Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-18
REDOUBL|NG EFFORTS
Bronx Police Searching for
Murderer.
w ANT JOS. GIRARD
BODY FOUND NEAR FORMER
HOME.
An Arrest Expected Within Twenty
Four Hours-Coroner O'Gor-
man Talks.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star
NEW YORK, September 1S-The Bronx
police are today redoubling their efforts to
find Joseph Girard. whom Coroner O'Gor-
man wants to question to what he may
know about the movements of Gussie Pfeif-
fer, the laceworker who was found mur-
dered on Saturday In -thicket by Pelham
road The girls body was not identified till
yesterday afternoon. 1t had been lying
within a five minutes walk of the Pfeiffer
home, but the girls family had no idea she
was in the vicinity. Ii was an acquaint-
ance. Jeweler Hugo Faldenstein of S37 East
10th street, who identified the body
The West Chester police this morning re-
ceived word from New Rochelle that led
Captain Burfeind after a talk over the tele-
phone, to say:
AN arrest will be made soon, and we may
have our man within twenty-four hours"
Girard's description has been sent all over
the United States and Canada. The local
police are making thorough search of the
lodging houses. taking with them a boy
who says he saw Girard not long before the
crime Is thought to have been committed
When he issued the warrant for GIrard
soon after midnight, Coroner OGorman
said:
I'VE have traced the movements of a
man up to the time of the murder and
within a hundred feet of the place. We
have also traced the movements of the girl
up to $50 o'clock Wednesday night, when
she boarded a Throggs Neck trolley car
The last seen of Girard was when he left
home Thursday morning at o'clock"
Must Have Been Strong.
Girard is powerfully built young fellow,
and the man who killed Augusta Pfeiffer
must have been giant in strength The
murder was particularly brutal because the
girl was trusting, innocent and physically
frail.
From what has been learned of her move
ments Wednesday evening the police have
pleced together the theory of her murder
but there are points that remain to be
cleared up. Undoubtedly the girl was at
tackled Wednesday night in the woods near
the haunted oak, but the autopsy revealed
that she did not die until about fifteen or
eighteen hours before the body was found
Saturday afternoon. Coroner O'Gorrnan to-
day furnished an explanation for this dis
crepancy
right" he said. II think she was rendered
unconscious. and the brute who attacked
her dragged her body into the bushes and
hid II. thinking she was dead. Probably she
lay there all of Thursday and Friday un-
able to move or make an outcry, and the
murderer returned Friday night to look at
his victim Finding her alive. he finished
her.
Undoubtedly the girl knew the man who
killed her. Otherwise there would have
been necessity for him TO have added
murder to his first crime. He killed her
because she recognized him.
On Wednesday night Gussie Pfeiffer who
had not been living home for two weeks,
having left on account of dispute with
her mother over money matters. left her
boarding place. She took with her a suit
case. saying that she going home to
get her clothing.
That the last seen of her until Sat-
urday afternoon, when her dead body was
discovered in the woods near Pelham road.