Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-27
THE LILLE LOW CASE.
Was Dr. Riggs With Her on
 That Fatal Day9
OSCAR LIPsKER THINKS HE WAS.

Where She Was tOunO De8O-hlSSS AS a Divorced Man.
 NEW YORK, July 27.-The mystery sur- rounding the suicide of Lillie Low had not been cleared away by Coroner O'Meagher and the police when the body of the girl was laid at rest in Woodlawn. Enough had been learned about the girls wrecked life to point to a probable motive for sui eide, but there had been no explanation of the marks on her body which indicated that she had been assaulted not long be- fore her death.
 An attempt was being made yesterday to find some person who had seen the young woman go to the lonely place on Washington heights where her body was found on Tuesday morning. The police want to know if she went to that place alone, or if she was in the company of any person with whom she had been acquaint ed recently.
 Captain Pickett of the Nineteenth pre- cinct made this statement:
 'The girls death was surrounded by strange circumstances. The autopsy showed that she had been assaulted. Then came her fathers remarkable story. There was nothing left for the police to do but to sift the whole thing and leave ho stone unturned to learn why she took her life There is little doubt that she committed suicide.
 "Mr. Low now thinks so, but he feels that the persons now under arrest were in way responsible. I have gone very thor oughly about this neighborhood, and have found number of people who knew Mir. Low and his daughter. They all de- clare that they never saw two persons so apparently devoted to each other as they were before their separation. "As to MT. Inmans connection with the case, we do not think that there is anything against him. We understand that he knew the girl, and we simply want to learn what he knows about her. Trowbridge knew moro about her than did MT. Inman."
 Justified In Holding Prisoners. Coroner O O'Meagher said that he thought he was justified in holding Miss Amelia K. Hanson, Henry T. Champney and Dr. Thomas J. Riggs for the inquest.
 "They say they are respectable people, " he said, "but let them prove their respect ability at the in luest The evidence so far obtained indicates that Lillie Low and her father were devoted to each other un- til the girl was led away to her ruin by Miss Hanson and her boarders. "The girl was weak minded and easily | influenced. She could not have written the letter which, it is alleged, she sent to her father accusing him of shocking cruel | ty, and I am inclined to the belief that Mir. Low has suffered great wrongs at the hands of the persons now under bonds, even if they did not cause the girl to kill herself.
 Oscar Lipsker, a German baker of S4 Madison street, who is employed by M. Vogel, at 72 Mott street, went to see Act ing Inspector Brooks at police headquar- l vaStarfov and coiH hO al sure he had seen Dr. Riggs and Lillio Low together on Saturday afternoon at Am sterdam avenue and One Hundred and Eighty-ffth street.
 Lipsker said he took advantage of his half holiday on Saturday to go on a ride to the upper part of the city, where he l could get some fresh air. He went on the elevated train to One Hundred and Twen, y-fifth street, and then rode on a cable car to the end of the line at Amsterdam avenue and One Hundred and Eighty
 fifth street. When he got off the car, he got a drink of soda water at a street stand and as he was drinking he noticed a man and woman who were standing neal him and talking earnestly.
 He Thinks It Was Riggs.
 His attention was attracted to them SC strongly that he kept watch of them sev eral minutes, and saw them go into tho woods in which the body of Lillie Low was found on Tuesday. He said he Wal half inclined to fCllow the couple, but h, thought better of it. When he read th' accounts of the girls suicide and saw tn, pictures of Dr. Riggs in the newspapers he felt sure that he had seen Dr. Bigg and the girl together.
 Acting Inspector Brooks called Captain Pickett and told him to take Lipsker witt him and see if the German could identif, Dr. Biggs. Captain Pickett took the Ger man to Dr. Biggs' house and office, bu was not able to find Dr. Riggs. Lipsker' description of the woman he saw in Am stcrdam avenue on Saturday tallicd close ly with that of Lillie Low.
 Captain Pickett said last night that would be interesting to know if Dr. Bigg and the girl were together on Saturda. near the place where she probably killeC herself late on Monday afternoon.
 A dispatch from Cincinnati states tha Dr. Riggs secured divorce from wom an he had married about four years ago Dr. Riggs was a prominent physician a ! Glendale, a suburb of Cincinnati, it said, and was connected with the Medica college with Dr. Massey, physician of tn
 C.. H. and D. railroad. and had sufficien influence to suppress all publication abou his suit and decree of divorce.