The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-05-27
The Suspect Identified
By Girl

by uIll
/ State troopers, county detectives and
armed posses made up OF enraged far
mers Friday moring were, securing the
countryside around Peril eville for the
masked man who Thursday Of
last week attacked and assaulted
13-y ear-old Rose Tarabash as she
walked along lonely road on her way
to school
German police dogs employed BIZ
troopers and Chief Monmouth Conn-
1 ty Detective John smith Thursday
night followed scent from the scene q
the attack to deserted farmhouse on
| the HightstOwn- Manalapan road. where
| it was lost. The attacker had en-
tered the house and left by Side door,
going to the main road. which was
| trampled so much during the day by
| the curious that the dogs were unable to
regain the scent.
Sergeant George Tighe of the Free
| hold state police station said the at
tack was prearranged and likely was
committe by farmland living at
Perrineville.
Fifty feet from the scene Of the at
tack was found plank spanning a
brook dozen feet in width. The brook
penetrates area Of thick underbrush
| The plank, it was ascer tanned, had been
l taken from the deserted farmhouse
where the scent ended. Sergeant Tighe
expressed the belief that the attacker
had laid the plank over the stream to
make quick getaway after the as
Esault. It is practically the only clue the
investigators have.
| Miss Tarabash was taken to Mckinley
Hospital at Trenton on Friday. She
lsuffered FROM shock and decorations OF
| the scalp, hands and body. An X-ray ex-
animation allayed fe airs that she may
lhave u fractured skull
| The troopers and detectives are ham-
psred in their Investigation by the nea-
ger description given by the girl OF her
attacker. She now is sure that he was q
! white man but Friday night sug-
gested that he may have been negro,
The disappearance OF four negroes
from shack along the Perrineville road
Thursday night has been explained. In
visiting all dwelling in the vicinity, the
| investigators found liquor still in one
OCCUPIED by the negroes, who were
way at the time. Being tipped off that
| b 4ir apparatus had been turned over to
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tiou sly away all night.
Over 10 state troopers have joined
in the search. They are under the
idirectfon of Sergeant Tighe and Trooper
i Jonn Green of the Freehold station.
The farabach family moved eight
years ago from Bayonne to q little farm
on back road half mile from Perrine-
vile. Rose started at 81 O'Clock to
walk to school. An hour later she
Icrawled back home. bleeding profusely
and scarcely able to articulate Tbs
story as finally gained from her was: A
big man wearing black mask over his
face with spectacles over the mask
suddenly stepped from the bushes and
confronted her. Holding an envelope
toward her he demanded, read that
| for me-" AS Rose started to retrace
her footsteps she was knocked down
by q blow from three inch club in
the hands of the man. Beating her
until she was unable to make an
| cutlery, he carried her across the
brook, attacked her and ran away in
to the woods.
Drs, Charles Camper and William
| Wilbur of Hightstown, who attended
the girl at her home, had her re-
moved to the hospital, fearing that she
had fractured Skuu.
Identification of Frank Lipshitz, 80
year old farm hand, as the attacker Of
Rose Tarabash, 10 years old PeTlne-
vile school girl, was delayed Sunday
by the development of a slight infec-
j ton in wounds in the girls head. Lip
shitz is held in jail at Freehold as a
material witness.
| Mckinley hospital authorities said
| the girl would not be able to leave
for her home until Tuesday.
| He is a religious fanatic, and re-
Gently, declaring the Messiah was
coming, purchased large supply Of
groceries in Perrineville and proceed
ed to shut himself up in his shack
on the abraham Grudan farm, on which
he worked.
1t became known that Lipshitz had en-
tered the home of farmer near Per-
lrineville less than two weeks ago and
was about to attack the housewife
when the husband appeared. The
latter chased Lipshitz into the woods,
where the hermit vanished. The wife
said she had refrained from reporting
! the occurrence to authorities because, of
! fear Of scandal.
Lipshitz is strapping six foot Pole,
with almond complexion that appears
pallid behind the thick beard that
covers greater part Of his face. He
grows his hair long, tucking the ends
under the collar of his coat. He speaks
j in broken English and says he has been
in this country five years
He is unmarried and lives in a
shack on the Grudan farm at Perrine-
vile, where he works. He did not show
up at work the day of the attack, nor
ldid he return to his dwelling the next
night. 1t was the day following that de-
tectives and troopers arrested him as he
Ientsred his padlocked shack.
Rose got her first glimpse of her at
racker from 100 feet off on Tuesday
in the woods where he attacked her.
Lipschitz had been handed aclub, and
stood stoically on the brink of the
ditch looking off toward the Tara
dash home, his neck still rigid. Then
the detectives parted around him
and Rose her head swaChed in BAN