The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12
MOB SEEKS YOUTH
AS WOMAN SLAYER
Demonstration in Yonkers
When Lipp Is Conveyed to
Scene Of Crime.
HE CONFEssEs HIS SHARE
Says Gas Tube Was Placed by
His Confederate - Four
Others Are Held.

While Lee Parsons Davis, District At
torney. and George Engei, Coroner, were
having the details of the robbery and
murder Of Mrs Elizabeth Nixsnick.
midwife, rehearsed before them yester-
day In the four room fiat at ~ st.
Mary's avenue, Yonkers. a mob Of sew
eral hundred men and women neighbors
led by jeremiah Curtain. q relative Of
the murdered woman, broke the police
lines and started up the stairway Of
the tenement house. Curtin brandished
large carving knife and the crowd
which surged behind him yelled Let's
hang the murderer !" After a slxirmish
of twenty minutes, during which period
extra policemen were called to the
scene. the widest sort Of fight was
waged between the excited neighbors
and the police. who finally restored
order.
Coroner Engei and the District Attor-
ney had brought Max Lipp. q butcher
boy Of SO Lewis street, Manhattan, to
the tenement after he had confessed to
the police Of New York his participation
In the crime. They had not been ten
minutes In the room occupied by Mrs.
Nizsnick, who was found murdered last
Tuesday, bound in bed with q gas tube
forced into her mouth. when the angry
cries OF men and women came from the
outside. Lipo was explaining how he
had entered the rooms with man whom
the police have yet to arrest and how
he assisted this man In searching the
four rooms and gathered up $1,000 In
Liberty bonds and 5000 in cash.
"She did not make the slightest rro-
test" Lipp told the officials ''She even
told us where the money and bonds had
been hidden, and 1 told ------- not TO kill
her"
Says Comrnde Slew Her.
when she was placed on the bed. .
continued Lipp, who appeared calm ir
the surroundings and despite the yowI.
ing mob outside, "why, the old woman
even turned over In the bed with hei
face to the pillow and placed her arm'
behind her back SO we could tie her UP
did not kill her--the other man put
the tube in her mouth and turned on ti1s
gas I pleaded with him, but he woult
not listen to me-"
From the story which Lipp recitet
at Police Headquarters and later sn
acted in the Yonkers tenement the polic'
arrested three other men. After thu
rehearsal of the crime the Coroner and
District Attorney Davis immediatel,
held court and remanded Lipp ant
Samuel Michalow, known as Sam Thu
Landlord" ST, Of 80 Pike street to thu
| county Jail on charge of homicide
Louis Cohen, 26, a clerk, of 1s1 Clinton
street Isadore Fucker, 20. Of IS Gran'
street, and George Grinder. the mai
who boarded in the Nizsnick home. wer
held as material witnesses. All bu
Grinder are from Manhattan.
tdpp. who is 20, told the police tina
Michalow. who earned the sobrique
sam the landlord" On the East Side be
cause he Is reputed to be the owner o
real estate worth 100000. had planned
the robbery six months ago. At tina
| time, Lipp told the police. he was ap
preached by Michalow. who Is allege'
to have told him about the midwif
Nizsnick In Yonkers who had Tots o
money hidden In her home. Later LIP
said. the police story goes. that "San
! the Landlord took him on a trip to tn
| tenement house in Yonkers and is al
legged to have told him to get a com
panion.