The Washington times., 1907-08-03
Beautiful Girl Found
By Brother in
Time.
Dragged Into Vacant
Apartment Near
Home.
Four Brothers Caught
In TietSchler Girl
Case.

NEW YORK, Aug. IA determined
attempt 70 lynch a man who set upon
and tried 70 strangle little girl. seven
more Attempts at fiendish outrage report
ed by the helpless police, blood marks
discovered on the walls OF the base
ment in which the horribly mutilated
body OF Katie Tietschler was found. and
the Identification Of the body Of the
young woman found murdered IN West
Nineueth street. are a few developments
Of another day in the great crime wave
which is sweeping New York and ap-
palling the entire civilized world
Five hundred men and women cried
for revenge on Martin SaIlo. who. in
Brooklyn. struck down and attempted 10
choke to death little Anna Rogers, OF
75s Third street, that borough The DO
lice prevented a lynching.
The first ripper victim Of the day was
Frieda Tieub. a beautiful eighteen-year-
old girl. who was found strangling 10
death IN a vacant apartment next 10
her home. on the third floor OF 13S Ave
nue. D.
Attack by Elevator Man.
n Ohns. tailor. residing at Al Cen
tral Park West. reported to the police
that an eight-year-oId girl living vita
him had been treated IN a heinous man
ner by an elevator man. A description
OF the fiend was taken and detectives
sent 70 search for him.
Eight arrests I'm ali have been made
in connection with the horrible murder
Of the Tietscaler girl. but the officials at
headquarters virtually admit that they
are no nearer the solution Of the mys-
terry than on the day the little battered
body was found.
Assaults. or attempted assaults. were
reported from al OF the boroughs. and
Notwithstanding several arrests were
made the police have a tangible case
against only a single man.
Murdered Girl Identified.
The young woman whose body was
found IN the cellar OF 2s3 West Ninetieth
street, where 1t was supposedly removed
after she had been strangled and hor-
ribly abused. was identified by Catherine
". Ludwig, a stenographer. as Helen
Farrell. a trained nurse. who formerly
lived at East 18th street. The young
woman viewed the body at the morEue
and said she was positive OF the ident!-
fcation.
Girl Almost Strangled.
Miss Frieda Tieub. a beautiful eight
een-year-old girl. was found almost
stTangled 10 death with a rope OF a
Jack the Ripper" about her neck to-
day in the vacant apartment next 10
her home on the third 9oor OF the house
at ISS Avenue D.
She had been attacked as she left her
home. knocked senseIess with one blow
on the chin, dragged into the vacant
rooms ard there. after the fiend had
drawn tightly the rope he wrapped
three times about her neck. he com
pleted his attack and escaped. thinking
she was dead.
Rescued Just in Time.
The young woman was rescued Just
IN time TO save her life. Her brother
saved her by leaping into a window
from a fire-escape.
When she first recovered conscious
ness in the vacant fiat the man was
gone. ard she struck her heels on the
floor as hard and long as she could
and then her strength left her.
Miss Tieub and her chum. MISS Jen-
ME Gross had walked home together
and had agreed 10 meet each other an
hour later for a walk. On their way
home they observed that two men were
following them.
When Miss Tieub left her apartment
70 meet Miss Gross she ran into a tan
man In the hall
StruckSHer on Chin.
As she tried to pass him he struck her
a severe blow on the chin and she fell
unconscious to the floor of the han.
More than an hour afterward the fam
ilv. under the vacant apartment next
door. heard the repeated knocks and tap
pings on the floor above them.
Unable 20 break in the door. they went
to the fat next door and young Henry
Tieub swung himself from one of the
hre-escapes in the rear to that back OF
the vacant fiat He found his sister.
who had relapsed into Inconsistencies
on the floor, her face blue and her
breath fast leaving her.
Arrests in Tietschler Case.
At about the time this report was
made the police arrested four brothers
in competition with the murder OF little
Katie Tietschler, whose mutilated body
was found in a cellar only a few blocks
from where the attempt was made to
murder Miss Tieub. These brothers
owned a fruit stand In front Of the place
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