The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
KILLED WOMAN, teen BIT Her
SET mrs TEETH IN HER FACE
AFTER STRANGLING HER.

Victim supposed co Ne Herman Murderer
Was some . ~ FOREIGN Patriot wh o
Carried q Flag About with Him-Dc-
parted at Leisure, LeaVing Room locked
When Fred Dayton. lessee Of a furnished
room house at s75 West Twenty-second
street, broke in yesterday afternoon the
door OF u room on tho second floor to see
why II was locked he found ths body Of a
woman lying nude in bed. Around her
neck wa a mans black polka dot neoktie.
knotted hsrd and pulled 30 tight that IL
had cut into the skin Of her throat. A
piece Of flesh had been bitten cut OF her
left cheek and a similar wound appeared
on her right forearm. The woman lay on
her back. with her hands folded across her
breast.
Dayton got a policeman and a doctor.
The woman had been strangled eighteen
or twenty hours before. the doctor said.
Dayton is not sure whether the woman
had given her name as Davis or David
son. He thinks IL was Davis. On July
Ia, he says. while he and Mrs. Dayton we're
away from home. a young man called and
engaged from the ho~usekeeper. Mrs. Cart
ledge. a room for himself and his wife.
He paid 81 in advance for two weeks. He
had occupied In room two nights when
Mrs. Davis-if the name was Davis-joined
him. They both spoke broken English.
Davis went to work mornings and came
back at night, wearing greasy clothing and
a leather cap. with his sleeves rolled up.
The Daytons took him for a m%achinist.
They began TO suspect hat the couple
were not married, and last Friday notified
them that they had better move when the
two weeks were up on Sunday evening.
On Sunday afternoon Davis left the house
with two suit cases, an umbrella and a flag
x"some kind Of a foreign flag IL was" Mrs.
Dayton says. Il go now, he said. but at
II o'clock Sunday night he returned with
the woman and they went to their room.
Half an hour later Mrs. Dayton and a friend
who we're sitting on the stoop saw Davis
go out again. He walked toward Tenth
avenue, apparently in a hurry.
Yesterday morning Mrs. Charlotte Ter
hume, who has the room next the one
occupied by the pair. with only a slight par
tition between, told Mrs. Dayton that she
had heard Davis come in at IL O'Clock on
Sunday night and heard the man and
woman mildly quarrelling. The man
seemed to be demanding something which
the woman refused. Finally Mrs. Ter
hume caught: Don't hurt me- from the
woman, and some other things that struck
her as suspicious. She lay awake wonder
ing. but at 5 O'Clock heard somebody nov
ing around in the next room and concluded
that there was nothing to worry about.
Who could have beer moving in the
room unless the man had come in again
unseen is only conjecture. When Mr..
Dayton got home yesterday afternoon the
door Of b Davis room was still locked. He
pried IL open with the result described sbove.
The room was stripped Of all of Davis's
clothing. with the exception Of two heavy
cheap shoes tha are not mates. The
woman's clothes were lying about. There
had been on he dresser a picture Of the
woman labelled From your best love,
Sophie Kohler," but that was gone.
The woman was fair and rather comedy.
5 feet 9 inches tall, about 20 years old.
Mrs. Dayton thinks she had heard her
mention a sister in Jersey City. The man
10 described as abou p years old. 5 feet 7
inches, 1870 pounds, with long black hair
brushed down very close to his head. He
wore on Sunday night a blue serge suit,
gray trousers n squeaky shoes.