Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-25
THE FATE OF LILLE LOW
Three Persons Charged With
 Complicity In Her Death.
LOOKED LIKE SUICIDE AT FIRST.

LOOKED LIKE SUICIDE AT FIRST. Her Father Accuses Miss Hanson. a Board
 ing House Keeper, of Having Lured His
 Girl to Her Ruin-she Had Quarrel and
 Was Found Dead the Next Day.
 NEW YORK, July 25.-The case of the beautiful young woman who was found dead in a romantic spot in the upper part of the city is developing into mystery. The girl was identified as Lillian Low, daughter of 8 wealthy man. Now it is hinted that she may have been murdered.
 On d coroner's warrant issued by Coro- ner O'Meagher, at the instance of Cap tain Pickett of the West Thirtieth street station, Thomas J. Riggs of 34 West Thir- ty-second street, Henry P. Champney, vice president and general manager of the Bovinine company, giving his residence as 103 West Fifty eighth street, and Miss Hanson of the same address were arrested at midnight. They were locked up in the West Thirtieth street police station. They are charged with having knowledge of the death of Lillian Low.
 Captain Pickett with his special men McGovern and Day, made a thorough in- vestigation of the case, and when they re- turned to the West Thirtieth street police station at midnight the captain found, ao- cording to his orders, that Riggs, Champ ney and Miss Hanson were awaiting him there. They had with them their counsel, George P. Gordell, of 5S William street. The captain, who had secured the coro- ner's warrant, immediately arrested the three. They seemed thunderstruck and refused to make any statement. MT. Cor dell also refused to Say anything.
 Pathetic Scene at the Torsue.
 The father, who identified the body as Lillie Low, gave his name as James Low, Jr., of II West Thirty fourth street.
 A pathetic scene took place in the morgue when the father, accompanied by his lawyer, MT. Van Armorage, viewed the remains of the dead girl. The father was completely overcome with grief when he looked upon the lifeless features of his daughter and saw the bloodstains left up- on her face and neck by the bullet wound. As he approached the icebox in which his daughters body lay the father lost control of himself and gave way to grief, for from the description of 'the suicide which he had read in the morning papers, he had sorrowfully concluded that his own child was the victim.
 The keeper of the morgue pulled out the structure upon which the body was lying, and as the father saw it he ex- claimeds pitifully:
 ''Oh, that is her-that is my poor Lil- lie, my poor Lilliep'
 He gazed mournfully upon her dead form for several moments, when he was l finally led away by his lawyer.
 MT. Low is a man 57 years of age, with cleanly shaved face and grayish hair. | He is. a well preserved man of medium height. During the painful ordeal which ha Snd rrh 1nxy h ie utterly gave way.
 The Fathers Sad Story. Late last night he told the story of the l girls misfortunes, and said that she left his home early in March last, saying that she could not stand the cruel treatment which, she alleged, he had imposed upon l her. The father denied that he had ever | i'll treated his daughter, and insisted that l he had always provided for her a comfort l able home and clothed her both neatly and comfortably, though his resources during the last few years have been some 1 what limited.
 Twenty-Five years ago, he said, he went 1 to France, where he fell in love with q Frenchwoman whom he thought was not married.
 | He lived with her number of years, | though he never married her, because he l soon learned that she had husband liv. l ing. She bore him six children, five o1 | whom, MT. Low says, she killed. She | used various means to destroy the chil i dren, and one of them, soon after its birth she threw into a tub of freezing water l Another one she suffocated with cologne Lillie was the only survivor of the fami | ly, which originally consisted of six chil dren, all of whom were of illegitimatt birth. When Low discovered the woman criminality, he decided to leave her, and taking his daughter Lillie with him. re turned to America.
 He engaged board at 141 West Thirty fourth street, where they lived happily to gether, the father says, until March last | when the girl left him while he was suf fcring from severe attack of grip.
 He Blamed Miss Hanson.
 He said that a Miss Hanson had 1uret the girl to leave her home and go to liv i with her. He tried to persuade her to re main with him. and offered to provid everything he could, and even while h. was sick he declares that he made ar engagements to have her supported inde pendently for life in case his illness shoul' prove fatal. She left his home and wen to live with Miss Hanson, who moved re gently to 163 West Fifty eighth street.
 This happened on March 12. Since thel
 
 girl to return and live with him, but thes offers she declined, because, she said, sh
 had always been brrtally treated by him
 One day last spring, the father said, h went to sec his daughter at Miss Hanson home. Miss Hanson denied his daughter
 presence in her house and ordered him t ! leave.
 He pleaded with her and begged to SC
 the girl, who was the only child he ha
 left, whereupon, he declares, Miss Hanso
 summoned friend Dr. Riggs, who forci
 bly, ejected him from the premises.
 Dr. Philip F. O'Hanlon made an au
 topsy of the girls body yesterday morn
 ing. He found marks of violence upo
 her body which would indicate a eriml
 nal assault. Dr. O'Hanlon said that tn l girl was probably assaulted, after whic
 she determined to take her own life in ol
 der to hide her shame, but there is n l doubt, he asserts, of her having been at
 saulted ill a violent manner.
 It was learned last night that the gil had a dispute with Miss Hanson on MoI day afternoon last. She left the house i | ill humor and returned late the sam night. The next morning she left th house without saying anything to Mis Hanson and never returned. It is suppose she went direct to Washington heights where she took her life.
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