The Washington times., 1907-07-31
POLICE
SECURE
A CLUE
Stranger of Woman
Sought in Silk
Mill.
Ripper Jack Victim
Has Not Been
Identified.
Wave of Crime Grows.
New Workers Expect
LynchingS.

NEW YORK, July gI.-The
strangler who ehOked the life out Of
attractive Sophia KohIer, in the
West TWenty-secOnd street roomIng
house, may be captured by the pO-
lice within a few hours.
Detectives were sent TO Jersey
City to search through a silk mill
for a man answering the description
of the individual who had figured in
the young WOman's life for several
months.
| This man was known as Wilson
when the girl lived In Jersey City.
He was known as David when the girl
/ lived with AIrs. Gussie Boyd. at 1f7 East
I Twenty-s street. Manhattan. and
/ It was ne who under the nai-S OF
/ Charles Davis OF Dawson rented the
room for her IN which she vas slain.
/ The police were OF the ooinion today
that the woman had been Killed because
/ OF Jealousy and anger. It is believed
/ that she tried to leave the man in Jer-
/ sey City, that ne found her IN New York
and took her to the house where ne
later ki''ed her
Wesk42 in SHk HHl.
This man was known IN Jersey city
to have worked In a silk mill and at
times in a saloon.
Persons in the house where The wom-
an lived believed from his appearance
that he was a mechanic.
A hOuse-to-house hunt for the Jack
| the Ripper who murdered the young
woman in the basement areaway OF the
house at 2o4 East Ninetieth street has
| been begun.
A clue which promised results led the
police to order n search Of al the houses
! in the neighborhood, and many detec-
/ tives and policemen were sent into the
neighborhood.
Victim Unidentified.
| All efforts. to identify the victim OF the
stranger have failed. OF the hundreds
( who have viewed the body none could
say that they ever had seen her before.
The police are OF the opinion that the
girl Was a woman who was starving
The autopsy showed she had long been
without food. She IS believed to have
been woman who had no funds for
food. and who was seized by a gang
Of men, and who. weakened from hun
ger, was an easy prey. as they forced
her into the basement Of a tenement
| house.
Literally Tom to Pieces.
The autopsy showed that she had
been literally torn to pieces. Both ner
/ legs had been broken, and the clutch
Of a strong mans fingers had broken
through the flesh of her neck
The mutilation Of the body leads de-
4 ~
I derer may be the same who killed and
multilated Gussie Pfeiffer, the youag
embroidery worker. whose body was
found under the Haunted Oak, on the
old Pelham road. in the Bronx, in Sep
/ tember. 1906.
Both girls were strangled by persons
of guerilla-like strength. and the vic
tins similarly maltreated.
Crime Wave Unabated.
The crime wave continues undated
Extraordinary police vigilance has not
had the effect OF decreasing the at
tempts at brutal assaults on children
end young women.
Three men, two Italians. and one
negro were arraigned IN police courts
today, two in Manhattan, and one in
YOnkerS, charged with mistreating lit
tie girls All Of them were cut and
bruised from rough handling by mobs.
and were saved by the police from be-
ing kicked or beaten TO death.
1t is feared that New York viii yet
SEQ a lynching before the crime wave
ends-indeed, there are many police Of
hcials who are of the opinion that the
flends now prOwling about the city will
not be frightened into abandoning their
attempts at assaults until one of them
has been strung to a lamp post.
Carried Girl to Hallway.
Plccolo Anesandro, who was accused
by the parents OF Lizzie Warshashlxy,
was seen to carry the little girl to a
hallway. An alarm was given, a mob
collected. and the police had difficulty
in taking him
Tony Galante. a barber. attacked two
little girls on west Forty-ninth street
He was discovered, and by the time the
police rescued him from mob his nose
had been broken, and his face badly
bruised.
A platoon of police saved CHRISTOPHER
Jenkins, n negro, from the wrath OF a
mob. Miss Lizzie Widner, OF A. Broad
way, Yonkers, accused the negro of
seizing her as she was about to enter
her home. Her cries aroused the neigh
bors, and her assailent was captured
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