The sun., 1912-07-12
NEW POLICE THEORY Of
BRONX CHILD MURDER
Julia COnnOrS Not Killed i'm
Bathroom, but Outside,
Detectives Say.
LACK OF FINGER PRINTS
Draonct Of Suspects Has So Far
Brought Not One Bit Of
Evidence.

little Julia Connor's murderer. the detec-
tives were forced Yesterday. after follow
ing blind leads for five days to construct
a new theory Of the crime. They are now
working on the supposition that the muir
der was not committed in the apartment
house at 388s Third avenue. and that the
murderer deliberately planned to throw
the police of IN" track by placing evi-
dences of the crime in the bathroom of the
unoccupied third floor apartment AZ 30GS
A conference of tho detectives held last
night brought ont the reasons why they
now believe that the man who tortured
the twelve-year r-old girl to death sought 20
insure his safety by misleading the police
"a to the place.
There is not a spot OF blood anywhere
in the vacant apartment except in the
bathtub. And a palnstaking and micro
scopi-al study OF these stains leads To the
belief that they were applied by th" mIr-
derer for the purpose Of making il aop"d"
that he had held the child in the tub while
he stabbed her. The most eXper, Of
Capt. Joseph Fauro = fngcrprint special
ists have not been able to obtain a single
photograph of value. The negatives
these men repor. show nothing but s,nears
and formless smudges. And no ordinary
moisture prints were obtainable from
woodwork or metal or glass Prices in
veetigators, among whom are the most ex-
perienced. intelligent aud successful of
the detective bureau. are unable to believe
that the murderer could have kept Julia
in that apartment for hours without leav-
ing aside from the bathtuh stains some
record. however minute. And nowhor. in
the bare apartment is there fresh mark of
a foot or hand
Rec xamning the Railways. the stairs
the fire escaye. the dumbwaiter and the
cellar Of the house at 1868, the detect ives
found the same absence of marks which
they think would have been left if Julia :
body had been carried from the vacant
apartme and then taken to the vacant
lot through the swinging door in the back
fence. There IL not a spot of blood on
the pulley ropes of the dumbwaiter or the
uprights OF tho fire ESCAPE or on he cellar
doors or fence door-objects that the
murderer would have been forced to touch
II he had removed the body by any Of these
aids. That feature seemed TO Price : men
to be especially significant because no
V0t'i was WI tlit OdtillOpri
and the murderer had no opport unity
to wash his hands in the house.
A third reason which influences the
hunters Of the child slayer is that nobody
of the many in the hin vailed and echoing
house heard the slightest alarming sound
last Sat urday night although many wer,.
wakeful and up late at night or in the
early hours of the morning. The quest ion
which the detectives put last night was
Would ii have been poss ible for the mur-
deipr TO have kept the child for hours
and to have com" and gonc without some
body hearing or seeing something that
would have resulted IN an instant alarm?
Even If Julia had been drugged AMI that
possibility has been discarded ieope
living in apartments whose open window
were within few feet of tn. window.
OF the vacant apartment must have heard
something that would have aroused >t!s-
Picion.
fourth argument used hy the d.tec-
tres against placing the crlm" ~ 1865
- that II Is almost Impossible To imagine
that man could have taken .;una INTO
the house without being observed bv
Weinberg. the delicatessen man OF isaats
the but, he. whose shops ar. Oh either
side OF the only entrance. or -ls.. by sorn.
Of their numerous cusl oinerS who knew
Julla ana who were marketing at the
time she was SUPPOSED to have h"n Lred
INTO the house
And SO the police have asSun.d for IA.
ume beng, al any rate, tuat Julia wd>
detained and stabbed in some Other hou...
or cellar not far removed from the vacant
lot and that alter disposng of the body
the murderer carried the ciuti,ng to tn.
vacant apartment al 39Js placed TIA"
clothing in the baihtIb So ,,s to leav.
blood stains and then rIpping oil"loth
..f I.,, oil, },
ing and carried II also 10 TIA" vacant lot
" is possible, they think, tina, the man
lett Ju!la = braid comb in IN" bathroom
purposely. and tina, " ia the stiun design
oi decelving the police he had clIi oil the
child's hair for the uirpp>" or lnavIng
STRANDS ol ii IN the bathiub They do
not believe that the wooden nos ~ which
TIE hody was partly lying when II was
found was eyer IN the vacant apartment.
The detectives admitted MAT he now
theory may be overthrowu 10y the revela-
tions of the next few days. bll, they insist
that there are more reasOuuhl. features
to the reconstructed theory than applied
to the original supposi,iOn that the crime
was committed where the blood stain,
were found.
Tn twenty plain cloihe men who are
sentinelinG the n"ighborhood of the Va
slight. Capt. Price is particularly anx-
ious to find Harry FoEler, the nine,a"n-
year-od boy who was an assistant in
Nj. lsaacss butcher shop at 1865 Third
avenue and who Is missing There
nothing whatever 10 connect young Fog
Ter with the case. But gossip placed him
in the nelghborhood last sunday morn
ing and since that time he has not been
seen Mrs lSiaCS, Ia" wife of the but cher,
toll IHE SIS Reporter yesterday. how
ever, that Harry sailed for Europe ten
days ago to visit his sister in Russia
Mrs lsaHcs insisted that she had seen
the young mans steamship ticket
AnC ther scrap of informal ION has to do
with young man whose name the police
will not reveal, but who lives near the
house at 1865 IN" police admit that he
has not been seen since SUNDAY and that
they have a story that when he was last
seen his face was Scrat Ched They have
been told that this young man was known
to have accostcd children, tina, h" spent
most of his time loating in Crotoua Park
and hat he had had troubI. With his
mother on several occasions.
story which accused an old man "A
Jack of all trades in the ncighborhood of
Third avenue and l13d street of assault
ing the daughter of Mrs Sophia Sachs,
VINO lives at 1853 Third avenue was
invest igated by the police yesterday on
the possibility that il might have IA bear
ing on the tOnnorS case But Mrs Sach,
sad that IN" old man WAS Qnita harm
les. and that even when he was driniing
he had never annoyed any mem er of her
family seriously