New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-03
WOMAN FOUND STRANGLED
TOUEL TIED TO BEDPOST.
Nan Who 1ccom panied Her Mss
THOUGHT To Be Suicide.

The body of a woman about nineteen years old
was found with a towel knotted about her neck.
half lying bedpost to which the towel was
tied. in a room in the Mott Haven Hotel, at One
hundred-and- thirty eighth-st. and Park-ave
last night. The man who had occupied the room
with her on Thursday night had left the hotel
without being seen From cards and other eff
fects of the it is thought she was a
chorus girl, or had stage aspirations. The police
think it is a case of suicide.
One card bore the name and address, Elite
Schultz. No. 1872 Union-ave.." while another bore
the name. Miss A Kuss," of the same address.
In the bag was note written in lead pencil on
card bearing the inscription, Weber Music
Hall, William L. Wall" saying
IF you wish to me, let Theodore know.
John CORN Cyour old friend"
Yesterday morning a servant went to the
room occupied by the couple. Receiving no
response to knocks she opened the door as far
as the chain on the inside would permit. The
servant could not see whether or not the man
was in the ROOM The woman told the servant
she would be there all day and that no one need
come to the room again. Neither the man nor
the woman throughout the day
At 6:45 o'clock the servant again went to the
room Receiving no response to knocking, she
told Charles CRETE, the proprietor Bursting
open the door he saw that the woman was dead
as already described.
He called Patrolman Ryan. of the Alexander
ave station. who found that the towel had been
torn in half Iengthwise and the two strips las
tened together with safety pin. A sipkhot
was made at one end OF the improvsed moose
tied to the bedpost.
Dr. Ferris who responded to an ambulance
call from Lincoln Hospital, said the woman mad
been dead several hours from Strang uia'lol VI
''asphyxiation" He explained the later posi-
bility by saying that phial found In the rooi'i
showed strange pungent door. ~
The girl wore diamond earrings. gold braCe-
LET on one arm silver bracelet on the otheI
arm and three diamond rings. on a bureau VS.
a gold ,ocket containing a mans picture NieiIe
of the man who had occupied the room VIII I 1e
woman during yesterday he sala h' h"O i'''
seen the man leave the motel 49,, .,,o,,
The coroner and detectives believe the woman
committed suicide when the man was dSiIOp;
and that when he awoke and realized what mao
hammered he dressed hurriedly and jumped from
the window about twelve feet from the grouiiu;
To a vacant lot The edge of the Windo" Sill
was freshly scraped and slightly broken. 49,.
The police found Miss Alice Russ anu Mss
Fttie schultz. Miss Kuss said she thought the
woman had studied stenography nights III up-
lie School No 10 at One-hundfed-ahd-siNlS-
third-st and Eagle-:lVe.. and that her name "dS
Minnie Dougherty She thought the woman
lived st. Ann's-ave. ana Ohe-huluicu0 anu
OTty-third-st. "a
Miss Schultz said she had met the woman at
Proctors Harlem Theatre a week ago. Sne
said she was Minnie Dougherty. She sald sne
was member of St. Paurs German Lutheran
Church at Union and Beach-aTe, ana tnal she
lived near St Ann save. and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
orty-third-st.
William L. Wall said he had met the woman
in ProCtor's Fifth Avenue Theatre once. tie got
the impression that she was "stageSuuck'