub-Station and reportad the fact, end an- other officer returned with him to the place, The to took the body ont of the water and laid it ‘on a plank. ‘Thore was no head upon the bods, and the legs were wanting. The front af the neck looked as if it bad been cut with a knife, and that portion near the spinal column, although somewhat jagged, had evideatly been chopped off with a cleaver or sane sharp instro- ment. The lower portion of the body and the legs had deen cut offe with the sxmo instrament, as the froat pact was cut clean, aud the hack part, near tho spinal column, rough. Upon lifting up the rigat arm, ome ‘blood was observed, and an exsrination resulted in finding s wound, probably a stab, about an inch and a oarter Jong. he axm was broken in two pisces abore the elbow, but the akin was not bruised, from B® appearance of the hands, the rx bad been © worker in salt, ‘This was ths opinion of two German physicians, one of whom, however, thouyht tho ro- Inaina bad: been in the water five mouths, and the other oply fire da; . ‘he aaing of tue mutilated remains brought to the place a large number of people, cach of whom hada fueory as to the manner fn which the men met bis death, ‘The tug-boat Captain maintained that the Sslrect of his bost had struck the body and eut tt up, a he het noticed that the wheal did not work tree when the bost started, The physicians thought that from fhe appearance of the trank this was impossible, They Seo dagloded a theory, that zome medical scadents bad thrown the eadaver into the river, by averring that no student would cut « body in that'way, Some thought it had been in the water all winter, and otbers only o for days, ‘The wite of » missing msn was sent for, but she wae cunfident the remains were not those of her hawBand. : ‘While those assembled Swere exnversing about the myntery, aome ome came up and stated that the head had besn observed floating ia the river near by. Two policemen started for it, but zon returned: with the Information that the supposed hesd was the carcase of a dog. ‘The Coroner had been notified by telegraph, and madethis xppestance about half past 4 o'jork, He summoned a ‘Jury, who, after viewing the Lody, ad- jooroed toe saloon on Archer avenue, where sn in~ quest was held, ‘The evidence elicited was yery in- definite, and the jury rendered a verdict that death resulied from some unknown cause. The remains ent to the death-house, but they will prolably ‘be recognized. About balf a sleevs of = hh sory shirt and of a white cotton handkerchief were found in tho right arma, The doctors were of the opin- ion that deceased yas a fuli-grown man about 3) years of age, Ifhe had been a “ worker in alt,” ho was anost probably employed in some packing-house, Many Tarsons took this view «if the ase, and were confident that the man had been cngaced in a fight with pack- ing-house employes, was kitted, chopped up with & cleaver, and thrown into the river. : ‘Three or four columns mignt Le filled with theorien, but, as there was absolutely nothing on which to found au acceptable one, the mystery is lust with tho police for solution. » Amid this multiplicity of ‘thievries, the one most tenable in the minds of the police and de- tectives was that the man HAD BEEN MURDELED, and investigations upon this assumption took place. “Employes at the different packing- houses were subjected to examination in the be- lief that the man had beea employed in some one of them, and that his identity might be establighedl by finding some of his fellow-work- men, or that, porbaps, a clew to his murderor might be gamed. Bus the examination, re- salted in 7 ABSOLUTFLY NOTHING. ‘It was euppored that friends or relatives would report the disappearance of the deceased, but no roport of the disaypearance of any one asreoing im any particular with tho appesranuce of the dead man was ever mado, and the police were loft without the slightest clew, and were fain, in their inability to follow out their own, to accept some ovber theory. And this case had, by some of them, alzo been assigned a place among tbe mysterious murders, and savo, perhaps, a8 far as two 16008 are concerned, nad been allowed to eink into obliv- ion.