The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-10
HER BODY STRIPPED AND
HORRIBLY MUTILATED BY FIEND
Was Alive When Found But Unable
TO Give Description Of AssaiIanl
Stabbed Al Times

New York, July 10--The existence
n New York of an appalling human
degenerate. as horrible a being as
Hooper Young or I.ondons Jack the
| Ripper, was revealed yesterday
Through the discovery of the body OF
twelveyear-old Julia Connors, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Edward j..
Ccnnors, of No. 1872 Third avenue. In
q vacant lot in the rear of East One
Hundred and Seventy-third street, be-
tween Third and Fulton avenues, in
THE Bronx.
The child had been dragged and
lthen fiendishly assailed The Great
ire who drugged her had hacked her
body again and again with double
edged knife There were forty-one
stab wounds, twenty-one of which
we're in the back. Her hands. wrists
and arms were slashed and her throat
cut, Finally. the murderer jabbed
the knife blade deeply into the left
trated the heart
He had further desecrated his lit
tie victims person by cutting off her
Pretty. clustering brown hair. rasp-
ing away the strands with the edge
|of his red-stained knife, so that when
the little girls body was discovered
by romping children it was thought
the slender denuded figure was that
OF a boy.
Lived Three Hours Despite
Her Numerous Wounds
in spite of the number of the cuts
on her body and the fact that the
final knife-thrust wounded her heart.
the little girl lived for hours--at
least three physicians so declare.
She was alive when founda mere
flnttering OF vitality was discovered
by the man who first came To her side
and tried to revive her She was able
to whisper her name-Julia Connors
Ito him.
But when he leaned closely and
asked her who had committed the
ehastly crime. she was only able to
whisper through her swollen drug
burned lips: "A mana man. and
then swooned. She never rallied surs
iciently to be able to speak after
that, and an hour from the time She
was found in the vacant lot she died
IN Fordham hospital
Behind a boulder in the lot, abonE
fifteen feet from where the fatally
V founded girl was found dying. the
clothing that had ben stripped from
her was discovered II Was covered
cloth .aab
Circumstances having convinced
the police that the crime had not
been committed in the lot-indeed
the childs own father had searched
every foot Of the lot at O'Clock yes
terday morning with neighbors- Or.
ders were issued by Lieut.. Meehan OF
the fremont station for corps Of
detectives 10 ransaek every house in
TIE neighborhood, pa4ing particular
attention to cellars aid vacant flats.
Unoccupied Flat Was
Scene of the Rutchery
This led to the finding last night
OF the apartment in which the crime
was eommitted-an unoccupied i've
room flat ON the third floor of No.
596S Third avenue. The house is on
lie west side OF the lot. In the back
yard fence there is a gateway.
me tenants who moved away from
the flat had left worn oilcloth in the
Kitchen, passageway and bathroom
q faded cloth with a dark brown
background and large, lighter
Drown diamond figure in it. On each
conner of this diamond is white
q amond with a brown bordered
square set within This was exact.
y the design of the oilcloth strips
that covered the murdered child's
{ othing as ii was found hidden be-
Llnd the rock in the lot.
But neither Moses Stern nor his
wife and children. nor any of the
tenants OF the house or anv of the
nelghbors, could aid the police in
their quest Of the murderer. None
had heard scream or cry: none had
seen the little girl enter the house
with anybody or alone; none could
say OF having seen any person loiter
ng in the Railways or near the
house
Put Victim In Box
Which He Tossed Into Lot
The murderer-and here is the
only clue the police have-had plae
I'd his little victims body in a sit.
ing posture in a wooden box about
two feet long and one and one-hat
teet IN width and depth, stuffed in the
Clothing and covered the box with
the oilcloth. Then be bore the child
down TO the lower hallway. oub
through the backward f,c-,a -. t..