Evening star., 1909-07-06
New York Murderer Dis1gures
ComeIy Woman.
BODY IN NARROW HALLWAY
Milkman. Cropping Way Through,
Makes Gruesome, Find.
TRAIL OF BLOODY FOOTPRINTS
Police Think Double Motive Existed
for the Crime-Rody of Victim
Unidentified.

NEW YORK. July 6-The most brutal
butchery in all the murder mysteries that
have been piling UP so rapidly on the
hands of the homicide bureau day by day
was discovered this morning by an East
Side milkman The victim was a comely
crushed. face disigured and clothing dis
arranged and torn, lay at the back of
narrow hallway.
The police declared that the motive for
the crime was probably double. but that
robbery was one part of it. In their
opinion the girl was not one of the resi-
dents of the quarter. Her Disagreement
will make further Identification difficult.
The instrument with which the murder
was done could not be found, and the
trail of the murderer ends with the
bloody footprints which extend few
yards and reveal no further impression.
Milkman Makes Gruesome Find.
1t was nearly 3 o'clock when Morris
Gross, milkman. jumped off his wagon
in front of 436 East 18th street. This is
an old tenement house and its narrow
hallway was one of his worst buSaboos-
1t was so dark that when he got to the
foot of the stairs where he was to set
the cans he tripped over the murdered
woman before he saw her.
Morris was SO frightened that he was
hardly able to get back to the wagon. A
policeman who was called judged the
woman to be about thirty-five years old.
She was plump. about five feet four
inches tall and weighed about 100 pounds.
Her skin was very white and her hair
black.
MOT ,,,pob oould ha told IF fha uoman's
features, for her face was very much
bruised. Her eyes were swollen, her jaw
broken and the back of her head crushed
in. One shoe had been removed and the
stockings had been turned down as If in
a quest for money.
Trail of Bloody Footprints.
The floor of the hallway showed foot
prints plainly outlined in blood leading to-
ward the rear. The murderer had evidently
worn rubber-snled shoe. A door in the wall
gave entrance to the rear room of a sa-
loon and at the extreme end of the hall
was a door opening into the yard. There
were tracks leading to both doors.
Policeman Sherer found the door into
the back room of the saloon unlocked.
Stretched out on the table was a man,
fast asleep. The policeman woke him and
asked who he was. He proved to be
Philip Cali. son of Bagio Cali, the pro-
son were locked up on suspicion. Philip
Cali at first told the police that he had
heard noises in the hall. Afterward he
denied 1t.
Marks on Floor Tell Story.
The footprints led from the Threshold
toward the table. as If the murderer had
been trying to grope his way out in un-
familiar surroundings. Apparently he did
not see the table until he had come al
most upon it. Then he seems to have
stood still for a moment or two. observing
the sleeper before starting back to the
hall.
In the hallway again, the footprints ran
toward the rear exit, and thence to the
bulkhead cellar doors. Here the murder
er seems to have paused again and look
ed in the window, which was open about
four inches. as if concerned about the man
on the table. After this he figures in two
appearances in 18th street, as q man in
white yachting shoes, before he finally
drops out of the ken of the policemen.
Asks for Water at Fruit Stands.
vincenzo Gallane and Tony Delucia were
in fruit stand at 216 1st avenue when
the supposed murderer appeared at
o. clock am. The mans hands and shirt
were covered with stains and he asked il
he could have water with which to wash
up.
"Yes. sure" Vincenzo replied. handing
him the can in which glasses were rinsed.
Whats the matter? Been in a fight?"
For reply the man laughed and shrug-
ged his shoulders.
1t was said in the neighbOrhood of the
crime that the woman and a man had
been seen drinking last night in some of
the saloons.