- By thors who held thst it was s murder, and, by the appearance of the body, this seemed tho most reasonable conclusion, it was regarded ay one of the most horribi2 oa the records of Chicago crime. Thobead had been cat off, the legs evidently, and arms bad evidently been severed from the body with some sharp instro- ment, It wasa _ CURIOUS AND HORRIBLE PIECE OF ATROCITY for which there were ie~ equals. By these people, too, it was >syarded as baing one of the most mysterious aifairs of the kind. And in this mrstory it hse remained for four years until yes- terday. Tho disclosures thus seem to verify the conclusion arrived at by the police and dctec- tives, all of whom who testitied to them, or wero informed of them afterwards distinctly revalling tbe minutest details of the gory transaction. ‘Tho finding of the body, the horribly mntilated Appearance, the sconce at the inquest, the efforts afterwards to fathom the mystery—all were again frosh in tho minds of overybody connected in the romotest way with the occurrence of four yeara ago. They wero awfully distinct jn the inind of the boy who charged bis tathor with the fearfol deed, 20d scorched iusto the heart und brain of tho old man reéting under this horrible imputation until he seemed to be on tho verge of mavis. ul ~ ‘Altogether, the present marder, for marder no doubt it is, may be classed as one cf the most atrocious in its perpetration, and the most re- markeble in the manner of ity diecovery. * The fiendishness, the mnore than diabolism that woold Jead even the man capable of comuitting mur- der to coolly A CHOP OFF HIS DEAD VICTIM'S HEAD, - and his arms and legs, has rarely been equaled. There aro but a few parallel cases, sud those have boon regarded as a curious phase of crime, and in some instances bave induced many inge- nious speculatioas as to the phsycological condi- tion of the murderer ot tho time of commit- mitting tho deed. It hag been held that it really showed an esthetic refinement in c1ime, an acute consciousness of the deepest guilt, which expended itself in the mutilation of the victim. The cremating of the body of Dr. Parkman has been cited as a case of this character. The fiondish hacking, teariog, and cutting done by a mother in the West Divieion of the body of her new-born babe might also be cited asa phage of this mentalcondition. But psychological speculations in reference to tho present murder are extremely idle snd pre- poaterous. AX INSTANCE where the same mutilation of the murdered being’s person was one of the most cnrious and diabolical features of the murder was the caso of the young woman, Alice Boslesby, who died of an abortion atthe bands of a New York doctor, who chopped her corpse up and bestowed it in & common box, and shipped it as fruit to another city. Chicago itself possesses a record of one similar bloody business. The case of Jumpertz, the barber who killed bis mistress some fifteen years ago, and packed her frsqments in atarrel, jg the one referred to, and is easily recalled by the older residents of the city, as well as those of other sections whom the deed horrified, for it attained the dignity of exciting a universal in- terest, ———— THE REVELATION. THE FON INFORMS ON HIS FATHER., December last Patrick Hassett caused the ar- Test of his on Daniel on the charge of vayrancy, and he was sent to the Bridewell. -About ten days ago his term of seatence expired, aad he returned to the parental roof. Since his release the home of the Hassetta has been the scene of constant bickeriags and strife between the father andeon. Last Monday the old man lodged com- plaint sgainst the son, charging Daniel with bay- ‘ing committed an assault upon him with intent to do bodily injury. Tho young man was arrest- ed and brought before Justice Boyden for ex- amination last Friday morning, in the South-Side Polico-Court. ‘The father was presoat as tho wit- ness, and testified to the assantt. On that day the elder Hassett presented tho appear- anco of having received more than one blow over the head and faco; his: eyes were black and swollen, and his face scarred. Justice Boyden heard the evidence, and imposed a fine against the prisoner of 950, Not being able to settie, he was sentenced to the Bridewell, which he hed just left, for a period of 100 days. On the prisoner being consigned to a cellin the Harrisoa-Street Station to await the conting of the “Black Maria” prior to conveying tha pris- oners to the Bridewell, he sent for Cept. Buck- Jey, and 3 MADE A STATEMENT “ to that officer, in which he revealed the -awfal mystery of four years ago. Capt. Buckley then made tho following repor: