The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-02
ANOTHER VICTIM OF
F|END|SH OUTRAGE
FRESH CRIME IN FOREIGN POPU-
LATED NEIGHBORHOOD OF
NEW YORK CITY.
lBy the Associated Press. }

graveyard as the foreign populat-
ed neighborhood on First avenue be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets is known locally, gave up a
fresh crime today, rivalling in afro
city the mysterious butcheries of last
week. The latest discovered victim
was an S-year-old girl and, like the
two young women murdered, she had
been shockingly mistreated before
death, and the body mutilated when
life was extinct.
The three murders are Strikingly
81 nilar. Last Thursday night wo-
n m was strangled in Twenty-sec-
oond street boarding house; the next
morning the body of a still unidenti-
fed woman, who had been choked to
death, was found in an areaway in
East Nineteenth street. Katie Pritch-
ler, daughter of restaurant waiter,
disappeared a week ago today and
was killed that night. A ribbon
placed about the throat and drawn
SO tight that it cut the flesh, showed
how she died. Her body was found
today.
If the brutality of the murders can
be compared, that of the Pritchler
girl ranks first. She was assaulted,
murdered and then her lifeless form
was horribly mutilated.
The Graveyard" takes its name
from the proximity of the old Thir
teenth street cemetary, and the To-
cality has been the scene of several
revolving murders. The majority of
the residents are foreigners. The
hD1 Af mi
cred today within a block of her
home and scarcely hundred yards
from the location of a placard placed
by the father, calling attention to the
fact that his child was lost. How
the body could remain undiscovered
for a week is unexplained.
The body lay upon a berry crate
with seemingly no effort at conceal
ment.
You can say for me-" Coroner
Harburger declared, that the crimes
in Berlin, about which the newspa-
pers have told, have not been one
thousands part as bad as the murder
of this little girl
At the coroner's direction Gietano
kippalano, whose cobbler shop ad-
Joined the girls home, was arrested
and asked to explain his absence
from his shop last Friday. He es-
tablished the fact that he had spent
the day at Bristol, Conn. The girl
is said to have frequented Rippal-
amos place, and a search of the shop
brought to light mans shirt, which
bore red stains. .ne cobbler was ar
rested and vemanded to the coroner.
nn1ian cnorah for a
man who is said to have formerly
roomed at the Pritchler home, but
who left there after a quarrel and
took lodgings in the house where the
girls body was found.
When news of the finding of the
little ones body spread through the
neighborhood excitement arose to
such pitch that the removal of the
body and the arrest of Rippalano
caused almost a riot.
Many thousands of persons were in
the nearby streets when the wagon
from the morgue arrived. At sight
of the covered body the crowd vent
ed it's grief and rage in babble of
tongues. The police were compelled
to use force to get through the street.
Soon afterwards the arrest of the
cobbler became known and the crowd
charged the prisoners shop. Rippa-
lano had been safely removed to the
station house, but his shop windows
were smashed and the determined
front of the police reserves, who
clubbed right and left, only prevent
ed further damage.
John Kusmicho, the Russian
watchman under arrest as a suspi-
cious person, and who is said to have
been seen in the company of the girl
whose body was found in the area
way on East Ninetieth street, was
today remanded without bail until
Saturday. No clew to the murderer
in the Twenty-second street case was
obtained today.
Dora Mesner, who is said to have
been seen in the company of the cob
bier, was arrested as a witness She
was arraigned in the night court and
held for the coroner.