Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-01
DEAD GIRL IN CELLAR
Murdered on Day Chosen for
Brothers Wedding.
CORPSE WITH THROAT CUT
Found Lying Between Mattresses.
Relatives Not Sure It Is
Mary Zniwana.

BALTIMORE, April 3O.--W1th the
throat gashed, the dead body Of wom-
an supposed to be Mary Zniwana was
found between two mattresses in the cell
lar of the tenement house $40 South Bond
street today.
While the police and Coroner Sudler
have applied themselves diligently to
solving the mystery, which has all the
appearances of murder. they are not
yet satisfied how the woman came to her
death. The condition Of the re-
mains made it difficult of identified
ton, and Joseph Zniwana, with whom
his siste~ Mary lived until January IA
last, said this afternoon that he was not
sure the body was that Of his relative
Romance in Crime.
disappeared, January IA, there were
great preparations in the home OF the
brother and sister. of S18 South Bond
street just one door from the place
where the body was found today, for
the wedding of Joseph. which was to
take place the following morning.
The sister was not in the best of hu-
NOR. for she had all along discouraged
her brother in his ambition to wed and
had argued that he should remain at
home with her She was but twenty
one years old and thought that after
she had married it would be time
enough for him to take to himself
wife.
But Joseph was determined and
looked forward gladly to the wedding
day For more than a year he had
been turning over to the sister the
savings with which he hoped to make
his bride a happy home, and the sum
had reached $500.
Disappeared Suddenly.
Finding that her brother was not to be
turned from his plans. Miss Zniwana
agreed to purchase and prepare the we'd
ding dinner, and on the evening OF jan
uary IA she set off for market.
She did not return that night, and the
next morning the anxious brother found
she was still missing. With her was his
money and presumably the marketing
that was to supply the feast for the
wedding guests.
When the hour arrived the couple was
married and, although the occasion was
somewhat marred by the disappearance
of the grooms sister and his savings
there was lively gathering at the Znl-
wanna home.
The next day the groom went to the
eastern police station and reported the
disappearance of his sister and the loss
of his money and asked that steps be
taken to find her.
Since then the man, as well as the
police and the .neighbors, has been on
the lookout No information was OBJ
tanned until this morning, when the
body which is supposed to be hers was
found in the cellar.
Cellar Little Visited.
The cellar in which the remains were
%a1 &1or Civ
over to the storage of odds and ends of
household furnishings not needed in the
tenement of which 1t forms part.
This morning Mrs. Rosa -Gorisk and
julius Braesky, a youth. went into the
cellar for the purpose of finding some
kittens AS they stumbled around in the
dark they came across two mattresses,
one on top of the other. From be-
tween the mattresses there protruded
the disheveed hair of woman.
Throwing back the top mattress. the
searchers found the body of a woman
partially clothed and with her throat
cut from ear to ear The remains were
in state of decomposition that made
recognition of the features almost i'm
possible. but Mrs Goriski recognized the
dress that worn by Miss Zniwana
when she last seen.
Coroner Sudler was notified by the po-
lice soon as the news of the finding
of the body reached them. and he at
once started an investigation.
From the brother Of the girl it was
learned that she had kept company for
some time with a man named TObrica,
of whom she seemed to be particularly
fond.
A little baby. the child Of the Zniwana
woman, has been in the keeping of one
of the neighbors of the woman since
she disappeared from her home.