to Assistant Superin- tendent Hickey, which is the confession of tha prisoner: ‘ 3 MC, Hickey, Esq. De ey dent of Petite: Os Mees Dita, Beret Seperinenden of PO ay 10. resides with ‘his pareate st No. 42Dutler street, in this city, informs me that iis father, Patrick Hassett, murdered s man abozt three ‘azo, at the above piace, under the following circumstscoes: He mets man on Halsted street about 9 p.m., #nd in- vited him to his honse. He told the son Danii thet the msn bad tots of money, and be wanted irae <e- sist im Wiking the th ae ‘Dusiness, Daniel declined to do 20, ond went upstairs, snd remained there abont two or three minutes; when “he cume down the father had the man killed and lyinz on the floor. He then requested Dan- iel to co into the shed and get a barrel to put ths body into it; this bo refused to do, and the fathdr went himself and got the barrel, and: then cut the body up ‘with a cleaver and knife, nud put it into the barrel, and procured a wheslbarrow and wheeled it down to the river, took the body ont of the barrel, =ndthrew it fato the river near Hesley's slough. Ho thon re- tarned homo and called his aon Daniel and requested of bim not-to ever say anything about what be hed seen done, and mad= him give Lim his bead to that efiect, Tne father then otfered Dantel $100, and he refused to teke it, and told the father that he would not have anything to do with it, He also told Daniel ‘that he had got four bundred and some’ odd dollars in the man’s pocksls, He Kept his clothes m the house some time atterward, snd then burned them. T have detaines Deniol Hasestt af thia station, and wil take him before Justice Boyden to make affidavit to the above facis, and have = war rant issued for Patrick Haeset for murder, and arrest him forthwith, Very respectfully, Writs Boceurr, Captain Commanding First Precinct, Cook Count eee: * tt, being duty. sworn So oath, says tuat 19 has heard read the feregoing report and statement, and that the same are true, his Danner X Hassrrr. mark, Subscribed and sworn te this 19th dsy of Febra- ary, 1875. N. 2, Boxors, J. P, Capt. Buckley immediately conducted Daniel Hassett before Justice Boyden, who issned hia warrant on the oath of the prisoner for the ar- rest of Patrick Hasactt on the charge of murder, The warrant was placed in the bends of Sergt. Fitzpatrick, who. arrested the alleged murderer at his rea- idence, No. 142 Butler street, that evening, about the hour of 5 o'clock, and confined him ‘Twenty-second Street Station. THE OLD MAN IN COURT. Yesterday morning, xt the convening of the South Sida Police Court, the room was crowded with idle spectators who were drawn thither out of curiusity to nee the prigoner, the news of the arrest having spread over tho city and the event of the finding of the headless and mutiiated body, long forgotten, waa vividly ronght to mind. At the hour of 12 o'clock, the old man was brought into court. By this time many prominent citizons were prosant, aud great exciteniont was created by the crowd, whosurged ingide the bar in front of the court, in their eagerneas to obtain o sight at the accused, so that Capt. Buckley was compelled to order the olticor in attendance to clear the place. When the prisoner entered’ tho dock, and the Clerk of the Court read the charge with which the prisouer stood accused, the scenc was truly a e634 one, The spectacio of an old man 72 yoara oid, confronted and charged by h's own son of the fearful ond terrible crime of murder isan unusual one. To the charge the prisoner with a gnastly amile pleaded not guilty. The son was called upon to make his statemea which ne did, and which was substantially thai as related to Capt. Buckley. During the testi- mony of the witness before the Court, the ac cused raised his aged head and ¥ FACED HIs sox. His face became livid, aud his bleared eyss roved from side to side. Atintervals he would raise bis hands with an exclamation of surprise min- gled with sorrow, and again with dignation, at the’ evidence being given by the witness. Commicsioner Sheridan, who was present, croas-questioned tho witnoss carefaliy, whose reply was mvariably tho same. Tho witness, in giving his testimony before the Court, and especially when being cross-examined by Commissioner Sheridan, was very singula:. His actions would losd ond to suppose that he had not arranged bis story fully to his own satis- ton. Hespoke ina very low voice, and