The evening world., 1894-05-31
minnie WELDT
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 It.
THE GIRLS QUEER HOME LIFE.
She and Her Roommate, Miss
E0hIer, Had Many Male
Visitors.
THE GIRLS QUEER HOME LIFE.

No doubt remains this morning In the
minds OF those who have investigated
the case, that the girl Minnie Weldt,
who was found strangled to death at
S24 East Sixty-first 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 relationship
with her.
There is evidence that the murderer
is a man of medium height, stout figure
and fairly we'll dressed. Such q 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:
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In America one year. Minnie Weldt was
twenty-one years old and had been here
three years. We are both Germans.
we met last January, and three
weeks ago went to live together in the
e room of the at S24 East
Mxty-iirst street. We took In washing
and went out to work.
yesterday morning at 7 o'clock l
uyant IN fha hnnSa nf a Mr. HaUlmAn- Mt
1868 Park avenue, and washed all day.
Minnie, who had nothing to do, stayed
at home
81 got back to the rooms at about s
o'clock last night. 1 saw Minnie lying
on the bed. l went close to her and saw
that her face was black and she vas
dead. l 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
Weldt's body lying upon the bed. A
chief was tied 50 tightly about the
thioat that it sank into the flesh. The
ends of the handkerchief were knotted
together under the chin and the force
employed to tie the knot had been SO
great that a part of the handkerchief
had been torn away; the scrap lying on
the floor by the bedside.
a peculiar feature was that the atti-
tude Of the body was one of complete
repose and there was no sign of disorder
about the room. But for, her swollen
and distorted face 1t might have been
thought she was sleeping. She was ly-
ing upon her back, with one hand at
her side and the other thrown back
above her head.
There was every evidence that she had
been visited by a man and then drugged
would also account for the absence of
indications of n struggle.
The testimony OF people occupying
mixed life. They had been there but
three weeks, but had attracted general
attention in the house. Their Qra rters
We're poor; they had no fine clothing,
and they certainly did some laundry
work both at home and outside.
Their neighbors, however, were puz-
zled over the unusual number of men
that called at all hours to see them.
These callers, ,%averaSing five or six in
every twenty-four hours, were for the
most part men too well dressed for that
quarter of the city. They invariably
asked If required to speak at all. for
put on their door, but whether the muir
dered woman or her companion an
swered TO the name IL 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
TO these advertisements.
Mrs. Anna Boes, an elderly woman
who lives directly across the hall from
Mrs. Lang's rooms, has very positive mo-
tions of the character OF the girls, and
with her little niece is able TO furnish
the. only hint OF a clue to the murderer
so far ontainable.
Mrs. Boes lays that al about $50
o'clock yesterday morning she heard u
man knock at the opposite door. He was
admitted. Minnie was then at home
alone.
A half hour later she heard the door