Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-08
WORK OF FIEND.
Another Girl Victim Is Found in
New York.
ATR0CIoUs CRIMES.

An Eight Year Old Child Assaulted
and Slain-Police Believe a Maniac
Is Roaming the City, Possessed Of
An Impulse to Kill Women and
Children-Severai Women Have
Been Killed.
The excitement caused IN New
York city by the recent atrocjons
crimes against women and children
was greatly increased Thursday by
the discovery OF the body of an eight
year-old girl In a cellar Of an f1ast
Side tenement. The child had been
assaulted and then murdered. marks
ON the throat indicating that perhaps
the little one had been strantted
Ihe suspicion that the child was
cnokeu to death, taken In connection
with the murder of Sophie Kuhrer
and of an unidentified woman by
strangulation, leads the police to bs-
iieve that there is a tnafiiac at large
In the city who is possessed OF an IN
sane impulse to kill women and chill
dren by the same method.
The body was lying on a strawber-
- oio.e' Where IL apparently Had
been placed several days aEo. and its
condition revealed the frightfui treat.
ment to which the child had been
subjected.
The girls body was stumbled upon
by woman who visited the basement
OF the house at 2U3 First avenue II
lay upon berry crate with seeming
ly tio effort at ebncealnieht.
You can say for me- Coroner
Harberger declared, THAT the crimes
In Berlin. OF which the newspapers
have told have not been one thous-
andth part as bad as the murder of
this little girl.
AT the coroner's direction Gaetano
Rippolano. whose cobbler shop ad-
joins the girls home. was arrested
from his shop OH last Friday. He es-
tablished the fact that he had spent
the day at Bristol. Conn.
The girl Is said to have freuuented
Rippblano's place and a search
brought to- light a mans shirt which
bore red stains.
The cobbler was arrained and re-
manded to the coroner. Giuseppe
Botanic, Rippolando's partner, was
questioned, but threw little light on
the case and was not detained.
The police also began a search for
a woman who Is said to formerly
roomed at the Pritschler house, but
who left there after quarrel and
took lodging in the house where the
girls body was found.
When the news of the finding of
the little ones body spread through
the neighborhood excitement rose to
such pitch that the removal of the
body and the arrest of Rippolano
caused almost a riot.
Many thousands OF persons were in
the nearby street when the wagon
from the morgue arrived. At sight
of the covered body the crowd vented
Its grief and rage in babel OF ton
CUES. The police were compelled to
use force to get through the street.
Soon afterwards the arrest of the
cobbler became known and the crowd
charged the prisoners shop. Rippo-
lano had been safely removed to the
Station House, but his shop windows
were smashed and only the determin-
ed front of the police reserves who
clubbed 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 In the company of the girl
whose body was found In the areaway
on East Ninetieth street. was remand
ed without bail until Saturday No
clue to the murder In Twenty
street was secured
Later IL was decided to hold Bo-
fanto for examination. Dora Mess
ner, who is said to have been seen
I'm the company of the cobbler. was
arrested as a witness.