stam- mered and hesitated in the thread of his narra- tive, so thst the Commissioner request- ed! him to speak louder. On being asked .why he had not revealed the affair before this his excuse was a very flimsy one, which was that he feared the anger of his father. In detailing the manner in which the body was mutilated, he was cepoctally confused, and avoided the question in his reply as much as possible, The evidence of tho witness was anything but satisfactory to the Court and thoso who ware interested in getting at the bottom of the mystery. Atthe closeof the testimony of the single witness, Capt. Buckley requested z continuance til Tuesday, March 2, on the grounds that further timo was needed in which to eather up the incidents connected with the trageiy of foar ‘years ago. The request was granted, and tho prisoner committed withou: bail, The son was also held without bail as a witness. PATDICK HASSETT, the prisoner, is in heizbt about 5 foet 6, and will weigh about 125 counds. His eyes sre cold gray, and 60 dimmed with age that there is but tittle expression in them. His hair is gray, the matted locke wero sparsely scattered over his wrinkled brow. His form is bent with age, and his step palaied with an increasing weight of years. His voice is cracked and husky ; he wore a dirty old muffler around hia neck, and in his old worn and tattered garments he presented a pitiful sight, as he was condacted from the pres- ence of the Court botweea tro policemen to his cell in the Harrison Stree Station. THR SON, DANIEL HASsETT, isan atbleve, ctroug-built young man, 29 years of age. He is in height aboat 5 feet 19, and will weigh about 150 pounds. His eyes are pale blue, and exoressionless. His hair is a dark brown ; forehead low, face scarred under the left eye, and hia whole zppearance repulsive, 3 ACCUSER AND ACCUSED. ‘THE OLD MAN'S STORY. A reporter called at the County Jail last night, and had an interview with old Pat Haseett. The Assistant Jailer took the accused ont of the cell, so thats fall view of him could be obtained. Hassett is pretty old looking, but rather atout. His height is below the medium, and his head bends forwards good deal, The face is rather good-looking, but there is an sppearance of cun- ning around the small gray eyes, and rather full mouth. He zears thin side-whisters, and apeaks. with a strong Irish accent. There is nothing in the man’s appearance to indicate depravity, although the police give him s very “hard” roputation. Haasett looked the reporter full in the face wher he entered the corridor, and asked what he desired. Roporter—Iow old are you, Hassett? Hassett—Lf Llive till next March I'll bo 72ysars old. Reporter—Where were born? Haveett—In the County Clare, Treland. Reporter—How long have you been in Amor— ? ica? Hassett—Thirty years and a little over. . Reporter—Have you lived all that time in Chicago ? 5 Hassett—No ; Iwas some years in Ohio and in Iowa. , % Reporter—How long have you lived in Chi- cago? = ‘Baseett—Ten years next July, I think. THE 20) r. Reporter—Have you and your son had an un- pleacantness racently ? aa ‘Hussett—He’s avery wild, bad boy, and is capable of ssyipe anything. ; eporter—Yok are charged by him with a ter- riblocrime. Haye you anything to say on that hesd? : ‘Hassett—I know nothing sbout it, no more than the chiid unborn. I never saw any man at my house. Inever killed a man there or any other place. THE O10 MURDER. Reporter—You are also charged with Killing a man in Ohio. : Hassett—Oh, Pit tell you now how that was. ‘When I was first marrisd, my wite, whois very hot-tempered, used to_ charge me with “ spark- ing" other women. Thero were two wemen in the neighborhood, and ove of their friends, a man, was the person who set my wife afver me. Ithought no more about it until one night this same man was killed, and I and two others. were arrested for the crime. Tho «ther two wera brothers—Datchman. Blood was found on an az in their place. I was tried and let go, and there was an end of it. After that my wife, whenever she'd take a drop, wenld accuse me of Killing that man, elthough che knew 2 good deal better. P'd hsvo nover been accused of the thing at all only for a foolish feliow in the neighbor- hood, who ssid, in asort of half-joke and whole esrnest, that I killed this man on sccount of a woman. When he was brought on the stand, he said he must have been drunk to say such a thing, for