Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-07-27
LEFT her HOME
WITH $4,000
Woman Who Deserted Her Fam
lily Is MysteTiOusIy StTang|ed
BODY IDENTIFIED BY HUSBAND

Wealthy Business Man Faints When
He Makes Discovery In Brooklyn
Morgue-says He Had Sought Wife
vainIy Since She Disappeared Three
Months Ago-Greek Peanut vender
Held Pending Investigation of Crime
New York, July 21.-M. S. Het-
trich, wealthy business man of Pier |
pont, N. Y. identified in the Brook
Ign morgue woman found strangled |
to death in furnished room house at
Norman place. Brooklyn, as his
wife, who left him and his two chill
dren three months ago and disap-
peared with $40 900 in cash, mostly
her own money. No money was found
in the possession of the woman or in
her apartments.
Hettrich, when he first saw his
wife's body, threw up his hands,
exclaiming: my God, it's she!" and
then fell to the floor in faint. De-
! tective Barry, who accompanied him
to the morgue, and the keeper,
James Mcclure, lifted him into a
chair, where he revived.
"She was my wife. She left our
two children and me mysteriously.
Why she went away we never knew,
and perhaps never will. Oh, my poor
| children!" said the heart broken hus-
band.
'She had a happy home, two lovely
children, all the money she wanted,
everything. We were living happily.
She gave no intimation that she in
tended to leave home. Three months
ago she kissed the children goodbye
and went away, as we supposed, on a
shopping tour. We never saw her
after that"
Mrs. Hettrich, whose identity was
not disclosed until her husband viewed
the body, was found murdered in her
room. She had evidently been killed
only after she had made a desperate
struggle for her life. Evidences of a
struggle were plentiful in the little
room.
She was found on the floor with
the impression of fingers deep in her
neck. The murderer had evidently
got a firm grip on her throat, shut
ting off her breath and preventing her
from making an cutlery. The police
! say she struggled while she was in
his grasp and that during that time the
room was disarranged. Her strength
soon waned and they think the MUIR
p derer kept his hold until he was GER
tain life was extinct.
Nothing was found in the room tt
: indicate the identity of the woman
t She was good looking and wore ex
pensive clothing She was known tt
the landlady as Mary Hendrick AM
Y also as Mary Selkner. A search o
IT her effects indicated to the police tina
she had come from a wealthy family
for her wearing apparel was chief
of silk and expensive material.
Mrs. Hettrich was last seen aliv
by the landlady and others in tn
house Sunday evening. She was nc
N seen Monday at all. The police be
lieve that she was strangled Sunda
al night, judging by the condition of tn
IS body. A physician declared that sh
had been dead more than twenty fou
y hours at the time she was found.
is The woman's husband read a news
paper account of the tragedy. FL
three months he had been making a
va 20 exhaustive search for his wife. r
had visited morgues, hospitals an
asylums in the hope of finding her.
n In Norman place Mrs. Hettrich We
the associate of Greek street pedlel
and others of the lowest social stra
be UNI and was murdered by one of then
y, according to the theory of the police
II in an outburst of jealous rage.
Several Greeks in the neighborhoc
had been in the habit of calling upc
RI the woman frequently, and one
as them, Stevis Polimanakas, pean'
al yender. was arrested as mater1
~ witness. 1t was he who discoyere
the murder and informed the police.