New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-02-07
TWO ADMIRERS HELD
Suspected of Latest Dayton Crime
Peruert TheOrY.

Dayton. Ohio, Feb 6.-Roy Cooley sweetheart
Of Elizabeth FuIheart. whose body was found In a
cstern here yesterday, was ssweated' by the po-
lice to-day. Cooley said he had not seen the girl
for several months and had not really been close
ly acquainted with her for year He is still being
held. well Albert Wilkie, who first made in
quries about the girl
Wilkie saw the girl last on December IS. and
claims to have been searching for her since that
time. Tho statement Of the girls sister in Vandalia
that Elizabeth deeply in love with Cooley, and
that she also entertained the attentions of Wikie
led the police TO believe that there may have been
a romance. On this account both young men arc
being held
We have several theories now being worked
upon" said Chief OF Police AlIaback, and the
nature Of the crime cannot be established until all
OF them have been thoroughly investigated. But
the department is scouting I really think we
have a better chance to run down solution OF
this than any presented to the police
The relatives of Elizabeth Fulheart were all at
Police Headquarters to-day From them the police
have learned that Elizabeth left her home at Van
daa, Ohio. December 2s and to the home
of her aunt Mrs Deter Linden avenue, in this
city. On December % she left her aunts home
directly after breakfast to answer advertisement
for girls to sort paper. telling her aunt that she
would return at once II she did not get the work,
She said that in any she would return in the
evening. she had an engagement with Wilklei
She did not return, but Wikie came and waited
until 7:3O o'clock for her. A sister-in-law. Mrs
miles from Dayton. says she was In the city on
January %, and that she met the girl in Mair
street and had a talk with her This is the only
evidence that any who knew the girl saw her
after she left her aunt's house December '2s.
Wilkie stOutIy maintains that he had not seen the
girl since she left her aunts house.
Cleveland, Feb 6.-That the murders of six
women in Dayton committed by a single In
dividual the theory. of DR.. Charles II. Clark.
former clinical director of the government Hospital
for the Insane, at Washington, and now superin-
tendent of the Cleveland State Hospital for the
Insane.
circumstances identical in each case point to
a single murderer" said Or. Clark to-day. The
facts in the Dayton series have been published
broadcast Yet similar crimes have occurred
elsewhere This is argument for single muir
derer. This monster is selective. His victims have
been nearly OF age Their Circumstance in life
have been similar. All were girls attractive in
face and form
The best evidence that all six murders were
committed by single individual is the fact that
use of the sar method IN cases-is typical
OF the perver The Dayton monster has a proto-
type in Jac-s the Ripper, the London murderer.
Once the pervert has taken life in a certain
ner thereafter he cannot be satisfied except in
that identical way
'PerversioT usually lasts through life. AS long
the pervert is free he is bound commit
crime. In my opinion this pervert is not only
but responsible. When convicted Of crime he
should be punished any other criminal