he never kaew particle about it one way or the other. porter—Your gon esys that you di WIT HIM WITH: AN Ax in the heat ‘Hoaceett (taking off his cap)—Look st this cut in my kead. 1¢ was he put that there with an ax. I bit him with the coal bucket. Heiss bad, quarreleome boy. " Retorter—aro sou family in the babit of re- maining at home every night? - Hassett—Yes; they are—sll of ‘em that’s arvund me. x Beperter—You havo daughters in Canada? Hessett—No; ons daughter is dead; another is married to a maa named Aunt, in Peoria, and the youngest is st home with mo. BEMEMBERING T3E TOIL. ‘Reporter Davyon semen about the time he says the murder took pias ? Hassett —t do, becanse we had just moved our honso from the corner of ‘Twenty-fourth aad Hanover streats to the plac> it now stands. orter—Do you remember any night when of ali your family were abeont about that time? ‘Heesett—I do not. ‘They were nover a night away that Icancall to mind. + ; Haportar ie tie ole woman with you in this affair or 18 i ‘Hassott—She's with me, of course. She never ribaine,. — has anything to _ drop ak Be saytomeexcept when sho has porter—VWere you ever arrested in this city? Hassett—Never, except when the boy was the means of doing it? ~~ Johany wanted him to quit ‘This was about all that Hassett would say, al- though he bad no hesitancy in talking about his past life, which, according to his own account, must have been a blameless one. THE Bor. The reporter next visited the Armory, and in- terviewed young Hassett in Capt. Buckley's room. Daniel looks to be about 25 years oll, is rather slightly built, and measures about 5 feet Dinches.. His closely cropped hair indicates » recent experience of the Lridewell, and his whole aspect is that of a man steeped in igno- rance, and natnrally defective in high moral organization. His face 1s of a worse patiorn than that of his father. althongh he has'a cer- tain kind of frankness which is rather deceptive. Reporter—How old aro you? Young Hassett—Father says 1'm about 22. __ Teeporter—How old do you think your father i in? Young Hassett—To the best of my belief, he in between 55 and 60 years of age. gg eorten rom are pretty cezizin that he is not 7 Young Hassett-—-Ob, he couldn't be that. My eldes: sister, that’s dead, was ouly 34, and ahe died not long ago. THE FAMLY, - Revorter—How much of a family ia yours ? Young Hassett—There are now two brothers besides me. One sister married and one sister single. Reporter—Where is the unmarried sister? Young Hassett—She’s at homo now, but she used to be in a bad honge on South Clark strect. Tteporter—She was s prostitare? Xoung Hassett—Yos, and she is yet, That's why I hed tha fight with the old mau. I wanted the girl to drop that kind of business, aad tae old folks want heer to keep on. I used to try to get her home often when she was living around, bat the old men used to quarrel with me. He used to go around to where ene was, and get money from her. The messenger here at the Armory bas often seen him eround Carrie Cleveland’s,— where she used to stop. He’s seen him thero lots of times. and so have I. Tepozter—Was sour sister seduced by any one you know? Young Hassett—That’s what sho says, bat I think different. I know that the old mao gavo bis full consent to her going into 3 bad house, and) took her down to the Clark streat dive him- eclf. Reporter—Yonr father sppears to be QUITE FEEBLE? Young Hasset!—Dov't you be took in by that. ‘The old msn is party strong. I tell you, and few men could tell how strong ho is untl he gcta ahold of them. Beporter—What hays you to say further about THE MURDER you say he committed? Young Hassett—A!l I told the Captain and that 2ppeared in the paper about it was truc. ‘Reporter—State over again the cirenmstances. Young Haseett—I came home ono night, about the spring time, four yezrs ago, pretty late. Say ‘twas llo'clock. My father anda strange man were in the front room drinking beer. The stranger sppeared to be pretty full, and my farher called mo ono side. Ssys he: ‘I met that fellow in a saloon on the corner of Archer avenue and Halsted street. He paid for some drinks, 2nd he has lots of stamps, for saws roll of bills with him. Novy, let us get away with hi and we'll have the money.” I says to him, ‘‘ How are you going to get away with him?” He said, to kill hi I begged of him to let the maa alone; to let him go away;.