The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-11
TRY To TRACE
THUG TO DENVER
San Francisco Police Believe
Girls Murder is Characteristic.
PIECE OF POST I'm THE ROOM
TORN NEWSPAPERS MAY LEAD
TO HIS APPREHENSION.
PIECE OF POST IN THE ROOM

CAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1O.-There
have been few developments today
in the case of the mysterious muir
der Of Nora Fuller. DR.. Bacigalupi,
autopsy physician 10 the coroner. has
officially announced that the girls
death was caused by strangulation.
The crime was evidently committed
by some one familiar with the anatomy
Of the throat, as the murderer's fingers
hal been applied at Just the right
places TO cause death with the least
pressure. The police favor the theory
that the assassin is a moral peTvert,
such as Jack the Stranger" VINO re-
Gently terrOrized Denver. Information
obtained today tends to show that the
girl was acquainted with the man call
ing himself John Bennett before she
answered his advertisement for a girl,
and il is thought that the advertise
ment was a ruse to account for her
absence from home. The detectives
are now concentrating their Efforts to
discover the identity and whereabouts
of this man Bennett, Whf is believed TO
be identical with the Q. B. Hawkins
who rented the house where the body
bought the furniture it contained.
Believe She Was Strangled.
Evidence that the girl was strangled
is found in the fact that there were two
abraisOns on her neck and that a cord,
small but strong, measuring several
feet in length, with a bow knot at one
end, was found in the toilet. On the
strands were red stains. To add 10 the
certainty that the stains were made by
human blood were found two handker-
chiefs, ali covered with the red fluid.
A clumsy attempt had been made to
burn the handkerchiefs, but they were
only partially destroyed. There was
nothing to indicate that the girl and
Bennett, who, under the name OF c. 3.
Hawkins, is believed to have rented the
house, lived there. Neither the water
nor the gas had been turned on, and
the neighbors heard no sounds from
the place. The noise of a struggle is
said to have awakened a family living
nearby about two weeks ago. but it
may not have been in the house of
mystery. Among the few things found
in the place was a large scrap of paper
torn from the Denver Post.
It had been issued from the press on
the afternoon of Jan. 9, and it could
not have reached San Francisco before
the evening of Jan. II, and it was
probably not delivered before the
morning Of the following day.
Ran Away With Money.
The man known as Bennett or HaR-
kins secured the key to the house on
the day before the paper left the press
in Denver, and as he alone had access
to the place, it was only he who could
carry the scrap Of paper there. The
police think he is known in Denver, or
has interests there.
A dispatch from Muncie. Ind, says
that three months ago there disap-
peaTed from that Dlac4 man named
Charles Hawkins, a barkseper, who is
alleged to- have taken Away s., 500 be-
longing 10 Mrs Sarah Williams. The
police of the country, il is stated, have
been requested to arrest him. His
description answers that of the g. w
Hawkins, or John Bennett, who rented
the Suffer stree residence. The 20
lice. however. are without a positive
clue to the supposed murderer's iden-
tity.
One of the girls friends says sac
had spoken of an acquaintance named
Bennett, and a street car gripman
declares d few days ago he saw an old
woman carry basket up the steps of
the house where the crime was com
mitted- Beyond these few facts there
is no light on the sensational tragedy
Az abb has been established for N. A.
Serebrenik, whose card was found in
the purse OF the dead girl. II was as
certained that he sailed for China on
the Picking on the afternoon of the
lIth of January, several hours before
the girls disappearance