New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-18
WOMAN BURNED TO CRISP.
Bodv Found in Ruins of apartment
in Forty-SecoRd-St.
DEATH MYSTERY TO POLICE.

Ire body OF Henrietta Schwartz was found
burned Yesterday morning after the hTemen had
put our a fire that burned her apartments. on the
second floor Of tie -FOUR story brick building at No
East Forty-second-st The police suspect that
the woman who was dealer In jewelry and for
eien exchange may have been murdered after hav-
inE been robbed. and that the FIRE may have been
started to cover the crime a SAFE IN which the
woman stored her valuables was found open. but
there was no means o. telling whether anything
had been taken
.es ~ Murder" and sFolice," we're heard COM
fur from the wonan's rooms at o'clock yesterday
morning BY Peter Duffy. a night watchman In the
building but no attention was paid 70 the cries as
the woman was eccentric ana on several previous
occasions had made such outcries from no apparent
cans. Men visited her apartments al all times Of
the day and evening. supposedly TO borrow money
OF 5evry sno Il is known that she had callers last
night
The IRE was discovered at s:z5 o'clock g. m BY
Charles Fourtinier. janitor al No. 10 East Forty
gecond-st When the hremen arrived the FIRE was
blazing fercely and Il was only with difficulty
that they finally succeeded IN combining II TO the
extension and subduing q so they could enter the
rooms OF the Schwartz woman. who was supposed
to be there asleep Near a window. burned almost
beyond all semblance OF human form they found
the bod- OF the woman. Her shoes were on her
feet Near the body were found two diamond
studded braceIetA The body was not far from
window
The big iron safe that stood II the room was
open part way. and r. inside drawer OF the safe
were eeen ave pocketboolzs and q number OF silver
coins.
The woman had occupied the apartments IN which
she lost her life for several years displaying
sign at the entrance. H Schwartz, Foreign
Money" while others announced that she bought
old gold and silver and sold diamonds jewelry
and hair tonic. She has been known IN New-Nork
nfteen years or more and on several occasions had
been In the hands Of the police. About elk months
ago she was arraigned before Magistrate FlaTninei
n jefferson Market Police Court for creating dis
turbance and was held IN $3.50 bar 20 keep the
peace for six months. Il IL said that she began
making money here by lending money al high rates
70 immigrants arriving AZ Castle Garden
She often vac seen on the street with parrot
perched or her shoulder she also had two oOgs
with which she used 70 parade Fifth-avS None OF
these animals was found after the IRE. and IL -
supposed they persisted At times she would az
pear Ia Forty secoud-st, clothed only IN q night
gown and walk about Uut1 led home b her neigh
bors-
She hac many eccsntricitieA and also. her neigh
bors say dranz 20 excess With other tenants IN
The building. and with those with whom shs had
business dealings she had many ouarres
Harry n. Smith who conducts q restaurant on
the arst floor o. the building and suffered slightly
from the ere. SAID the woman seemed TO be intoHi-
Gated tie greater part % yesterday. pounding on
the foor with hammer and opening q faucet 30
that the water ran down into bis place In the
ling with 4 nan. and a ring with 8 large diamond
was thrown from the second foor window. One Of
the employees OF the restaurant picked Il ~ anc
later the schwartz woman went downstairs and
claimed IL
In the debris on TIRE floor OF the woman's rooms
was found part o. a horoscope. written In a man's
hand appareutly FOR the schwartz woman Only
a small part OF Il was decipherAbia This read
As the planetary Influences in your birth date
fortuna tely good In every hour. you neec have no
great GnEiety that a Calamity OF any kind VIII
but after March 1905 the stars are In different as
poets.
Benjarnin Andrews, lessee OF the Forty-second-st
building said that the woman had been his tenant
for four years. she invariably carried with her a
small black bag containing loose diamonds worth
Morris and David Schwartz. brothers Of tho dead
woman, arrived from Brooklyn and viewed the body
al the West Thirteth-st station Morris schwartz
declared that he knew nothing about the affair,
and had only learned OF the tragedy within hour
having been tod over The telephone by reporter.
Re said that he vas anxious 10 prevent news OF HE
years Cd and In feeble health The body
moved By direction OF the brothers, the Stephen
Merritt undertaking establishment at Elghth-ave
and Nineteeuth-st
after investigation Captain Burfelnd discarded the
murder theory and gave Il his opinion that the
ere which caused the woman's death was caused
lounge led him 20 believe that che had thrown her
SELF down when overcome by sleep There was a
gas stove about two feet away. and re declares
that some hangings might have caught IRE from
the stove and her clothing might have caught FIRE.
The captain advances as another theory that the
Gre might have been caused By burning cigarette
ne csptsin says ne does not believe robbery was
committed q would have been easy for the
thieves TO have taken the diamond bracelets found
m MOT THINK SEARS A SUICIDF