** for,” gays I to him, ** sooner or later, twill be found out.” ‘Whol toil of it?” eaidhe. Itold him to let the man go, but he told me to shut up, snd went and locked the front door. Isigned tothe man to get out, but he wouldn’s stir; I guess he wastoo drunk. My father thon locked tho door, vand I was very much afraid of Reporter—Weren’t you" , STRONG ENOUGH FOR THE OLD MAN Young Hassett—I was only a boy then, and he conld gat away with me casily. Well, I went up- stairs, and I heard tuo covnd of the body failing just s3I wss coming down from ths loft. Tho old man struck tho stranper on the throat witha cleaver, and then jumped upon his neck till ko killed bio. Iwes trembling with fear all the time, and had no hend io the affair stall. The oid man wanted me to agaist him, but I said I'd have notning to do with the businass anyway. Ho wanted me to get an old dor out of the outhouse, bat Irefused.. Thou be got it himself, and, after etrippicg the body down to the hickory uzdors be CUT Orr THz HEAD AND LEGS, and got a barrel that ho sot 5 few days before to pack pigs’ feet in, and-put the man intoit, and wheeled him dowa to the river near Healy's slough. Therehe dumped it in. { followed him nt a diatance, for I was afraid ho might dis- cover me, and Iwas back in the house beforo himself. 4 Boporter—Ilow did he manage Tur BLOOD ? Young Haasett—The tloor of tho front room was boarded. He aliowed the bloodto cake bard upoa-it, Then he scraped it up with a shovel and pat it in a bucket, which ho threw out. Then ho got cloths and water and scrubbed ap the floor. He put ona good fize, so that itdried np quick. When he nas cutting the men up be first cat into the fiesh with s knife, and then used the chopper to go through the bones. He used to cat up hoga in Burlington, fn, 80 Le got used to the business. He cut the man up so a8 to masse him Fit IN THE BARREL. The clothes the maa wore were all bloody too, but he putthem away until he gota chance to burn them. ‘ ‘THE MONEY. 1 Reporter—How much money did the man baye on bim ? ‘Young Hassett—Father eaid it was something over $430. He offered mo $100, which I re- fused. Then ho made me give him my hand and word that I'd nevor tell on bim. PReporter—Is it not some. kind of ill-will that makes yon tell of him now? Young Hassett—No. I could keep the thing no longer; and then latterly I began to bs afraid that he'd Kill myself.. I saw him about a month before I waa arrested put a clab and a hatchet under tho bed. ‘Then, I'd pretend to be sleep, 2nd he'd coma over to where I lay, when Td-weie ur, 28 it were, and he'd goaway. I was in constent terror of my life from him. FINDING’ THR BODY. - Reporter—-Do you remember what: ho said when the body was found? B, Young Hazasett—les; he saidto me, “Did vou see that body?” Tsaid not, bovause it was covered with cioths, but from what I had heard of it L knew it was the one. Hoe said “That person?” and Teaid “Yes.” Theo be began to feol bad, and begged of mo never to say any- thiog about it. -R.—How long after the murder took place was tho body found ? . Young Hasset+—About ten days or two weeks. fhe murdor, I think, occurred some time in March, . but whether before oz after Patrics’s Day Icould not tell I thiok "twas after it. 2 ‘TE NEST OF THE FAUT. Reporter—Do you remember where the mem- bers of your amily were that mat? Young Hassett—My sister was in Clark street. . My mother was on a spreo, and stoped thst night with a femily named Benigen. My younger brother wss hauling beef sll night. and my other brother was-eomomhere in Indiana. There was nonady 3 all the man made no noize in dying. Reporter—Do you kaow what disposition your father made of the money ? Young Haszett—I think ha gave some of tt to my sister, who is dead ; about $140, I think, to buy a team with. . What he did with the rest I don't know. " Reporter—The streets are Jonesome in your Jocanty. Did your father meet nobody on the rosd ? % Young Hassett—I heard the steps of ore per- sonon the sidewaix, and I ran down another street. That was all E TReporter—What was your father in the old country ? , ‘Young Hassett—I havo heard him say that he wes a pilot on the coast of Ireland, around the mouta of the Shannon. Fie followed the ses quite a leng time. - onto. ‘Reporter—You remember that he was charged with committiog murder in Ohio ? Young Hassett—Yes, near Cleveland. He kitled smannamed Hell. 3{y mother otten told me of it, and said that father were