Evening star., 1912-07-17

NEW YORK, July 1.-THE body OF q
man found floating Monday in the Hudson
river and taken to q morgue in Hoboken
was today identified as that Of Nathan
Swartz, indicted for the murder of the
child, Julia Connors, in the Bronx July
Z. The Identification was made by Frank
Alexander. Swartzs brother-in-law.
Swartz was indicted yesterday, when
his father. Samuel Swartz, appeared be-
fore the grand jury and Acknowledged
that his son had confessed to him that
he had killed the child.
The father stated that he had told his
son that the only thing for him to do was
to go out and commit suicide. Swartz
said further that he believed his son had
taken his advice The police, however,
today had secured q warrant for his ar.
rest under the belief they had locates
him in another state.
To confirm the Identification the Ho-
boken police took measurements Of the
body. which will be turned over to the
New York police. In order that compaTi-
sons can be made with measurements oe
Swartz. which they have in their posses-
sion.
Swartz Indicted for Murder.
1t took the grand jury only IN hour
yesterday afternoon to hear enough eyi-
dence to indict Nathan Swartz for the
murder Of Julia Conners.
Nathan Swartz's father and mother,
his sister, Lillian, and his brothers, Jacob
and Philip, were witnesses against him.
The gist Of their testimony. upon which
the indictment was founded. was as fol-
lows:
Nathan told them that he met Julia
at Fulton avenue and 113d street about
|6 o'clock Saturday, July q. He had be-
come possessed OF a pair Of opera glasses.
1t was supposed he stole them. When
Julia came along he put the opera glasses
to his eyes and stared at her. She laugh
ed. He offered to let her look through
them. She did and was entranced by the
bringing Of faraway things close to her
eyes.
Swartz suggested that il she would
go to his home he would let her look
out Of the back windows far into the
park. She could have the fun OF seeing
playmates in the park without their see
ing her or knowing that they were being
observed.
Swartz went on to tell how Julia trust
ingly accompanied him. They went
through East 173d street, rounded the
corner and entered the Swartz fiat at
No. $780, the little girl scampering ahead.
childishly delighted with the opera
glasses that he had let her retain.
Child Is Overpowered.
The man behind her had become wholly
the fiend. AS she stepped within the
doorway he grabbed the opera glasses
from her hand, caught her by the throat
and overpowered her. AS she became
helpless he dropped her TO the floor and
brought forth a drug he had obtained.
Swartz knew no one would be at home.
With the child likely to regain her
senses and scream, Swartz decided he
must get her out Of the house. he told
his sister. So he lifted her to his shoul-
der and made his way up two Nights OF
stairs to the roof. He crossed to the
adjoining house and found his way open
to the vacant fiat in No. 396S. r.
The murderer took the child into the
bathroom there.
Describes the Fiendish Deed.
And here description must close over.
the horror Of the deed. Sufficient is the
statement to the grand jury OF his sister.
Mrs. Alexander. She says Swartz con.
fessed to her:
81 stuck her. / kept sticking her 30
she wouldn't be able to tell
His crime, the authorities say is worse
than that. They point out the twenty-one
small stab wounds on her back and say
these wounds were not made with tho
idea OF killing the child. but were due to
diabolically degenerate desire TO torture
Swartz thought the child was dead at
about half past nine o'clock that night.
He went back to his fathers rooms, his
crazy brain trying to formulate a scheme
to get rid of the body. He could think
only of the old plan of stripping the body.
placing it in a box, carrying 1t away and
abandoning it.
In his perturbation when he looked for
a receptacle for the body he selected the
soap box This box puzzled the police be-
cause although old, II was very clean. It
develops the Swartz family had had II six
years It had been used for the sorting
of books.
Nathan dumped the books out. He