The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-06
MURDER MYSTERY
 PUZZLES POLICE
Rival to Famous 0ona Gilman
 Case Occurs
YOUNG JEWESS STRANGLED
Three Brothers and Sister Are Held On Suspicion Of Being Implicated, While Young Man Lies
 Mortally Wounded.

Dayton, O., August 5.--Anna Marlto-
 witz, 24 years old a pretty Jewess. lies
 dead at the county morgue. her throat bearing the mlSe evidences of the
 strangler's death clutch. Her body, bruised and cut. bears evidences of brutal mistreatment At the hospital
 with a mortal wound in his abdomen and his head a mass of bruises lies
 Abraham Gordon, young travelling
 man from Indianapolis.
 Held on suspicion by the authorities
 at Dayton are James. Jacob and Bertha
 Markowitz. brothers and sister of the
 dead girl. This was the situation today
 in a very complex murder case, and one which In brutality and cruelty rivals
 the fate of pretty Dona Gilman, whose pitiful end was reached but a very
 sh ort distance from where this latest crime occurred.
 Anna Markowitz, like the Gilman girl. was mistreated. But in this lat
 est case there Is a complete absence of
 clue which has made the Gilman case
 one of the deepest mysteries of this sec ton.
 Sunday Abraham Gordon, sometimes
 known as Conan, went out walking along a lonely road near the National Soldiers home. He was accompanied by Anna Markowitz, and her younger sister, Bertha. icy had walked 10 a lonely spot when the crime was com mitted. Two stories widely different in their in tina tions are told. The story of Bertha when she rushed breathless
 and terror stricken to the soldiers home was that while her sister, young Gordon and herself were strolling along | a secluded path. a high wayman slipped | up uheard behind Gordon and struck him with a black jack. Gordon, she | said, turned and as he did so the high
 wayman shot him in the stomach. As
 Gordon fell. she says, the man made a dash for either herself or. her sister 1 She ran screaming from ee scene Tn terror, leaving her older sister Anna to her fate. Bertha said she did not stop until sh got to the soldiers home, where she gave the alarm. The sherin
 was notified and a posse formed. When tn eyreache the spot of the crime they found Gordon almost dead. A trail showed where Anna had been dragged They followed the beaten down path
 and came upon the body Of the glri
 lying in the weeds. The clothing had
 been nearly torn from the body. There
 were evidences of a fearful struggle
 and an assault. The girl was dead from strangulation.
 The MarkowitZ brothers and Bertna
 later called at police headquarters 10 see what had been learned about the crime. Suspected by the police, the brothers are said to have admitted their mother objected to further attentions being paid by Gordon to Anna. Ihe | brothers would not deny that they did
 not follow Gordon and their sister l The autopsy on the body Of Anna Markowitz was held this afternoon It
 was the opinion of the physicians mat
 the dead girl had been assa ulted' put this can not be fully determined until after a more complete examination. It Is thought Bertha Markowitz, who was with her sister at the time Of the murder, knows moro than she has yet told. But little light has been thrown on the case at a late hour tonight