The sun., 1900-10-11
PROBING SCHARN MURDER.
LONG DELAYED INQUEST INTO THE
FACTORY GIRLS DEATH BEGUN.
First Days Testimony had for Her BIOther
He Avoided Policemen. Going TO the
Station TO Report the Crime-Lied, Too.
m About His Money and His Movements.

First Days Testimony had for Her BiUtheI
He Avoided Policemen, Going 60 ths
station TO Report the Crime-Lied, Too.
m About His Money and His Movements.
The inquest into the death Of Katherine
Scharn the factory girl who was found muT-
dcred In her fiat at ga Second avenue on the
morning Of Aug. 10. was begun yesterday be-
fore Coroner Bausch and n jury. Little that
is new in the case was developed, and the crowd
that thronged the court room was disappointed
II IL expected sensations The evidence that
was taken was not favorable to Fred Scharn,
the murdered girls eightoen-year-old brother.
who is In the Tombs on q charge Of theft and
who is declared by the police to be his sister s
murderer. Scharn was not in court Emanuel
Friend was present in his behalf Assistant
District Attorney Daniel OReilly questioned
the witnesses.
Mrs. Annie Lawlor. the janitress Of 1871 East
Thirty-fourth street. 10 whom Scharn wen
when he found his sisters body after midnight 4.
was the first witness She said that SCharn
tainted after telling her that his sister had
been murdered She went with him back to the
house and found the girls body on the floor Of
the fiat. cold. Then she, started with the boy
the house they saw two policemen on the cor
ner.
Yes sir, replied the witness.
Did he at any time express any sorrow for
his sisteE,s death''
--pid he cry'"
Policeman O'Rourke testified that in the
police station Scharn leaned his hands on the
railing Of the desk and said My sister is
dead and suppose she has been murdered"
In the Nat he said that his sister hadn't gone
20 work that day. but she was, TO have drawn
her wages at noon. II picked up the empty
pocketbook continued the policeman. and said
There are no wages here, Scharn said; i have
got my wages in my pocket; scharn, y
has been proved by the police, had not worked
for several weeks then
sScharn told McCaulay. who questioned him
In the fiat AZ TO his movements on the day before.
ORourke said, that he left home at 7.30 o'clock
In the morning To go 10 work at ~ Beekman
street and qult work at noon and went 70 l29th
street and Third avenue, wherc he took trolley
car for onkers 70 see friend named Williams
He did not find Williams 40 he then went TO his
girls house az lo2d street, reaching there at
about 40 O'Clock. She was not in and after
waiting until 0Sp O'Clock he met her father
coming from work and returned to the house
with him, remaining there until ll45 o'clock.
elevated train and got of al Twenty-eighth
street, so that he reached the fat between
1880 and o'clock.
was nc. ulnrk Of a Jimmy on the fat door, and
II would have been impossible for anybody
TO have entered the fat by the fire escape,
boy who told him that he had sold pears 70
Kate Scharn about $50 o'clock on the Satur-
day night.
floor OF the Scharn house. was called He testf-
fed that on the Sunday morning in which the
body was found he had Fred Schan 10 break
from the neehbors that Kate Scharn had pur-
chased the pears on Saturday night scharn
unmarked that his sister bought the pears on
roboratcd this and then the hearing was ad-
journed until to-day.