The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1907-08-07
Brutal Murders of SimilaS
Character Seem to Be
by Same Hand.
THREE SHOCKING CRIMES
New York Police Have Added WORK
In Seeking Murderer OF
Little Girl.
Her Mutilated Body Was Found
In a Basement Near Her
Home.

New York, Aug. 2.-The grave
yard" as the foreign-bopulated neigh
borhood on First avenue, between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, Is
known locally, gave up yesterday a
fresh crime rivaling in atrocity 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 mistreated before death,
and the body mutilated when life
was extinct
The three murders are strikingly
similar. Last Thursday night WON
an was strangled in a boarding house;
the next morning the body of still
unidentified woman who had been
choked to death was found in an
areaway. Katie Pritschler, daughter
Of a restaurant waiter, disappeared
. week ago and was killed that night.
A ribbon placed about the throat and
drawn so tightly that It cut the flesh
showed how she died.
II the brutality of the murders can
be qualified. that Of the Pritschler girl
ranks first She was assaulted MUIR
dered and then her lifeless form was
horribly mutilated. Carl Pritschler,
the father of Katie, is a Woodworking,
respectable citizen. He has several
other children, all younger than Katie.
The girl left home last Thursday night
to play in the street. When she failed
to return the father notified the police
and a 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
remained undiscovered for a week is
not explained. The girls body was
stumbled upon by a woman who visit
ed the basement of the house at 20S
First avenue. 1t lay upon a berry
crate with seemingly no effort at con
oealment.
"You can say for me-" Coroner Har-
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
little girl" The coroner would not
permit the body to be photographed.
At the coroners direction, Gaetano
Rippolano, whose cobbler shop ad-
Joins the girls home, was arrested
and asked to explain his absence from
his shop on last Friday. He estab-
lished the fact that he had spent the
day at Bristol, Conn. The girl is said
to have frequented Rippolano's place
and a search of the shop brought to
light a mans shirt which bore red
stains. The cobbler was arraigned
and remanded to the coroner.
When news OF the finding of the
little ones body spread through the
neighborhood excitement rose to such
a pitch that the removal of the body
and the arrest of Rippolano caused
almost a riot. Shop windows were
smashed and only the determined
front of the police reserves, who
dubbed right and left, prevented
greater damage.
John Kusmicho, the Russian watch
man under arrest as a suspicious per.
son, and who is said to have been
seen in the company of the girl whose
body was found in the areaway on
East Ninetieth street, was remanded
without bail.