The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-08-02
Of a StrangIer HOrrifies
New Workers.
THE --LATEST VICTIM
Is an S-Year- Old Girl, Who was AS
saulted, Murdered and Mutt
lated by Some fiend.

New York, Aug 2.-The grave.
I yard as the foreign populated neigh.
/ bOrhood on First avenue between
/ Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets is
known locally on Thursday gave up a
fresh crime rivaling in atrocity the
mysterious butcheries of last week.
The latest discovered victim was an
Syearold girl and like the two young
women murdered, she had been
shockingly mistreated before death
and the body mutilated when life was
extinct.
The three murders are strikingly
similar. Last Thursday night wo-
man was mangled in a boarding
house; the next morning the body of
a woman who had been choked TO
death was found in an areaway in
East Ninetieth street. Katie Pritsch-
ler daughter of a restaurant waiter.
disappeared week ago yesterday
and was killed that night. A ribbon
placed about the throat and drawn so
tightly that It cut the flesh showed
how she died. Her body was found
yesterday.
If the brutality OF the murderers
can be qualified that OF the Pritsch-
Ter girl ranks first. She was assault.
ed, murdered and then her lifeless
form was horribly mutilated
The graveyard" takes its name
from the proximity Of the old Thir.
teenth street cemetery and the local.
ity has been the scene of several re.
voting murders. The majority of the
residents are foreigners
Carl Pritschler, the father Of Katie.
is respectable citizen. He has sew.
eral other children, all younger than
Katie. The girl left home at 3i9
East Thirteenth street last Thursday
night to play in the street When she
failed to return the father notified |
the police aud a general alarm was
sent out The body was finally dis
covered within block Of her home |
and scarcely a hundred yards from
the location of a placard placed by |
the father, calling attention TO the |
fact that his child was lost. How the |
body could have remained undiscov- |
cred for a week is not explained.
The girls body was stumbled upon
by woman who visited the basement
OF the house at 203 First avenue. IL
lay upon berry crate with seeming.
Iy no effort at concealment.
You can say for me" Coroner Har- |
burger declared, that the crimes In
Berlin, Of which the newspapers have |
told, have not been one thousandth
part as bad as the murder of this lit.
tie girl"
At the coroner's direction, Gaetano |
Rippolano, whose cobbler shop ad
Joins the girls home, was arrested
and asked to explain his absence from
his shop on last Friday. He estab.
Iished the fact that he had spent the
day at Bristol, Conn. The girl is said
10 have frequented Rippolano's place.
and a search OF the shop brought to
isht mans shirt which bore red
stains. The cobbler was arraigned
and remanded to the coroner.
When news of the finding of the
girls body spread through the neigh.
lorhCod excitement rose to such a
pitch that the removal OF the body
md the arrest Of Rippolano caused
lot, Thousands Of persons were in
ne nearby streets when the wagon
rom the morgue arrived. When the
irrcst OF the cobbler became known
he crowd charged his shop. Rippo.
ano had been removed to the station
rouse, but his shop windows we're
smashed and only the determined
ront OF the police, who dubbed right
md left, prevented greater damage.