The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-08-02
ONE MORE CHILD
MURDERED IN
NEW YORK
Little German Girl Victim Of the
Stranger.
HAD BEEN MISSING SIX DAYS
italian cobbler Held For Latest Crime
Against Little Ones Worst Deed
Ever Known.

NEW YORK. Aug. . Following the
discovery Of another victim Of a stran.
gler, an cIght-yearold girl, Gaetano
Rlppolone. cobblcr. was arrested and
arraigned before Magistrate Wahle
and rcmunded 10 the coroner on tia
charge OF homicide without any eXaml.
nation after the detectives had told
him the circumstances.
Kitty Tictschler, the little daughter
OF Charles and Augusta Tictschler ~
$40 East Thirteenth street. was found
murdered In the cellar of the apart
mcnt house nc 2n3 First avenue.
Cruel hands had clutchcd the chlds
throat. and a mans nails hsd sunk into
her neck. nhruslur the skin.
SO powerful was the murlerrr-
grasp ON the thrnat and neck ~ his vic
tim that his thumbs. meeting nc the
base 81 the skull caused fracture
aud deep depression. Her little huly
bore marks ~ other cruel treatment.
4 pretty rt-l ribbon about fourteen
inchc. long and an inch Wide with
which Mrs. Tlrtschlrr tied her little
daughters hair last Thursday. was
drawn around the neck. NJ though the
murderer had made some attempt "a
use II ns 70 moose.
Soon after the discovery OF the Grim,
the police arrested us suspect Gnc.
tano Rlppolouc NJ bis cobhler', shop To-
the house where the child llyci. Rip
polonc lives nt 3i3 Fast Twelfth street
with his wife aud two children.
They asked him 20 explain bis dis
appearance from OOH. shop un last fn.
day. lie said thnt De- had gone Ia BrIs.
tol. Conn. 10 close q bargain Ter a cub
blcr's shop llr showed letters FROM
Italians iu that city.
Coroner Hamburger AMI the police say
they have learned that the little victim
aud other girls ~ tender years rcsortcl
20 the cohblrr's shop
The CORONER said that be- thought the
body had l-ccn sis days in the cellar
10 was De- added. the most revolving
crime that hHd ever come tu Dis notice
"You can say from me-" the little
coroner cmrhBtinliy declared. chat
the crime. in Berlin ~ which The news
papers have told in detail have not
been one thpusanith part MS bad ns
N, murder ~ this little s.rL"
The coroner followed up this state.
ment by refusing a. let the photogra.
pliers 50 Into the building. ns be- said
that conditions were Ton revolving
Search is being made hy the police
Tor a dark haired German woman nam
ci Annie Mrs-ncr iu connection with
the crime.
Protected by n squad ~ police from
m angry crowd that Threatened vio.
icncc. Rlppolone WIS taken o. piIcc
headquarters. lie strcuuously protest
81 bis Innocence
A few minutes later Giuseppe Bon.
souii. partner ~ R.ppplouc iu his shop.
was arrested and locked up ~ a stis.
plcious person. lie also was threaten.
III by an angry crowd
The girl had been missing from her
home for week Her PARENTS had
searched the nvighhorhoo1 day aud
night nnd had appealed a. the p1lics
Tor aid. NcIghhors had also Joined IN
the search
Kitty wns ~ sweet happy disposl.
ton and was considered the prrtiIcst
child on the block on which she lived
She had hlHck hair nud black eyes aud
was Intelligent and a model public
school scholar.