New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
ather Finds
Harlem Dentist
Slain by Axnnan
Man Who Served Term i'm
Prison for Attacking Girl
Relative OfHatclletVictim
Held by Police as Slayer

| Charged with the murder of DR..
Jacob N. Hanania, a young dentist,
whose head was crushed with hatchet
in his office, 81 East 118th Street, yes
| terday morning. Isaac Isaackowitz, re-
Gently released from a prison term for
attacking a girl relative of Hanania,
wa> arrested last night.
Isaackowitz, whom the police had
been seeking since DR.. Hanania's father
discovered. the crime, YVES taken in a
barber shop at 306 East Nineteenth
Street. A red spot, believed to be a
bloodstain, was found on his coat
lapel He is said to- have admitted
having been at Hanana's office yester-
day. The prisoner was locked up in
the East 126th Street station.
Suspicion was directed toward
lsai ckowitz when his name was found
in letter of recommendation which
Dr.. Honania was writing when he was
slain.
Father Finds Body
David Hanania, the sixty-one- year
old father of the dead man, found his
the police that short time before a
young girl had been treated in the Of
fice This girl was found to be Mrs.
Rose Fass, Of l West 132d Street. Mrs.
Fass says that as she left the doctor s
room a man got up from seat in the
reception room and came toward the
office door. AS she went out into the
hall she heard the doctors greeting:
"How do you do, Isaac, come in"
The father said he had admitted the
man into the reception room, and rec
ognlzcd him as Isaackowitz, an ac-
quaintance of the family they had met
on the boat when they came to Amer
ica from Serbia about ten years ago.
and who had been sent to prison for an
attack on a woman relative of the
Hanania family.
few moments later, the father said.
two other women were admitted to the
reception room. After waiting for
about fifteen minutes these women, he
said, raped at his door and said that
the man who had been with the doctor
had gone out. They said they were in
a hurry and asked to be permitted to
go in next.
The father raped on the door to his
turned the knob and walked in. His
sons body, he said, lay beside an Slp-
turned chair. His cries attracted other
members of the family and the police
were notified.
DR.. Benjamin Schwartz, chief medi-
cal examiner, said that the hatchet
found near the body was new. Spots
on the handle were. examined by the
police, and an effort is being made to
obtain photographs of any finger prints
Met on Shipboard
Isaackowitz, according to the po-
lice, had made the acquaintance of
the Hananias on board the ship upon
which they were coming from Serbia
to America. He was taken into the
house of Samuel Falcon, a cousin of
the dentist, who at that time lived on
East 115th Street, and became boarder
there. Nine months later he was pay
ing marked attention to Rose Falcon,
the twentyyear-old daughter Of Sam
uel Falcon. One night, said the father
of the girl, Isaackowitz attacked his
daughter at the house. When the
father and mother of the girl went to
her assistance he slashed them all
with a knife The father still showed
signs of deep cut in his left cheek.
For this Isaackowtz was arrested
and sentenced by Judge Crane to
from two years and six months to
four years and six months on the
charge Of felonious assault. In the
early part of 1918 Jewish welfare