The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-08-07
Been Killed.

The excitement caused in New
York city by the recent atrociou.
crimes against women and childres
was greatly increased THURSDAY b,
the discovery Of the body Of an eight.
year-old girl in a cellar of an East
Side tenement. The child had been
assaulted and then murdered, marks
on Tue throat indicating that perhaps
the little one had been strangled.
The suspicion that the child was
choked to death. taken in connection
with the murder of Sophie Kohrer
and Of an unidentified woman by
strangulation. leads the police to be-
lieve that there is maniac at large
IN the city VINO is possessed of an in
sane impulse to kill women and chill
dren by the same method
The body was lying on a strawber-
~ crate. where it apparently had
been placed several days ago, and it's
condition revealed the frightful treat
ment to which the child had been
subjected.
The girls body was stumbled upon
by a woman who visited the basement
of the house at 203.First avenue Il
lay upon berry crate with seeming
~ no effort at conceaiment.
You can say for me-, Coroner
Harberger declared. that the crimes
in Berlin of which the newspapers
have told have not been one thous-
andth part as bad as the murder rf
this little girl
At the coroner's direction Gaetano
Rippolano, whose cobbler shop ad-
joins the girls home. was arrested
aud asked to explain his absence
from his shop on last Friday. He eS-
tablished the fact that he had spent
the day at Bristol. Conn
The girl is said to have frequented
Rippolano' place and search
brought to light q mans shirt which
bore red stains.
The cobbler was arrained and re-
manded to the coroner. Giuseppe
Botanic, Rippolando's partner. was
questioned, but threw little light on
the case and was not detained.
The police also began a search for
a woman who is said to formerly
roomed at the Pcitschler house, but
who left there after a quarrel and
took lodging in the house where the
girls body was found.
When the news of the finding of
the little ones body spread through
the neighoorhood excitement rose to
such a pitch that the removal OF the
body and the arrest OF Rlppolano
caused almost a riot.
Many thousands of persons were in
the nearby street when the wagon
from the morgue arrived. At sight
Of the covered body the crowd vented
it's grief and rage IN a babel OF TON
CUES. The police were compelled TO
use force to get through the street
Soon afterwards the arrest OF the
cobbIer became known and the crowd
charged the prisoners shop. Rlppo-
Iano had been safely removed to the
Station House. but his shop windows
were smashed and only the determln-
ed front Of the police reserves VINO
dubbed right and left, prevented
greater damage.
John Kusmicho the Russian watch
man under arrest as a suspicious per
son and who is said to have been
seen in the company OF the slrl
whose body was found in the areaway
on East Ninetieth street. was remand
ed without bail until Saturday. NO
clue to the murder in Twenty-secono
street was secured
Later it was decided to hold bo-
fanto for examination. Dora Mess
ner, who is said to have been seen
in the company of the cobbler, was
arrested as a witness.