Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-08-02
Another Shocking Tragedy
Added to Long List of Crimes
Which Have Startled New
York.
RUSSIAN SHOEMAKER
SEIZED FOR CRIME
HowIing Mob Follows Prisoner
TO JAIL Wrecks Shop When
Suspect is Landed Safely Be-
hind Bars.
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GBy Morning journal Special Leased Wire
New York, Aug. 1.-The grave
yard as the foreign populated neigh
borhood on First avenue, between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. X
known locally, gave up today a fresh
crime rivalling in atrocity the myster-
ious butcheries of last week. The
latest discovered victim was an eight
year-old girl. and like the two young
women murdered, she had been shock
ingly mistreated before death, and
the body mutilated when life was ex-
tinct.
The three murders are strikingly
similar, Last Thursday night woman
was strangled in a Twenty-secOnd
street boarding house; the next morn
ing the body of a still unidentified
woman who had been choked 10
death, was found in an arehway In
East Ninetieth street. Katie Pritshler,
daughter of a restaurant waiter, dis
appeared week ago today and It Is
believed was Killed that night. A ribs
bon placed about the throat and
drawn so tightly that It cut the flesh,
showed how she died. Her body was
found today.
If the brutality Of the murders can
be qualified that of the girl ranks
first. She was assaulted. murdered
and then her lifeless form was hor-
ribly mutilated.
"The graveyard" takes it's name
from the proximity of an old ceme-
terry and the locality has been the
seeI.A- - sg-eSeral sA4>4ting mui lef3s
The majority of the residents are for
eigners. The body of the little girl
was discovered today within a block
Of her home and scarcely a hundred
yards from the location of placard
placed by the father, calling attention
to the fact that his child was lost How
her body could have remained undis-
covered for a week Is not explained.
The body lay upon berry crate,
with seemingly no effort at conceal
ment.
"You can say for me-" Coroner
Hamburger declared. "that the crimes
in Berlin of which the newspapers
have told have not been one hun
dredth part as bad as the murder OF
this little girl
At the eoroner's inquest Gaetano
Rippolano, whose cobbler shop ad-
Joins the girls home, was arrested
and asked to explain his absence from
his shop last Friday. He established
the fact that he had spent the day at
Bristol. Conn. The girl is said to have
frequeuted Rippolano's shop, and
search of the shop brought to light a
mans shirt which bore red stains. The
cobbler was arrested and remanded
10 the coroner. Giuseppe Beniante,
kippOlano's partner. was question: =
but threw little light on the case ami
was not detained. The police also ~
gan a search for a woman who is 81 4
TO have formerly roomed at tlcI
Pritshlcr home, but left there after q
quarrel and took lodgings in the house
where the girls body was found.
When news of the finding of the IL
tie ones body spread through the
neigh hborhood excitement rose to such
Il pitch that the removal of the body
and the arrest of the cobbler caused
almost "A riot.
the nearby streets when the wagon
the covered body the crowd vented
its grief and rage In a babel of
tongues. The police were compelled
10 use force to get through the street.
Soon after the arrest of the cobbler
became known and the crowd charged
the prisoners shop.
Rippolano had been safely removed |
to the station house, but his shop VIM /
dows were smashed and only the de-
termined front of the police reserves. |
WHO 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 /
i'm the company Of the girl whose body 1
WAS found in the area way on East 1
TWpnfy-ninth street. was today re- 1
maudcd without bail suntil Saturday. /
No clue 10 the murder in Twenty-sec-
und street was secured today
Later Il was decided 10 hold Bon
fanto for examination tomorrow.