Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-13
Nathan Schwartz's Sister
Said to Have Seen Him
Carrying Julia Connors
in Death Flat.
SUSPECT DISAPPEARED ON
DAY VICTIM WAS FOUND
General Alarm Sounded for Ar
rest of ex-convict, Who
Served Time for Indignities
to Child.

NEW YORK. July ia general
alarm was sounded today TOR the
arrest on sight of Nathan Schwartz,
aged "a years, by the police who are
trying to solve the mystery In the
horrifying killing of 12-year-o.d Julia
Connors.
Schwartz, an ex-convict. convicted
of having subjected a girl to indigni-
ties, is wanted to explain his Where
abouts on the day the girls body.
mangled by knife wounds, was found
in a vacant lot near her home. 3s72
Third avenue.
While 1t is not the present intention
of the authorities to accuse Schwartz
of murder, he has been absent since
Sunday, and statements made by
members of his family and others
soon after the crime became known
have caused the police to bend every
effort to find the missing youth.
For the past seven months and
until two days ago the Schwartz
family lived at 1910 Third ven
which building adjoins the murder
fiat" when they moved to 593 Cleve-
land avenue, East New York.
The hunted mans mother has adj
mitted to the police that her reason
for moving was that she knew her
son was under police suspicion
Seen In Fiat with Girl.
That Schwartz was seen on the
night Of the murder by two of his
sisters walking about the bathroom
of the vacant apartment at 1868
Third avenue, with a little girl in
his arms, Is an assertion credited to
another sister Of the youth, Lillian
Schwartz. Is years old. and a stem
ographer.
rhe girl is employed by Blain
Brothers. building contractors, at 1856
West Fifticth street. and 1t was to
one Of the partners, w A. Blain,
that she impaired this information.
Miss Schwartz told me-" said
Blain, that on the night the little
Connors girl was murdered two of
his sisters, one of them married and
the other a child Of IL years, were
in the bathroom of the Schwartz
apartment, at 1870 Third avenue
"They looked out of the window
ecross an airshaft into the window
of the vacant apartment at 1868
Third avenue, and there in the bath
room of this apartment, to their sur
prise. they saw their brother, Ma
than, walking about with a little
girl in his arms. The child appeared
to be unconscious. She was fully
clothed. Soon afterward the youth
went into another room of the apart
ment, and that was the last they
saw of him or the child. The child
resembled Julia Connors.
THE two sisters reported what
they had seen to other members of
the family, but all were too Mortified
to take any action. When morning
came the man did not come to the
apartment, and later when news
came that the Connors girl. horri-
bly, mutilated, had been found dying
in a lot nearby, their worst fears
were realized. Nothing vas seen of
the man by the family after this, and
their chief concern was to leave the
neighborhood as loon as possible"
Although the sister, Lillian, refused
t. admit that she had made such q
statement to her employer, she frank
ly admitted her belief that her broth
er was the murderer.
II have no idea where he is, but II
I knew / would give him up. If he
has committed such a crime he should
die.
1T was because of the murder that
we left our apartment at No. 1910
Third avenue. There is no use
denying it. We all thought thar
my brother was responsible for the
little girls death. and we couldn't
bear to stay in the neighborhood."
The two sisters of Schwartz, who
are said to have seen him in the
bathroom of the vacant fiat were
Mrs. Frances Alexander and Mary
Schwartz, aged IL years.