New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-31
FOUND STRANGLED TO DEATH.
APPARENT MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN.
HER ROOMMATE HELD on sUsPICIoN-THE
CORONER BELIEVED a MAN
KILLED HER.

Minnie Weldt, twenty two years old. washer
woman was found strangled to death with
handkerchief about her neck her home on the
second floor of No. 32t East Sixty-frst-st. at S
o'clock last night There We're marks Of vio-
lence on the woman's face and neck. and the
face was badly discoored. The body was found
by Hella Kaheit who occupied the rooms with
the dead woman. All the evidence pointed TO
murder
The Kahleit woman was placed under arrest
on suspicion soon after the police were Informed
The two women were extremely poor and
made a living by going out washing Tney
lived together In three small rooms on the second
floor of the building where the body was found.
Yesterday morning the Kahleit woman went TO
wash at a place on Park-ave. She did not finish
her work until 7:3O o'clock last night. and ar
rived home a half hour later. When she got to
the rooms occupied by herself and her companion
she found the door closed. but not locked. She
went in and called to her roommate. whom she
had left at home in the morning. The rooms
were dark and she could see nothing. She re-
ceived no answer to her call. and then lighted
a lamp and entered the room occupied by the
Weldt woman on the bed lay the body Of her
companion. and around the neck a handker-
chief tightly knotted. The eyes seemed bulging
from their sockets while the face was badly dis
colored.
The washerwoman stopped to investigate no
further but with scream OF horror rushed
from the room and into the street. She called
loudly for help and Policemen Schewing and
John j. Kern. of the East Sixty-seventh-st.
police station responded. They went to the rooms
and found the body described.
After nasty examination the two officers
arrested the woman. she was taken to the East
Sixty-seventh-st station. where she told the story
as given above To the sergeant in charge. She
cannot speak a word ~ English and II was Only
after considerable difficulty mat the story was
CLEANED from her. She insisted that she knew
nothing more than she had related. She wa
locked up pending The investigation by me ponce.
Captair strauss and Detectives Weller and
Cirabe went io the house as soon as the case Was
reported. Another examination oi the n1dy
showed that one If the eyes was oIacE,"'i, ~, ,
may have been caused. II Is thought oY We
rush of blood 10 the head and not from hlow
The rooms were In perfect order ana there was III,
evidence - a struggle After h. mad examined
ne.ghbors ana learned that the last time the
dead woman was seen was at o'clock yesterday
morning ,,-,,.,. .,..,,, .,
et length Her appearance is anything but pre-
norsossiug The dead woman was also unat-
traciive Both were single Miss kahIeit salu'
and came from SaAony three years age.
Miss Wedt the prisoner said. had lover 20
the old country. ~ men. she salH' ever 'lS''e'
them. , .,,., -.
captain Strauss and his detectives mink th'
prls1ner IS great liar. and are not an an sai0Il
with her story lie and his men lis'over'u ~"
az or 500 which II was known Miss Weldt hau
In the morning is missing and unacoountea i'I
Coroner Dobbs visited the rooms WhcT' Ll'
murdered woman lay AZ an early hour ms y, '.A ~
,nc Uc made a thorough examination ~ th'
bodv and the premises On the left wrist wer,
marks as II II had been grasped tiHhuy an.
wrenched The mark upon the eye the Cor"n1'
said was undoubtedly caused 10y blo" ~
said there was evidence that man nad peeh u
the place only a few hours before. me toro"',
sa,l he believed that the case was clearly one "i
murder and that man was the murderer