Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-09
mis- SSING
Girl. 81 AIN
in S 7 Able
Sadie TiShkOWitz, Five
Years Old, Victim
| Of Assassin.
POLICE ARREST TAILOR
in JONES STREET STORE
Suspect Was Seen Talking to.
Children and Red Stains
Are on Clothing.
POLICE ARREST TAILOR
in JONES STREET STORE

aud bearing evidences of brutal at
tack 5-year-old Sadie Tishkowitz was
found murdered today in an unoccu-
pied barn in the rear OF q Jones street,
few doors away from her home The
discovery was made by the child's
agonized parents, who had spent all
night searching for her.
When the child was found she had
penny in her hand. That gave the
police their first real clue. The father
said that a few days ago the child ran
screaming into her nome saying that
a man had offered her penny and had
asked her to go with him. The police
at once began a search for this man In
the crowded tenements. s
Detective Tuite. in the police search.
ran across Stefan Mychefn. He was IN
drunken stupor il his little tailor shop
in the rear of 20 Jones street. When
Tuite pounced on him he was very
nervous. st i4
The detective went at the man with
several questions. He pretended he did
not know what was said The detective
then made search of his
clothes and his room. Blood-stains
were found. There was also a quantity
of liquor in the room. The tailor, who
is well-knowr In the vicinity, the
neighbers say had been on q debauch
for some time He was frequently SEEN
talking to the Children
| A few moments after the crime swaa
discovered a host of headquarters and
precinct men were on the scene- After
Mychefn- had been. taken to 4 police
headquarters, where he maintained
sullen silence, his wife and mother
were taken there and held as witnesses
It is believed that they can throw adj
ditional light on the crime. s
The child Is the daughter of Harry
and Gussie Tishkowitz. There are two
other children in the family, Nathan. Z.
and Herman years. Yesterday after
noon Sadie, taking advantage of the
springlike weather, was playing with
several companions in the neighpor-
hood. When she came in to her supper
she asked and received permission to-
go out in the street at night.
When the child did not return at
Q o'clock the parents became alarmed.
She had little clothing on and her
parents feared that she would catch
cold. When they inquired among the
neighbors Mrs. Ida Cohen, who lives at
27 Jones street, said that she saw the
child at o'clock. She was on her
way home apparently at that time, she
said.
At 10 o'clock the parents notified the
Fourth Precinct police of the child's
disappearance and an alarm was sent
out. The parents did not retire last
night. They made a tour of all the
houses in the vicinity. They We're we'll
nigh distracted. when about 10 O'clock
this morning Mrs. Cohen Joined them
in the search and said she thought she
had a clue.
Then Mrs. Cohen led the anxious par
ents to the barn. There the motaer
screamed and the father turned away
at the sight which they beheld
In corner of the barn lay the body
of their missing child.
Neighbors who had heard the moth
er's scream went to the barn and led
her away. Then began minute search
of the barn and the place where the
body was found. There was pool OF
blood about the body and the thin
8 clothing of the child was torn. There
was the imprint of a bloody finger on
D the childs throat and also an fncisfon.
r as IL IL might have been made by a
r sharp knife similar to that used by
e tailor.
The father uttered a cry of vengeance
which startled those about him. Hun
dreds came to the scene, and there were
cries that If the guilty person was found
g he would be lynched.
g When the police got there they
: found hundreds of foreigners in an up
4 roar. The district is thickly settled
; and the feeling ran high 1t was hard
! for the police to work. All spread. cut
and it was then that Tuite found the
trembling tailor in his shop Tuite
got him out as quietly as he could, as
he feared the temper of the mob
: Mrs olga Odesky, who lives at ~
i Jones street, facing the barn, tod tno
e police that she saw Mychefns wiie
. about o'clock this morning stealtniiy
D enter the barn, and that few minutes
r later, when she left the place, she was
wringing her hands and was apparently
: in great distress
At police headquarters detectives, on
= examining the finger nails of Mychefn,
= the prisoner, found red substance.
r whats that?" sharply demanded
! Tuite.
Paint" said the prisoner.
5 Later Police Surgeon Clark said THAI
II was undoubtedly human blood.
S The prisoner, the police say. is
. type of the Black Hand criminal. He
. has a ep-daughter Mary Shaponski.
g who lives with him with her 5-year-old
daughter Gabriel. With her child this
e woman was taken to police headquar-
t ters The detectives say that when
e they went to the shop Of the prisoneT
and asked where he was the step
] daughter said he was at work He was
r "My Latchkeyv Found.