Narratives of remarkable criminal trials / translated from the German of Anselm ritter von Feuerbach, by Lady Duff Gordon.

  • Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach
Date:
1846
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Credit: Narratives of remarkable criminal trials / translated from the German of Anselm ritter von Feuerbach, by Lady Duff Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    chant, and said that he was waiting at Baumler's for his companion, another hop-merchant, who had gone to the play. The witnesses recognised the glass pro- duced in court, as exactly similar to that out of which the stranger had been drinking red clove-brandy. Meanwhile suspicion had fallen upon a certain Paul Forster, who had lately been discharged from the bridewell at Schwabach, and who had been observed for several days before the murder walking about in a suspicious manner before Baumler's house. His father, a miserably poor day-labourer, lived with two daughters of infamous characters in a cottage belong- ing to a gardener named Thaler, in the suburb of St. John. Forster did not live with his father; but on the morning; after the murder he had left the suburb of St. John quite early, and had gone to Diesbeck, where he lived with a woman called Margaret Preiss, who had been his mistress for many j^ears. At her house he was arrested by the police on the 23rd of September, the third day after the murder. In her room were found, among other things, two bags of money, the one containing 209 florins 21 kreuzers, the other 152 florins 17 kreuzers. Besides these Preiss's illegitimate daughter, a girl of about fourteen, gave up a small purse containing some medals and a ducat which Forster had given to her when he re- turned to Diesbeck. On the following day, when the gens d'armes were escorting Forster and his mistress through Fiirth, the waiter of the inn recognised the prisoner as the man who had come to the inn at about eight or nine in the morning of the 21st of September, dressed in a dark grey cloth greatcoat, went away again in about
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