Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-12
MURDER MYsTER%foR
 NEW LONDON POLICE

1AEGiS " dtSES, Ou, a COiOreQ WO-
 man with a considerable police record in New London, was found murdered there in her apartment at POT Bradley street at $40 o'clock Tuesday morn- ing.
 At that hour the death Of the wo- man was reported to PatroIman Thomas Cavanaugh and Roy James 1 by Randolph Waters, aged 31, said to be the common law husband Of the woman. Waters was locked up and held by the police for the coroner 1 The woman had been beaten over l the head with a bottle or some other | blunt instrument and when the po-
 lice enerted the house she was lying 1 in q bed room on the second floor Of 1 the house. About her neck had been ] wrapped a towel which had been 1 tightly knotted. sufficient, the police ] say, to cause strangulation, but when the body was turned over the towel 1 was discovered to have been cut This 1 cut i'll the towel, Waters told the po- ] lice, he had made as he sought to re- 1 lieVe the woman.
 On the first floor of the house. in 1 the kitchen and just inside the door 1 leading from the alley the police found the broken fragments of q half pint syrup bottle. Broken glass was i scattered about the kitchen floor and within three feet from the door was . i small spot of blood, but after a i thorough inspection of the house the police are satisfied the woman was
 killed in the bedroom on the second floor.
 In his story to the police Waters said he arrived at New London on the Owl train at 3.25 Tuesday morning.
 He said he had left Bridgeport at 1.21
 o'clock and as he left the train he
 spoke to Sergt Nelson Smith. Waters
 said he went immediately to the home
 of the woman. arriving there within
 10 minutes and as he inserted q key
 ill the lock Of sle Kitchen door he
 said the door opened as it was un-
 locked and he went in.
 Waters said he noticed the broken
 glass on the floor Of the kitchen and
 getting any answer he started fer the
 he says he called to Lizzie" Not
 stairway leading to the upper floor.
 Ascending the stairs to the bedroom
 he found the woman on the floor and
 tried to rouse her as he thought she
 had fallen in q stupor. As he touched
 her arm he noticed she was liiaD, but
 the flesh Of her arm was warm He shook her and then he noticed the
 towel about her neck.
 t Waters says he then drew knife
 Il Cl+l 4l-S tJtstEAEL deEQ tUL tile Ltlrt
 and then noticed the blood on the floor and ran from the house and up the stairs leding from the alley U Bradley street where he found Pa trolmen Cavanaugh and James. Coroner Franklin H. Brown was 1T New London Tuesday morning ex- anining' witnesses. At the concIus5or of the examination Of Waters, the !, coroner said he would hold the mar for further examina tions. Bail was , placed at $5.000 and Waters was talz- . en to jail.
 The police now seek another wit. 1 ness in tiIe case q man who is al leged to have been ill the company O
 Lizzie Waters at Q late hour las 2 night. This man was not to be found at his usual lodging place this morn ing and when he is found, the pol.cS believe they will be able to clear up al i unexplained point ill the murder n1ys. l tery.
 , An autopsy Tuesday morning re veaied death was evidently caused b! ] strangulation. There was two sligh 7 wounds on the head, which, the op 5 erating surgeon states, might hav' | been caused by a blow from & bottl [ or some other blunt instrument anl there was also an abrasion inside 0
 the mouth which would indicate tha. , the woman had been struck q blov
 in the jaw. Neither the blow on tn . head or the blow on the jaw VoUit
 have caused death, but the tightl, knotted towel would have cause, l death by strangulaticn.
 ] To the police Lizzie Waters wa
 also known as Lizzie Rho6-nan ant 5 Lizzie Elliott. She had been a res , ident Of the Bradley. John and Pot
 ,F 9 six years and the card index sySten at the police station discloses she la v been arreted several times on charg
 es of strsee tyalking, soliciting and ol
 one occasion was held for the fedora
 l authori ties.
 On Oct. ? she was arrested on \ charge of shooting with intent to Xii ! one Phillip Henry CahaGa, negro a about B. Canada was shot In tn n leg and sent to Lawrence hospital fo V treatment He made his escape iron , that institution on Oct. 3 and the mex l day failed to appear in the polio n against the woman and she was dis - charged.
 = Since that time the police say Can e ada has been out of the city, but tn e woman often stated that she wa g afraid the man might return and q
 her harm. So far as the police hay T been able to learn Canada, WIS not i 5 the city last night, but tlloroug 6 search is being made for him. = In the house at 2o7 Bradley stree . there lives two negro families and [ c the police this morning the occupant ] of the house say they did not }ea I any loud talk or screams at an s time during the night.
 Frank Martin Arrested on Suspicion
 Frank Martin. eo1ored e5 years ole
 employed as laborer by the Cum rnings Construction Company of Ne1 a London, vas arrested Tuesday on sus t picion of having knowledge concerrin a cne murder of Lizzie Waters. e The Waters woman is known [ T have visited Martins room some tim !, tbetween 10 and 11.50 Monday night. v The police have inforn1a ton tha a Martin had borrowed money from he ;. at different times and had mad a threats against her. Il MidaIsssWn-Consid gentiu.e-
 has developed here in favor of g. leagu
 Of nations. Prof. Willisn, North Ric !