The evening world., 1894-05-31
last EDITION.
minnie WELDT
MURDERED.
Suspicion Points to aStout,
Well.DreSsed Man Who
4 Visited Her.
been TO LEAVE HER ROOM.
From That Time Until the Crime
Was Discovered No Sound
Was Heard in It.
1.-THE GIRLS QUEER HOME LIFE.
She and Her Roommate, Miss
KohIer, Had Many Male
Visitors.
TO LEAVE HER ROOM.
THE GIRLS QUEER HOME LIFE.

No doubt remains this morning in the
minds Ct those who have investigated
THE case, that the girl Minnie Weldt,
who was found strangled to death at
sa4 East sixty-frst street. last night,
was murdered.
/ 1t Is quite as certain, also. that she
was killed by a lover or some one ad-
mitted to the most intimate relation ship
with her.
There 10 evidence that the murderer
Is a man Of medium 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
I seen to 90 in and &c out n was heard
to laugh to himself as he descended the
stairs.
Tho disclosures Of this morning put .
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:
In i uIu unity yonto IA LIN n bSSh
1n America one year. Minnie Weldt was
twenty-one years old and had been here
Ihree years. We are both Germans.
"We met last January in Princeton,N N.
~. and later went to Philadelphia to-
gether. In February we came to New
York and three weeks ago went to live
SGogether in the rear room OF the tene-
ment at 34 East Sixty-irst street. We
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yesterday morning at Z o'clock I
went to the house Of a Mr.. Hegeman, at
a063 Park avenue. and washed all day.
Minnie. who had nothing to do. stayed
et home
II got back to the rooms at about 8
eclock last night. / saw Minnie lying
"a the bed. I went close to her and saw
hat her face was black and she was
oead. ! ran out and told a policeman.
..Minnie was a good girl. She was
wing her none to help pay the pas
kee of her lover In Germany to this
Suntry. She had $40. In a pocketbook
the closet. That was gone"
Justice Feitner remanded the woman.
he held by the police as a witness.
When the police answered Miss Kohl
y 4. alarm last night they found Minnie
Neldt's body lying upon the bed. A
IN and dirty red bandanna handker-
ief was tied SO tightly about the
<roat that II sank into the flesh. The
as of the handkerchief were knotted
5gether under the chin and the force
Employed to tie the knot had been SO
eat that a part OF the handkerchiei
he floor by the bedside.
peculiar feature was that the atti-
hde of the body was one of complete
+ epose and there was no sign of disorder
bout the room. But for. her swollen
Ind distorted face it might have been
thought she was sleeping. sne was ly.
1er side and the other thrown back
|&bove her head.
~ There was every evidence that she had
been visited by a man and then drugged
or made drunk before the murder. This
Iould also account for the absence of
Indications OF a struggle.
other rooms in the tenement Indicates
that these two girls lived a queerly
,SIss w lils; They Thu yba had at Seen there sresnegpsaff
x attention In the house. Their qla rters
were poor: they had no fine clothing.
and they certainly did some laundry
Their neighbors, however, were pug
y zled over the unusual number Of men
that called at all hours to see them.
every twenty-four hours, were for the
most part men too well dressed for that
quarter Of the city. They Invariably
80 AIAcuf ~ NAo W bpChh 1T ALL III
Ms. Lang. That Is the name the girls
but on their door. but whether the muir
dered woman or her companion an
Bwered to the name 1t is hard to deter
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
Ito these advertisements.
Mrs; Anna Bees. an elderly woman
Mrs. Lang's rooms. has very positive no
lions of the character Of the girls, and
with her little niece Is able to furnish
the only hint OF a clue to the murderer
II 80 far o~btainable.
Mrs. Boes say that at about $50
o'clock yesterday morning she heard a
nan knock at the opposite door. He was
admitted. Minnie was then at home
Malone.
n A half hour later she heard the door
open ard heavy, footballs along the hall
u ind on the stairway. Her little niece,
who was In the hall. saw at that time q
tcOHtisssd On Second Fu0%J