New-York tribune., 1907-08-02
FIEND STRANGLES GIRL.
CRIIfE RECORD GROWS,
Child BTWtally Slain IN Cellar Near
Her Home.

marks The crimes Of n degenerate country
roWn. another little girl was found in a Harlem
celia -Four more foreigners were arrested
charged with attempted assault on children
one almost beaten 10 death near Coney
Island b. a mob. The Russian suspected of con-
plcily in the upper East Side stranging case OF
last Monday was pat through a rigorous third
degree by the police.
OF all the crimes against children none of
thern has approached in revolving brutality the
murder and assault on Catherine Tritschler.
eight years old, whose torn and mangled body
wGs found yesterday in fifth encumbered cellar
AZ No 203 First avenue, right around the cor
Her from her home at No. $40 East 18th street.
She disappeared last Thursday afternoon. Her
skull was fractured and she had been strangled
by her own hair twisted about her neck
Caetano Rippolono an Italian cobbler. was
examined 10y the police. il having been learned
thai the girl and other children of the neighbor-
hood had been in the habit of going to his base
rnent shop at No 349 East 18th street. the
same building In which the child lived Fol
lowing The examination OF his partner. Giuseppe
B0nfante. the police say they established the
,7rese1Ce of the child in the Italians rooms on
last Monday. Rppolono was arraigned later
before Magistrate Wahe in the Yorkville court
md was renlanded 10 the Coroner
The building where the body was found was
an old-fashioned four story frame house. The
a.lar is only aboc1T four feet high and rs pied
foot deep with filth The house is in
ne heart OF 4 squalid Italian settlement Il
was once the home Of prosperous Germans
Recently the iandltrd forbade any wood being
spill II the tiny ward in the rear OF the house.
50 Mrs FIon4=Da Douria, who lives on the
tbird fc1r went down TO the basement yesUer-
Gay for the first time IN six months 10 split
some wyod brought in by her children. As
soon as she entered the cellar she detected
torr:tla oEor. hut she was not surprised, know
Ing the condition Of the place a moment later
z candle showed her the torn and mutila.@i
body OF the cillIa- She ran upstairs and 10 the
tea shop q n. Haas. at No 2uo First avenue
lie teIepboned 70 Police Headquarters. am tfsn
went 70 The cellar, accompanied by PaiEolItlan
Sauder- Of the 9th street station. The news
sfrlad Ike vi dire. and by the time Li41ttr-
ruls Barnes. Griffin and Trabucci from Inc
Central Office: Detectives Brown and ReichaTt
os Inspector Burfeind's staff. and Gallaghan
and Tucker. Of the 9th street station. arrived,
fifteen minutes later, there were five thousand
persons standing before tbs house. One glance
into The cellar and the police rushed back mo
the street Coroner Hamburger was unabie 10
stay there any longer than they Wh@ the
coroaer came upstairs after a brief glance ne
pale End agitaIed-
MY Cod" he said. even the crimes in Ber-
lin have not been one-thousandth part as BAD as
the murder Of this little girl
There was flock OF photographers ana special
writers from an evening paper there almost as
socn ss the coroner. but, much 10 their chagrlh'
he would neither permit them TO enter the ceilaI
nor take any pictures.
According to the police Two boys told thehi ~
hat they saw the child meet an italian al I"th
street and Second avenue on the day before he1
disappearance and ride north with him on d sec
ond avenue car. They saw him give the cL-Iu
some candy. and II is believed the man met her
On the following day. That time sae oio iio'
return
nan IL the ne.ghborhood took the news to
-ra rbrds uncle, John Bauer. at No. 3i9 East
7a-7 street He is a cripple, but he hurfled 10
ne house He identified the child
When CaetanO Rippilone was arrested ne
t--s hard work explaining where he had Deeh
~ -he 6av the child disappeared ana pFopaDly
mas murdered He said he had gone to Bristol
~r-- 70 arrange for n new shop there Dul llaI
--e deal had fallen through. He sh"F'eo ie-t
from -1e Italians ot that place, pCt was ioohe1
---- N -he. 9Th street station His partner BON
- vas then examined by the police. but re-
f,.s.z % ak. The police had hard work getting
.--r7 --a- clear OF the threatening throng anu
they 4rre taken 10 the station mouse '''iO 1'
., s,-,arters under heavy escort
- ,r-5.-shf-t With what appear 10 De blo"u
sl-s "a - was found by the police in the rear
= ~. oohr1e- shop and the father Of Rlppoiohe
,s.--fea4 q as one belonging 20 his son Inc
7.--f~z ere also locking for q woman WIN "iloi
2i--,o.or,s was friendly. She was seen SesleFuas
.r.--,-cr in the reighbOrhOOd by a woman puI
before she could find patrolman' the otii9F
woman had disappeared A dispatch rom brls
81 - hat F25rro!one was there from Friday TO
Monday noon ,
o. Torfar another foreigner. was nearly
beaten to death by an infuriated mob on tne
Conc island dumps" n the afternoon. fol!ow-
.- - .-+-,,-,+o5 attack on two children In the
-,or-f-g -he r,ulice say. he net AlVah OIesoH
and Alice Andersen. ten and eight years old re-
srectivelv al Bay z7th street and Har"aV ave
nue Both children live in Bay 4Ith street ne
told them ii they would come back IN the AFTER
ror- ra ,,-e,l1a giv. them q lot of candy. When
~ -,---. homo they told their parents The
fatf.e-s consulted and then gathered together
several Of their friends. They sent the chllofeh
aheal 70 meet the man The chHdreh met
Ia~ia.9 who took them behind cluUlp of buSheS-
The posse came up and caught MN .ts -
minute Joriar fed across the dump. where me
pr7rl-7-- rari6 Transit Company is hiling IN the
Conev Island marshes. Halfway acrosSs'he po9se
caught l1 with him and began to beat him un-
nercjfuI,y.
.T,1e, - ono n them knocked him unconscious
with = baseball bat PatrolInan Charles "oouS'
q the Bath Beach station. reached tie hcehI-
He held the crowd off with his revolver al
though even then they continued 10 peIt tho
fellow with stones. Sergeant Brown ana M tIlo
reserves came up a few minutes laier anu WIN
cie7cgrv got The unconscious man To me sidtlon
bo,7se -rt,e-e II was found necessary to call an
Ambulance surgeon 10 restore him TO conscious
ness and sew 1Ip his cuts. lie was held "il d
charge Of attempted assault -,.
Capo Salvina, Italian, hViht IN "aI.oti 'oi
avenue, The Bronx was arrested. oiitA, s 80
attempting 10 attack Regina HOY. eleven !e"i
old in Cedar Park The Italian pleaded lhat iie
had no wrong intent IN inviting the chlio INTO
the park bur he xas held for eNaI1ifal lioh ''-
dag.
Orlv -he r-esence of a patrolInan prevented
& r-ol g. ,otyinp summary vengeance on a
Russ an r, the Bronx charged Win alteiHP0
assault on Mary Mckeon, eight years o. snz
dor EssFnan seventeen years Ola, o.
East 14oth street. knocked tis eida,,aIp IN a