New-York tribune., 1902-10-02
FOUL MURDER. POLICE SAY
ACCUSE Uncle OF STRANGIING NIECE
IL HOME
GIRL cRnI1NAIIY ASSAULTED DEAD FIVE
OR SIX DAYS RoDY ANp MAN lN
GAS FILLED ROOM

pretty Danish girl az twenty wears was folnd Gov
erred with blood he'd In tho apartments pr heT
uncle Louis Arplerod on the third h'or oi 'he
i've story tenement house al ~. 81, East 'ne-Aa"
dred-aud-eiEhth-st
Jennie Larsen tho niece, had hefn m inns country
only since Thursday az last We"k, haNlnL come '''
10 keep house for her uncle. and The police taf''H
of the murder De- that the uncle attempted To ''I'"
inaIly assault her The nrst nisht she was l l'S
home and that De- only succeeded after 'hoklns hei
into insensih,iity- The story ~ Inc desperate S'-
Gle the young woman made may mover ." 80" y,
the police saN. bW they think They nave '.'''-"
evidence 40 prove thoir Theory Inal eh' WIS ''''
victim ~ "a deEenerat" who had planned 10 7'.'a i
her, not solely 20 care toI ms home ana ""'''.-
that she resisted hts advances. ch"N'a a'I UNI
she was unconscious and unable i' 'fith' '.'' 7''
Ihey DO NOT ihlnh h' intended To- '"'''' ",'' 80
tnat ne was 90 strong ln MS Nt'.'H' i''s'' ''
Dee choked her until she was dead. NOT N'""l'A
az tho time that he ha. killed her. The P'A', a'7'
say thar the condition of me BODY room '"N -.
a. they found th'm. sho" fhal me sly
inalN assaulted after she was eh'A.' '-i
assertions Applerod is locked up ONLY rs S's
pioious person IN Inc East 'ne-hnhoIf' .'- guy
81 station The police lhnA lna' ''' '"''- WIZ
he changed o" mansLi"-hl'' '"''s ..-,
Ten families i've IN th' tenement '''7'
the body was found TWO ON a floor ArpI'Toa'
who Is nftN- wears o'd' aho IS fnlf''''
conductor "n mo frsi-aN1 new "'F. '
Metropoliian street RAILWAY oI'''.
me easi ha' on 'ne thi'a moor 'h' .'VI
from the hfao NJ 'he STAIRS anu a'-.''.
p front room. Back of TINS are the tV-o bedrooms
About year and half aso Arpler'0 W.T. was
sent 10 the Manhattan Insane Hospital on Na'o
Island He told the police that ne sent fof '-
girl 10 come and be his hopseF'ep'r. ana ''.a
neichb0rs that De had sent Sa 90 Denmark io paw
her passage 10 this country
The police learned that she arrived from Den
mark on the steamship fekla NJ the SCandinaH1an
Line on last THURSDAY the steamer landing ~
Fortv-secord st BROOKLYN she embarked an
Copenhagen ana the hrst DAY our made the ar-
auaintance of the third mate Eugene Christian
When the Hekla arrived ArpIsrod was not a. tre
so-l ana Taunfe r.srDittsa -l,rfzttar ~ take her
- her ,rrle-e trr,e Arriving rh.ra they learned
,bs, A,rlaro5 VS. ON, sr5 So christian turned
,be pirI over 40 the cave or Airs Mary Staudr the
,,pi,or Arnlerod returned a. o'clock and took
fis rsos nm ~ mis- ararrr,errs That was the last
sbs ,-ss seem alive l,,. am, ,srsor but Applerod
,-.--s-. - 49,. =, ,,-.,.-.t ,,r. 1i,--s On
posits rhe Arplsroa nat. detected gas leaking and
Traced n ~ Apulerod's rooms she sent word 20
Mrs staudt who knocked on ArT''F'a.S door hut
,,,,, 10 o--lo-l the osor ~ --s ha-7v7e stronger
= ,,,. ,,-,,-.,,, -.,l.s 80, ,.,.,-- s-,,, ~
stpudt acain knocked ou the door. ans this time
ApnleToo sa"eo 'o'-
NJ s,sp5f told hin, - ops7 ,ps door As hs
sts 81 ~ osor ~ -os beoar,e s-ro~ear ana she
1old him 10 turn on the eas and open 'he windows
Mrs Staudt ssys thar Applerod then exclaimed
'ohle lH' .'in' "" i
The man spepare4 under the influence - drug
Mrs staudt saws So she sent her daughter after a
policeman She found Policeman Wolfe 'f me
"a -, an i, ,,,c, =, ,bs Arr,sro5 "a, Annie
roo SAT m chair a. 'he kli'h'h 'aul'- On "i.'"
ms elbows rested ano ms l'oe vas - ~ m
s,tebt,r wolfe shook the man. and he looked ur
ana Doa5e an incoherent answer In a moment he
said quite distincti,..
Go away: 7 want M die LET ne die