New-York tribune., 1900-08-21
SAW MAN WITH DEAD GIRL
sALEsArEN TELL OF THEIR VISIT TO A
BIG STORE ON SATURDAY.
DRUGGIST WHO FIGURED IN THE CUM
NINGHAM CASE LIVES IN THE HOUSE
WHERE MURDER WAS COMMITTED.


Dr. Donlin, the Coroners' physician. per-
| formed an autopsy on the body of Kathryn
| scharn. the murdered woman, yesterday after
noon, completing the work in two hours me
| girl was twenty-five years old. and lived al NO.
| 674 Second-ave. She killed on saturday
| night
Dr. Donln afterward announced that the
| girl had not met her death by being struck on
| the head with a hammer, which was round out
| that she had been strangled. He found that
| four blows had been struck on her head with
| the hammer. Three of the blows had caused
only cuts and were slight. The fourth blow had
| caused depressed fracture of the skull. but
| had not fractured the outer skull. close ex-
| animation Of the skull showed that this oiow
| had caused slight hemorhage, which had only
| dazed the girl and had not been sufficient to
| kill her. DR.. Donlin said that 1t was probable
| that when the girl received this blow she fell
| to the floor. The man. according to Dr. DON
| lin must have then knelt on the woman's
| breast and strangled her.
DR. Donlin's reasoning leads him to think
that the man who killed the young woman was
| taller than she. He said that the blow from
| the hammer which dazed the girl and broke her
| skull was a downward blow. This was In
dcated by the shape Of the indentation. The
| other blows would probably have not stupefed
| the girl and she would have remained standing
| but the last blow dazed her and she fell. 'If
| that were not the case" said he, then the
| girl must have been in STOPPING or falling
! position when the man struck the blow which
| broke the skull, her head was certainly
! lower than the mans at the time the skull was
crushed by the hammer"
EIsENPRIcE AND BROTHER HELD.
Lincoln Eisenprice, thirty years old, OF
No. 994 Brook-ave and Frederick Scharn eigh-
teen years DID, were arraigned in the Yorkville
| police court yesterday and sent by Magistrate
Brann to the Coroner Eisenprice is said to
have been the young woman's lover, and Schafn
was her brother Detective John McAulife, OF
the East Thirty -ffth-st. police station, charged
| them with being suspected of the death OF the
| young woman. No questions were asked.
Later the two prisoners were arraigned before
| Coroner Fitzpatrick. The formal complaint
upon which the arraignment was made was
made out by Detective McAuley and was based
| on information and belief" At the request OF
| Inspector Harley the two men were remanded
back into the custody of the police for twenty
! four hours, and Will be detained in the East
Thirty-ffth-st. station. The prisoner known
| Price gave his full name as Louis Lincoln Eisen-
| price and said he lived at No. 994 Brook ave.
| with his brother his parents being dead
Inspector Harley, who remained all day at the
East Thirty -ffth-st station, said in the evening
| that he had learned from the superintendent of
| the Eagle Pencil works in Fourteenth-st, where
| the girl worked, that she had very good repu-
! tation there. Although she did not come to
! work Saturday, nothing thought Of it, the
| belief being that she was sick
/ DID NOT MEET EIsENPRICE.
Esenprice had an engagement to meet the
| girl Saturday at 730 o'clock. He said he
| went up to the station at that time, but she
not there. He waited about twenty min
| utes but she did not come. and he concluded
! she would not be there and he went away. He
says, be stayed until 11:30 o'clock in Corbetts
| saloon, at e-hundred-and-sixty -second-st. and
| Third-ave He then went home, where. he
! says,1this brother was still up. He waited
around1t3F q few minutes after AZ o'clock when
he went to bed.
| The Inspector said that in examining the place
| he came to the conclusion that the girl
murdered by some one she knew and who
| in her apartment with her knowledge. He
judges this by the lack OF evidence Of struggle
and by the lack Of screaming. The only thing
overturned in the rooms was a rocker in her
sitting ROOM which he thinks was knocked over
| when she dragged from that room to her
bedroom. He thinks the murder was committed
| in the sitting room, as he found clot of blood
on the carpet there where the girl had probably
lain for a little while, before she was dragged
to the other room, where several clots Of blood
| were found.
| AS to the mask he says her brother tells him
| the girl went to masked balls in a while,
| and that she had several masks. but he did not
| know the blue The Inspector says there
| have been masked balls within week that
he remembers, and it is not the season for them.
| The search of the apartments revealed un-
opened bundle containing pillow slips towels,
bolster covers stockings and some lace which
was wrapped in the paper of store at Fifty
ninth-st. and Third-ave. Inspector Harley sue
ceeded in finding the saleswoman and two sales
men who had sold the articles. They were taken
to the Thirty-fffth-st. police station late yester-
day and recognized the goods and the photo
graph of Miss Scharn the purchaser. They
said that the articles were sold about o'clock
on Saturday, and shat Miss Scharn accom-
panied by a we'll dressed young man about
twenty-five years old They would be able to
identify him again and gave Inspector Harley
a full description Of Miss Scharns companion
and said that he paid for some Of the things
Eisenprice and young Scharn They said that
they did not in any way resemble the man who
had visited the store with the girl: Harley said
that he expected to get the man who bought the
things for Miss Scharn, because there is spe-
cial delivery letter in the case which bids fair
to help in the solution of the tragedy. II was
delivered at the house on Saturday forenoon by
one Sicord a substitute letter carrier, and con-
tanned the appointment which Miss Scharn kept.
II to keep this appointment that she broke
the engagement to meet Eisenprice.
DRUGGISTS HOME SEARCHED
The fiat directly underneath that occupied by
Miss Scharn and her brother is rented by a
family named Boylston, who are in the country.
The police scout the idea that the crime was
committed by burglar, and do not think that
the blue mask will figure prominently in the
case If it ever comes to trial The police are in
the possession Of all Miss Scharns letters and
they say that there are some features in con-
, nection with the crime which lead to the belief
that it is akin to the Kroneman murder, which
was committed by covetous relative who had
| served a term in prison Inspector Harley said
in this connection that far he had pro-
ceeded in the investigation OF Eisenprice's story
he had found 1t to be all right. but he could not
say the same concerning the explanation made
by the girls brother, which in parts con-
| hicting and could not be corroborated. The
| young man has, ii is said practically admitted
that some parts of his statement were untrue.