The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-02-06
DAYTON POLICE Are BAFFLED.

! W'N VNNAhoh llNtiihblHA lllbO iilJ ilHliAn
or NJ may ave happened in a strug-
le with her assailant.
To say that Bhe people of Dayton
are in6uriated over this latest crime
upon girlho9i, Is putting 1t mildly
But their fury is impotent, for thI
police have all but admitted thas
they are still wholly baffled in the
case of the Forschner Igirl 1t is not
that the police have been lax or In
different because the opposite is the
case. The department. as a whole has
worked day and night In the attempt
to find the perpetraltor of the Forsch-
ner crime and last night every police
man and detective in the city was
the case. They are almost powerless
despite their Willingness, because
they do not know which way to turn.
Every suspect that could be i'm
chuded in that category has been,
rounded up in the Forschner case
Every possible clew was run down
Men were arrested right and left ana
taken to police headquarters There
they were sweatel and almost brow
beaten, but in every case proved to
the satisfaction of the police that
tthey were not implicated The sus
pects gathered I'm in the last dragnet
were of the usual order OF that class
of persons who are ever under the
eyes Of the detective department.
This class of perennial offenders who
may be hauled before the police au.
thorties on the slightest proyocatton
has been exhausted and the police
must now look elsewhere.
Not clew was left behind by the
murderer of the Fulhart girl except
! the gunny sack and his crime had
been 50 cleverly concealed by the dis
used cistern that it might have been
an intermmably LONG time before its
discovery bait for the thirst of the
carpenter.
Robbed OF every ordinary theory to
work upon, the police may be forced
to invade new circles of exploration
lembraSing class of persons some
what higher in the sphere of Life
than that TO which the peripatetic
hobo and the town loafers belong.
/ II Is not beyond possibility that the
city harbors stranger of the up
per class or has within It's boundar-
/ les a Jekyl and Hyde who Is laugh
/ ing in his sleeve while the police
are all sorts of theories for the
turn back at his threshold. There
strange incidents of the great
crimes that have not alone appalled,
this city, but have startled the en-
tire nation.
In this. talk of a "gentleman mui
derer' the theoriests are somewhat
Isuppoted by the police themselves,
who have had under suspicion for
Ithe Forschner crime a man whose
standing has been regarded as so
high that they would not take the
responsibility of arresting him. II is
not improbable now that they Will
take this suspect nito custody or a,
least so thoroughly satisfy them
selves of his entire innocence as to
appease the people.
Chief Allaback has detailed all of
his detective foyre on the case. Until
today he has had twelve OF his best
operatives at work on the Forschner
case and now thor combiuel efforts
viii be ccntered on the latest and
most brutal case.
Dayton has been peculiarly unfor-
Iiulidlt III Nlt llltutltlf VI blullltS
against girls such as that disclosed
Iby the murky G'sitern. And In each
of the murders the girls had been
accorded the same bodily treatment
! involving strangulation, mutiliation,
and other forms Of perverted torture
the intention in each case bong
Identical with the rest in the long
and unsoiNed list.
! The Dona Gilman crime three years
ago plunged the city into a state OF
bewllderment. The crime was fear
uf, bearing the marks of the same
| fienlish hand No solution ever mol
| lifted the people. Eighteen month";
ago Anna MarkowitZ was murdered
under similar circumstances, follow
ing similar treatment and torture.
These are the most recent up to thu
time of the Forsshner GIRLS murder
and that uncovered by the cistern lid
yesterday.
The fear that spiang up among the
women and girls of the city at the
time of the Forsdhner murder had
not subsidized at the time of the dis
covery, and now 1t fb a hundred
fold greater. Women who have
stmdiously avoided the streets. even
in the daytime, have become panic-
stricken. Down town the sidewalks
are almost bare of the feminine
kind. The theaters are sufferinl9
and prayer meetings throughout the
city lack that usual attendance.
The situation in Dayton may .O,
Described as tense and appalling in
the extreme. Not the last surprise
wauld be manifested should another
girls body be uncovered, for the
shudderimg populace is fully con.
WINGED that the arch stranger Is
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