The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
NAN DRUGS
WOMAN and
KILLS Her
Light Hued Negro Win
dow Washer Suspected
of Chicago Crime.

Chicago, Feb. 10.-Answering a
call to 344S West Fifteenth street.
fremen' OF engine company No. SO
broke in the back door of the sec
ond floor apartment and found Mrs.
Bessie Greenberg, As years old,
lying dead on the floor of her din
ing room
About Mrs. Greenberg's neck was
a towel Near her lay a small phial
of chloroform. Death. the police
think, came from both. Her as
sailant, they believe, chloroformed
her first and then strangled her.
Mrs Greenberg, neighbors de-
clare. had hired a tall, light hued
colored man to wash windows yes
terday. He went to work about 2
o'clock.
Firemen Kick in Door.
1t was two hours or more later
than the woman living in the
apartment directly below noticed
smoke seeping through the win
dows She sent in a fire alarm.
The firemen had to kick in the back
door, which was locked, as were
the windows. Mrs. Greenberg had
put meat on the stove for the eve
ming meal. It had boiled dry and
burned, . causing the smoke that
alarmed the neighbors.
Two colored men we're taken into
custody, following the reports of
the neighbors, by the Fillmore
street police. Captain Gleason de-
clined to state whether either of
them was the window washer.
Mrs. Esther Kanter, living across
the hall from the murdered wom-
an, told the police that Mrs. Green
berg had called on her to find out
II the Kanter windows needed
washing, at cents apiece.
"III send him over to see you
when he finishes here" Mrs. Green
berg said, according to Mrs. Kan
ter The window washer failed to
appear. Mrs. Kanter then went to
the Greenberg fiat and found the
doors locked and silence inside.
She concluded Mrs. Greenberg had
left on an errand and the employe
had finished and gone.
Boy Sees Slayer.
James Dlott, 1445 South ST.
Louis avenue, a janitnr, lives near
the GreenbeFgs. The colored man,
he said. had asked him for work
earlier in the afternoon. When
Dlott said he had none, the man
leaped over a low fence and went
to the Greenburg apartment.
A young boy, Bennie Bloom, 1922
South Central Park avenue, saw
the murderer leave the scene. Ben
ME said the man ran down the pas
sageway between the houses and
south in the alleyway, 20 minutes
before the fire department arrived
Captain Machek, in command of
engine company No. 3S, on finding
Mrs. Greenberg's body, summoned
DR.. M. L. Herschman of 1904 West
Sixteenth street. The physicians S
efforts to revive the woman were
in vain.
Motive Is Mystery.
Mrs. Greenberg's daughters
Mrs. Pauline Tesla, 363S West Polk
street; Mrs. Mildred Gettner, 420S
South Michigan avenue; Mrs. Mary
Alperin. 1912 South Harding ave-
nue., and Ruth, Florence and Kath-
erlne Greenberg-reached the house
late in the day. Her husband,
Morris Greenberg of the Greenberg-
hathenberg firm of tailors, at 673-
eiS West Madison street, could fur
hlsh no motive for the crime.
There is seldom much money
left in the house." he said.
The police. however, believe that
tne man, alone with Mrs. Green
Derg in the house, attempted to at
tack her. Hence, they say. the use
OF the chloroform and the towel
around her neck. After the murder
ne evidently jumped from the side
window, which was found open, to
tne ground, and fed down the alley.