the dead man’s neck- tie the very night he attended his wake. ‘This ended the young man’s narrative, except that he said his father never went to church and himself very seldon. The old man, by the way, acknowledged to a Trravnz reporter that he always kept a wheel- barrow in his house, but had ro hegshead lying NUMBER 182, around loose. It wasafcll quarter of a mile from the house to the river, and would require a Yery strong man to wheel s corpse that far. ge THE HOME OF THE PRISONER, VISITING HIS FAMILY. To pay a visit to the most intimate friends and relatives of 8 man lodged in jail ona charge of murdering a fellow-being, whose dissevered re- mains, mus the head which was never found, had been three years previously discovered in the oozy depths of the Bridgeport section of the Chicago River, is not very pleasant in its nature, especially when the party undertaking the job has been given to understand that the family is a pretty tough one, the “boys” being counted as “fon their muscle,” eyen in Mark Sherndan’s do- main, where that expreesion means more, per- beps, than it would mean in any other uncivilized part of the civilized world. A joarney through any portion of Bridgeport ia not an appetizing one. There are amoils and smells in the world, but it ia s2fe to say thai for the pangency, and pertinacity, and omni. Present qualities of its cdors, Bridgeport can hold its own against any locality. One singular thing which the Tamunz reporter who waa sent yesterday tocall upon the Haseett family and their neighbors, and chat pleasantly with them upon the subject of the murder, could not help noticing, was the evident fondness for poultry which pervades the whole district. Hardly s house was to bs een which did not posuess its quota of i wees and bens, scme of jargo, and all of them tery cirty; in tact, wero it not that the generat shape of the birds indicated their genus, the reporter would have had somo difficulty in deciding which were hens and which dacks from the ptumage which was sll of the same color—a dirty drab. ‘The prevalence of big dogs, too, was rather remarkable, many of them keeping such a stern watch over the front gate leading to the dwelling- houses that tho reporter felt rather nervous occasions!ly in making his afternoon calls. Another thing which adds to the unpleasantness of a reportorial trip to Bridzeport ia tho znct thst tho inhabitants of the locality are not fond of newspaper men. Whether they bave caught this antipathy from their representative in the Polico Board, or whether it is that so many of the inbabitants have suffered an uopleasant publicity at the hands of the press, it is bard to say, but there is no donbt that the reporter, especially the interviewing reporter, is looked upon with distrust in the Archer avenue region of the city, and is abontay welcome whoa his duties call him thst way as he is at s County Board committee meeting which bas the consideration of contracts on hsnd. Personal considerations, however, must give way when the question of supplying the public with news is concerned, and, arming him- self with the moet affable smile and auave ad- dress, Tuz Trmcnz reporter got off the Archer avenue car, and pzocecded to hunt up his deati- mation, He gained ‘THE HOME OF THE HASSETT without trouble, It turned dutto be No. 142 Butler street—not No. 42, as stated in the even- ing papers—situated on the eaut side of the street between Napoleon place and Twenty-seo- ond stroet. The houge is a small-sized wooden shanty containing two rooms and 3 cock-loft, a pattern mach in vogue in Bridgeport. Tho re- porter had to fight his way in the front yard of the domicile throngh 4 flock of drab-plamaged geese, sho hissed, and cackled, and pecked at him, and would probably have swallowed hin piecemeal but for the arrival on the scere of a stont, elderly Isdy, who chased the filthy birds away, and invited the visitor to enter her house, having meanwhile announced herself to be no less important a personage than Mrs. Hasaett. Having taken a seat on a chair which tie old !sdy brashed off for him with the sleeves, of her jackét, the roporter cast his eye round THE ROOM AND 1T3 OCCUPANTS. These were the old lady, two very scantily-sp- parelied young women, and a Iad of 19 or 20, who Was exercising a peculiarly heavy under-jaw and blunting a villsinons-Icoking pocket-knife, whose length of blede clearly brougit it under the