Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-02
MORE CHILD MURDER
Little German Girl Victim of
 New York Strangler.
HAD BEEN MISSING SIX DAYS.
Italian Cobbler Held For Latest Crime Against Little Ones-Worst Deed Ever Known, Says
 Coroner Harburger.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Following the discovery of another victim of stran- gler, an eight-year-old girl, Gaetano Rippolone, cobbler, was arrested and arraigned before Magistrate Wahle and remanded to the coroner on the charge of homicide without any exami- nation after the detectives had told him the circumstances.
 Kitty Tletschler, the little daughter of Charles and Augusta Tietschler of 849 East Thirteenth street, was found murdered in the cellar of the apart ment house at 203 First avenue.
 Cruel hands had clutched the child's throat and mans nails had sunk into her neck, abrasing the skin.
 So powerful was the murderer's grasp on the throat and neck of his vic tim that his thumbs, meeting at the base of the skull, caused q fracture and deep depression. Her little body bore marks of other cruel treatment.
 A pretty red ribbon about fourteen inches long and an inch wide, with which Mrs. Tietschler tied her little daughters hair last Thursday, was drawn around the neck, as though the murderer had made some attempt to use it as moose.
 Soon after the discovery of the crime the police arrested as a suspect Gae- tano Rippolor at his cobbler's shop in the house wnere the child lived. Rip polone lives at 343 East Twelfth street with his wife and two children.
 They asked him to explain his dis appearance from his shop on last Fri day. He said that he had gone to Bris- tol. Conn.,, to close bargain for cob bler's shop. He showed letters from Italians in Sat city.
 Dora Mes ner, or Louise Epstein, is also held She was put out of the Tritschler home when her character became known and Is said to have vowed vengeance. Thence she went to the tenement where the baby's body was found. She is said to have caroused with the cobbler in his shop. She vanished just as the murder was discovered, but was caught last night.
 Coroner Hamburger and the police say they have learned that the little victim and other girls of tender years resorted to the cobblers shop.
 The coroner said that he thought the body had been six days in the cellar. It was, he added, the most revolting <rytoa that hod ax,ar na,na to btc natfoa
 You can say from me-" the little coroner emphatically declared, that the crimes in Berlin of which the news papers have told in detail have not been one-thousandth part as bad as the murder of this little girl"
 The coroner followed up this state ment by refusing to let the photogra- phers go into the building, as he said that conditions were too revolting.
 Protected by squad of police from an angry crowd that threatened vio- lence. Rippolone was taken to police headquarters. He strenuously protest ed his innocence
 A few minutes later Giuseppe Bon- sonti, partner of Rippolone in his shop, was arrested and locked up as sus- picious person. He als2 was threaten ed by an angry crowd.
 The girl had been missing from her home for a week. Her parents had searched the neighborhood day and night and had appealed to the police for aid. Neighbors had also joined in the search.
 Kitty was of sweet, happy disposi- tion and was considered the prettiest child on the block on which she lived. She had black hair and black eyes and was intelligent and model public school scholar.