Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-03
Krontovic, Who w as
Caught After Perth Am
boy Child's Body Was
Found, Taken from City
HAD SURROUNDED
THE LOCAL COURT ROOM
For Better Protection Is in New
Brunswick Jail-An Autopsy
on Tragedy Victim Is Being
V7T 49,
Performed.
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lETOm a Gtdi
PERTH AMBoY, July ~s.-Eearing
the result OF shooting by a 0 AieA-
naer Krontovic, who is charged with
I he murder of 10-year-old Mary Hall
ida whose body was found yesterday
An a coal-pit, has been closely guard
IA from the ~freneied crowd ciamorihs
outside the courtroom. The ponce
/ refused to take him9to court n IN
stead rushed him to New Brunswick
for better protection.
when the news of the arrest spread
through the town, the friends OF Jonn
Hadila, of 5S2 Mechanic street, a Ia
borer on the Lehigh Valley coal docks.
father of the victim. and a crowd Oh
4 excited citizens assembled before the
/ Court House, where Recorder Harry
AZ. Kehoe liz sitting, and waited for
] the doors to open. The solitary po-
liceman who tried to keep some sem
! blance Of order grew suspicious when
he heard the muttered threats, and
when some of the o excited ones
4 shouted Kill him!" Shoot him.
E"Lynch him!" he Immediately teie-
phoned to the Jail warning he war
den.
Krontovic was being put through
the third degree at the time in the
hope that he would divulge some IN
formation as to his WHEREABOUTS
Monday night, but the examination
was suspended and he was hurried
into IAN automobile and, closely
guarded, rushed TO New Brunswick.
Autopsy Being Held.
An autopsy is being made BY
County Physicisn Edgar Carol. OF
Dayton, and the police will be noti-
fled of the findings this evening
Meanwhile they are doing all In theii
power to wiring q confession from the
prisoner, as it was said this morning
by n of the authorities that the
evidence Is SO conclusive that 1t Il
thought Krontovic may confess to
secure clemency. No one besides the
police and the prisoners lawyer
Stephen Somogyn. is allowed to see
the accused, as it is feared that some
harm would come to him IL strangers
were admitted to his cell.
Mary Halida left home. about 10
o'clock Monday morning, and though
she did not return that evening her
parents were not alarmed, as they
thought she had spent the night with
friends. When she did not appear
yesterday they notified the police and
called their attention to the fact that
Krontovie, a fellow laborer of Hall
da's, who had boarded with him off
and on for five or six years, was
missing also.
Quickly Trail Suspect.
The police began a search, but
found no trace of the girl until last
3 evening, when laborers running a a
through one of the dark tunnels be-
meath the coal bnnkers on the Lee
high Valley pier, stumbled over the
body of the child. Her clothing was
torn off and her appearance indi-
Gated hat she had fought with all
her strength against her assailant.
There were finger marks on the
throat, showing that the child had
been strangled.
The finding Of the child's body set
the police after Krontovic with re-
newed vigor. They learned that he
and the child had left the Halida
home together, and also late last
night Krontovic had bought a quart
of whiskey in a saloon about half
a mile from where little Mary S body
was found.