The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-06
Girl Dead from Stran-
 gler's Clutch.
HER ESCORT ALMOST DEAD
Evidences of the Most Brutal
 Treatment.
Sheriff F1nds Young Woman With Clothes Nearly Torn From Body. Also Evidences of strugGle
 and Assault.

Dayton. O.. August 5.-Anna Markos witz. twenty four years old. a pretty Jewish girl. lies dead at the county morgue. her throat bearing the mute evidence of the strangler's death clutch. Her body. bruised and cut bears evidences of brutal mistreat~- ment At the hospital with a mortal wound in his abdomen and his head a mass of bruises. lies Abraham Gor- don. a young travelling man from In- dianapolis- Held on suspicion by the authorities at Dayton are James, Jacob and Bertha Markowitz, brothers and. sister of the dead girl This was tho situation today in a very complex mur- der case and one which In brutality and cruelty rivals the fate of pretty Dona Gilman whose pitiful end was reached but very short distance from where this latest crime occurred
 Anna Markowitz. like Dona Gilman, was mistreated. But in this latese case there Is not complete absence of clues which has made the Gilman case one of the deepest mysteries of thio' section.
 Sunday Abraham Gordon. some- times known as Conan. went out wake ing along a lonely road near the Nat tional Soldiers Home. He was accom- panied by Anna Markowitz and her younger sister. Bertha. They had walked to lonely spot when the, widely different in their intimations. are told. The story of Bertha. when she rushed breathiess and terror stricken to the soldiers home was that while her sister. young Gordon and. herself were strolling along a secluded path a highwayman slipped unheard behind Gordon and struck him with sA blackjack.
 Gordon, she said, turned. and as he did so. the highwayman shot him in tho stomach. As Gordon fell she says the man made a dash for either herself or her sister. She ran screaming from the scene in terror. leaving her older sister Anna to her fate. Bertha sai1> she did not stop until she got to thI soldiers home where she gave tns alarm.
 Tic sheriff was notified and posse formed. When they reached thu spot of the crime they found Gordon al- most dead. A trail showed where An na had been dragged. They followed the beaten down path and came upon the body of the girl lying in the weeds. The clothing had been nearly torn from the body. There were evidences of a fearful struggle and an assault. The girl was dead from stransula- tion.
 The Markowitz brothers and Bertha later called at police headquarters to see what had been learned about the crime. Questioned. the brothers are said to have admitted that their moth- CT objected to further attentions being paid by Gordon to Anna. The broth CTS would not deny that they had followed their sisters. Anna and Ber- tha. into the woods, when they went with Gordon.
 The autopsy on the body of Anna Markowitz was held thls evening. It was the opinion of the physicians that the dead girl had been assaulted bus this cannot be fully determined untfb after A more complete examination.
 t Is thought Bertha Markowitz. who, was with her sister at the time of the murder knows more than she has vet told. But little light had been thrown on the case at late houET tonight.