The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-08-08
NO NOISE WAS HEARD
BY TENANTS OF PLACE WHERE
DEAD GIRL WAS FOUND.
Murder Was Done BY Hands Of q
Giant After Woman Had Re-
moved Her Shoes.


New York, Aug. Like the murder
Of Gussie Pfsiffer under the Haunted
Oak" in the Bronx, the strangling mys-
terry which began with the discovery
Of the body Of young woman under
the steps Of an areaway at 204 East
Goth street. completely bafiied the
police. They had made little headway
toward uncovering her identity. as
there was little to work on, and nobody
In the neighborhood has yet been
found who will admit knowing any
thing about the woman.
All they know about the man who
did the murder they have learned from
Coroner's Physician Leblanc. who per-
formed the autopsy. DIR. Lehane says
the murderer must have been OF un.
usual strength, with great power In
his hands, and probably about six feet
tall. The murder resembles the act
Of a degenerate, Perhaps more than
one man was concerned In 1t.
Several persons went to the morgue
and looked at the victim OF the strang-
Ter, but none know the woman. The
first Of the visitors was Lizzie Cloake,
of 961 First avenue, who appeared In
state Of considerable excitement. She
said she feared that the body was that
OF her niece, Annie Abbott, who disap'
reared from her home about month
ago. The girl, she said, was about 20
years old
Miss Cloake had read the newspaper
accounts Of the crime, and noticed that
In it's essential points the description
OF the victim Tailed 50 closely with
that OF her niece as to cause her deer
anxiety. She said the victim was not
her niece.
A point developed at the autopsy
performed by Coroner's Physiciain lie
hane may prove to have q most import
ant bearing on the case. This Is that
It was comclusively shown that the
woman had been 1S or 20 hours with
out food before she was killed. The
circumstances suggest that she waa
imprisoned somewhere before the end
was made OF her, and, N so. the place
NJ her imprisonment was probably
near the scene Of the murder. The
police think they may be able to dis
cover a house where the woman was
imprisoned, and that will give the case
a considerable jog toward detection
OF the murderer or murderers.
The fact that the woman's shoes
were found side by side on the area
way steps suggested to the police thai
the woman removed them and went
willingly into the areaway, so that
she might not make any noise. On the
other hand, the shoes might have been
put there as a blind to throw the
police on the scent. The victims hat
was missing.
II the woman was killed where she
was found 1t seems improbable that
she was not able to- make some outcry
or struggle that would have been
heard by the tenants In the house. But
Mrs. Wolf. who lives In the basement
is troubled with insomnia and did moi
fall asleep until after midnight, moi
long before the discovery was made
and she heard nothing. The tanitor
who lives on the ground floor, said he
had heard nothing. and such was the
testimony Of all the other tenants
Even the Janitor's sharp-eared LITTLE
dog made no demonstration to show
that anything outside aroused his sus
picions.
No trace has been found of the mur
derer Of Sophie Kehrer, the Buffalo wo
man who was strangled.