The St. Louis Republic., 1900-08-21
SCHARN MYSTERY DEEPENs.
Autopsy Shows That the Girl Was
Strangled.

| New York, Aug. 20-Frederick Scharn
| brother of Katherine Scharn, the young gir
| who was murdered In her apartments Sat
| urday. and Lincoln EIsenprice. said to be
| the girls lover, were arraigned to-day and
! held for the Coroner.
| The police no longer think robbery the
cause Of the crime The young woman had
been leading double life. and the detec-
| tives believe that man she had met in a
dance hall may have killed her
Doctor Donlin, coroners physician, per
| formed an autopsy on the body of Katherine
| Scharn to-day. He said the young woman
was not hammered to death, but was
strangled
Inspector Harley, who has the Scharn
! murder case in hand. gave out late to-day
tho following statement:
"An undertaken who lives next door to
the house where the murder occurred. says
he was sitting in front of his place from
o'clock Saturday evening until 1890. During
that time he' saw no one enter the house
where the murder was done or come out;
neither did he hear any unusual noise, and
the people in his house heard no unusual
noise during the night"
The Inspector said that so far as he haC
Investigated he had found no evidence de-
rogatory to the character of the dead girl
In his opinion the murder was done by
some one who was then in the girls apart
ment without her knowledge.
He believed this by the lack Of evidence OF
a struggle. The only thing overturned in
the room was an easy chair, and he thinks
she was knocked over while sitting in the
chair and was dragged from 1t to her bed
room. He thinks the murder was COM
mitted in the sitting-room. as he found a
cot of blod on the carpet where the body
had lain for little while before 1t was
dragged to the other room.
The search Of the apartments where the
murder was committed revealed an un-
opened bundle containing pillow-slips. stock
ings and some lace, which was wrapped In
the paper Of Bloomingdale's store in this
city, Inspector Harley succeeded in finding
the clerks who had sold those articles. They
at once recognized the goods and the pho
tographs of Miss Scharn as the purchaser.
They said that the articles were sold about
4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. and at the
time Of their purchase Miss Scharn was oc-
companied by a well-dressed young man of
about Is years of age.
They said that they would be able TO
identify him again and gave Inspector Har-
ley full description Of Miss Scharns COM
panion. mentioned certain peculariues
about him, which they noticed at the time
of the sale, and said that he paid for some
of the things which the girl bought. They
failed to Identify young Scharn and Eisem-
-
any way resemble the man who had visited
the store with the girl. Inspector Harley
said that he expected to get the man who
bought the things for Miss Scharn because
of a special delivery letter which furnishes
a clew. This letter was delivered at the house
on Saturday forenoon. 1t made an appoint
ment with the man, and eliminated in
the trip to Bloomingdale's. 1t was to
keep this appointment with the we'll
dressed stranger that the young woman
broke the engagement to meet Eisemprlce.
Judging from the statement of Mrs. Multi
gan, who rents the adjoining fiat, the
tragedy Is supposed to have been committed
between 1890 and 1:30 o'clock on Satur-
day night.
Mrs. Mulligan says that when Miss Scharn
went to Bloomingdale's she noticed that
she had left the windows open and that the
curtains were being ruined by the rain. AT
7:20 D. m Mrs. Mulligan looked out of her
back window and noticed that the curtains
had not been taken in. but ten minutes later
the curtains had been cared for. 1t Is be-
lieved to indicate that the young woman
was at home at that hour.
The police scout the idea that the crime
was committed by burglar. and do not
think that the blue mask which they found
will figure prominently In the evidence. In
spector Harley said that as far as had pro-
ceeded in the investigation of Eisenprice's 8
story, he had found it to be all right, but
he could not say the same concerning the
explanations made by the dead girls
brother. The Inspector claims that young
Scharn's statements are conflicting. The
young man has, 1t is said, practically ad-
mitted that some parts of his assertions are