Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-10
BURY VICTIM Of
STRANGLER AFTER
HALT|NC FUNERAL
Failure to Obtain Permit Tempo
rarily Holds Up Services
Over Murdered Babe.
DETECTIVES TRY TO FORCE
CONFESSION FROM SUSPECT
Prisoner and Women Arrested,
However, Foil Questioners
by Sphinx-like Silence.

Pending the arrival of burial Ger
tificate from the health department,
the funeral of five-year-ol Sadie
Tishkowltz. who was attacked and
strangled in stable in the rear of 27
Jones street yesterday, was held up for
two hours today. The funeral was set
for noon, but it was 2 o'clock before
the funeral was permitted to proceed.
! More than 1000 persons. the majority
women, filed the streets in the vicinity
of the undertaking shop of Philip APP
ter, 103 Morton street, from which the
funeral was held.
Hundreds OF the morbidly curious
crowded about the broken hearted
father and mother of the murdered
child. In the throng were parents from
the congested tenement district and
there was many muttered cry for
vengeance. The big crowd was divided
in sentiment between sorrow and anger
A special detail of police had hard
work holding it in check.
The services were over in a few
minutes. The only mourners were the
parents OF the child. The father led
by the hand his 7-year- -old-son Nathan.
while the mother carried in her arms
Heyman. the 2-year-old child. AS the
family made its way through lines of
people on the sidewalk, the father was
weeping and the mother leaned on the
arm of the undertaker's assistant.
The funeral cortege went to the
Hebrew Charitable Cemetery. in Grove
street, where the body of the murdered
child was placed in the grave.
1t is probable that following the
funeral the mother Of the murdered
child will be taken to police headquar-
ters to see if she can identify the sus-
pect as the man who had given pennies
to her murdered child.
Meanwhile at headquarters detectives
were exhausting every effort to get a
statement from Stefan Myszczyczyn,
the tailor who is suspected of. having.
murdered the child.
When Myszczyczyn was arrested in
his squalid home, 29 Jones street. which
faces the barn, he was much the worse
for liquor. Today, however, he APP
parently realizes the enormity of the
crime of which he is charged. He sits
in a cell with his head in his hands,
and snarls like a wild beast whenever
the detectives seek to get from him a
admission of the crime, or to tell just
where he was and what he was doing
at the time the little girl was attacked
and strangled.
Prisoners Keep silent.
In adjoining cells. in sphinx-ike
silence, are Myszczyczyn's wife, Mary;
Mary Shapanski, the prisoners step
daughter; Pedro, her husband, and
Gabriel, their 4-year-old daughter. In
cells at the Fourth Precinct Police Sta
ton were Sophie Regal 20 years old.
{ who says she is another stepdaughter
Of the tailor, and Katie Weber. IL.
Later in the day Pedro Shapanski,
Sophie Regal and Katie Regal were
arraigned before Judge Herr in the
Fourth Precinct Police Court and were
paroled to appear when wanted.
Prosecutor Mott later ordered that
they be rearrested pending further in
! vestigation. They were found and
5 again locked up in the Fourth precinct.
3 The police said today that they did
5 not know just when they would ask
> for the arragnment of Myszczyczyn.
:. While they declare that the evidence
, against him is very strong, they say
!, that it is purely circumstantial, anu
q they want to have a complete case be-
fore their evidence is produced in
: court Detective Sergeants Tuite and
L Horter say they are gradually forging
, a chain of evidence which will leave
: no doubt as to who is the murderer.
. Neighbors today told of the alleged
= brutal treatment Myszczyczyn inflict-
= ed on his wife. They also said that the
. tailor, when drunk. frequently ap-
= preached children in the neighborhood.
= Detectives are gathering stories from
children of the tenement district.
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,, on one occasion, after kicking his wife,
= Myszczyczyn went to a saloon and be-
{ came intoxicated Then he gathered
. a lot of little girls about him and
= danced for their amusement. All the
. neighbors remarked that while he
IA treated his wife brutally and frequent-
ly be- aer so badly that she ran into
. the street with her face covered with
od he was always inordinately kind
. to little girls.
Never Known to Work
= Mrs. Meyer Zemel, who is the owner,
h and lives in the house. 20 Jones street,
/, said that the man had been a tenant
n for about two and half years In
O that time, she says, he was arrested
e on two occasions for wife-beating. He
r neve did any work. she said. and FREE
r quently tore the clothes from his wife's
body anC beat her so her cries for help
: could be heard for blocks.
Other neighbors who Joined in de-
: nouncing the prisoner and declared that
he frequently kept his wife in the yard
: all night are Mrs. Dora Flower. Mrs
: Late Engel, Mrs. Cora Barber. Mrs.
Ida Cohen, Mrs. Sarah Iammer. Mrs
: Minnie Klein and Mrs. Benjamin Stall
ford who has a grocery store at 2S
Jones street