The evening world., 1917-06-18
Room in REAR OF
WoRkSH00 nooe.
BIAGRAM OF WORKSHOP
in CELL AR Of Ma 54s

the American COnsul, no was Well
dressed and plentifully supplied with
funds.
Mrs. Humlston, although guarded
In all her statements. told what she
had learned OF cocchrs character by
weeks of patient investigation.
He was one OF a group OF depraved
men who sought out young women.
Before opening the One Hundred and
Twenty seventh Street shop no had
run a similar business in West Eigh-
ty-fifth Street. where charges OF in
decency and immortality were made
against him. The victim In this case
who escaped physical inJury-was
n girl. barely more than a child.
Tho small room in which Kron be-
lieves Miss Cruger was Killed opens
out OF the Cocchi shop at the rear.
This closet-liko apartment was used
by Cocchi as a Mushroom, and when
searched by the police II showed un-
mistakable evidences OF having been
cleaned. There was nothing in this
little room-no sign of disorder or
stain OF blood--to hint at tho COM
mission OF a murder within It's walls.
Krun believes that Cocchi and some
disreputRble friends were in waiting
for the girl when she returned to the
shop for her skates. He thinks she
was pushed into the little room and
there attacked and murdered by the
group.
The floor plan OF the premises
shows that this may not be lmprob'
! able. Cocchfs desk stands I'm the real
| OF the long deep shop within a few
! feet OF the door opening into thC
small extension-!half room, hall
| closet. At that distance from the
street no mufflod cry for help could
have been heard; the girl would hav,
been at the mercy OF assailants.
IMPOSSIBLE TASK FOR ONE MAN
SAYS kRoN.
Kron further believes that the vic,
TINS body was lowered by ropes ou
Of a rear window into dark arei
which communicates directly witl
the rear OF the cellar. There Is 1
door through which the body. ac
cording TO kron, could have beel
carried easily to the corner OF tn
cellar where II was found, burie,
deep under the floor.
ii feel certain that my theory o
the murder 10 correct" said Kror
when I found the body the legs an,
arms were bound tight-not witt
heavy cord Of the kind carried b.
Cocchi IN his shop-but heavy three
quarter inch rope.
II feel reasonably certain that Rutl
Cruger was never lured into that eel
lar. Shs would have had to 60 dow
tho stone steps from the sidewalk an,
she could not have done that--in tina
crowded neighborhod In the middle o
the day-without being seen Dy man,
persons,
again, I am absolutely positiv
that IL would have been impossibl
for any one man to have bound tn
, body as II was bound and hide IL I
. the depth that a was hidden. Tw
strong men might accomplish thi
task, but 10 one man II would be a
impossibility."
public the evidence In her DO,
session which had led her 20 the nc
luton OF Ruth Cruger's fate. Sh
said;
THAT evidence has. In part, bee
turned over 10 Com missioner Wood
by me. 1 shall give the remand,
10 the authorities as soon as col
slider It wise 20 do so.
POLICE LID ABOUT GIRL. AN
o DERipEO SEARCH.
?. Ruth was not q wilful GIRL who le
, her homo voluntarily, as every poll,
, official connected with tho search A
! sured me that she was. They had I
o prOOf-nono OF them had sing
d tact against her-but they ali ga
, that she could not possibly have be-
abducted. They admitted that "A II
T lie child might be overpowered al
q made way with In store like Co
IA chrs, situated ON "a busy street. b
girl eighteen years old-nevt
p They pitiod me for my faith IN X
- nature and, wisely shaking the
heads, insisted that she must ha
y, gone OFF OF her own will-the old, 81
d "But I have proved that she didr
% leave home that way have prov
"A that she was brave, good girl al
that she died IN an enort To shit
a her honor. IL was not the old, {
story that the police harp on when
NJ girl disappears and detectives fail
trace her. II was a murder, one
the most hideous In the history
r. this city-ono that will mark N,
ct York with an indelible stain OF al
ia honor II Il does not lead to bott
, protection for our girls and me
determined administration of I
IN criminal law against the degenera
Of men who are preying upon them"