The Washington times., 1907-08-02
Another StIangling.

Ihis fresh crime rivals in atrocity the
mysterious butcheries of last week. Like
the two women murdered. the child
had been shockingly mistreated before
death and the body mutilated when life
was extinct.
The three murders are strii1ingly SINH
lar. Last Thursday night woman was
strangled in a Twenty-second street
boarding house The next morning the
body of a still unidentified woman. who
had been choked to death, was found
in an areaWay I'm East Ninetieth street
A ribbon placed about the girls
throat and drawn so tightly that It cut
the flesh showed how the child died
The ribbon was from her own hair.
If the brutality of the murders can
be qualified, that of the girl ranks arst
She was assaulted. murdered, and then
her lifeless form was horribly mutilated
The father OF Katie is a hard-working
respectable citizen. He has several
other children. all younger than Katie
The girl left home at 3f9 East thirteenth
street, last Thursday night to play IN
the street. When she failed to return
the father notified the police and gen
eraI alarm was sent out.
Hamburger Indignant.
The body was today discovered with
In block of her home. and scarcely
a hundred yards from the location OF
a placard placed by the father. calling
attention to the fact that his child was
lost. How the body could have re-
Tnained undiscovered for a week is not
explained.
The girls body was stumbled upon by
a woman who visited the basement OF
the house at zO3 First avenue 1t lay
upon berry crate with seemingly no
enort At concealment
You can say for me-" Coroner Har-
burger declared, that the crimes I'm
Berlin OF which the newspapers have
told have not been one-thousandth part
as bad as the murder Of this little girl"
The coroner further declared that the
murder was a thousand times worse
than that OF little Viola Boylan. who
was found str9ngled in a coal bin Oh
Second avenue. six weeks ago.
Worst of Crime Waves.
''This is the high-water mark OF the
worst wave Of crime New York has ever
SEEN" said Coroner Harburger, ''and it
is probably the most horrible crime in
the history Of New York county. The
injuries Of the girl are too cruel to de-
scribe"
No one was allowed to photograph the
body.
Two nine-year-oId boys, Harry Gillroy
and Theodore Rosenback, living in the
vicinity of the murdered child's house
told Detective Tucker that Kittie played
with them in Gramercy Park.
They say that young man OF Italian
appearance came up TO the group and
smiled at Kitue. He gave her a box
of candy and whispered something into
her ear. After this Kittle left her play
mates and boarded n Second avenue car
with the italian, going uptown.
GoOd-Dy, Ii see you later, she
cried, waving her hand at the boys.
Crowd Vents Ferocity.
When news OF the finding of the little
ones body spread through the neiBhbor-
hood excitement rose to such a pitch
that the removal Of the body and the
arrest Of Rippolana caused almost a
riot Many thousands of persons were
in the nearby streets when the wagon
from the morgue arrived. At sight of
the covered body the crowd vented its
grief and rage In a babel Of tongues.
Toe police were compelled to use force
to get through the street. Soon after
ward the arrest of the cObbler became
known, and the crowd charged the pris-
Oner's shop. Rippolano had been safe
Iy removed tc the station house. but his
shop windows were smashed, and only
the determined front OF the police re-
serves. who dubbed right and left, pre-
vented greater damage.
Slav Suspect "Sweated."
John KuZmichov. the Slav suspect in
the case OF the young woman found
strangled to death under the steps Of the
areaway in front Of 2O4 East Nineteen
street, on Monday last, was subjected
TO the third degree test at the hands |
Of the police IN the hope that the full |
story of the brutal murder would come |
out and the Identity OF the victim be es-
tablished. Following Kuzmichov's ar
rest and the detention as witnesses OF |
Frank Grabela and Peter Cuber, two |
Greek peddlers, the police seemed to be |
oOcksure that they were on the right |
track to a solution of the crime, They
say they are on the verge Of establishing |
the identity OF the woman and that the /
entire mystery viii be cleared UP in |
few hours.
Remanded Without Bail.
Kuzmichov was a watchman employ |
ed to guard the old home of former |
Mayor Tieman, at 127th street and /
Broadway When shown a picture of /
the murdered woman at the police sta
ion he declared that Il was the picture |
II a strange woman who had lived with 4
lim for several days at the old Tiernan /
mansion. He said she left Sunday a
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