Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-07-08
Chum Of Murdered Child
Tells of Stranger Lur-
ing Girl to Lot Where
Body Was Found.
FINGER-PRINT IMPRESSION
TO BE TAKEN BY POLICE
VIII Be Made Today at Scene
of Staying and Compared
with Those of Man Said to
Have BeerS Seen with Victim.

NEW YORK. July a-Giovanni
Greci, who owns a coal and wood
cellar near the vacant lot where IL
year-old Julia Connors was found
yesterday dying. with forty stab
wounds In her body, was arrested to-
day, charged with homicide. Flor
ence Molz Identified Greci as one Of
three men who. she says, lured Julia
and another girl into cellar. She
was sent to the Children's Society to
be held as a material witness. The
child tells conflicting stories, however.
and the police are far from solution
of the crime.
The police have made fnger-print
Impressions of articles in the fiat
where the Connors girl was attacked,
and these will be compared today
with Greci's finger-prints.
A man who says he is Jefferson
Kelly, piano tuner. of TAI East
217th street, is also being detained by
the police at the order of Coroner
Shongut. According to the detectives,
blood was found on the mans shirt
and on his chin. This. 1t was de-
termined, had flowed from small
cut on his chin. The man. 1t is said,
told a. connected story. but was
ordered detained by the coroner. Ac-
cording to the police, he was seen
lettering near the vacant lot. He was
discovered in the Crotona Park
woods, opposite where the body of the
girl was found.
The slayer of the Connors girl had
damned her body while she was dying
into q box two feet square, and car
ried 1t from the deserted flat at 1858
Third avenue, the Bronx. When
Julia was discovered, after long
search, she was asked Who did it?"
"a man, a man. We're the only
words she could utter.
Little Julia met her death while
returning home from confession At
the Church of Our Lady of Victory,
near her home. She Was on her way
to meet her parents at a bah game,
and they were to have bought her n
&pretty hat. The girl had been miss
ing fifteen hours before the finding OF
her mutilated body in a wooden box
about two feet square into which her
$assaflant had placed her.
I The CHASTITY ferocity of the girls
%assailant was evidenced by the con-
dition of her body. She had been
stabbed forty-one times with a
double-edged knife. Twenty-one of
the stab wounds were in the back
i and the little victims wrists and
arms were slashed and her throat
#cut. Despite her wounds and the fact
that one of the knife wounds touched
! the heart, the girl lived for hours. In
the opinion of the hospital physi-
clans.
For hours the other children of her
church sodality and Julia Connors
chums in Public School No. a. at 1880
street and Third avenue, searched the
neighborhood for the slayer. They
were led by the child's father. Ed
ward Connors, and Father Bartholo-
NEW Gallagher, the priest, who had
heard the little ones last confession.
Neither the detectives nor the hun
dreds of children were able to get
any trace of the man, although he.
had been seen frequently in the
neighborhood in the last few weeks.
The childs parents think the man
who killed her is the same who tried
to entice her into a notion picture
theatre few blocks from her home
a month ago. At that time the child.
with another. young girl. was walking
along Fulton avenue, which fringes
Crotona Park. when an old man
promised them candy and pennies if
they would go to the theatre with
hf,x, rta ot,iJdrep fad The oirI fold
her mother of the incident when she
reached home. burMrs. Connors. ex-
cept to commend the girls for refus-
ing to go with the man. attached no
serious Importance to the occurrence