The evening world., 1894-05-31
HELEN KOHLER.

Tne murueTtu NoOHiHate
1t Is quite as certain. also. that she
was killed by lover or some one ad-
mitted to the most intimate relationship
with her.
There Is 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
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:
II 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 Germans.
| 1--WE met last January In Princeton,N.
J, and later went to Philadelphia to-
gether. In February we came to New
xark and three weeks ago went to live
together in the rear room of the tene-
! ment at 324 East Sixty-first street. We
| took in washing and went out to work
| Yesterday morning at 7 o'clock
went to the house of a Mr.. Hegeman, Al
1868 Park avenue. and washed all day
Minnie, who had nothing to do. stayec
at home
"I got back to the rooms at about
o'clock last night. / saw Minnie lyint
on the bed. went close to her and saw
that her face was black and she wal
dead. 1 ran out and told policeman.
"Minnie was good girl. She wal
saving her money to help pay the pas
sage of her lover In Germany to thi
country. She had. $40 in a pocketbool
In the closet. That was gone"
Justice Feitner remanded the woman
to be held by the police as witness
When the police answered Miss Kohl
er's alarm last night they Iound mimi,
tsrn weldt and Ddhy dirty red red bandanna handker
chief was tied SO tightly about IN
throat that II sank into the flesh. IN
together under the chin and the fore
employed to tie the knot had been 81
great that a part of the handkerchie
had been torn away, the scrap lying ol
the floor by the bedside.
A peculiar feature was that the atti
tude OF the body was one OF complet
repcse and there was no sign OF disorde
about the room. But for her swollei
and distorted face Il might have beeI
thought she was sleeping. She was iy
ing upon her back. with one hand q
her side and the other thrown Dacl
There was every evidence that she ha,
been visited by man and then drugge,
or made drunk before the murder, Thi
would also account for the absence o
Indications OF struggle.
The testimony OF people occupyinI
other rooms In the tenement indicate
that these tw2 girls lived a, queerl
mixed life. They had been there bu
three weeks, but had attracted genera
attention in the house, Their sr!er
were poor; they had no fine cluthins
and they certainly did some laundr
work both at home and outside.
TheiI neighbors. however. were puz
zled over the unusual number OF me
that called at all hours TO see then
; These callers. averaging five or six 4
every twenty-four hours. were for tn