The sun., 1900-08-27
clue At LAST
| HAS Been FOUND
| IN SCHARN CASE
The Two Children'S Story Opens
New Trail for the
Police.
TORY OF A SHEET TOLD
he Girl May Have Been Strangled
with One Which is Now Missing.
Break Has Also Been Found
in Brothers Story of His
Doings That Evening.

1 DOthEb
New York, Aug. 26.-After a week
Pmething has been found upon which
3e police may go to work in the Scharn
turder case. 1t has been learned that
Miss Scharn was In the habit of receiv-
fg a male visitor in her fiat on Saturday
Fcnngs. Also there is a probability that
fc girl was strangled with bedsheet
/ fhich has disappeared since the crime
rs committed, although it was in the
| when the body of the murdered girl
! lS found.
/ In the discovery that Miss Scharn had
regular Saturday evening visitor the
lice have the first tangible thing to
ark upon. They have to find this man,
ho was intimate enough with the girl
take off his coat and sit about the
ace and read. If he was Esenprice,
. ID il is not thought he was, then the
ad is of no value, because Eisenprice
accounted for his time on Saturday
week ago. If the man was not Eisen-
|icc then the police have new man in
e case, perhaps the man who, jealous
the bank clerk. forbade the girl to
Jcp the engagement she had made with
m for Saturday night and who, when
found she was determined to keep it,
led her
Children Tell Their Tale.
EThe theory upon which the men from
Central office worked at the start was
} il man jealous of the girl killed her.
thing was known upon which to hang
Is theory until yesterday. when the
In .,;,. .l,, 1nl;.nnaI fhn Iatn.Jrp
the Scharn house were permitted to
what they knew of the family. They
Mr. not frightened by brass buttons, but
kn allowed to tell all they thought of
heir own childish way.
he children were Celestine and Anna
tz, daughters of Mrs. Gretz, who does
9niry work at PAT East Twenty eighth
pet. Since last spring the little ones
c gone to the Scharn fiat with the
Fhing every Saturday night. Celcs-
talked about visits to the Scharn fat
told of seeing the brother there.
HDid you ever see any one else thereg'
was asked.
Hcs: about three times when l went
h. there was n man in the room. He
sitting there reading"
lie child thought the man was in his
N sleeves, but could not say. She
l not be certain about the age of the
rday visitor to the fat, but thought
WAS 10 years old and smooth shaven.
was positive she had seen the man
three times and always on Satur-
around I o'clock, which was the
hi hour for her to take the laundry
to the Scharns.
htnnth ehox N l0 vuntII1 fir EiSnn-
in a general way, and an attempt
made to find if he remembered being
b. house on Saturday evenings when
title girls took home the laundry. In
#tatements he has said nothing about
&ding any of his Saturday evenings
the girl in her fiat. He as rule
her away from the house.
story of "A sheet.
knother bit Of information which came
b. police was something which should
IA been known to those working on
case the first day. Inspector Har-
heard of it Saturday for the first
This was that sheet was found
4ally wrapped about the girls body.
sheet the police believe, may have
led prominent part in the murder OF
IA Scharn. She was strangled, yet
Il were no finger marks on her throat
police now think she was strangled
the sheet How they failed to
about the sheet before and where
now is mystery.
Be story of the sheet is told by Dr
b, the ambulance surgeon who an
cd the call on the morning the body
discovered. At that time the body
where it had been found and hat
been touched by the police except t.
hat the girl was dead. When the
br arrived, the body was lying OF
&ace. with one hand partially unde
NJ the other hand twisted around ant
ID back of the body, which was in ;
pcd position. The head was ben
hrd to the chest and under the bod.
swhat. so that the chin rested ol
reast.
Her the chest was sheet so crum
up that the greater part of it wa
wad. One corner of it passed unde
8ft arm and over the girls back. Di
was forced to move the sheet il
be- his examination Of the body.
ghhors who went into the roon
with the police in saying they di
Hut any sheet near the body. Whe
\about the sheet. Inspector Hal
Id he had heard nothing of II
he was told what Dr. Trains state
on this point was, and the polio
I'D TO look up the sheet. The 1n
<heen ransacked. and there was n
what had become of the article
fact worried the police.
SchRrn Absent Some Time.
hard work the police have estat
one thing. That was that fo
part of the night between $50 an
bon Saturday night the boy Free
Echarn was not at the home 9
hin family. ISL East One HUI
ld Sixty.second street. From th
has been maintained that the DO
'Ea7a. the kubin house after sur