The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-07-05
4 FIEND'S WORK.
Cincinnati's Mysterious MUIR
derer Again at Work OF
NUMBERING WOMEN.

Within a Year, Killing and Rutlia1'
ing Four of Them, He Slays
a Poor Old Woman in
Fiendish Manner.
A letter from Cincinnati, Ohio, to
the New York American tells OF the
deadly work Of an unknown murderer
70 that city. The letter says IN the
year and a month which be has given
TO his work, as fendish as that which
cnaracterjzes "Jack the Ripper" OF
the London Whitechapel horrors, he
aas attacked thirteen young girls,
killing and mutilating three OF them
10 exactly the same manner. When
ever he was able to complete bis ghast'
ly work all OF bis victims front teeth
we're torn clearly from their jaws
This was the distinguishing mark OF
the beast.
None OF the ordinary bludgeons used
oy murderers would have left this
mark without bruising the lips more
than was doae. at last there Is light
o1 the mystery. They have not cap
,ured the mysterious monster who lies
In wait tehind a graVestone in Gin
cinnati cemetery at the foot OF LoV-
ers' Lane" where girls keep tryst With
their sweethearts, but they nave
found his strange weapon.
It is just such a Weapon-heaVy,
With well defined corners, yet with a
slightly sofUened suIface-as might
nave lett that typical mark upon the
!ace Of May McDonal, Lulu Mueller and
Alma Sueingeweg a brick wrapped IN
piece Of carpet. One thing more
has been learned about the monster.
He is also capable OF numbering an
old woman In her bed. But she
screamed before she died, there vas
nelp near, and the murderer fed, leaV'
ing bis teutale weapon behim him.
This is the latest OF bis exploits
and the scene is a hoVel within a
stones throw OF the spot from which
be sprang upon thirteen girls within
about a year, leaving three OF them
dead and muti:a5ed. Only once since
last November has Lovers Lane"
furnished it's victim to the murderer
who waited hidden in Groveland
Cemetery. On the evening OF March
3 be sprang upon woman who has
never been identified. She was found
dead the next morning with all his
marks upon her, including the miss
ing front teeth.
But this victim was elderly and un.
attractive. In every previous instance
ne had selected q girl under twenty
years old, a pretty girl, the girl in a
nuu bic station OF LIE who would ind
in Lovers Lane" the ideal romantic
SPOT to meet her sweetheart, to walk
arm in arm with him under the trees,
while the glistening white marble
monuments in the cemetery close at
hand added a further touch OF sentl
nent so well understood by very young
lovers,
Bat since last November, when
within three days he saVagely tore the
life from Alma Steingeweg aud leapeo
from his hiding place upon three other
girls, whose screams fortunately
brought rescuers before he could com.
plete his CHASTITY work-since that
first week in November no young girl
has dared to show herself after dark
in the neighborhood Of Lovers
Lane For four long months the
nurderous impulse remained unsateo;
then last March it gained poor salts
faction upon poor old woman whom
nobody knew.
This murderous maniac, whoever
be is, appears gifted with consider.
able caution. There are pretty young
girls in large numbers all about the
suburbs of Cincinnati; but it seems
that nowhere else could the murderer
find an ambush so safe as among the
tombstones in the shade OF the trees
of Lovers Lane" So he had to be
satisfied with old and unprotected wo-
men for his victims.
But still be did not stray from bis
Did hunting ground. In a little old
nut a block away from the cemetery,
Mrs. Mary Reichert, eighty.seVen
years old, lived a hermit's existence In
;he rear OF the two rooms, while the
.ront room was occupied by Peter
Hill, carpenter. They saw each
other seldom; all the neigaoorhood
Knew OF the old woman's desire to be
let alone.
Peter Hill spread the alarm Of the
I'D woman's murder, and was held b3
;he police as suspect. The police
lave become sensitive to criticism OF
II their inability to fix the response.
)ility for so many murders and as
,aults 50 evidently made by the same
nan. Peter Hill says ne was aWak-
med at 2 o'clcck on the morning OF
Iune 10 by a crashing sound In Mrs.
aeichert's room. he hurried]y got
n5o part of his clothing and rushed
lround to the rear Of the hut in time
10 see heavy set man running away.
the door, which had a
mashed in panel, be saw Mrs. Reich
ut sitting up in her bed with blood
lowing from her nose and mouth.
;ne Tas rocking back and forth and
moaning:
"Oh, Lord! Oh, my Godw
Hill ran for a doctor, and the Wo-
osn's only son, who lives near. In
lalf an hour the son and DR.. G. W.
)odd were back In the hut with Hill.
Irs. Reichert was dead. The muir
Ierer had not had time to complete
us work. BE had knocked out the
catering front teeth Of the old wo-