The evening world., 1912-07-09

old. sometimes wearing q straw hat
and sometimes derby. In this neigh
borhood for a month";" she said. II
first saw him one Saturday afternoon
four weeks ago when ne came up to
me and asked II I wanted soda water.
ran away from him. My mamma has
warned me not TO talk to strange men.
Other times he has tried 10 talk to me.
but refused to have anything to say
to him"
Many others gave the same testimony
sistance made at the Instance Of The
Evening World. Among those who
testified to the existance OF the foreign
er now believed to be tho deranged
wretch who drugged the Connors girl.
mutllsted her body and left her dying
In the vacant lot after getting her into
the vacant nat on the third floor OF No
1868 Third avenue were Elizabeth
Aaronson OF No. 3Ssg Third avenue,
Minnie Abon!zc. OF No. $3.50 Third ave.
nue.; Carrie Brown. OF 40. sS6 Thru
avenue, and Polly Kiprik. Of No 1890
Third avenue. all little girls who knew
julia connors and played with her last
saturday afternoon in Crotona Park.
The breaking down OF the pyramid OF
lies reared by Florence Molz quite took
the ~ rch out OF Capt. Price and Coro-
ner snongut The child proved herself
prodigy IN deceit. For hours she had
led the detectives a merry chase, and
her stories would have caused the ia
nous Baron dunschausen to turn green
with envy. They resulted In the arrest
OF two men. one OF whom she positively
A. HAI "a. stR
OF Julia Connors last Saturday evening.
and the other, a young man, she had
seen In the park the same afternoon.
also In the company OF the Connors girl.
But for the growing suspicion OF the
detectives the young identiner would
certainly have picked out some re-
spectacle middlc-aged Bronxite with a
trim gray beard OF the Brooklyn variety
as the third member OF her ina Einary
trio OF assailants.
GIRL coNFEssEs TO A DAY OF
LYING.
Confronted by her mother. Mrs. Dora
Molz. the girls story was finally whit
tied down to the bare statement that
she had met Julia Connors In the park
late Saturday afternoon and had seen
her go away with one OF tho suspects.
This released one OF tho suspects, the
young man. Just "a Samuel Greenburg,
the lawyer for the elder suspect, had
two men In the Coroner's ONCE burning
up the telephone wires trying to connect
with bondsman TO furnish the $1,000
ball liked by the Coroner. little Flor
ence came out OF her trance. Without
a trcmor she admitted she never had
seen Julia In the park In the company
OF the last suspect or any one else. had
~ las NJ Ill ca.
that her whole tale was a lie from be-
ginning to end. Further teiephoning
for bondsmen was unnecessary, and the
suspect. Giovanni Gresi, an honest and
much respected coal merchant Of No.
1853 Fulton avenue. was Immediately re-
leased from custody to walk to his
home. Both the Coroner and Capt. Price
confessed themselves to be completely
fabbergasted at the colossal impotence
OF the Molz girl.
The Gerry Society Ia going to keep It's
hands on Florence. and there was an
Affecting scene when she was separated
from her mother. The chiid's father.
Henry Molz. 10 driver. She has Ave
brothers and sisters. The mother IL a
janitress. who declared at frst that the
little one was to be believed. When
she found out what her daughter had
told. q string o. revelations amazing
from one DO young. even she repudiated
the child. Florence appears to have
linked In one story OF personal expert
encs all the gossip Of the neigh borhood
she had heard In connection With the
Connors tragedy.
Meanwhile the real murderer OF Julia
Connors has been given q forty-eisht
hours start on the police through the
action Of little Florence. He doubtless
has got himeslf far from the locality Of
his crime without leaving more than q
scattering description Of himself behind.
Bronx mothers are In panic. ana
daughters by the thousands are being
kept indoors.