New Britain herald., 1919-03-24
RIPPER MURDERS
 GIRL IN MACHINE
Now York Stirred by Most Brutal
 Crime in Years

New York. March 24.-Mrs. Flor eHco Coyne. twenty-five, stenogra nhcr with the Industrial Acoeptances Corporation at No. fl Park Row. was discovered dead carly yesterday morn- ing-the police and prosecutor assert the victim Of a degenerate murderer -T~tu an automobile standing at Rose wood street and Newal1 avenue on the edg'e of Eronx Park. Her clothes had hecn partially torn from. her and her nose face and eyes were badly bruised.
 Following an autopsy held by N1edi- cal Examiner kennard of the Bronx, District Attorney Martin said it was one of the most brutal ripper crimes committed in New York in years, Her Companion Arrested.
 s The. woman was found by Bicycle TatrCiInan George Lois of the Bronx Park Station, who immediately placed her companion, Ernest Fritz, under arrest. and had him rush with her to Fordham hospital. where nr. Barrow said she had been dead for some time. Frita said he owns the car in which :he woman was found, and thaT he had been driving ii. He was locked ua charged with suspicion of homi- eide, .. r
 According to the policeman he was rifliOg through Rosewood street when ~ fle saw the autom obile standing in fi2e shadow of some trees. It was dark. but lie discovered the outlines of the form, of a man standing in the r3a ac71ne and he went nearer. There lse found Fritz batting the woman's facD, When he asked what tho trou- Y b5A was Fritz replied he had just f1n- islsed q drive through the park and !. Supposed his companion had col iapsed Leis jumped into the car and found tho bot onl 0f it covered with blood,
 The wonlans hal was off and her ' cioShfDS tba; had not hcei, torn from 'Aher WAS di~arranged, The policeman pleced q shadow light to hcs> face and saw she Wal not breathing. II was .sFhen that, he ordered the hurried sarive to 'tha hosriial.
 E The district attorneys office at N once was notified Of the woman's death, and after Assistant Prosecutor Peter A, Hating had questioned the driver for some time. he ordered his arrest.
 ssid They Had Beer, Drinking.
 S4ritE told him that he had known Mrs, Ccyne for more than year and a A&if and that Saturday afternoon he hod gone to her place of business and met her. They had lunched to- s-ether, went shopping. according to his story, and ther stopped It an au- Ftsynobtta salesroona in Upper Broad Nay, where he got a- new car he re- ceatly purchased From there they proceeded north, stopping occasion ,,rY at hotels, waern they had drinks ~ When they had finished 9 circuit of .a0~fttoEs!i places they started Tor Tucknhoe, where both live, As they were going through the park. the ] driver went on, the woman collapsed !. arfd he was trying to revive her when t1a1 poIiceman arrived. The body was sent to the Bronx morgue, where 1t was later claimed by the girls father, sf YJafiieL Giennon with whom she lived.
 Fritz was taken to the West Farms cotirt and arraigned on a short afi- ,5avft sworn to by Policeman Leis. . srne 3;risoner said that he had car ,fe4 TO otter passeng ger from the tim e Mrs. Coyne got into his car s He was ye.iTla nded without bail for further hearing Wednesday,
 Fritz lived with his wife and four E Year-old child few blocks away from the murdered womans home. He cperates a line of taxicabs from Tuck anoe. >s.~ .." -1
 Was Separated From Husband. Mrs. Coyne leaves a. four-year-o o Id child. She was separated from ner 4s@ husband several years, ago. and two
 years ago called in the police of the Hast Chester Station and asked that
 fe be made to keep from annoying hbe,a@ ... Az .f.t.."
 District Attorney Martin, in com
 naepting on the case last night, said
 the murder was of the t'ripper'' sort
 which excited the east side several
 years ago and was committed in a
 manner similar to those. He said the
 medical examiners report gave the ; cause of Mrs Coyne's death as hem orrhage.
 ''rs was a 1eInorrhage," he ex-
 plained, "but was caused by one o1
 the most brutal assaults of which
 have ever heard