New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-05
GIRL ESCAPED
RIPPER BEFORE
HE KILLED BOY
Louise Neidig's Screams
Frightened Man Who
Tried to Seize Her.
TWO ATTACKS MADE
ABOUT SAME HOUR
Reporters Fixed Time of Murder
of Charlie Murray-Gave
Facts to Faurot.

The ripper who murdered Charlie
Murray Monday night in the hallway OF
his home at 270 First Avenue made an
attempt just few moments before to
drag a ix-year-old girl into a hallway.
Had il not been for her screams, which
frightened him, she would probably
have been the victim of his perverted
mania.
The little girl was Louise Neidig, OF
247 Avenue B, where her father keeps
a bakery shop. About 1 o'clock Monday
afternoon she went to visit her aunt,
Mrs Josie Larber, who is employed as
a saleswoman in the bakery shop of
A. P. Haeusler at ESQ First Avenue.
This is five doors from the scene of the
murder.
The girl played about in front from
o'clock until 1880, waiting for her
aunt to 60 home with her. What hap
pened TO her about 80 she told yes
terday in a babyish but straightfor-
ward manner.
Screams Save Girl.
"a man came up to me and took me
by the arm" she said. "He was little
man and he had a diamond pin. He
said: Where do you live, little girl?'
did not speak to him. Then he
knocked me in the doorway and |
screamed and he runned away"
The mans grip left black marks on
her right arm. In answer to ques-
tions she gave a more complete de-
scription of her assailant, which agrecl
closely with that given by Mamie Muir
raw, sister of the murdered child, OF
the man she saw running out of the
hallway just before the body was dis
covered.
The diamond pin was an added detail
given by Louise Neidig. She said he
did not smile az her. Her story was
corroborated in part by Mrs. Lillian
Hussey, who lives one fight up at 260
First Avenue. into the hallway of which
the ripper tried to drag Louise.
Just about 1880 o'clock" Mrs. Hus-
sey said, 81 was dressing to go to the
Church of the Immaculate Conception.
! can fix the time by the fact that
church was at 7:45 o'clock. ] heard
little girl screaming. and opened my
door. at the head of the stairway lead
ing to the street door.
~ called, What's the matter, little
girl" ! saw Louise down there. ]
took her into the bakery, and she told
us then that a man had attacked her.
did not see the man"
Fixes Time of Boys Murder.
That it was after this attack on
Louise that the Murray boy met his
death was established by Joseph
Flanagan. of 260 First Avenue. Ac-
cording to Mrs. Hussey she heard Louise
scream al just about 1880. According
TO Flanagan. he saw the Murray boy
playing up until 1880 in front Of his
own house.
81 went out. and from ten minutes
after until half-past | was talking
to Mr.. Messer, who keeps a store next
to the hallway in which the boy was
murdered" Flanagan said. During
all the time ! was standing there he
was playing out in front. | remember
the time, as | had an engagement and
left Messer at half-past to keep it,"
These facts were learned by news
paper men entirely independently Of the
police. although they found that Cap
tam bllutd was aware VI lNt llillt
girls story. When they went TO Police
Headquarters, however, they found that
Deputy Commissioner Lord, who is in
charge of the case, had heard nothing
of il.
81 am probably an hour or two out of
date on the story. Let me call lnspec-
tor Faurot," he said.
But when the inspector came into
the room he, too. it appeared, had
heard nothing of this, the most i'm
portant development of the day in the
ripper story.
Reporters Give Police Clew.
Commissioner Lords face wore
pucker of perplexity, and when all had
been told he got up and excused him
self, calling Faurot out with him. Fau-
rot, who had been called in to give
the reporters information, did not come
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