New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-04
HER CORPSE IDENTIFIED.
THE GLENDALE MURDER WAS FOR MONEY
MATILDA HABER LEFT HER HOME WITH JOHN
AABE. AND WAS CHoKED TO DEATH-THE
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AABE. AND WAS CHoKED TO DEATH-THE
BODY CLAIMED BY HER UNCLE.
The girl who was found choked TO death In a
barn near Glendale, l.. l., has been identified.
Just as most people in Glendale had given up
all idea of obtaining q clew to the identity OF
the young woman, stranger arrived at Coroner
Homeyers hotel at Ridgewood few minutes
before o'clock last night, who said he was
searching for his missing niece. AT once the
neghborhood was all excitement and the new
arrival was soon the centre OF an
inquisitive crowd of officials and reporters. lie
gave his name rs Charles R. Weber, OF North
Haven, Conn., He said that his step-niece Ma
tda Haber twenty years old, had left his home on
Saturday morning in company with man whom
he only knew as John Aabe, who had been call
ing upon her at Intervals during the last
nine months. She took with her S725 in cash,
all her own money, and started for New-iOrK
with Aabe on the train which lett
North Haven. on the New-Yorl and New-Haven
road, at 0 o'clock on the morning of the same day
He heard nothing of his niece afterward Iester
day morning he read in the New.llaven papers
about the finding of the body of young woman
at Glendale, and as the description OF her tailed
with that of his absent niece, he hastened TO New
York and then to Glendale to see if he could recog
nze the body.
Coroner Hoymeyer was away at the time the
stranger arrived at Glendale, but Detcctive-Ser-
geant Henry Muller, of the Fourteenth Sub-Prc-
cinct, Brooklyn, took Mr. Weber in charge and led
him TO the morgue where the body lay. Weber, who
appeared to be laboring under great excitement,
first saw the iewelry found the body and i'm
medately identified the ring, having the initials
VI to II engraved inside, as one that his niece had
worn.
As soon as the face of the corpse was uncovered
he urew more excited and said in loud voice
in German "Oh, Matilda, Matilda, why did you
20 away? told you something would happen If
you did not take my advice"
Then he sold a. Detective Muller: Yes, That
is my niece, Matilda Haber."
He then looked at the clothing of the mur-
dered girl and said that il was such as she wore
when she went away. Weber afterward told the
detective and reporters the following story OF
his nieces life. She the daughter of his
brothers wife by her first husband, whose name
was Iaber. They lived in COeslin, Pomerania,
where Matilda was born. When his brother
died. five years ago. he bequeathed the girl to
him, and she came to America Immediately after
ward She brought considerable money with
her, ard there is now $4,000 to her credit in the
First National Bank Of Ncw-llaVen.
She had been rather wild of late, and since she
became acquainted with John Aabe, about nine
months ago. she had been more Independent than
ever and when he advised her to have nothing
to do with Aabe, she would tell him to mind
his own business. He thought she had been too
intimate with Aabc she sometimes remained
out until l and 2 o'clock in the morning with
him
Aabc is q stoutly built man, about thirty-tive
wears old with dark hair and mrStache, and beet
ling eyebrows, his eyes being close together. When
he went away with Matilda he light-gray
suit and carried a small valise, which he usually
had with him when he came from New-lork. He
thought Aabe was a drummer. When Matilda
was preparing TO start with Aabe on Saturday, her
uncle saw her taking the 1928 from her bureau
drawer and said TO her: Matilda. what are
you taking all that money with you for? If
Aabe is going to take you. he ought to pay your
way" She answered: &" Uncle. mind your own
business"
Weber is florist at North-Haven, and says that
he stays with a shoemaker named Tush, in SIXTY
ffthst, between First and Second avcs, New-YOrll,
when he comes to this city. He is German and
served through the war, and belongs to the Grand
Army.
By this Identification, robbery would appear to
have been the motive for the crime The girl car
ried her money in pOcket-book which she kept
in reticule fastened at her waist. Neither pocket
book, reticule nor money was found upon or near
The description of the man Aabe answers
closely, except to the color Of the hair that
of the man whom the Iiagman, w. IL. Lake, saw
walking with woman about the size OF the one
who was murdered, on the Fresh Pond road near
fhe Manhattan Beach railroad crossing about |
Il 80 on Saturday night. The police have sent |
put an alarm, with 4 fnIl ! description Of b., AaPe.
would return in the morning and take the body |
away to Connecticut for burial.
Lake, the agman, says that ne was on duty |
Saturday night, and that about | l 80 he saw |
young woman of small size, dressed in dark |
clothes, in company with a young man with a |
light muStache and side whiskers, and wearing |
! light suit, walk from the direction Of Brooklyn |
I'D the Fresh Pond road and across the railroad |
tracks toward Meyers tobacco factory, near the |
private wagon-load leading to the place where
he body was found They walked up and down |
Two or three times, and just before they hnally
disappeared he heard them talking loudly .
The young man was evidently importunlns his
ompanion for something She declined TO acccde
0 hiS request, whatever IT. may have Deei ana
naly She said Now, Jack, leave me alone.
Why DO you treat me this way whenever walk
mt with you? When get home WI tell my
ather how you have treated me- lie heard no
norc, as the couple moved out OF sight and hear
Another fagman, Thomas Baker, who was sta
Toned at the Myrtle-ave. crossing Of the Manhat-
an Beach Railroad, which is about quarter OF
ale from the scene Of the murder, says that he
sas OIL duty later than usual on Saturday night
waiting the passing OF the special train from
lanhattan Beach. At about halfpast II he saw
couple cross the track and turn down the Fresh
'ond road toward the tobacco factory. Soon after
ard he heard several dogs barking, which hc sup
osed had been aroused by some person or persons
asSing through the farm fields.
Half hour afterward he heard a woman's
,ream, which came from the direction in which
ne body was afierward found. He did not pay
uch attention to the as IL was not unusual
)r drunken women from the picnic parks tO ma ke
Ich noises late at night. When he heard OF the
urGcr however Baker concluded that 10 must
ave been the murdered woman who had screamed. |
These statements strengthen the theory that
ne crime not committed until after the rain
nd ceased falling, betwten III and IL o'clock on
aturday night