The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-20
POLICE SEARCHING FOR ACCOMPLICE
 IN G|RL'S MURDER
Woman Who Gave "Tip" to Find Body Claims That Her Life Is Now
 Threatened

New York, June 19.-Three import ant developments in the investigation into the murder of 19-year-old Ruth Cruger. a Wadleigh High school grad uate, divided the attention of city of- fcials today.
 A woman calling herself "Consuelo La Rue" who fell or jumped from window of her apartment and whc said she gave the tip that led to discovery of the body, declared she had been threatened with death for her connection with the case.
 Investigation of the police depart ment by the board of aldermen for failure of the detective bureau to lind the girls body that had been buried for four months in the cellar of Al fredo Cocchi's bicycle shop was de- manded by the institute for public service.
 Search was begun for accomplices in the crime after it was disclosed that the tool chest which hid the girls grave was too heavy for one man to move.
 MISS LA RUE" HELD
 Miss La Rue is prisoner, charged with attempted suicide, in a hospital, where clash between the police and Mrs. Grace Humiston. attorney for the Cruger family. is reported to have oc- cured when she visited the injured woman. Mrs Humiston complained 10 Police Commissioner Woods that she had been ordered from the room in the hospital by detective captain, but the captain denied that this was true when taken before Deputy Com missioner Scull. It was through Mrs Humiston's persistence that digging was continued under CocchiS shop un- til Miss Crugers body was found, aft CT the police had shown indifference to the theory of murder.
 Assistant District Attorney Rorke visit ed Miss La Rue" in the hospital to- night. He said she is still unable to tell a coherent story, but that her state ment early today that she had been at tackled in her apartments and had Jumped from the window through fear of her life may be true, as there is mark on her throat as if she had been choked.
 TO INVESTIGATE DETECTIVES
 Failure of the police to find trap door that had been cut to lower the body into the cellar of Cocchiis shop strengthened the belief that an official investigation of the detective bureau 5 methods will be ordered.
 Several policemen who are said to have been acquainted with Cocchi and to have been seen in his shop, were questioned in the district attorneys office today Among others interrogated were three girls who had been out driving with Cocchi One of them. 14 years old, said Mrs Cocchi had upbraided her for so doing.
 Three chauffeurs whose names were furnished by a man under arrest in con neetion with the crime, are being sought by the police In the tunnel With Ruth Crugers body the police found three chauffeur's uniforms of khaki and two other suits of clothing.
 The fact that the girls grave was stuffed with clothing in order to allow the replacement of the concrete floor estab- fishes. the police believe. that the mur- derer removed the earth from the building bfore putting the body in the hole and discovered later that he had taken too much earth away.
 Five lockers in the basement Of the Cocchi cellar, apparently used by young men who kept motorcycles in the shop, were stripped of their contents to pro vide filling material for the hole in which the body was buried. An effort now is being made to trace the ownership of the recovered articles.