The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-07-07
Cincinnati's Mysterious Murs
de,er Again at Work Of
NUMBERING WOMEN.
After Attacking Thirteen Young Girls
Within a..Year, Killing land Mutilat.
Ing Four of Them, lie Stays
a Poor Old Woman Ia a
Fiendish Manner.


A letter from Cincinnati, Ohio, to
the New York American tells Of the
deadly work of an unknown murderer
in that city. The letter says In the
year and a month which he has given
to his work, as iendish as that which
oharacterjzes Jack the Ripper" of
the London Whitechapel horrors, he
has attacked thirteen young girls,
killing and mutilating three Of them
In exactly the same manner. Whoa
ever he was able to complete bis gnaSt.
ly work all Of his victims front teeth
were torn clearly from their jaws
this was the distinguishing mark Of
the beast"
None Of the ordinary bludgeons used
by murderers would have left this
mark without bruising the lips more
than was done. AT last there Is light
on the mystery. They have not cap
tured the mysterious monster who lies
in walt behind q graveStonc in a Gin
cinnati cemetery at the foot Of "Lov-
ers' Lane" where girls keep tryst with
hSlA 10, ooo OIAS hhfo
found his strange weapon.
1t is just such q weapon-heavy,
with we'll defined corners, yet with o
slightly softened surface-as might
have left that typical mark upon the
face Of May McDonal, Lulu Mueller and
Alma SteiDgeweg a brick wrapped in
q piece of carpet. One thing nor
has been learned about the monster.
He ia also capable Of numbering an
old woman in her bed. But she
screamed before she died, there was
help near, and the murderer He'd, leav-
ing his telltale weapon behim him.
This is the latest OF his exploits =
and the scene Is a howell within o
stones throw Of the spot from which
he sprang upon thirteen girls within
about a year, leaving three of them
dead and mutiiated. Only once since
last November has Lovers Lane"
furnished it's victim to the murderer
who waited hidden in Grovelat d
Cemetery. On the evening OF March
9 he Sprang upon q woman who has
nsver been identified. She was found
dead the next morning with all Ills
marks upon her, including the miss
ing front teeth.
But this victim was elderly and uu-
attractive. In every previous instance
he had selected a girl under twenty
years old, q pretty girl, tho girl In a
humble station OF life who would find
In Lovers Lane" the ideal romantic
spot to meet her sweetheart, to wa k
arm in arm with him under the trees,
while the g%listening white marble
monuments in the cemetery close at
hand added a further touch Of senti.
ment 80 we'll understood by worry young
lovers,
But since last November, when
within three days he savagely tore the
life from Alma Steingcweg aud leapad
from his hiding place upon three other
girls, whose screams fortunately
brought escuers before he could com.
: ~plete his CHASTITY Work-since that
first week in November no yonnG girl
has dared to show herself after dark
in the neiRhborhood Of Lovers
Lane" For four long months the
murderous impulse remained unSated;
then last March 1T gained poor salts.
faction upon a poor old woman whom
nobody knew.
- liItsliisIS. NIt-GNcl
he Is, appears gifted with consider.
able caution. There are pretty young
girls in large numbers ali about tbs
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 he
satisfied with old and unprotected wo.
men for his victims.
But still he did not stray from his
old hunting ground. In a little old
hut a block away from the cemetery,
Mrs. Mary Reichert, eighty. seven
years old, lived a hermit's existence in
the rear OF the two rooms, while the
front room was occupied by Peter
Hill, a carpenter. They saw each
other seldom; all the neighborhood
knew OF the old woman's desire to be
let alone.
Peter Hill spread the alarm Of the
old woman's murder, and was held by
the police as a suspect. The police
have become sensitive to criticism OF
of their inability to fix the response.
bility for so many murders and as
saults 80 evidently made by the same
man. Peter Hill says he was awak.
ened at 2 O'Clock on the morning OF
June 10 by a crashing SQUAD in Mrs.
Reichert's room. lie hurriedly got
into part OF his clothing and rushed
around to the rear Of the hut in time
to see q heavy set man running away.
Through the door, which had a
smashed In panel, he saw Mrs. Reich
ert sitting up in her bed with blood
flowing from her nose and mouth.
She was rocking back and forth and
moaning:
"Oh, Lord! Oh, my Godw
Hill ran for a doctor, and the wo.
mans only son, who lives near. In
half an hour the son and DIR. G.. w.
Dodd were back In the hut with Hill.
Mrs. Relchcrt vas dead. The muir
deror had not had time to complete
his work. He had knocked out the
scattering front teeth OF the old wo.
man, struck her on the head and on
the chest with some heavy weapon
that had not broken the skin, and
fled. Mrs. Rcichert had died from
fright and shock.
When the police came they Instant
ly saw the mark OF the breast" And
they foresaw more stringent criticism
In the newspapers ana from their own
headquarters. So they locked up
Peter Hill, But they made one valn.
able and interesting discovery the