The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-22
MELNIKOFF AND R0CkMAN ARE IN JAIL TOGETHER AssaiIants of Little Girls Will Face City Court on
 Saturday STILL ANOTHER
 MISCREANT ACTIVE Little Girl in Gregory Street FIees in Terror From Un-
 known Man

criminal assault upon Marie Marx aged 8, of Commercial street. Wednes day afternoon, Nov g, and making nc attempt to deny his guilt. was held fr bail of $10,O00 for a hearing in the City court next Saturday morning, wher will be arraigned Gus Rockman, tht machinist charged with a similar of fence. Twice before he has been ar. rested for kindred offences. but eacf time he was not held for lack of evil dence.
 Melnikoff has no one to furnish sucf heavy bond for his appearance. He went to the county jail to await trial His arrest last night was due to the efforts of PatroIman Holbrook. wht lives near the scene of the assault and who led in the search made fol Melnikoff on the day of the crime.
 Melnikoff is a painter, married, 2 feet three inches tall, weighs 12> pounds, has black curly hair anc brown eyes Most striking of his fea- lures is a big pitted scar on the Jeff side Of the jaw. MelnikOff is already planning to take refuge from prison by pleading insanity as the cause fol his criminal act
 The assault Melnikoff is charged with was committed just after noon or Nov 9. The little girl was going back to school from the home of hel parents. MT. and Mrs. John Marx. 6' Commercial street, when the man Melnikof. whom she did not know, in- quired about a vacant house across the street He asked her to accom- pany him there, and unsuspecting. she readily consented.
 AZ and vanished while she ran home and crying told her parents. Policeman Holbrook was at home nearby when the alarm was given. He led in the search but it failed to disclose any thing One or two suspects were ar rested, but discharged when the child an unusually bright girl, declared they were not the offenders. @
 Edith Schmedlin. an older girl of the neighborhoOd. was accompanying the girl to school yesterday when Marie pointed out the man as her assaflant. With rare foresight. Edith sent the child to school and followed the man to a plumbing shop at Grand and Wal lace streets. The Schmedlin girls mother furnished the information to Policeman HoIbrook at noon, and be- fore night HoIbrook had located the man as Melnikoff, brother-in-law of Morris Goldberg, who keeps the plumb ing shop.
 Taking Patrolman Halpin along, when he was satisfied Melnikoff was home, Holbrook went to the home of the Goldberg family at 446 Grand street, about o'clock, and peering a window saw the suspect at a table. Halpin took the front, and Mrs. Goldberg declared he was not home when he rapped at the door and inquired for him. Holbrook brushed by and making hasty search of the house discovered him hiding in a pantry.
 Melnikoff was not pressed for any statement until he reached police headquarters. Capt. Arnold was clos eted with him for upwards of an hour in the detective bureau, at the close of which Melnikoff, it was said. had made a statement of his guilt.
 Today MelnikOff was represented in court by Attorney Joshua Meltzer representative-elect. MeltZer asked a continuance and Prosecutor Redden in- terposed no objection. As a result both Melnikoff and Gustave Rockman will be arraigned in court on Saturday in bail of $10,000 each to answer a charge the maximum penalty for con- viction of which is 30 years impris- onment.
 Melnikoff is we'll read, and a linguist. He converses fluently in German Italian, Yiddish and English, and spends much of his time in perfecting his knowledge of these languages. He learned his trade in New Britain and came here four years ago. A short time after his arrival in Bridgeport he married Sophie Goldberg. then an operative for the Warner Bros. Go. One child was born that died. At present Mrs. Goldberg is making her New Haven, where she expects to be- come mother Goldberg is employed by Howard Boogey, a boss painter of North avenue.
 No attempt to fasten other crimes upon Melnikoff will be made by the police. for they are satisfied that he will receive a long term of imprfson- ment for the offence for which he is now held. But last night Lizzie of 566 Crescent avenue. identi- fled him as the man who had attack ed her. He was identified six months ago as the man who attacked little Pagan girl of 85 Sterling street, entic- ing her into a cellar. but established They regarded the Pagan girl as mis- taken in her identification.
 Early today the police were notified that a little girl in Gregory street. on her way to school, had been approach ed by an unknown man who made an obscene display and frightened the lit- tie girl so that she fled to her home and told her mother. The neighbor- hood was aroused but too late to get any trace of the miscreant