New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Girl, 5, Choked
ToDeath; blurred
Away by Santa
Body Found in Grip in New
Brunswick Hotel, Where
She Was Taken by Room
er Now Sought by Posses
Coaxed Away From Home
Volunteers Hunting Slayer
Swear He Will Never See
Prison if They Catch Him
Spceiol Dispatch TO The 7ribnno


NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Dec. %
The man who took five -year-old Tessie
Kucarski "to see Santa Claus" yester-
day afternoon is being sought tonight
by officials and volunteer posses on
the charge of numbering her. Her body
was found this morning stuffed in u
grip III a closet of the Hotel Albany.
She had been choked to death
The police said tonight they would
arrest before morning George Garris,
fifty-four years old, carpenter, with
whom the child was last seen alive.
They say they have traced his move
ments to the home of his mother, in
Revere, near Frenchtown, on the Jcr-
sey-Pennsylvania border. He lived at
tho Albany until shortly before the
body of the child was found. An
autopsy performed showed that death
was duo to strangulation with q strip
of bed ticking. The little girl had
been attacked before she died.
Girls Father a Fugitive
Tessie was the daughter Of Adolph
Kucharski, who until recently, when he
was charged with attacking a fifteen
year-old girl and fled his bond, man
aged the Bellmore Hotel. Since then
she had been living with her mother,
who kept the hotel open with the aid
Of a bartender she employed.
A ,o1o
Garris entered the Bellmore and began
conversation with the child, who was
playing about the bar. When he told
the bartender that he was going to
take her out TO see Santa Claus little
attention was paid to their departure,
1T being assumed the child would re-
turn shortly with candy and perhaps
some small change from the man who
had taken such an interest in her.
Her mother did not miss her until
supper time, when a search was start
ed. 1t was learned that she had gone
to the Albany with Garris, who told
some one who asked him who the
youngster was that she was his grand
child. who had come to pay him "a
little Christmas visit"
An hour after he entered the hotel
he departed without the child, explain
ing that he had sent her home with a
friend. The resulting investigation.
begun an hour after he had gone, dis
closed the little body, crammed into a
suitcase, which had been carelessly
flung into a closet in Il room adjoin-
ing Garris's.
Accused of Attacking Boy
Garris was tried last May on the
charge that he had lured small boy
into the woods and attacked him. lie
was acquitted. He is described as be-
ing five feet eight inches in height,
dark and Of stocky build. He was seen
by a Waterman about midnight pass.
ing the Rutgers College buildings and
making his way in the direction CT
Bound Brook, where it is beloved he
boarded a train for Revere
Two men who described themselves
as Mike Roman and Sam Pcski, bar
tenders at the Bcllmore, were held in
the county jail tonight as material
witnesses. They are said to have talked
with Garris while he was in the hotel
with the little girl
The countryside is so inf1anaed
against the murderer because of many
similar crimes in Jersey within the
last few months that the authorities
fear for the life of the slayer if he is
run down by one of the bands that are
seeking him. They are outspoken in
saying that he will never live to see the
inside of a Jail if they lay hands on
him.