The evening world., 1894-05-31
EDITION.
minnie WELOT
! MURDERED
/ Suspicion Points to a Stout,
| Well Dressed Man Who
Visited Her.
seen TO LEAVE HER ROOM.
From That Time Until the Crime
Was Discovered No Sound
Was Heard in 1t.
1.-THE GIRLS QUEER HOME LIFE.
She and Her Roommate, Miss
Koh.er, Had Many Male
Visitors.
THE GIRLS QUEER HOME LIFE.

n No doubt remains this morning in the
I,minds Ct those who nave investigated
the case, tbs the girl Minnie Weldt,
who vas found strangled to death at
34 East Sixty-first street. last night.
was murdered.
It is quite as certain. also, that she
was killed by a lover or some one ad-
mitted to the most intimate relationship
with her.
There Is evidence that the murderer
Is a man of edium height. stout figure
and fairly we'll dressed. Such a man
! was at her room yesterday. and was the
only man known to be there. He was
seen to go in and go out and was heard
to laugh to himself as he descended the
stairs.
: The disclosures Of this morning put a
new and sensational phase on the death
Of this girl. The theory Of suicide has
been abandoned, and Capt. Strauss and
his men from the East Sixty-seventh
street station are engaged now on cules
to trace the murderer.
' Helen Kohler, who occupied the room
with Miss Weldt. was arraigned In the
Yorkville Court this morning. where she
told the following story:
IT am thirty years old. and have been
In America one year. Minnie Weldt was
twenty-one years old and had been here
three years. We are both
"we met last January in Princeton,N N.
~. and later went to Philadelphia to-
I gether. In February we came to New
kYork and three weeks ago went to live
$yogether in the rear room of the tene-
ment 1t 324 East SiXty-tirst street. we
took In washing and went out to work.
yesterday morning at Z O'Clock l
went to the house of a Mr.. Hegeman. at
1909 Park avenue, and washed all day.
Minnie. who had nothing TO do, stayed
ut home
.I got pack to the rooms at about 8
o'clock last night. l saw Minnie lying
nm the bed. 1 went close to her and saw
that her face was black she was
kaead. / ran out and told a policeman.
.Minnie was a good girl. She was
saving her money to help pay the pas
sage of her lover in Germany to this
|, country. She had $40 in a pocketbook
In the closet. That was gone
Justice Feitner remanded the woman,
To be held by the police as a witness.
When the police answered Miss Kohl
er's alarm last night they found Minnie
Ws,dt .sa D SiEtv iy red b aHoh sne h Rent
SSoisf was tied SO tightly about the
N4foat that it sank into the flesh. The
lends Of the han az cb,e a Wdrt tbe force
empioyed to tie the knot had been SO
great that a part Of the handkerchief
mao 6 Seen b eVrf the e" BEDSIDE.
A peculiar feature was that the atti-
tude of the body was one OF complete
rsPSss :ss teere was But no for srsP her e.. 1 swolIen
= and distorted face 1t might have been
thought she was sleeping. she was ~.
her side and the other thrown back
Where was every violence that she had
o oee made xis't drunk Hs before the murder. fTHhi.
would also account for the absence OF
Indications of a struggle.
other rooms In the tenement indicates
that these two girls lived a. queerly
mixed life. They had been there but
'fhree weeks. but had attracted general
Intention in the house. g. Their S's rters
were poor: they had no fine clothing,
and. they certainly did some laundry
Their n~eighbors, however, were puz-
kIed over the unusual number OF men
that called at all hours to see them.
These callers, averaging five or six In
every twenty-four hours, were for the
most part men too well dressed for that
sgsrster Of rea thf city 70 ,1 Thsy at ,py sIIl 9oy
Mrs. Lang. That is the name the girls
IT, put on their door, but whether the muir.
|dered woman or her companion an
mine.
II was later discovered that the girls
were advertising for gentlemen's wash.
ing in the German and English news,
papers. The name of Lang was signed
- these advertisements.
Mrs. Anna Boes, an elderly woman
who lives directly across the hall from
Mrs. Lang's rooms, has very positive no,
tions of the character OF the girls, and
with her little niece liz able to furnish
the only hint of a clue to the murderer
.X no far obtainable.
Mrs. Boes says that at about s.3
o'clock yesterday morning she heard
man knock at the opposite door. He wa
admitted. Minnie was then at hom,
alone.
A half hour later she heard the doc,
open and heavy FOOTBALLS along the hal
and on the stairway. Her little niece
who was In the hall. saw at that time
tConttnuoa on Second Pu0e)