Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-09
MUTILATED BODY
FOUND IN ROOM
HER APARTMENT
Member of Gay Crowd
Who Are Being
Questioned
by United Pres. Lensed Wire

zSAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9.-AfteI
II hours of investigation, police to
dav admitted they were no nearer
solving the mystery surrounding tn
murder of Pretty Andrietta Hide
brand, 10 year old telephone opera
tor, than they were an hour after
her multilated body was discovered
late Yesterday.
-Four men were taken to head
quarters for questioning but releas.
ed shortly after midnight and told
TO return to the hall of justice again
this morning. No arrests wera
made.
William +. de Lueca, who claima
to be the girl 3 fiancee, j. j. Cum.
mings, a laundry wagon driver, Sill
viro Capaloni, bank employee and
Jack Dwyer, young imam about
town. all were questioned during
the night but nothing was obtains
ed which tend to identify the murd-
erer. Miss Hazel Nielsen, chum of
the dead girl, also was questioned.
Fiancee Worried
ne SiTl uuilidtcu OuuN WAN
found in bed in her tiny apartment
OH Greenwich street late Yesterday
by de Lucca, who said he had been
worried about her and went to see
her on his way home from work.
The girl, who was a member of q
gay '..crowd' that danced away the
night hours many times a week, was
friendly with many men, de Lucea
said, and he had heard that some Of
them threatened her because she
didn't play the game.
Several nights ago, he said, she
and Miss Nielsen went riding with
Dwyer and Capaloni and were
forced to walk home. She was
afraid that the two youths might
harm her.
Dwyer admitted that he AMI Cap
aloni had been out with the girls.
''We tried to make love to thems
and they got mad and went home
by themselves, he said.
"Gee, those fellows wouldn I
hurt Babe Miss Nielsen. said.
Miss Hildebrand was known as
g Babe
Cummings was questioned when
police said they learned that he had
threatened Miss Hildebrand because
they said. she went to his wife and
charged Cummings with being inti-
mate with her.
The most that police could CLEAN
of the girl s life and associates was
a commonplace story of night life
and butterfly .doings'', they said,
the sort of thing that results in
any girl having enemies.
Out Of Work
Miss Nielsen said she and De Luc-
ca stayed all night at Babe S apart.
ment Wednesday night but that
Thursday night she had stayed alone
because Miss Nielsen could not be
with her and BABE would not per-
nit De Lucca to stay unless Miss
Nielsen did so.
De Lucca said he worried all
that night and the next day and
about $3.50 p. m. Friday hurried to
his fiancee's apartment and found
the kitchen door, opening on an al.
ley, unlocked.
He went on into the bedroom and
found the girl apparently asleep.
Her hands and forehead were cold
to the touch, he said, and then he
noticed Il bullet wound in her
temple.
81 threw back the sheet that
covered her." De Lueca told the po-
ice in IA chattering voice. ''Her
throat had been cut. There We're
knife wounds ON her breast. A bit
Of underwear had been stuffed into
Ter mouth. One of the window
curtains had been torn away aud
led tightly about her neck.
at was so that police found her,
he nude body lying weliering in Il
blood stained sheets.
Miss Hildebrand had been joh-
ess for two months, Miss Nielsen
aid Her father, who is divorced
rom her mother, owns the Hide,
'rand Planning Mill Company in
oakland, Calf. Her mother is mar
led to an army sergeant at Fort
Baker, California,