The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-30
One Corpse Horribly
Beaten and Cut
by Slayer.
Man Passing as HuS-
band Suspected in
Other Case.

NEW YORK, july 3O.-Two
women have fallen victims Of horn-
bic murders in New York in the last
twenty-four hours. One was first
strangled to death, and then her
body brutally mutilated, while the
other, identified as Mrs. Sophie
Kohler, of Tonawanda, n. Y, was
strangled, supposedly, by man
named Davids or Davidson, who
passed as her husband. The police,
spuned by the recent and numerous
outrages upon women and children,
are securing the city for suspects.
The mangled body Of a comely
young woman of twenty years,
found in the basement Of a respecta-
bic apartment house al 2O4 East
Nineheth street, revealed one Of the
most revolving crimes ever COM
mitted by "Jack the Ripper" in
this city.
Corpse Tom to Pieces.
The woman had been literally
torn to pieces. Her body showed
the finger and 1ail prints OF huge
hands, and marks on her neck
showed that she had first been
strangled to death.
Every indication said Coroner's
Physician Lehane, who performed
the autopsy, points to the work Of
q ripper The crime was not one
Of the ordinary kind. It was not
murder for revenge or hate, but the
work of a fiend-"
After the coroner had told Of the
brutal manner in which the young
woman had been put to death, p-ac-
tically the entire detective and uni-
formed force Of the East Eighty
eighth street station was put TO
work on the case. The neighbor-
hood where the murder was done is
a respectable German one, and the +
( police are at a loss to understand
/ how the murderer could have made
/ his way to the cellar unnoticed.
Shoes Give Clue.
/ Policeman Healy was Passing the
| house when he saw IN the hallway \
pair OF woman's tan shoes. IN search 4
/ ing he found the body in q coal bin
Just below the neck and the upper part
Of the body the ripper had pounded
| the woman with his fists until there
was not a white spot remaining. he
/ had literally torn piece after piece OF
I uesh away. The autopsy showed LlE-E
/ this had been done after death
! There was very little blood about
4 the floor, and the police ere nrst nn-
Z der the impression that the woman nad
/ been murdered, and her body borne 20
I the cellar
\ Dr. Lehane's examination however,
/ divulged that the woman had met death
l within few feet OF where she lay,
/ ana that the murder had been COM
mitted within four or five hours tToLa
/ the time the discovery was made
/ The woman is either OF Cuban. Span
! ish. or Armenian descent Her features
| were regular and pretty, and her Gem
plexlon was slightly olive
| One police theory IS that she was
strangled TO death because she informed
n the authorities as to the Identity OF the
plOtters who caused the ASSASSINATION OF
/ II. TavshanJian, the millionaire rug
/ merchant
/ It was a woman who informed the dis
! trict attorneys Ofice that a priest was
\ IN the company Of Bedros Hampart-
ZoOmian a few hours before the latter
I shot down the rug merchant
] The Kohler woman, who was found
/ In a room at 415 West Twenty-second
! street, lay nude upon the bed with a
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