The evening world., 1889-06-29
ORGIE OF DEATH.
The Cor pSeS Of Six BaCChanalS Around
the PeStal Board.
Two Girls, Two Women and Two
Men Killed by Gas.
No. 80 Ryle Avenue, Paterson, Sur
rounded by Fascinated Crowds.
rtryc1LL 10 THE EvENrNo wonLp.l

PATERSON. N. j.. June 20. Coroner Good
redge was out and about tow at daylight this
at work ID the fearful tragedy
which has ns:ounded Paterson. in the fate of
the Six people who were found dead in squalid
apartments Mt 50 Ryle avenue last night.
He hud the bodies removed in n wagon
shortly after midnight TO McCran's fat rem
derlng establishment, and they will be buried
from there.
A crowd began to assemble about the place
at dawn to-day, and increased no rapidly that
a force of police was required to disperse the
morbid curiosity seekers.
A smell Of gas led to the irding OF the
bodies.
Mrs. Attila Deiferth occupies the upper
part of the house Mt 90 Ryle avenue, and WINS
annoyed oil day Yesterday by the odor of gas,
which grew stronger and stronger as the day
wore on.
Towards nightfall it became unbearable.
Then Mrs. Deiferth notified the police.
and the escaping gas was traced to a room
occupied by John Gottfried, n German silk
weaver, on the RTound door.
The door of his room was burst open, but
the police were instantly driven back by the
volume of gas that rushed forth.
Alter some time they made II second MT
tempt and were able to enter the room, when
a fearful spectacle confronted them.
Two men and fonr women in various atti-
tudes were dead in the room.
One. q middle-nged woman, lay nearly
nude in the centre of the room in n pool of
blood. The blood came from an ugly wound
on Der head. covering her face and breast
and saturat'ng the few stitches of clothing
that she wore.
Her face was swollen to twice it's natural
size and the right eye was nearly torn from
its socket.
Within arms reach was the body of a girl
naked. She seemed to have died easily.
She lay on her side, her right hand under
her cheek, and her eyes closed.
Her features were composed and it seemed
as if she slept.
Beyond her again WINS the body of another
woman, who was only partially dressed in
underclothing.
Her hands were clinched, her feet and
lower limbs drawn mp. and there was a look
of agony pictured on the face.
The eyes were closed and the features con-
torted as If the woman died while making
nn effort to scream ont.
Sitting in n chair by the front window. was
the fourth body. that of n pretty young girl,
whose position was so natural that 1t looked
rs II she must be alive.
She was fully dressed, and sat with her
chin supported on one hand, looking out
through the nearly closed blinds.
Her blue eyes were wide open, and II
seemed AZ il she was expecting some one.
In a rear room the policeman found Colt
fried's body stretched out OF the floor.
Across his feet lay the body,ot an unknown
italian.
Both men were only partially dressed.
In this room of the dead. ON a table, was
found a gas stove, connected by pipe with
the meter, and the stopcock WINS only partly
turned of, allowing a great volume OF gas to
escape.
Tie police believe that the six were as.
phyxIated. but some people incline to the
belief that murder was first don in the case
of the woman found with her skull cut.
GottfrIed, who rented the rooms. was a
$500. no NuhNW NFLn Hn III NUIDEn - nNNNN
ton was not of the best.i
Gottfried. when young, was a man of fine
address and a~ttainInents, and held "a court
position in Saxony.
He was caught misappropriat' ng funds to
his W use and was given a choice of emf
grating or going TO prison.
He chose the former and came to America.
He made nc use OF his education after his ar
rival.
A few years ago he went to live in Paterson
and becamesa conmo mill hand.
His rooms in Ryle avenue speedily became
the resort for the lewd women of the town
but as Gottiried conducted his business
quietly he was not ,nterfered with.
He was last seen alive about dusk on
Wednesday evening. He was sitting in front
OF his door then reading II newspaper.
About 10 o'clock the women were seen 10
enter his rooms, but the Italian got in unn
ticed.
Two of the women were not more than six
teen years old. and one of them was in q
delicate condition.
The women were identified MS Bella Nc,
NaIly, aged fifteen; her reputed sister Sarah
McNally alias Pupsy, aged twenty three
Kate White. aged fifteen, and Emma Wright,
aged thirty.
The Italian was not identified this morn
ing.
There was every indication Of a row in the
main room. but the police have been unable
TO find any one who heard any sounds Of q
fight in the house On Wednesday night.
LII an HIIa5 Win Thenr Hsro strawn ahort a.,
room aud there was also u quantity of broken
crockerv.
The theory of the police is that after the
fracas Wednesday night Hottfried extin
guished the gas. but neglected TO do so prop
| erlv. and that then the whole party stretched
out TO sleep. aud were suffocRted before thI
effects Of their debauch wore OF.