The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-11
13-YEAR-0LO GIRL
OUTRAGED AND
MURDERED
Body of Helen Brown No. Ell
Third-st., Found Under Wagon
in Yard Of Carriage Co.
On Jones-St.
Police Throw Out Dragnet in Hope
of Trapping Fiend-One
Arrest Made.

"A
pect IN connection with the fiendish
murder OF l3-yearold Helen Brown.
whose dead body was found under .
truck in the Whitman Carriage Co.'S
yard. No. 109 Jones-st, early Satur.
day morning, bearing every evidence
that she had been abused and then
strangled to death. man between %
and 80 years old. who was found sleep
ing in one of the sheds of the collins
Truck Co. Orchard and Third-sts., ans
who has since disappeared. The man
is described as being about five feet
eight inches tall, weighing about $50
pounds, with a three or four DAYS
growth of beard on his face. He
wore short gray overcoat aud black
trousers. There were scratches on his
face
The man was found wrapped up in
burlap in the shed by an employe OF
| the Collins Truck Co. Noticing the
scratches on the mans face. the en-
ploye asked if he had been In fight.
The stranger replied in the negative,
then got up and shuffied off
The presence of the scratches on the
mans face Is not regarded as espe-
cially significant in connection with
the crime The Brown girl wore black
silk gloves. which were still on her
hands when the body was found. Be-
sides. the chiId's finger nails were
closely trimmed
Police Arrest Suspect.
Glenn u Firestone, living on the
ground floor of the house at No. 271
Tnird-st.. where the Brown family has
rooms. Is held as suspect In police
headquarters. His shoes do not tally
with the footprints found in the snow
near the body, nor does he answer the
description OF man seen lettering in
the vicinity of the carriage yard Friday
night. Capt. Mcdonnell said that Fire
stone is held because he said he did
not know the Brown girl. though living
! In the same house with her, This
strikes the police as being rather
strange, TO say the least Firestone
was arrested as suspicious person
about two years ago.
Firestone was employed by the Whit
man Carriage Co. until last Wednesday.
since then, in company with one Benz.
Smith, he has been selling coal in
small quantities. peddling it from a
wagon
The police have been materially aid
ed in their investigation by John
Gocbel. roomer I'm the Firestone
abode. lie has been with the dctec-
tives since early morning and has
given them some valuable information,
II is understood
Police Follow Times Tip.
On tip furnished by the Times,
Detectives Fox, Downey, Fenton. Reid,
Good and several others from the CEN
trail station secured the entire neign-
borhood surrounding the Whitman
Carriage cos yard Saturday morning
in search OF man with bushy
mustache and wearing no overcoat.
who was seen lettering around near
the coal yard by several persons eprly
FRIDAY evening The police are salts
ficd that the crime was the WORK or
- rorvart Ncr - wee sfrre1 the
department SO much since the brutal
murder OF little Alphonse Wines by
Emil Waltz six years ago. under
somewhat similar circumstances.
The police are holding-a NANCY dog,
yellow and white collie found i'm a
shed in Whitman's yard, Saturday
morning. None OF the employees of the
yard had ever seen the dog before.
and the police are now trying TO trace
the owner in the hope that this infor
nation may lead 70 the discovery Of
The murderer's identity.
The girls body was found under a
truck in the carriage company's yard.
Cearly Saturday morning. She had
been strangled to death after being
outraged
The position of the body indicated
that the child had been the victim
of a fend Coroner Burgess sent the
body To the county morgue and or
dered a postmortem. which was per
formed by the county physicians and
confirmed the first suspicious.
The body was found by George Kin
caide, No. SIS Chenest.. an employee
OF Mr. Whitman. who. because OF the
illness OF his two children with scarlet
fewer has b,-etf- roomttfg at \. lie
Tones-st directly across from the
yard.
Kincaide went to the yard about
6:45 o'clock to hitch up his team. As
re drew out his wagon. preparatory
To hitching up. he found the childs
body beneath it, The child's clothes
were disarranged and other circum.
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