Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-02
Dead BODY Of Eight Year Old Girl
Who Had Bean Horribly
IRislPeated Found.
CASE OF MYSTERIOUS BUTCHEhY
Child Disappeared Week Ago Yes.
tcrday and Was Probably Killed
That Night and Was Fearfuliy Mu-
tilated Af,erwards-Rc of the
Neishborhood Indulge in Riotins.
(ny AseocIntcd rressl

tliy Associated press.)
NEW YORK, August 1.-The grave
yard rs the foreign populated neigh
borhood OH First avenue, between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets IS
known, locally. gave up today fresh
crime rivaing In atrucily the mystor-
ious lTtchcrics of last week. The
latest discovered victim was an eight
ycar-old girl, and. like the two Young
women murdered, she had been shock
ihgly mistrcated before death and the
body mutilatcd when life was extinct
The three murders are strikinsly smi
lar. Last Thursday nigh. a woman
was stranglcd in Il Twcnty.scconi
street boarding house: the next morn.
ing the body of Il still unidentified wo-
man, who had been chokcd 10 death
was found in an area way in East
Nincticth street. Katie Pritschler
daughter of restaurant waiter. dis
appeared Il week ago today and WAS
killed that night. a ribbon placed
atout the throat and drawn so tightly
that ir cut the flesh showed how she
died Her body was found today. If
the brutality of the murders can he
qualified. that of the Pritschler girl
dercd and then her lifclcss body was
horribly mulilated.
THE Graveyard" takes its name
from the proximity of the old rhlr-
tcenth street cemetery, and the local
ity has been the scene of several re.
Voting murders. The majority of the
residents are foreigners. Carl Pitsch
Ter the father of Katie. is Il hard
working, respectable citizen. He has
several other children all younger
than Katie. The girl left home AT
3:i9 East Thirteenth stree, last
Thursday night to play in the street.
When she failed 10 return the father
notified the police and a general alarm
was sent out The body was today
discovered within block of her home
and scarcely 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 remained undiscovered for
week is not explained.
A Most Horrible Crime.
The girls body was stumbled upon
by Il woman who visited the basement
of the house ut 203 First avenue. 1t
lay upon berry crate with seemingly
no effort at concealmemt
You can say for me-" Coroner IIar-
burger declared, that the crimes in
Berlin, of which the newspapers have
told, have not been one thousandth
part as bad as the murder of this lit
tie girl.
The coroner would not permit the
body TO be photographed AT the cor
oncr's direction, Gaetano Rippolano.
whose cobbler shop adjoins the girls
| home, was arrested and asked to ex-
plain his absence from his shop on
last Friday. He established the fact
that he had spent the day at Bristol.
, Conn. The girl is said to have fire.
quented Rippolano's place. and a
search of the shop brought to light
Il mans shirt which bore red stains.
The cobbor was arraigncd and re-
manded to the coroner. Giuseppe Bon
. fanto. Rppolanos partner. was qucs-
| toned. He threw little light upon the
case but was detained. Tho police
also began Il search for il woman who
is said to have formerly roomcd at the
Pritschler home, but who left there
after quarrel and took lodgings in
the house where the girls Lody was
found
Tried to Wreck Shop of Accused
When news of the finding of the
little ones body spread through the
ncighborhood excitement rose 10 such
n pitch that the removal of the body
and the arrest of Rippolano caused az;
most a riot. Many thousands of per
sons were in the nearby streets when
the wagon from the morguc arrived.
at sight of the covered body the
crowd vented its grief and rage in a
babel of tongues. 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.
Rippoano had been safely removed
to the station house but his shop win
hows were smashed. and only The de
I termincd front of the police reserves.
who dubbed right and left. prevented
| greater damage.
John Kuromcho the Russian watch
man. under arrest as Il suspicious per
SON and who is said to have been seen
in the company Of the girl whose body
was found in the arcaway on East
a.