The sun., 1893-06-15
WAS THE GIRL MURDERED?
KATIE sCHILT's FATAL ERR4ND TO
FETCH A CAN OF BEER.
The Police Think She Fell Down the Cellar
steps In Her Hou-e-At Ali Events, She
Was Pound DYing the Cellar Floor.

steps In Her Hou-e-At All Events, She
Was Pound Dring on the Cellar Floor.
jean Schilt. Wiliamsburgh glass manufac-
turcr, who lives with his family at 81 Grnttan
street. sent his 13y year- old daughter, Katie, to
Joseph Hermnn's saloon in the nciGhborhood
for pint OF beer on Tuesday night. On the
sidewalk In front OF the house the girl saw her
brother, Benjamin, and told him to get tho
beer He went across some open lots to the
saloon. whilo Katie waited on the stoop
for him to return. When she saw
him coming she left the stoop to meet him.
She met him about fifty yards from her
house. lie handed her the beer and ran of
She started homo with the beer There is 10
lamp post within 500 feet OF the house. and
the neighborhood Is lonely at night. The girl
didn't reach her home.
After waiting for nearly a half an hour Mrs
Schlt went out to the front door and called
her. NecoivinG no reply. Mrs. Schilt returned
to her rooms on tho first floor and told her
husband that something must have happened
to Katie. Mr.. Schilt went out with his wife
and also called tho girl. Just then tho boy
appeared. IIe told his parents how he had
given the beer to Katie nearly half an hour
before, and that sho thon started direct for
the house.
The house in which the Schilts live Is q four
story single fiat with the entrance on the side.
In front OF tho house is an iron railing with an
iron gatc attached. UnGer the flrst-story win
dows there is a cellar entrance. the doors OF
which are never locked. The kitchen Of the
Schits's apartments is in the rear OF the first
floor. a little Off the hall side. the entrance to
1t being in small open square about five feet
on each side. The door Loading to tho cellar
from the hall faces tho kitchen door This
cellar door is always Kept locked!
After searching tho nrlEhborhuou ana lind
inc a trace a tho nirl MR., Srnllt Thought OF
tho cellar and opened the door from the hall;
The light in the room shone int the cellar and nd
cellar stairs She called her husband. and lie
went down. The cir, vas lying face down in 2 a
tried to answer him. As lie carried her UP the
stairs she gaspSd several times ,;,J and died IN
h a her IN boys hs sr p Thra SGn of @
SlagG street. When he reached the house
Sh" he hS the Ell %
the end of her nose. and ono on the outer side
The police found the empty beer can on tho
concrete floor Of the cellar near tho cellar
stairs Beer was scattered on the two lower
scs TN" "nn%n OF the police WIS ao that the the
Street and had accidentally fallen down the
stone steps. Then, the police think, she criwlcd
to tho cellar stalrs.where she slowly dleu OF her
Undertaken John J; LHtS 2 Of 1872 ftasg street
the house. yesterday morning; and when he saw;
Coroner Creamer. and told him that the girl
might have been killed by some one. Coroner
Crcnmer ordered DR.. Frank j. Free to make an
autopsy.
Soon after the Coroner was notified the boy.
benjamin. told his father that when he took the
can from Katie to go for the beer two men were
sitting on the st"orof an unfinished building
the boy came back with the beer the men were
gone.
dered." said Mr.. Schilt toa Sun reporter last
evening. She had no reason whatever for
precludes the possibility of their having been
inflicted aceidentally. Ny Impression % is that .
entrance on the street by those two men whom
Benjamin saw Then. too. the can was dented
and the handle was ipDed on ON enc side
night. and are fully convinced that the girl
after returning to the house found the hall
rooms 10y going through the cellar. The no.
lice say that she probably fell head foremost
down the stono steps, md SO received her in
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