Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-01
GIRLS SLAYER
WORE SILK SHIRT
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that they had neither heard nor seen
unusual on the night the ira
gedy is believed to have occurred.
Silk Shirt Clue
According to Captain Tate, of the
detective bureau, Mrs. Roberts, who
was about 23 years old, was widow.
Sheis said by relatives, Tate declares.
to have had several male friends who
called upon her at her apartments. A
dozen or more photographs of men
were found in the room, but whether
any or them have been identified the
police decline to say. A mans silk
shirt and collar. both bloodstained,
were found in a closet in the room.
me owner of these, the authorities
pelleVe, to be the murderer.
The young woman was last seen
allVe by acquaintances at the apart
ment house last Thursday. Bessie
colbert, q sister, who lives in West
Philadelphia, went to call on her Sat-
urday night and when she received
no response to her summons she called
the Janitor. The janitor climbed in a
WINDOW and found the girl dead. Miss
colbert advanced the theory of rob-
perry as the motive for the crime, but
IN this police disagree. Valuable jew
elry and a small sum of money, the
detectives say, were found in her
room.
Maid Disappears
maid of Mrs. Roberts. who disap-
peared shortly after the murder, was
discovered, is being sought by the po-
lice. They hope that she may be able
to throw some light upon the mys-
terry.
The police are confident the MUIR
derer was one of the girls admirers,
and that some issue of deeply senti-
mental character was under discussion
between the pair before the crime was
committed.
character, this was probably due to
the fact that it was unpremeditated.
III was apparent that there had been a
dispute, eliminating in q hand-to-
hand battle, during which the MUIR
derer struck Mrs. Roberts several
times with an electric iron. With this
weapon the woman's nose was broken
and her skull fractured. Then the
murderer took a silk stocking and
strangled her.
Show Her "a Suicide
After the woman was dead, the
murderer had taken q rubber hose, at
tached this to a gas jet,and placed this
IN such way that one at first might
nave believed that Mrs. Roberts had
committed suicide by gas. But after
all this trouble the murderer forgot to
turn on the gas, and also made no at
tempt to right things in the apart
ment and cover up the evidences of a
struggle.
The girl when found was clad In
mac SILK paJamas, and had been dead
Tor at least twenty-four hours.
According to Captain of Detectives
rate ROBBERY was not a motive for the
murder. Judging from the manner in
which the girl was first brutally beat
en-, then strangled, and later laid upon
the bed, 1t is thought the tragedy is
one that involves the happiness oil
more persons than the two directly
concerned.
Who Owns the Shirt
The utmost importance is attached
by the police to a silk shirt, with blue
stripes, neck size, 10, and a 15A col
lar found IN closet. The owner
of the shirt and collar is believed tC
have been the murderer. Both, blood.
stained and rumpled, were found
where they had been apparently tossed
In great haste. The murderer eVi.
IDENTIFY removed his collar and shirt
before washing his hands at the bath
room washstand, as there are bloody
fingerr prints about the buttonhole in
the front of the collar and bloody
prints about the washstand. If this
be the case, he must have hurried
from the apartment without shirt oil
collar, but with his coat collar turned
up.
Well Known AS Model
Until October the girl was a mani
cure in the Keith building. She had
occupied the apartments q year. They
consist of three rooms and a bath
renting for about $50 a month. She
posed for advertising agencies, ap-
pearing in street car and magazine
advertisements dressed in certain
well-known brand of petticoat, in hos.
iery ads, and also appeared upon the
screen in motion picture fashion pic.
lures. She possessed handsome
clothes, and drove, it is said, a motor
car. Not long ago she ran the auto.
mobile into q shop window, but es-
capped injury in the accident
Among her visitors, it is said, was q
fine-looking man about 28 years old
who drove a large touring car and
called daily. Another of her admirers
Is said to have been a man of about
so years old, with whom she was fire.
quently seen.
Hear No Screams
A peculiar feature of the case is the
declaration of everybody in the apart
ment house, and the janitor, that they
did not hear the noise of the struggle
altough it must have been loud and
prolonged. All declare no screams
were heard.
All this time the pair must have
fought and reeled about the apart
ment, for chairs and furniture were
upset and smashed, rugs trampIed
and showed into heaps, bric-a-brac
and pictures brushed from walls and
sideboard-the fight occurred in the
dining room-and then trample under
foot.
Blood Marks on Telephone
Blood marks on the telephone show
that the girl fought her way to the
phone to call for help, only to be
dragged away again. Blood stains
upon the curtains and two windows
show she twice made her way to the
windows to call for aid, to be pulled
away, and beaten.
Apparently, the girls strength and