stat~ utes a dangerous weapon, upon a couple ef pokes pigs’ feet. Of course, the room was | d-room. Where a family of seven, with occe- sional visitors over nigat live,in a two-room shag- ty.everr room has to be a bed-room. Sts furniture was plain bat substantial, the bed-linen was clean, the stove was bright-poliahed, and, though there are no evidences of luxury round the place, it woro an air of neatuess and comfort thai showed that, whstever faults might appertain to the head of the house, his spouge at lecat kept hor littie home tidy and comfortable with the meazs pleced at her disposal. Havin: ef lus caricsity with regard to the inside appost auce of the home of the alleged murderer, the reporter proceeded to talk to the occupants ai the room regardiog: THE ALLEGED CRIME as follows: BReporter—Well, Mrs. Hassett, Isee your hus band stands charzed with the murder of thal mau who was found in the river in March, 1971, Hrs. Hassett—Sure euough he ia that, but what business is ths: of yours ? rter—I want to have a little talk with about it, in order to let the readers of ‘Torwose learn what you kuow of the affair. Mrs. Hassett—It’s a reporter you are, is it? Woll, what should I know about ic at all, at all? +'s all lies, I tell you, and God in Heavon knows T'm telling the truth at this minate. Reporter—That may be, but the story told by the lad against hia father is so straight that it will be believed by most people, unless the old man can prove his iunoceace. : e ‘Mrs.. Haesett—Sure the lad’a crazy. Three year ago next May ~ HE HAD THE SMALL-POX, aa and his head haso’t oeen right ance. Always fighting and quarreling, and saying thinga about Poors that have no truth in them at all, at all. if sov of the Isda came round to see hitle Nellie (here she looked towards the younz- er of the two girls in the room), be was always for beating them. We've had great trouble with him, I tell yoa, all along. Ho uscd to beat me whenever he thonght I bad monoy which I would net givo up to him, Roporter—Wnit was WE RIMEDIATE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE, tween the boy and bis father ? Mrs. Hassett—They have been quarreling of late, and Tuesday Dan was arrested for beating theold man. This has mads bim mad, and be has told this s:ory to got even. I tell you hig head isnot right since he had tho small-por, throe years ago come next May. ‘Horo the Ind, who was appeasing bis appetite, dropped the pig's foot he was holding in his rigat hand, and scid emphatically: ‘What moth- ya ia just so, Dan's foolish. If he wasn’t ish bo neyer would have got up that. yar sgain theold man,” s statement which was in- dorsed by the two young women, who said when aronsed, Dan behaved * pertectly awful,’ “The reporter resamed his conversation with the old lady. as follows: Reperter—Of courze you rememter when the body of the man was found in the river? Mrs. Hassett—Never a word did I hear of it untit to-day. IT WAS GREAT NEWS TO ME whon I heard it this morning. It’s an awful thing, whoever did it, but 1 tell you God AL mizhty kuows it wasn’t my husband that done it. eporter—Where were you living at the time of the finding of the bedy in 18712 ‘Mrs. Hagsett—At the vorner of Hanover and ‘Twenty-fourth etreets. Raporter—Ho7 far is that from bere? Mrs. Haseett—About three or four blocks, Reporter—Lben you mean to say that you never heard a word of the finding of the boay of @manintne river, all hacked to piecea, about three years ago, although the murder mast have occurred within a few blocks of your dwelling ? Mrs. Hassett—God Almighty knows I am tell- ing the truth. Nevera word did I hoarof % until to-day. Teporter—I heard to-dsy, 2irs. Hassett, that both you and the rest of your faraily were in the Eabit of casting up to the old msn an accusation that ho IAD BEEN GUILTY OF MURDER. Is that 20? ‘Mra. Hassett—Well, that is trae; but that is easily explained. My husband was arrested in Ohio for killing 3 man on Patrick’s Day in 1852, : but he was tried and acquitted’ That's alt. Sometines, whea we gotto quarreling, we ro- - mindod him of :t. hel - Young Hesistt and the fro. girls etated that - they were equi ignorant until yesterday of ie’ gotten of digmembered body io the ‘ river, They had nover heard s word: about it, but they suppose sagt be Bae, becanse they been tol morning "Tax Terms had told all about it at the time. : After so delicate » compliment as this, (ep fo: