His barkeeper, however, was more disposed to talk, and it was ascertained that when Bucholz had left the hotel to enter the employ of Mr.Schulte he had left unpaid a bill for board which had been accumulating for some weeks, and that his trunk had been detained in consequence.

After the murder he had visited the hotel in company with the officers who had him then in charge, and had paid his bill and taken his trunk away.

The barkeeper shrugged his shoulders and declined to have anything to say when asked about any suspicious actions on the part of Bucholz during his residence in the house or since his engagement with Mr.Schulte.
From this person it was also discovered that a mail package, evidently containing some money, had been received at the hotel, addressed to William Bucholz.

It purported to come from Germany, but an examination of the seals disclosed the fact that the package had been manufactured in the city, and that it had been designed to give color to the story of Bucholz's, of his having received money from his relatives who resided in Germany.

There were, however, too many circumstances surrounding this package of a suspicious character to successfully deceive any one about its having come through the regular channels, or, in fact, having come from Germany at all.