New-York tribune., 1907-07-30
WOMAN KILLED BY TIE.
CHOKED By NECK SCARF.
Body Left IN Room by Nan-NUr-
der q Com DIctc Mystery.

Etrangcd with a mans red and black necktie,
the body OF known only Mrs. David
SON. was found IN furnished room on the second
floor OF boarding house at No 40 West 22d street
yesterday afternoon. The proprietor OF the house,
Frank Dayton. found the body, The necktie had
teen tied about her throat tightly that it had
ruptured the skin and broken some of the blood
vessels in the neck. The murderer had also
jammed pillow over the woman's face and evi-
gently held il there until life was extinct.
Accompanied by a man who called himself her
husband Mrs. Davidson" went to the Dayton
house two weeks ago and asked for room The
pair plainly foreigners, Italians apparently,
and Mrs. Dayton referred to her husband before
admitting them
They were well dressed ard seemed TO have
plenty of money but last Friday Mrs DAYTON, for
some reason asked them to leave the house. This
they agreed TO do, and on Sunday afternoon de-
parted. osensbly to look for other quarters. They
returned IN the afternoon stay until yesterday,
when their week up.
The pair went upstairs and We're heard moving
about quietly for some little time. Then there
was an interval OF silence. Presently DAVIDSON
descended and He has been seen
since, and the police looking for him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dayton knew nothing of his dis
appearance until yesterday morning, when he
failed 10 leave the house for work he had done
regularly I'D TO that time What his business was
Mr.. Dayton unable TO tell the police, saying
both the man and woman kept very much TO them
selves.
on leaving the house early in the day Mrs Dav-
ton was annoyed TO see a woman's Undershrt and
4 pair of stockings hanging in the window of
"DaVidson's' room, drying. She at once returned
and tried the door 10 the offending room, but II
locked. She knocked and called but got no
answer. Thinking her dodgers must have gone
she gave up the attempt.
When Mr. Dayton returned from work. at
o'clock she told him about the affair. and he went
at once the room and broke open the door.
Lying on the bed was the body OF Mrs. David
Eon."
Mr.. Dayton called a policeman. who reported the
case. Detectives Scanlan and Reed were put on
the case. The Two leather suit cases which the
man and woman had taken out with them on sun
day were gone. and there was nothing in the way
Of clew the identity Of the ''Dayidsons.' Moth
ing bur box OF face powder and a few harpns
lay the bureau. while on the chairs OF the room
was the wonan's clothing. neatly folded. There
nothing of male wearing apparel in the room
hut the fatal necktle. Not a scrap OF paper was
left behind, a bit Of writing TO be found.
Mrs. Charlotte Terhune who lives in adjoin-
lnig room, told Coroner Shrady that she asleep
Sunday night, when about Il O'Clock she was
reused by the sound Of talking which came
through the thin wooden partition that separates
the TWO
She distinguished the voices Of Davidson and
his wife in argument. He seemed 10 be de-
manding something which the woman evi-
IDENTITY unwilling TO aCcede TO- and for while Mrs
Terhune feared that there would be a fight. Mat
ters quieted down, however, after while and the
light the room which Mrs. Terhune could
plainly through cracks in the partition. turned
out.
Shortly after this there came the sound of chok-
ls. and Mrs Terhune says that she raised herself
or her elbow, wondering what il could be. As II
not repeated she dropped off to sleep once
more and heard nothing further until just before
daylight when she heard the sound Of a match
struck in the room next TO hers and some one
moving about quietly The police say that they
think the man must have come back 10 make sure
that the woman dead.
There is little doubt that the murder was COM
mirted during the earlier part of the night. Part
Of the testimony offered by Mrs Terhune leads
the police think that the woman's
Sofy KoAler fairly good picture Of the
stood on the bureau of the room and on the bottom
Of the card that in a mans handwriting