The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-11
SEARCH FOR
SLAYER OF
CHORUS GIRL
Elsa Won Dessauer's Sister
Defends Her Name-=ROssi
Attacked Her.

NEW YORK, July lin their search
for Carlo Rossi, accused by Elsa Won
Dessauer. the former chorus girl on
her deathbed of infiicting injuries on
her in an attempted assault and in
hunting for evidence against him, the
police have learned of the presence of
a hitherto unknown person in the Rossi
apartments at 510 Amsterdam avenue
when the fatal attack occurred. De-
tectives are today trying to find this
witness, while scores of others are
securing the city for Rossi.
A man-hunting squad has been or
ganized by the police. Outgoing steam
ships are being watched. and descrip-
tions of the well-to-do young Italian
customs broker have been sent broad
cast. There are practically no clues to
his whereabouts, for he had plenty of
time after he learned that his victims
injuries were about to cause death to
make good his escape.
The police have secured from Ma
thilde Won Dessauer, the murdered girls
sister who with Salvatore Rossi,
brother of Carlo, We're with the fugitive
and Elsa on the night of July A, when
the attack occurred, statement con-
cerning what happened in the artis-
tically furnished fiat of the Rossi
brothers. Mathilde knows the name CT
the fifth person in the little party, but
1t has not been told to the police.
II would not mention this name for
81 1.00O,' the dead young woman's sister
said.
Il wish to positively deny" said Ma
thilde that there was anything wrong
in the past relationship of my sister
and Carlo Rossi We had known the
two young men several years, and had
often been out with them, but that was
all. My sister never had been intimate
with Carlo.
Il think from what my sister told me
she was struck with either small
image in granite or vase, after Carlo
had tried to take liberties with her, and
she had repulsed him."
Eisa's death-bed accusation Of Rossi,
made to her physician, DR.. Arthur
Beatty, of 122 West Ninetieth street,
gives version of the assault similar
to that told by the sister. Had DR..
Beatty reported the case when he was
first called in the young women's home,
20S West Eighty-ninth street, the police
declare they could have easily arrested
the accused man. as he is said to have
been around his usual haunts up to two
days ago.
His Office at so Baxter street, where
with his brother he was a broker, is
constantly watched by detectives, but
it is not thought he will venture to
make a call there.
DIR. Beatty now regrets that he did
not report the affair when his sus-
picions were first aroused by the ter
rible injuries of Elsa and by the con-
fiicting stories told by the sisters.
Mathilde who is a successful dress
maker, told him, he says, at first that
Elsa had fallen downstairs and hurt
herself, but the many bruises, the frac-
tured skull and the bursted ear drum
of the victim convinced him this YER
sion was not true.
Elsa, he says, did not wish a scan
dal She preferred that her assailant
go free rather than her name and her
family be brought out in connection
with such an affair.
The police have a perfect description
of Carlo. He is five feet eight inches
In height, has light hair and light mus
tache and a sallow complexion. Usual
Iy he wears eyeglasses, but the police
found the pair he was in the habit of
wearing, when they searched his fiat.
He dresses well. There is a scar on his
left cheek His nose is rather long and
thin