New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-05
MURDERED IN HER BED.
,,oopY CRIME IN AN EAST TWENTY
FIRsT-sT. HOUSE.
woxAN's THROAT HACKED PRESUMABLY By
..,r NAN sHp HAD TAKEN TO HER HONE
CAPTAIN SMITH AND HIS MEN. WITH
CENTRAL OFFICE AID LOOKING
FOR THE MURDERER

CENTRAL OFFICE AID. LOOKING
FOR THE MURDERER
~. sinful life Of a woman known Mrs. An
=. uock came to a violent end late on Monday
I,u,t when she was murdered in her bed In the
.ar.e No 2O7 East Twenty-first-st. by stran-
ra- supposed to be Spaniard. whom she had
..s.r 20 her rooms. Her slayer cut her throat
.~,h knife. which he carried away with him.
IN. ascaped some hours before the crime was
discovered.
.o.r a. Rockaway Beach lately. He came to
A.. citv Yesterday morning after the murder had
10, discovered and declared that he never
.,sv that his wife was hayward. She was at
~. Reach on Monday. he said. and came back 10
~. city with SO in her pocket to pay the rent OF
.,a rooms in Twenty frst-st- She left the beach
-, late train and arrived at her rooms about
,,d,,pht IN company with the man who Killed
Nov Annie Reischman, her servant. was IN the
rooms at the time. The servant is stupid girl
.oid 20 he deaf She told the police yester-
aav that she went to sleep soon a1ter her mistress
...a-sd the horse Another woman in the house
hssrd q despairing cry late at night. 1t was the
cry Of woman;
Don't. On. DON'T
rhar there was silence. and the woman who
had
.o.,n thinking she had heard only fragment
- or,a family dispute. Annie Reischman went
-, .ha rooro NJ her mistress at 80 o'clock yes
-. -,o-n,ng and discovered the murder. Mrs.
poo,,s hodv Law on the bed. the clothing Of which
"a hoen soaked with the blood that had flowed
,,o-, The wounds in her throat. The servan. rar
tall the tanitor who called IN the police.
police HUNTING FOR THE MURDERER.
rsnta,n Smith and his detectives got descrip-
.,o, NJ the murderer from the servant, and then
,ocked her up as witness. There were not many
evidences OF a struggle in the room where the
murder had been committed. A basin full Of
bloody water in the room showed that the muir
derer had washed his hands carefully after the
crime was committed. Apparently a sudden
quarrel had led to the murder. Robbery was not
the motive, for small sum Of money still re-
manned in the woman's pocketbook. There were
three wounds IN the womans throat one deep
one which had caused her death and two others
which probably made in the course of the
short strugg. when she was in the grasp of the
assassin The woman's clothing was found as
she had left it, neatly folded. Two bird cages
were in the room. One contained living bird
and the other a dead one.
The murderer must have walked quietly out Of
the house after finishing his crime. No hurryng
Footsteps were nedrC by leHdnts- there ore
twenty in the house. The building is fve-story
brownstone structure. stoop leads up TO the
entrance.
The man who says he the husband OF the
murdered woman is a cigarmak-r. He has not
been working lately. He went down to Rock
away. he says. for pleasure. He is tall we'll
built man, with a blond mustache. Morris
Sukis Of No 1872 Allen-st., friend sent him
a telegram when the murder discovered
The telegram said that Books wife sick
and that he was wanted Immediately. He got
TO the house about IL a. m. yesterday. and coll
lapsed completely when he heard the truth and
looked at his wife's boGy. He could not help
the police with any information. He said ne
was married to the woman four years ago. She
was brunette, rather good-looking. but OF fran
build. She did not weigh over hundred
pounds The couple had been in the house
only about three months. They moved there
from house further down the street. Previous
to that they lived at No. ;}3S East Thirteenth
ST, and No. 211 East feminist. The woman
came TO this country six years ago from Russia.
NO WEAPON FOUND.
The police searched all the rooms carefully
but could not find the weapon with which the
murder was committed. Coroner Tuthu said
the woman might have been dead from six to
twelve hours when the crime was discovered
Captain Smith informed the Detective Bureau Of
the crime. and several Central Office detectives
we're sent to the house to join in the hunt for
the murderer. There were clews for them
70 work on, they said The womans effects
were closely examined for letters papers that
might furnish some trace Of the murderer but
10 no purpose Captain Smith left the house
with the Coroner about noon. Both went to the
station, where they had long conference. The
servant girl who was under arrest ques-
ton at length. but nothing Of importance was
obtained from her. In the afternoon the body
of Mrs Book was sent to the shop Of an under
taker at No. 176 Rivington-st.