New-York tribune., 1904-09-24
MURDER, SAYS BROTHER.
REOPENS. OLD MYSTERY.
Says He KnoScs Sisters Slayer
Nay Question Chauffeur.

The authorities OF Suffolk County are TO he
stirred up IN the case OF Frances Ruzek who
died at Amtyville Long Island. under peculiar
circumstances. on November Il last. Vincent
Ruzek cabinetmaker, OF Long Island City, her
brother. says he has evidence that she was MUIR
dered. and he has told persons IN Amityville
within the last few days that he can point his
finger at the murderer His sisters hat was
bent and broken. he declares by the blow that
caused the clot on her brain and her death.
Ruzek has been working on the case when
ever he could spare time from his regular en-
ployment. He says he viii run down his sis
ter's murderer IL il takes the remainder Of his
life. His assertions are creating great interest
in AmityvilIe. There are many singular cir
cumstances connected with the death of the
young woman. some OF which point toward sui
eide and others toward murder. The inquest
was never completed
Frances Ruzek was twenty-seven years old.
She a Bohemian. She worked for Mr. and
Mrs. Coenig. OF Madison-ave and Fifty-eighth-
St. Manhattan. While in their employ she fell
in love with demented man on Wards Island.
meeting him on her visits to a brother. also an
inmate Of the insane pavilion. John Davis was
the sweetheart. Vincent warned her vainly
against her affection for him. end the father Of
Davis caused his removal to the Long Island
Home" AT Amityvlle. The young woman
learned that Davis had been taken to Amityvllle
and told Vincent she going 10 see him. A
quarrel followed between brother and sister.
A week later she went 10 Amityville and
none OF her friends again saw her living.
John Cory, haclman of Amityville. saw her
walking up and down the station platform there
at p. m. on November H. apparently In dis
tress- She disappeared after a short time
AT I:3O p. m. four persons say she stopped at
the County Line Hotel. a little west OF the
Amityville railroad station. She appeared i'll at
ease, and would drink only tea At 9 p two
men returning from the Methodist Church heard
a woman screaming near the station and saw
her walking toward the station platform. Just
before they heard her scream one OF them saw her
drinking from large bottle which she threw
from her. A constable told, and he looked
at the woman and decided she was intoxicated.
she was taken 10 the village Jail. She died after
about thirty hours
Vincent Ruzek identified the body. A physi-
clan later found large knob the upper left
side Of the young woman's head, caused by a
blow. II was In such place that. he thought, II
could not be the result of a fall A large clot Of
blood on the brain caused death.
"A young man who went to Amityvile in an
automobile. and said he was the chauffeur for a
member OF certain well known family. may
thinks. Constables found automobile tracks be-
side the part of the station where the young
woman was found as if she had been driven to
the station, struck the head and left alone.
Some letters addressed to the young woman hy
her mother in Bohemia were torn up and thrown
who disposed Of her had tried hastily to remove
evidence OF her identity.
District Attorney Smith Of Suffolk County said
he believed the case one OF suicide.