The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-06
REs|sTs THE JAPs A TERRIBLE CRIME.
Locality Has Been Scene of Many
Revolving Murders - Excitement
in Neighborhood Intense oIice
Compelled to Use Force to Dis
Derse Crowds.

New York, Aug 1.-The grave
yard as the foreign populated
| neighborhood on First avenue, be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth
| streets, is known locally, gave up
today a fresh crime rivalling in at
rocity the mysterious butcheries Of
last week.
The latest discovered victim was
an eight year old girl. and like the
two young women murdered, she
had been shockingly m~istreated be-
fore death and the body mutilated
when life was extinct.
The three murders are striking
ly similar. Last Thursday night a
woman was straNgled in a 22nd
street boarding house; the next
morning the body of a still uniden-
titled woman, who had been choked
to death was found in an alleyway
in East Goth street.
Katie Pritschler, daughter of a
restaurant waiter, disappeared a
week ago. and was killed that night.
A ribbon paced about the throat
and drawn SO tightly that it cut the
flesh showed how she died. Her body
was found today.
If the brutality of the murders
can be qualified, that of the Pritsch-
ed, murdered and then her ~lifeless
form was horribly mutilated.
The Grave I'd takes it's name
from the proximity of the old 18th
street cemetery, and the locality has
been the scene of severaI revolving
murders.
The majority of the residents are
foreigners.
Carl Prltschler, father of Katie,
is a hard working respectable citi-
ZEN. He has several other children,
all younger than Katie. Inc girl
left home at $40 East Thirteenth
street last Thursday to play in the
street When she faxed to return
her father notified the police and 2
general alarm was sent out.
The body was discovered within
a 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 remain
ed undiscovered for a week is not
explained
The girls body was stumbled up
On by a woman who visited the base
ment Of the house at 2O3 First aven-
lie. 1t lay upon a berry crate with
seemingly no effort for conceal
ment.
You can say for me-" Coroner
Hamburger declared, that ne crimes
in Berlin, Of which the newspapers
have told, have not been n thous-
andth part as bad as the murder of
this little girl"
The coroner would lot permit the
body to be photographed.
At the %cOrOner's direction, Gaeta-
no Rippolano, cobbler's shop adjOins
girls home, was arrested and ask
ed to explain his absence from his
shop on last Friday. lie establish
ed the fact that he had spent the
day at Bristol, Conn.
The girl is said to have frequent
ed Rippalano's place and a search
of the shop brought to night a mans
shirt which bore red stains. The
cobbler was arraigned and remand
ed by the
Giuseppe BonfantO, Rippolano's
partner, a questioned but threw
little hight on the case and was not
detained. The police also began
a search for a woman who is said
TO nave rOOmeQ at the
Pritschler home, but who left there
after a quarrel and took lodgings in
the house where the girls body was
When news of the finding of the
little ones body spread great excite
ment prevailed Soon afterwards the
arrest Of the cobDler became known
and the crowd charged the prison
er's shop.
Rippolano had been safely
to the station house, but his
shop windows were smashed, and
only the determined front of the pO-
lice reserves, who dubbed right and
left prevented greater damage.
John Kurmicho, the Russian
under arrest as suspicious
person., and who is said to have been
in company of the girl whose body
was found in an alleyWay on East
both street, was today remanded
without bail until Saturday. No clue
to the murder i'll 22nd streed was
secured today.