The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-24
PUSHEDWOMAN OFF high WALL
MAN SHE WAS To WE'D AND THEIR
COMPANION UNDER ARREST.
Crime At jerome Park Reseryoir-she's
Likely 10 Die Bridegroom. to BE
Found In Nearby shanty, the Other
rs He Was Boarding Yonkers Train.

John Boyce, an engineer employed at
the Jerome Park Reservoir. was making
tour of inspection about $50 o'clock yes
terday afternoon when he heard woman
groan
He ran in the direction from which the
sound came and found woman lying
on the rocks at the foot of a rs foot wall
which runs north and south through the
reservoir parallel to the old Croton aque-
duct. There is no water in the reservoir
as yet.
At about the time Boyce came upon the
woman he saw two men running along the
top Of the wall in opposite directions. Boyce
turned and ran for the Kingsbridge police
station. There he told Sergt Schlottman
what he had seen and the sergeant sent
Detectives Buckridge and johnson to the
reservoir and telephoned to the Fordham
Hospital for an ambulance.
Dr. Cunnisse found the woman in an un-
conscious condition She had a fractured
skull, one leg was broken and there were
several ugly bruises. She was taken to
the Fordham Hospital, where it was said
that she would die.
The two detectives and Boyoe started to
make a search of the reservoir. Near the
northern end OF the big excavation is a
deserted shanty. In 1t the three men ga W
some one stretched out on pile of old ropes
apparently asleep.
That's the man." shouted Boyce.
The man jumped up and was quickly
handcuffed by the detectives. He spoke
little English, but as nearly as the police
could make out he said that he was Andrew
pNrla all ~ ca,
burban street, The Bronx.
The detectives questioned him closely
and he finally admitted that he had been
with woman short time before, but
denied having pushed her of the wall.
The detectives took Borle to the Kings
bridge station and there he became thor
oughly frightened and finally told the
sergeant that he had a companion. who.
he said. was going to take the Al train
for Yonkers
The detectives got to the railroad station
just as the train was pulling out. They
saw a man climbing on the rear platform,
who, Borle said was the companion
johnson grabbed the man by the neck
and the two were taken back to the station
The second prisoner said that he was
John Tobaczar. 3s years old, Hungarian,
living at AZ Clinton str eet. Yonkers. Both
men said they were laborers Neither Of
the prisoners would say anything more.
The detectives then went to Yonkers and
found that Barle was engaged to marry
a Russian woman and had left Yonkers
early that afternoon for New York to marry
her. The woman, the detectives learned.
was Rosa Godz 30 years old, a Russian,
who lived few doors from Tobaczar, at
u Clinton street.
Tobaczar, they were told, had gone
along as best man, and the woman had
said that she would find friends and wit
nesses in New York. The Godz woman
had come to Yonkers from Passaic. N. j.,
about a month ago and had met Barle in
Yonkers. They had intended to go to
Passaio on their wedding trip.
With this information the detectives
went back to Kingsbridge and had far
better success in questioning the two prison.
ers. They admitted that what the de-
tectives had learned WAS true and said they
had started for New York on a Jerome
avenue car. At the northern end OF the
reservoir they got Off the car and started to
walk along the wall.
When they reached about the middle OF
the wall the woman was thrown to the
rocks below, they said. Each declared that
the other had pushed the woman off and
insisted on his own innocence. AS to the
motive for the crime the police could learn
nothing.
Coroner O'GcTman questioned the prs-
oner but he couldn't learn any more than
the police. Late last night Capt Ward
Of the Kingsbridge station and Coroner
O'Gorman left for Yonkers to see if they
could rlearDlp the tapple