The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-10
Rochester Officials Were Busy
Today With the Mysterious
Murder of Pretty Anna
Schumacher.
STRANGE WOMAN WAS
SEEN WITH VICTIM
Slayer of the Pretty Girl, How
ever, Is Believed to Be a
Man Employed at One of the
Cemeteries.

Rochester, N. Y, Aug. 1o.-The po-
lice today have positive evidence that
pretty 17-year-old Anna Schumacher,
who was slain in Holy Sepulchre cem-
low grave, was lured to her death by
a woman. The mysterious woman is
described as being TALL wearing pink
dress, and "acted wild"
The girl and the woman were seen
in the cemetery late Saturday the day
Miss Schumacher disappeared and the
woman in pink was observed to leave
At present there is no clue to her
identity.
Who Slayer IL.
The slayer, however. is believed to
be a man employed in the cemetery,
or at St. Bernards seminary. and to-
day posse of police and citizens,
headed by Chief of Police Quigley,
having formed a Gordon around the
woods adjoining the cemetery, began
beating the underbrush where he was
believed to be hiding. 1t was conf
IDENTIFY expected his capture would be
effected within a few hours.
The slayer, unable to control the
fatal fascination which leads most
murderers back to the scene of their
crime, returned to the edge of the
cemetery just as the girls body was
being taken from the rude grave His
face was peering through the under
brush and was seen by one of the
searchers. The latter Immediately
drew his revolver and cried: Halt, or
I'll fire."
The man darted back and lodging
from tree to tree. succeeded in elud.
ling his pursuers.
Word Was Sent.
Word was at once sent to police
headquarters and Chief Quigley hur
ried posse ON bicycles and in auto
mobiles to the scene
The slayer apparently had nc
chance to escape from the thicket and
the police surrounded the woods
The search for the man was kept UT
until dark, and then an all-night vigi
was maintained. the police and citi
zens closing their lines. making it ut
terly impossible for living thing te
pass through without detection.
| The slayer undoubtedly bears
marks OF his encounter with the girl
Miss Schumacher's body bore evi
dence of terrific struggle and piece.
Of human skin were found under hel
finger nails.
The police have gathered in all tn.
suspects in the neighborhood.
Mrs. Schumacher, mother of tn.
slain girl said today she was positiv,
her daughter was killed by an EN-
ploye of the cemetery
Based Suspicious.
Mrs. Schumacher based her suspic
ions on reports which reached her o
girls having been chased by a mai
employed in the cemetery. Two dis
tinct stories of women being chase,
In the cemetery were told to men an
women who yesterday searche,
throughout the old ard new cemeter
les for clues of the girl
i you may say for me-" says Mrs
J Schumacher today, that I have sus
picions of workingman at the GENE
} terry as having committed this crime.
J Two of the girls who had been I
the cemetery yesterday morning n
turned and said that when they wer
searching the cemetery a man emplo,
! ed there said to them: IF you don
find her (the missing girD in sectio
H, there's no use looking for her"
This man was described as havin
plain face. blue eyes. being of M
: dium height and wearing straw ha
The girls did not know his name