New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-11
Girl. STRANGLED;
2ITALIANS HELD
Neck of Eleven-Year-Old
Victim Bound with
a Strap.
FRUIT DEALERS FACE
HOMICIDE CHARGES
Child'S Body Found in a
Dark Cellar of East
Side Store.

of eleven-year-old Title Brown had
been found in the hallway leading to
their basement storeroom, Vincenzo Dj
Stcfano and Giuseppe Matteleone, part
ners in a fruit stand at Monroe and
Montgomery Streets, were locked up in
Police Headquarters, charged with in
flicting injuries to the little girl which
caused her death.
All day thirty detectives had been
searching the East Side to find the man
who had lured the girl into the base
ment at 1s4 Monroe Street and there
assaulted her, sitting her cries with q
narrow leather strap.
On a clew given by the girls uncle,
Abraham Breiloff, who told the police
that one day last week ne had seen
Title eating banana she had received
from Di Stefano, the two Italians were
taken TO Headquarters. Further evil
dence acquired during the afternoon
decided Inspector Faurot to lodge a
charge Of homicide against them.
Russian Also Held.
Morris Berman, a Russian, who has
been in this country six years and has
not yet found home, was arraigned
before Magistrate Groehl in the Mems
Night Court last night, charged with
vagrancy and held without bail for ex-
animation.
He was arrested by Sergeant File,
who had seen him lettering in Monroe
Street near the house where the ,body
of Tillie Brown was found, as a suspect
in the case. To Inspector Cray yester-
day afternoon he could give no CO.
herent account of himself. Blood
stains were found on his coat.
Tilie was a pupil at Public School
81, at Governor and Monroe Streets,
half block from where her body was
found. When she did not come home
at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon her
mother, Mrs. Yetta Brown, Of and 4
Ridge Street, became anxious. She
questioned the children in the neigh
borhood, and even walked the four
blocks to the school to see if any one
had seen her daughter. Six years be-
fore another child, Fannie, had been
killed by a delivery wagon, and she
feared some accident mad happened to
Tillie.
As night came on her anxiety in
creased. Tillie had always been
backward child and usually went TO
school in charge of her six-year-old
brother, Isadore lie told his mother
he had left her in line outside the
school when he had reported, ct !
o'clock.
Girls Absence Reported
Mrs. Brown. frantic, reported the
child's absence 20 the Madison Street
police station and contemplated trip
to the Chidrens Society, on Twenty
third Street. Remembering the muir
der Of Leonore Cohn and other rip
per" cases that had caused reign of
terror among East Side mothers, she
searched through the stairways and
Easements in her neighborhood.
At $3.50 yesterday morning she was
told Title had been murdered. Morris
Silverstein, jsnitor at 1874 Monroe
Street, had discovered the bruised lit
tie body, its neck encircled with o
leather strap, used by foreigners for
belts, as he went 70 coal bin. Rush
ing 10 the street, he had reported his
find to Patroman Peterson and Ser
geant File, of the Madison Street sta
tion.
In the crowd which gathered as the
news of Silverstein's discovery spread
was Abraham Brielof, the girls uncle
who was driving truck up Monroe
Street. Going into the cellar out o.
curiosity, he was shocked 20 find that
the body was that of his niece.
Immediately he hurried TO the Brown
home and broke the news 10 the girls
mother. Mrs. Brown collapsed and be-
came hysterical, and the services Of d
physician were needed TO quiet her.
DR.. Leet, from Gouverneur Hospital,
around the corner from the building
where the murder occurred was called
and said Title had been dead several
hours, probably from strangulation, al
though examination showed that she
had been terribly tortured. Coroner
Feinberg ordered the body removed TO
the morgue.
From records supplied by Miss Sarah
II. Conant. principal of Titles school ,
detectives learned that the girl had
been absent since Thursday. Friday
she was kept at home by her mother to
prepare for the Jewish holiday, but
Monday her family believed she had
been at school.
She had been seen Monday morning
playing IN Jackson Street Park and
had been home for dinner Monday noon.
After her brother left her outside the