New-York tribune., 1907-08-03
BINGHAM ASKS ADVICE.
WIRES BUFF4LO POLICE.
Wants authorities an Big Cities to
Sugcest Crime Remedies.

police authorities of other cities what tney
would do to suppress the wave of crime whlch
New York is experiencing superintendent f'esaA'
of the Buffalo police. was one of those 10 receive
telegram from the Commissioner asking for advice
in the situation.
The Commissioner, in defending the men uhdeF
his charge yesterday, said that they We're doins
all they could. To help along their good work ne
urged the mothers of little girls 10 Keep uleir
daughters constantly under surveillance
The Commissioner is of the opinion that his
-four husky deputies handle the situation as
we'll as he can himself Therefore he will go on
his vacation though he said he would not think
of It for moment he thought his presence was
required. He badly needed rest, he said, but ne
would be within call if wanted.
Although Inspector McCanerty head OF the De-
tecvc Bureau, said yesterday that he did not have
anybody else that would warrant detention for the
murder of little Katie Tfetschler, Coroner Har-
burger declined to admit the woman TO bail yes
terday The inspector said he wanted proof that
would stand the test of a court examination ana
he did have it, Despite this. the coroner de-
clared emphatcally that he would not let the
woman CO. at least until after the inquest, Whlch
Will probably be held next Monday.
At the request of Mrs. Augusta Tetschler. mother
of the murdered girl, Myron I. Carter. a young
mulatto living at No. 222 East 96th street, was
arrested yesterday morning as d suspicious person
Carter is reported to have said to some companions
last Sunday. while discussing the disappearance of
the child. that he knew where she was. Inspector
McCafferty got his men to work. but they said in
the Harlem court that they had been unable 10 get
evidence against the prisoner, and Carter was
discharged by Magistrate Butts.
When arraigned before Coroner Harburger Dora
Messner acting the advice of her counsel, Fred
eriCk j. Goldsmith. declined TO make any state
rnent. The lawyer contended that there
corroboratfon for Mrs. Tetschlers suspicion of ths
woman, but the coroner declared he had cOrrobora-
tion enough. Mr.. Goldsmith said he would apply
for a writ OF habeas corpus.
Gaetano RippOlone, the cobbler, who lives In the
house with Dora Messner. also held as
suspicious person. in default Of 1900 bail. pend
ing the inquest
The state Of the little girls body, as examined
by Coroner's Physician Iehane and Professor John
McAlister. was even more revolving than after
the first superficial investigation. The child was
atrociously matreated before death. and prob
ably terrible agony when her assailant gave her
blow the head which broke in the whole left
side OF her skull After the autopsy the physicians
said that they could not positively determine
whether any attempt had been made TO strange the
girl
Jacob Kehrer, OF No 3s Barricl Place. Buffalo.
accompanied by two detectives from Police Head
quarters. called at the morgue early yesterday
evening. A glance the body Of the woman
known as Mrs. Davidson. who was found strangIed
TO death IN the boarding house at No 415 West
22d street last Monday night, was enough TO con
vince him IL that of his wife. Sophia
Kehrer. Kehrer didn't want to look again, bilt
the detectives insisted that he make the identi-
fcation certain. The body Will be taken TO Buf-
No one has as vet been found who can identify
the body OF the woman found in the areaway OF
the house at No 94 East goth street last Tuesday
morning. Frank Poser, Of No 2l9 West liZd
street called at Police Headquarters yesterday
said feared BODY
OF his stepdaughter. May Etchinsky. The girl
seventeen years old, Quarrelled with Poser on
June and left home. and he has seen nothing or
her since.
The girl had been in this country only few
days and spoke no English Poser was reluctant
to go the morgue and view the body The de
sCription he gave OF his stepdaughter does not
answer that OF the body found in goth street
E1merich Ciustavson. Of No 225S Fifth avenue. who
was hit on the head with blunt instrument in
Cordng & Salzsmans coal yard. at 135th street
and the Harlem River. early on Thursday night. is
now in critical condition the Harlem Hospital
Patrick O. Mccarthy. twenty-seven years old, or
No. % Manhattan avenue. was arrested early yes
terday morning. and later held in the Harlem
police court In 500 bail TO await the result OF Gus
tavson's injuries. the most serious of which Is
fracture at the base OF the skull.
Two men who accused OF assaulting. IN the
one case little girl and in the other young
woman. escaped rough handling yesterday by en-
ragged citizens only through the Intervention or the
police. one OF the men. Paul Nelson. uneu-
ployel Swedish sailor. was badly beaten IN the
morning in front OF Piers 6 and :. North River, by
a crowd OF angry truCkmen. who thought he had
attempted 10 assault a nine-year-old girl named
Annie Pittman.
The mother OF the girl said arterward that her
daughter had been responsible for the trouble She
annoyed the sailor while asleep. and he merely
shook Nelson arrested. however. and
sent to the Workhouse for five days by Magistrate
Kernochan, in the Tombs court.
Joseph {. Mott is the other man who may thank
the police for saving him from rougher handling
ried and lives No. T9i Hewitt Place in The
Bronx. For the last three months. according 70
police Mott has been paying attention Elsie
Meyer. Of No. 44S East Ssth street. Last Tuesday
he called at the Meyer home. sent Elsie out 20 get
! a s. bill changed ard then attacked her sister.
! Florence. twenty-five years old.
/ Tho Meyer family said nothing about the anatr
10 the police. but every ono OF them watched out
for Mott. Last night Elsie and her brother espied
/ tho they were looking for in Fifth avenue,
near Soth street. Young Meyer drew a revolver
and started after Mott who had taken to his heels
! Never was about shoot the fugitive when a
| passerby wrested the weapon away from him
! Never explained why ne had the revolver. and
! both Immediately started off in pursuit y big
crowd Joined IN until Policeman Miller, of the
East SSth street station. nabbed Mott in Madison
avenue, near Slst street. Meyer. his sister and hts
mother attempted get the prisoner both on
the street and in the station house. Mott as
serted his innocence. but would not explain why.
If married, he had kept calling on Elsie Meyer.
Harlem or that part of It in the neIghborhood of
/ Lawrence street and Amsterdam avenue. proved
last night that could take OF It's little girls
! Tho cries OF TiIie and Annie POppey, eleven and
/ persons the roof of No II Lawrence street.
armed with every conceivable weapon. from dish
! nan TO a double barrelled shotgun. Shots were
and police whistles blown until the police ar
! rived.
! The janitor promptly covered youth with a
I loaded shotgun and kept the crowd from killing
/ him at the same time
/ The police took the prisoner TO the police sta
ton charging him with being "A suspicious person.
He said he was John Smith, seventeen years old,
! of No $40 West 36th street
! The little girls told the police that Smith seized
Ifllie by the and said he would kill her II she
made outcry.
| Try Telegraph TribuneI
| Buffalo. Aug 2-Commissioner Bingham. OF the
/ New York Police Department. has asked the chiefs
of police OF several of tho largest cities throughout
the country suggest a preventive for the almost
/ daily murders and assaults in Manhattan and its
/ environs.
Superintendent Michael Regan of the Buffalo po-
| lice. in reply to message to-day. tells him his