New-York tribune., 1903-07-12
BRONX MURDER MYSTERY
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His clothing torn and covered with blood.
His face was cut and blood dripping down
the side of his face from wound on his head.
He was holding handkerchief to the left side
of his face and endeavoring to stop the flow
of blood She ran to the gate Of the Roxbury
house and met him. Roxbury said nothing but
was passing into his house when the woman
spoke to him.
What is the matter, Mr. Roxbury?' she
asked
The man appeared to be rather dazed. At
first he did not speak. but took step two.
and then. partly turning around. he said;
"Oh, that will be all right" This he repeated.
and, though the young woman again questioned
him. he would give no other answer. and passed
into the house.
She informed her brother Henry, who hurried
into the Roxbury house He found the injured
man sitting on a sofa, partly undressed, and
still endeaYoring to stop the flow of blood from
his wounds. He questioned him, but the man
would give information save to repeat, Yes.
yes, yes; that will be all right"
Jackson got Dr. E. F. Hurd, of No 1851 An
thony-ave He at once called DR.. George Fer
guson, of Mount Hope Place. They worked
the man. but in spite of all they could do
he died without giving any information to
how he came by his wounds.
About 2 o'clock the physicians called up Po-
ing Captain Mccarthy, of the fremont station,
and a policeman at once went to the Crane
Place house. and the coroner was Informed. The
Detective Bureau sent Detective Sergeant Carter
to the house
CONTRADICTORY STORIES TOLD.
The police followed q bloodstain track west IN
Ohe-h e-hundred-and-sevent to in front
of the home of Police Captain Martens. of the
One-hundred- d-and-twenty-ffth-s station at the
corner of Morris-ave. and Observation-Disclosures
enty-sixth-st, where there pool of blood
The trail then led to Jerome-ave. and down the
avenue to River-ave. and One-hundred-and-
sixty-seventh-st
woman living near said that there had been
some excitement there about o'clock on Friday
evening when and a woman were seen
near there. The man bloody and was talk
ing in a loud tone If voice At River-ave. the
woman, noticing that a crowd was gathering,
left the man. and it is said that the latter con-
tinued to Jerome-ave.
An examination of Roxbury's clothing showed
that his watchchain was broken and his watch
missing The fob pocket of his trousers was
torn, and only II cents was found in his
pockets. In a wallet in his coat pocket was
found a personal card and a season ticket to
Asbury Park. His left eye was backened, and
there long cut across the left side of his
1ace, extending 1rOm MS eye TO the ear 1nere
was a long scalp wound across the top of his
head, and the straw hat which he was
battered and crushed in as though he had been
struck on the head by club. The doctors be-
neve IT was the wound on the head which
caused his death.
Coroner Berry thinks Roxbury leaning
on a fence looking toward Jerome-ave. when he
was attacked. The ground at River-ave. and
One-hundred- and -sixty-hfth-st was tramped, as
if a struggle had taken place. Blood stains
ran along from River-ave. to One-hundred-and-
sixty-frst-st., and then north One-hundred-
and-sixty-frst-st. to the Mott Haven railroad
yards. Here they disappeared. They grew
weaker as the railroad yards were neared. They
were evidently from the person who committed
the murder, the coroner thought.
At One-hundred-aad d-siXty- -tirst-st ana river,
ave. is saloon known as The Cottage, ana
kept by w. H. Schumacher. Schumacher told
Coroner Berry that man and woman were
in the saloon Friday about o'clock. Ihe
man answered the description of Roxbury- Inc
woman Schumacher said, was blonde. about
thirty-ive years old, of medium height and slim
build. Miss Tomasch is a blonde.
William Yates and Albert Schultz said that on
Friday night, about o'clock, they were sitting
the stoop of house in One -hundred-and-
were approached by a woman. She seemed
about to faint. and Yates. believing that she
was overcome by the heat. went in the house
and got her glass of water
She said to them: MY companion is being
assaulted down the street He has lots or
money, and 1 think they are going to rob him.
Will you go DOWN."
Opposite e-hundred-and-s -sxty-sixth-st. and
River-ave they found pool of blood, and the
woman, who accompanied them said that it
was the spot where the man had been assault
ed She said that as they were talking some
one struck the the side of the head.
The blow glanced, and she was struck the
arm. Then she away.
My companion said OH and 1 ran away"
the woman explained.
The men searched, but could find no trace az
the man. though they questioned three men
they met on their way. They took the to
One hundred and -siXty-seventh-st. and placed
her a northbound Jerome-ave. car. This
was Miss Tomasch.
The man who was with Yates and Schultz it
was found, Peter Coogan, the janitor OF
hathouse near One-hundred- and-sixty- ty-seventh-
ST. and Jerome-ave. Coogan told the two men
when they inquired, after meeting the woman
that he had just seen a man covered with blood
walking down the street. The re-
marked:
Thank God, he escaped, then. was a coward
to run. but was afraid they would strike me-"
After Miss Tomasch had been questioned by
Inspector Titus in the fremont Station for over
an hour, she was released, and she went to her
home She will be kept under surveillance
Inspector Titus said last night that Mr. Rox-
bury had received two ive-dollar bills from his
mother, which missing when his clothes
were searched. His gold watch a present from
his mother, and his watch chain, on which there
was a charm a sovereign with hole through
1t, were also missing.
Although strenuous efforts were made by In
spector Titus and his men to keep it quiet it
became known last night that about 10 a. m
fatrolman Coleman. Of the Alexander-ave sta
tion. found a bundle of bloodstained woman's
clothing, under the stairway leading to the
footbrldge at Lincoln-ave. and the Harlem
Ietver.' This footbridge leads to the bridge over
which the elevated trains cross the Harlem
River. With the clothing was a small leather
handbag. The clothing consisted of one white
shirtWaist, of cotton material, a black skirt OF
. coarse material, n white corset cover and a
chemise. Each of the articles stained with