The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-19

NEW YORK, June l9.-Deeper
channels of crime apparently
opened today as police, private de-
tective and the district attorneys
office delved into the sordid pools
of lust and murder which swept
the pretty school girl, Ruth Cru
ger, to her death.
Early this morning Consuelo
Larue. a young woman who said
she had furnished Mrs. Grace HUI
mission with the information
which led to the finding of the
Cruger girls body, was discov-
cred hysterical and manned In a
vacant lot beside an apartment
building at lis West 80th street.
Screams brought "a police
man. Miss Larue was half
clad. Her left leg was bro
ken In two places. She had
jumped from a second-stOry
window.
She moaned. 'eThe men. Two
men came and said they had a
telegram for me. One grabbed
me by the throat and said j
guess you'll rot tell any more
II jumped out of the dining
room window. l preferred that
death to the kind they gave Ruth
Cruger."
Yhen the young woman asked
that Mrs. Humiston be notified
that the girl who gave her the
tip on where Ruth Cruger's body
would be found wanted her"
Mrs. Humiston was notified.
One report is that the lawyer
went to the hospital where Miss
Larue was taken, but was ordered
from the room by the police. She
is said to have declared she had
known Miss Larue for some time.
At the hospital, all information
was refused today, and from po-
lice sources came the suggestion
that the Larue girls mind had
been unbalanced by reading Of the
Cruger crime.
In addition to this glimpse OF
the hand of the white slave ring
which Mrs. Humiston asserts is
trapping, debauching and murder
ing girls like Ruth Cruger in New
York every day, strong links In
the chain of evidence against the
believed slayers of Ruth CrugeI
were forged.
A motorcycle uniform found
buried with the roped body OF the
high school girl under the cellar
of the Cocchi shop was tried on
the unusually tall form of Vic
tor Blady, a chauffeur, held in
connection with the crime. Attic
he is six feet, five inches tall, the
suit fit him perfectly.
Admits He Lied.
Close questioning compelled
Blady to admit he lied at the in
vestigation in March in saying he
was not in Cocchi's shop the day
Ruth Cruger was murdered.
Questioned by Assistant Attor-
ney Dooling, Blady admitted hav-
ing been in Cocchi's shop the
night of Feb. 10. This is the
same night Cocchi is believed to
have let the roped body down into
the cellar thru trap door In the
floor of his shop and to have
started digging the girls grave.
| Blady swore he left the shop
at $3.50 that night. He admitted
three other men were there and
he gave their names to Dooling.
Blady is catalogued as one OF
Cocchi's friends. He said he drove
Cocchi to his home that night
when he left at $50.
Morbid Steal Curfos.
Meantime ghoulish curio hunt
ers slipped into the morgue where
Ruth Cruger's body lay and stole
gold stickpin and five shell
hairpins from the little bundle of
trinkets placed beside her body
on the slab.
At the same time city, state
and government officials cabled
the Italian authorities at Rome
and Bologna and brought all pos
sible Influence to bear to get Coo
chi back here TO answer the in
dictment charging him with the
murder Of Ruth Cruger.
Funeral Secret.
Close scrutiny of the Cocchi
shop revealed what the authori-
ties consider unmistakable evil
dence that Cocchi and probably
two or three accomplices butch
cred the little school girl.