Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-23
THE sCHLoss MURDER.

Jail-Wiu be Arraigued on New
Complaints in the City Court This
MOrning.The Funeral of tho Dead
Girl to be Held This Afternoon.
DR.. ]. Edward Lee and William Cash,
both of whom are charged with murder in
causing the death of Maggie Schloss, spent
last night in the county jail, having been
sent there after preliminary trial in the
city court yesterday morning. In the
court the csses were both called, and at tine
request of the prisoners attornies con-
tinued until this morning. Cash pleaded
not guilty and was held in 81 900 bonds.
He was not able to obtain bondsman and
| was returned to the lookup.
DR.. Lse, who is charged with commit
ting murder upon Maggie Schloss by means
of instruments, was not put to plea and
was held without bail. He, too, was
placed in the lookup and shortly before
noon the two young prisoners were taken
| IS the county jail.
The case will come up in the city court
this morning, when a bona fide complaint
will be lodged against them and they will
be arraigned-Dr. Lee on a charge of MUIR
| der and Cash with aiding and abetting the
physician. Last evening after a eonsulta-
| ton with Coroner Mix and Medical Exam
| liner White which continued for about an
| hour City Attorney Fox drew up new COM
| plants, to both of which the young men
| will be called upon to plead this morning.
| At the conference the complete report of
! the medical examiner was turned over to
| the coroner and by him to the city attorney
1t was last evening absolutely impossible
| m O n thar a-,I ktafa
| details as to the manner and time when the
crime was perpetrsted. City Attorney
| Fox, Coroner Mix and Medical Examiner
| White and all other officials at work upon
| the case were extremely reticent and re-
| fused to be interviewed upon the subject.
DR.. Eliot, who was called into the case
| Sunday night, was seen yesterday, but
| would not talk much, chiefly because, he
| said, the coroner had not summoned him
| as witness, which ought to be conclusive
proof that he was possessed of no import
| ant facts.
The doctor was constrained to say. how
ever, that he did not know that criminal
| operation had been performed on the girl.
| He knew DR.. Lse and spoke highly of him.
WHAT DR.. GILBERT SAID.
DR.. Gilbert was visited and said that on
Sunday night between II and 10 O'Clock he
received telephone message from DR.. Lee
requesting him to hurry to the Dayton
| house. DR.. Gilbert was not feeling well
and did not go.
The connection of these two doctors
with the case makes 1t seem all the more
plausible that DR.. Lee ia not the real Grim
insl.
IN DIR. LEES FAVOR.
As 1t now appears, DR.. Lee attended the
sick girl at the Elliott house, went with her
to the Dayton house and remained there all
night at her bedside, summoned two repu-
table NewHaven physicians and notified the
medical examiner as soon as the girl WAS
dead.
The theory eeems to be gaining ground
that Cash knows more than he has told and
is shielding the guilty one or ones by lying
about DR.. Lee.
RUMoR.
It is rumored that there Is third party
implicated in the case, though who 1t Is or
to what extent is not known. The rooms
at the Dayton house were engaged, 1t IL
eaid, by young man named-Wolf, who
works at Fry's pawn shop. What eonnec-
ton Wolf had could not be learned. Last
night Wolf was seen but absolutely refused
to be interviewed.
THE FUNERAL.
The funeral of the dead girl will take
place from her late residence on Starr
street, Ansonia, this afternoon at2 O'Clock.
A short service will be conducted by Gen
eral Secretary Hosr of the z. n. @. A.
Interment will be made in Pine Grove
cemetery after the funeral. The family
are Congregationalists.