The Washington times., 1907-08-02


ing rapidly toward the race
track inclosure with his in
tended victim.
She escaped unhurt, and
went to her home at Home
crest, refusing to give her
name. The man also escaped.
Man Roughly Handled.
With numerous stitches in his
scalp as the result of being kicked
and beaten into Inconsistencies by
a ferocious crowd of 200 angry men
and women, John Darlin, aged
forty, was neld for trial in Brook
lyn today, charged with attacking
two little girls.
A physician from the Norwegian
Hospital took many stitches in Dar-
Inns scalp and face The mob sur
rounded the station house. He
begged the police to protect him,
and asserted he was innocent.
But he was identified by the chill
dren, Alva Olsen, ten, and Olive An
derson, eight.
The parents of the children head
ed the infuriated crowd. They be-
gan to gather their neighbors after
they had been informed by the
girls that a man had requested
them to meet him in an isolated
spot in West Meadows.
The girls were sent to keep the
engagement. and the crowd, making
a quick descent, captured Darlin.
At once they began to beat him, and
he was in a bad way when the DO
lice rescued him.
Federal Aid Needed.
All these murders, outrages. arson.
degeneracy, fiendish atrocities. black
mall, burglary, robbery. assassination.
and every form Of crime. culminetinz
In the killing Of little Katie Tietsohor
by an inhuman brute make up the great
est crime wave IN modern history.
which today holds New York in a state
of terror.
Fathers fear TO go to business and
mothers dare not take their eyes off
their children. The police department
has failed utterly to meet the crisis.
and one official, who dared not speak
for publication. today said he believed
the Outrage5 would continue to increase
until the State or Federal authorities
stepped in and restored order.
The most horrible feature Of the great
crime wave is the great number OF girl
children who have fallen victims to
fiends. More than 100 women and chill
dren have been attacked, assaulted, or
murdered in Greater New York in the
last six weeks.
In addition to these crimes the black
hand and the Armenian Hunchqkistg
have terrOrized the town. All records
for burglary have been far SURPASSED
and robbery and arson have been more
reGuent than ever before in the history
OF the city.
Woman Fiend Held.
Anna Messner, suspected Of having had
a part IN the murder of little Kate Tiet-
schler. the child who was found
strangled to death and her BODY multi
ated in the basement Of the tenement at
203 First avenue, was held without bail
at Jefferson Market today.
The woman was taken to police head
quarters at once and the detectives be-
gan TO question. All through the morn
ing hours the woman was subjected TO
every degree known 10 the police in
efforts to get her to reveal what she IS
believed to know OF the crime
The woman is of the stolid sort, bIeary
eyed, coarse featured and expressionless
face. She looks neither cunning nor re-
vengeful but heavy and stupid.
Strangled to Death.
The detectives. however. are working
on the theory that the little child was
lured from her home and after horrible
mistreatment. strangled to death in re-
venge because OF a wrong the woman
imagined she had suffered at the hands
of the girls parents.
The detectives learned that the woman
had been known under several names.
She readily admitted that she had been
on intimate terms with GaetanO RippO-
lene, the cobbler. who has a shop ad-
Joining the building in which the mur-
dcred girl lived, and also with Giuseppe
Banfanta. one Of the cobbler's employees.
These two men are both held without
bail on suspicion in connection with the
murder.
Her Statements Untrue.
The woman denied positively that she
knew OF the murder or that she had
lured the child from home. She made
other statements, which, after investi-
gstion. proved untrue. That an Italian
answering the description of one of the
prisoners, had met Kate in Cirammercy
square and given her candy and then
kissed her, was learned by the detec-
tiEes.
The child's father was suspicious OF
the Messner woman from the moment
his daughter was missed from homo.
Coroner Is Sickened.
The crime is regarded as one Of the
most diabolical in the rapidly increasing
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