The sun., 1900-08-20
GIRL HAMMERED TO DEATH.
BROTHER. VINO FOUND HER, AND HER
LOVER Also. Under ARREST.

Apparently Not Theft - Clues In Letters.
Katherine Scharn Of o7i Second avenue was
| murdered at her home some time on Saturday
night. The murderer used a hammer which he
| found on the premises and with II crushed in the
| woman's skull Miss Scharn was % years old
| The killing was reported to the police at 30
| o'clock yesterday morning and by O'Clock last
night two men had been taken into custody
| and were detained in the West Thrty-ffth h
street station as suspicious persons They will
have an opportunity TO tell their stores.n the
| Norkvie police court this morning.
The two men arrested arc Fred. Soharn. the
| murdered girls brother. and Lincoln Price. a
| bank clerk OF icith street and Brook avenue, to
| whom she was enga yed and with whom she had
| an appoin ment for Z 80 o. clock on saturday
night, UP in The Bronx Other arrests are likely
| 10 follow on the strength OF clues furnished by
the girls correspondence. Sho had received
| letters from several different men Most OF
| them were love letters and many named time
| and place for the next meeting Tho police
! are looking for the several writers OF these
| letters II was through the correspondence
that the detectives first lenrned Of Price. Two
| other letters found in the girls room we're from
! Charle~ Youing Of i0i West Thlrty-frst street.
! They were both written last February and in
each there was q request for the girl to meet the
writer Youling was sent for yesterday after
noon by Insp ctor Harley. He went 70 the
East Thirty-nfth street station and told his
story which was to the effect that he met the
girl last winter in an Eighth avenue music hall.
and that he had not seen her since February.
! Young was not detained
| The police seem to be confident that the mur-
dor was committed by ono Of the men with
| whom the young woman had been acquainted
| They have no idea that the murder was the
/ worl; OF a thief. although a gold watch and two
| gold rings which the victim wore are missing.
| and her empty pockctbook, which had con-
I tanned about s.. was found on the floor beside
| the body. There was also blue cambria mask.
! such as no thief in his senses would ever use,
! according 10 the detectives, on the floor near
the blood-stained hammer. The hammer was
| kept in a too. box under the washtubs in the
! kitchen and for the sake OF Appearances the
tool box was hidden by an oilcloth screen which
hung from the TOP of the tubs In the opinion
! OF the police no one who was not familiar with
! the premises would have found the hammer.
There were no signs Of a struggle in the fiat
and none Of the bureau drawers had been tam
| pered with.
Katherine Scharn and her brother. Fred,
had kept house together since last September
! In lour-rcom fiat on the third floor. rear Of
/ the Second avenue house. They, pad
penses until recently. when tie brother
| VINO is only is years od got out OF work. The
| Pencil Company factory in East Fourteenth
! street and earned from 50 to sl0a week. Her
! brother formerly worked In plane factory and
after that started TO learn the bookbinder
| trade. The brother and sister lived with their
mother, who kept furnished room house at
| 2lO East Twelfth street uutiI Mrs. Scharn mar
ried Ernest Lippod a silk weaver, who was one
Of her lodgers Then. qs he stepfather and the
GNndFpn lnnaA a hDma la
| themselves. Lippold and his wife gave up the
| house in East Twelfth street year ago last
Fred Scharr was the first 10 tell the police
Of his sister, murder. Iie reached home soon
stier igdhgh yegd}efd"' nd,cad DeiCfe
beIiSe door to t3e hallway Of hli;t nAt was
| through the transom Ill. sister always locked
the door and left light for him, iie opened
| ho told the police, and lit u match. The first
sisters hat. Then he saw, the girls feet eI-
She was lying. face down; with her arms
twisted 6e.nd ioiSad her RSGs 2osr 50 that the
| he saw all that by the light OF
the first match, He lii another and discovered
that the girls hair was loose and that her hair
| head. He did not attempt 20 look at lis sis
ter's face but touched her hando. which were
icy cold. He whispered her name and then.
| womar in the next fiat who was listening he
exclaimed murder n ana rushed
| first went one block beyond to the home of
William II Tyler Of isi East Thirty,
ga Second avenue and keers a drug store on
the ground floor: Tyler was not at home so
tres4 1t was about o'clock when -he went to |
the door and asked him what he meant by
rontng her 9at a !h2i tine me Of Pm nisht, s,.,.r.
killed and want Mr.. Tyler"
The anlres- let him In then and ook him to
her own apartments. Mrs. Cur ey was there |
scharn 10 see II the case was az bad as lie |
Perhaps his sister has only tainted, A." said |
Mrs Curley. The two women dressed. but |
while ,Scharn was waiting for them ne
tainted and ten minute, were lost IN |
bringing him 70. Then ne three vent |
t, the Sec9Hnd aXenHe Me aye house SSSharn
and more. Mrs, Lqwlor dis oyered the mask |
and the empty poCketbook, She also felt the |
was no case Of fainipc. The brother left the
house again. but didn't seem TO know just |
G sr no no % him m the %Sr p% sSoh sEGf % Wbd2ye
he tainted again while telling his story to Ser
The sergeant went TO the house, took pos
session OF the Soharn fiat aud began on the
DELAYED police investigation. He found that
the skull was crushed and the jaw broken, An
ambulance was summoned from Bellevue
Hospital and AmbulahCe surgeon Train who |
examined the body said that the girl |
had been dead severd hours. The coagu-
lated condition Of the blood on the carpet |
showed that he said Sergt. OROurke r.
ported 10 acting Cantain shire, who sent for /
Inspector Harley. The INSPECTOR. with Cen
tra ONCE Detectives Brady and McAiullen /
went TO the precinct and they worked ON the
case all da~ questioning the tenants and hunt
Ing up Miss SCharn's correspondents, Her |
bod" wa sent To the Morgue when the de-
tcctives had seen a.. .
There are two families on each floor In the
house where the murder was committed. The |
front nat on the third floor next TO the SChaTn
hat Is occupied by Mrs Annie Kehoe, her
ten ,ear-od son Joseph and her sister Kate
Condor. III three OF them got
In the COuntrs at 1890 o'clock on
Saturday night ana went at once 10 bed. Mrs. |
KohOe' bedroom sin the back OF her Hat and is
separated from the SCharn girls room by only
a thin partition. She says that she heard |
nothing OF her neEhbOr- until after midnight
when She was awakened by some one coming
up stairs. Before she could get TO sleep
again she heard the word murder" and then
some one went downstairs on the run
Mr. Fred ThlCl who livcs In the fiat directly |
over the Scharns heard no sound Oi Il struggle |
downstairs and she did not hear anything
Of the murder until after the arrival Ot the police.
but she was able to help fix the time at which !
the crime wns committed. NJ O'Clock on
Saturday afternoon. MIR. Thel said Miss
SCharn had IA lot Of curtains aud rortieres out
nm ha Clothes line. She l. |