New-York tribune., 1922-12-01
officials May Go Before re
Grand Jury To-day in
Dea,h Of Bronx Woman u,
Whose BOdyw as Dug up
@OtIier Woman
Held as Witness
Anna Elias, With WHOM /,
Husband Lived, Arrested :.
- He DeGes Crili;ng

..x,,,r cigarette ailer ''- '''''
q, .iouers with on air Of
'ssss 's.,bslsn. esllossness and "''n "a
III plsying sonslruoosly about .,. pc
,sip lips. Abraham Becker s su'o-s'..' -.
80 -, y.s,erdsy dsfed repeated e.
o. s "a .x.rae. from hin confession
80 :, t,,i.s 81, vifs-the mother of
- s.vr childreu--ia The early nora
80 - Aorn and buried her Ooey IN
80 go, =, =. iiota Street and South
crr boulevard, the BronY
Nevertheless, more !inss "'ro W''I. ,,',.
a into tho ehsin of evidence when
.a,iak Of tse once Of District AtioT-
nev Edward }. Glennon have o.on
.gsayiug about Becker since bis wife.S
iody ~ss dug Up late Wednesday al.
,,rroou. and last night they announced
they regarded the case against MN %
% s,rong that they would 90 before
n, Qrsno jury his morning and ask
M indictment Tor muluot
Anna Elias Arrested
formal charge Of homicide was
,l.esd against sim yes,erdsy' accord
,rv 20 Assistant District Attorney Al
49, cohn. who has charge Of ilvesti-
It, m the murder. Meanwhile, the
S.iste continued 90 hold az 8 material
.,s.ress Rubin Norkin, Becker's friend,
10 grwillingiy led detectives and
.o,n, a exhumers 70 the spot where
he BODY was buried
Late last night Miss Anna klias'
..Y.adri.ted sweetheart Of Necker,
va, srrested as material witness
She was taken to the Ba,hgate Avenue
S.Ston and thence Transferred, 70 the
wrrissuia station. There she was
questioned at length by Assistant Dis
triei Attorney Cohen.
Ms. elias was taken into custody Dy
Pstro'man Sw;sg, Of the Bathgste Ave
nus station. With tW0-yesr-old baby
in her arms. che approached rim az
Clay Avenue and 11lSt street, the
Bronx and asked 70 &c directed 20 z
plsee where sic could get shelter for
herself and the child. Her sister, Mr..
Rosens0eig, living az iisl Brock Ave
nue.. had refused 70 take her in, sc had
her mother, she later declared at the
pohce station.
Interrogation ly The patrolmar re-
sulted in her mAkirg known her iden-
tity ss Miss Elias, for whom the police
lad been searching since yesterday
morning. At the police station she
laid that Becker was The father OF
ne baby.
She had been ordered 90 leave her
room 81 1851 Clsy Avenue she said, be-
cause her name had appeared In the
papers In connection with the arrest
of Becker. She had walked tho streets
for hours when size met Patrolman
Sweig,
Included d the new evidence OBJ
tsined yesterday we're several sdmis-
sionS said 10 have been made by Becker
him1elf, despite the cunning he shoWco
10 answering questions.
The hrtt Of .hesc came, according
10 Mr. Cohn, after Mrs. Rcbecca Bald
Uin, Of 65s linton Avenue, and Mrs.
Jennie Under Of 765 Jonninge Avenue,
both close friends o. dre. Becker, went
70 the Fordham Morg1e and identified
several articles Of clothing found on
tht exhumed body as having been worn
BY Nrs. Becker They were not per
mittsd 10 view the body because Of Its
decomposed state.
When Informed that this ldentifca-
zion Dad been made. Becker, II Is de-
elared gaid:
The JIG ls up
Another Man implicated
later. NJ. Coin declared, Becker
,.o4e nln that be was told his wife
fisd been killed" about five weeks after
aof eisappearance, snd asserted that
Aletaef mar did It" The man men
,t,oned already has been duplicated in
rs case. but the request was made
'nsl hf nsme be withheld.
LAST night, when asked questions
NonS this line In the presence Of
rswspaper men, Becker, still with one
o. he eternal cigarettes droopinr from,
the Singers of hig left hard. replied
silngly 10 the Affirmative when il
s sag that "of course. you knew
soor VIE was dead" and that "Of
.yyslse, .y, you didn't want to tell any one
49, De loved his wife and chill
,Is1 ue sAid, ard refused 10 admit
si;". &C cared moro for Mi6s Anna
s.d ,.as, VITA whom he had been living
~ Nao names lin AZ the father Of
nss tSo,yesr-old daughter.
- asan,t want 20 marry her," he
ap. loved my wife better"
u' uiont ou say earlier to-day"
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