New-York tribune., 1902-02-02
POLICE SAY IT'S MURDER.
WOMAN'S THROAT CUT IN HAUNT OF
DISSOLUTE PEOPLE
THERE IT IS sAID-THE CASE
4 MYSTERY

What the police think deliberate murder was
discovered last night when two Central Office
detectives found the body Of a woman in a room
in the rear Of the basement at No. 127 Chrystie-
st. There deep CASH two inches long in
her throat. An open penknife was clutched
tightly in her right hand, but in such a posi-
ton that ii would have been almost impossible
for her to have inflicted the wound
The police say that the house is one Of the
most notorious on the East Side They saw
that several murders have been committed
there.
Mystery surrounds the case Central Once
Detectives Butler and Lindsay. who are de-
tailed for this month TO do duty in the Eldridge-
ST station. went to the house last night Kitty
Burke opened the door for them They told
her' she said. that they were looking for small
poN cases. With Emil Schacht the ianitor the
detectives went through all the rooms. starting
from the top floor and working down to the
basement
When they reached the room in the rear the
door was forced open. and there thev beheId
the CHASTITY sight. The woman dressed in her
uhuercIothng. was lying on the bed The bed
moor and walls We're covered with blood The
woman was about thirty or thirty-hve years old
ana had apparently been pretty in her day She
mad raven black hair. dark complexion and ewes
ana hlsh cheekbones. She was lying on her
pack' ana in her right hand, which dropped over
the S1de Of the bed. she held the knife The
gam In her throat extended horizontally, and
seemed as if 1t could not have been inflicted bv
herself
Schacht was taken to the Eldridge-st station
where he was detained. A few hours later Coro-
Her Scholer made an investigation. In a box
oh the dresser in the room there were a num-
Der OF trinkets and several letters One stated
mat harry A Macomber was a steady young
man ana good employe, and was signed by
H. l.. roster, OF the Danversport Rubber Com
pany' or DanyerspOrt, Mass. Another to the
same effect. was signed by c. B. EsterIy. Of the
Globe Street Railway power house. Fall River.
Mass. 1t was dated January 1898 and the
former October 16. 1900, On small slip Of
paper there was written the name Mr. Shapiro,
NO 429 East One-hundred- and -seventeenth-st.
near Pleasant-ave."
coroner Scholer said that the woman might
have been dead for several hours before she was
discovered. or possibly all day. Although every
4hulcauon pointed to murder. he would say moth
ing definite about IT,
Kitty Burke the womal who opened the door
Tor the detectives, was found last night in a
boWery dance hall. She said she did rot know
me woman but knew that her name vas Rosie
The police at the Eldridge-st station at first
gave the woman's name as Rosie Macomber but
later admitted that they were in the dark in
regard TO her identity
Schacht, the janitor, said that the dead woman
lyed with a man in the room and that once
When he asked them for their names the woman
wrote on a slip Of paper, "Macomber and wife"
Ihe man known as MaCOmber had been living
IN the house about year. where he had room
on the second floor. Two weeks ago the woman
came 10 the house and lived with Asacornher A
week ago they changed their room, taking the
one In the basement. Macomber went 20
Schachts apartments Friday and asked for
OIL telling him he would pay yesterday He has
not been since.
Captain Walsh found a handkerchief on the
table near the dresser which was covered with
blood. It appeared that the woman was not
able 10 move after she was cut, and the fact
that the handkerchief found on the table
several feet away, taken as significant I'm
that 1t must have been placed there by some one
else.
The police heard that the woman had been
living with a man who sent to prison three
months ago; that he was released. and found
her with Macomber. and that he killed her
This could not be substantiated.
Last July the body a murdered man was
found in the house. where 1t had been lying for
four days before 1t discovered. A number
or murders and crimes have been committed In
the place according TO the police
Henry Shapiro, shipping clerk who lives AT
NO. ~ East One-hundred- a nd -seVenteenth-st
said last night when seen at his home that he
knew nobody by The name Of Macomber or any
person in the neighborhood of Chrystie-st He
IS married and lives with his wife and three
children.
some light on the Identity of the woman