The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-01
FIND DEAD GIRLS COMPANION
HE'S A RUSSIAN VINO WAS WITH
HER on SUNDAY MORNING.
HAD Her IN Yard Of House u whtcs, He wss
the Waterman Police Believe Ne Kept
Her Prisoner. Killed Her q Loft Her
Body In the Tenement Areaway.

tne WntcntnAn -FDNce weitcVe fe Aept
Her Prisoner. Killed Her and Left Her
Body I'm the Tenement Areaway.
street station arrested yesterday a young
Russian who gave the name OF John Kuz-
micho on suspicion that he was responsible
for the murder Of the unidentified young
woman whose body. s~hockingly mutilsted.
was found in the areaway Of the tenement
at 2O4 East Ninetieth street early Tuesday
morning. The Russian. who was found
in a tenantless house on the southwest
corner Of 10th street and Broadway 81
which he said he was the Waterman. identi-
fed a photograph as being that Of the muir
dered girl and admitted that ne had been in
her company on Sunday morning last.
Other admissions made by kuzmicho
as to his relations with the woman and
statements by two witnesses lead the
police TO believe that the man they are
holding had kept the girl a prisoner in the
tumbledown house on upper Broadway
until he had tired OF her and had then lore
away with her. Though admitting no
knowledge Of the murder and denying even
that he knew the girls na,le. kuzrnicho
showed terror under the ordeal Of The polos
examination.
A German merchant. living on West
iisth street. with whom Capt. Martens
Of the East Eighty eighth street station
is intims te, but whose name he does not
care TO reveal, came to the station yesterday
morning and told Capt. Martens that he
had recognized the published Photographs
of the murdered woman as being those Of
a woman he had seen on Sunday in com
pany with a rough looking man In the
back yard of the house on Broadway.
Capt. Martens's informant went to the
M orgue aud verified his belief; then he
led detectives from the East ri shty-eiehth
str Get station up to the house IN pointed
out kuzmicho as the man he had seen with
the girl.
According 70 Capt. Martens's informant
it was about 10 O'Clock on Sunday morning
that he and HE family were passing the
house on the Broadway corner. Leaving
his companions tor a minute, the man
passed around the house and into the weed
grown back yard. There he saw q girl
lying on the ground with her clothing dis
arranged.
The girl was dressed as she vas on the
morning when her body was found under
the tenement steps. Her eyes were closed
and she seemed 30 dazed that she made
no attempt to order her clothing and did
not recognize the presence OF the intruder
except by opening her eyes n staring at
him.
just as the man whom Capt. Martens
quotes was about TO leave the place he
turned and saw Kuzmicho coming down
the back steps Of the house toward the girl.
Kuzmicho stopped when he saw the stranger
and then fed into the house. The man
who had made the discovery made no fur
thor attempt TO investigate.
When Kuxmicho was taken by the do
t~ectives they also picked up two Greeks
who said they knew something about tho
movements Of the Russian and the girl.
Frank Grovela. q peanut pedler who has
his stand at i2sth street and Broadway.
told the detectives that he had seen the
Russian and the girl 60 into the yard Of
the deserted mansion early Sunday morn
ing. He watched for their temperance.
Grovela said. but the Russian came out
alone later in the day. He was positive
that the girl did not leave the grounds.
Peter Cuver, a laborer who 10 employed
in the grading tina has been begun recently
upon the lot on which the house stands,
~corroborated Grovela's story. Both Greeks
said that Kuzmicho was employed as .
Waterman on the premises and that he had
been living in the house for several months
When Kuzmicho was questioned at the
station he said that he had found early
Sunday morning a girl sitting in the yard
OF the house under his care. He looked alta
photograph OF the murdered girl n readily
said that that was the girl he had found.
He had remained in her company out In
the back yard all the morning, then took
her to the gate and told her to get out.
That was the last he had seen OF her.
The police took Kuzmicho down to the
Morgue and confronted him with the body.
Though n had identified the photograph.
kuzmicho denied stoutly that the body was
that Of the girl he had found in the back
yard OF the Broadway house. The wo
Greeks, who had likewise identified the
photograph at the police station, made q
sudden change OF front also and denied
that they had ever seen the girl before.
They were held as witnesses.
The police could learn little about kun
micho. who protested TO know very littls
English. He is an understood man. It
is thought that he has been a sailor, for
among his effects found in the old house
was a seaman's certificate book Of honor
able discharges, with several entries Of a
favorable character. The book ia made
out in the name OF Sergius Kosmekof.
Though the detectives made a thorough
search Of the premises they found no bloody
clothing or other evidences Of crime.
Because OF the intimacy which Kuz-
micho protested to have had with the
murdered girl on Sunday the detectives
ave deduced the theory that she was a
Russian. They are working on the belief
that she was some immigrant who had
been separated from friends either by
accident or design and who had fallen
into the Russians hands.
The fact developed by the post norton
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