New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-08

be crying, the Noise girl said but she did
not think any more of the incident until
she heard of the murder
Men Detained by the Police.
piano tuner living in Williamsbridge
was taken to the fremont police station
| by detectives and was examined last
night by Coroner Shongut. According
to detectives he was seen lettering near
the vacant lot
The man detained was later described by
Captain Price as jefferson Kelly, of No.
! 74l East 217th street. He was found walk
ing across the lot at the time the chds
| body was discovered. but the captain said
he thought this fact mere coincidence. Ac-
cording to the captain. he admitted he had
thrown away his outer shirt because there
was so much blood on It, lie said that a
week ago he was treated at the Flower
Hospital for cut on his chin and that he
fell down early yesterday morning and
opened up the cut. The fact that he was
treated at the hospital was verified.
The police also detained Giovanni Greci,
a married man, thirty years old, who lives
at No. 1899 Fulton avenue. The Bronx, and
has a coal and ice cellar at No. 500 Third
avenue He was Identified by Florence
Noise as a man who had taken her Julia
and another girl into his cellar on Satur-
10
police started a rigid search into Grecis
history and his actions since Saturday
night. The name Of the third girl was not
given out, but the police are trying to find
her.
A little girl whose identity the police
also declined to reveal. was taken TO the
fremont station shortly before midnight
by Detective Cassassa. She was inter
rogated by Coroner Shongut and 1t was
later said she furnished the police infor-
nation Of importance.
Julia was found at 80 Yesterday
morning Edward McGarry. who lives at
No. SAP East 172d street. was In his yard
when a boy climbed the fence and called
out to him that there was body In the
vacant lot in the rear of the house.
McGarry jumped the fence to the lot.
which Is rocky and several feet above
the street level. In a small depression
among grass and weeds he found the
child. She lay about four feet from a
fence that runs along house which ad-
Joins the vacant | TO the north and
about eighty feet from Third avenue,
Finds Her, Still Living.
He saw little girl. entirely nude and
covered with blood and dirt. Her lower
limbs were in a small box and the upper
part Of her body was partly covered by
the grass and weeds, He felt her wrist
and on finding that she was still alive
rushed home to get some water, he
bathed her face. and, leaning close 10
her. asked who had injured her.
Turning TO the boy, McGarry sent MN
for help, and in a few minutes Patroi-
man Reilly, of the fremont ponce sta
ton arrived with Or. Herman Cohen VI
No, 800 East 173d street DR.. Cohen
glanced at the child and directed that
An ambulance be called. DR.. McS~eeney,
Of Fordham Hospital. responded.
Meanwhile a crowd had been attracted
by the news Of the crime. DR.. John
Hicks, of No 1872 Third avenue, made
his way through the crowd, and he iden-
thed the little girl as Julia Connors.
who lived in the same house with MN.
The child was then placed in the am
bulance and rushed to the hospital She
died few minutes after reaching the
institution.
Besides the wounds on the little girls
body there were other signs OF brutal
treatment. Her face was swollen her
lips were discolored and her tongue WAS
bruised The physicians expressed great
surprise that she had lived as long AZ
.he did with the wounds she had re-
caived The stab in her left breast had
penetrated the heart about half an men
and the wound in the back had pierced
the lung. The nature of the wounds was
uroof that the crime was committed
,bort time before the body was found.
Detectives Begin Search.
Detectives were Immediately sent TO
the scene. and with their arrival a NIL
mite search Of the place began. Jula >
, clothing was found rolled into ouhuie
and wrapped in q piece OF old oilcioth
Cev, feet from the fence between the
LOT and the Third avenue house WIN
the girls clothing was found her mar
that had been cut off.
Clothing and hair were covered WIN
blood ard not far away was found n
mans shirt also stained with Dlood. All
90 those articles were turned over to De-
! ,sctive Thomas Reilly, who had been sent
from the bureau of criminal ioeht'nca-
ton to get finger prints.
lula Connors was one of four chlloreh
IN the Connors family. According ;"
NJ, connors. she asked julia on Satur-
do,, IN 90 with her to Crotona fark'
,,ool awav. 10 see a ball game. julia
oaid she would go 10 church hrs'' ou'
,ro,,ioed 70 tojn her mother in the PARK
later on. This was about O'CLOCK.
Inquiry showed that Julia went 10 'ne
church of our Lady of Victory, at wen
stsr avenue and Hist street, where sho
oo,feseed TO Father b. f. Gaillgah.
After leavin; church she went 10 Cro-
tona Park. but did not find her mo'her'