The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-24
CHARGES POLICE WITH CLOAKINC BRUTAL MURDER Coroner's Physician Says Woman Was Beaten and
 Choked to Death. Police Make What Doctor Brands False Report, Civ ing Slayer Time For Flight.

New York, Aug. 24.-Investigators working for the district attorney to- day, tried to learn why Miss Julia Curran, a well educated Irish girl murdered in the Hotel Boulevard, on Broadway. abandoneds an automobile trip to Canada with her wealthy em- Tployer, Mrs. E.. D. Smith and returned mysteriously to New York, Thursday, without the knowledge of her sister, Mrs. John Kinnars.
 The district attorney wants to know because for Is hours after the nude body of the dead girl was found by a hotel waiter, the police gave out the report that the girl died from natural causes, while a hospital physician, Dr. Fisher, and a coroner's physician, Dr.. Schultze, stated it was evident that Miss Curran was choked and beaten Ito death
 It was learned that Miss Curran, who was employed by aristocratic families in Europe as governess and companion, and who spoke five lan- guages, landed in America July 7. and at once became the salaried compan- ion of Mrs. Smith. whom she met on the boat.
 According to Mrs. Kinnars, she started last week for Canadian auto trip, sending postcards along the route.
 Tn her communications she express ed delight with her trip, telling her sister what a good time she was hav- ing. That was the last Mrs. Kinnars knew of the girl until Thursday night when the police notified her that Miss Curran was dead They obtained the Kinnar address from card in the young woman's handbag found in the room. The body, when found, was without clothing and the clothes the young woman wore into the hotel were missing The attache who saw her male com panion leave said he did not notice that the man carried a pack age,
 Widespread search is being made Efdr this man.. - 1 New York, Aug. 24.-Dr. Otto H. SchuItze, coroner's physician and medical expert of high standing. to~ day. obtained District Attorney Whit
 mans promise to investigate ? the Raines-Law Hotel of Miss Julia. M. | Curran, of whom the police report said came from natural causes while l the physicians say she obviously was murdered. Bruises and abrasions all l over the body, he declared, showed that Miss Curran literally was beaten l to death while deep finger marks on 1 the throat indicated choking.
 pr. Schultze charged that the po- 1 lice deliberately falsified his report | either, he said,4"to allow the murder
 CT to escape or to give the hotel pro- lection"
 The physician also declared that l the hotel attaches told the police that | the young womans male companion
 left the hotel some time before her
 body was discovered, yet no apparent l effort was made to apprehend him or 1 ounY 1oarr hiS identity
 The body of the girl. who was the l salaried companion of a woman of wealth, was found at D. m., two
 days ago, and by the false report is-
 sued by the police, Schultze says, the
 girls murderer was given Is hours start of any effort that might be made to capture him.
 Dr. Fisher, of Flower Hospital
 ambulance surgeon who was called to
 the hotel, denied. today, that the said
 the girl apparently died from natural | causes as the police report quoted 1 him.