The Washington times., 1937-12-17
4 STEEL MEN
HELD IN DEATH.
OF PARTY GIRL.
Murder Charge Filed
After Hotel Spree

PITTSBURGH, Dec. l G.N.SO.
Four delegates to the first national
convention of the steel workers or
ganizing committee, in whose room
the nude body of woman was
found, were ordered held on muir
der charges today by District At
torney Andrew T. Park.
Park, after a conference with
Coroner w. j. McGregor and Au-
topsy Surgeon j. w. McMeans, eX-
claimed the measure was merely
precautionary.
Two of the delegates, Louis H.
Green, of Brooklyn. and Fred A.
Odenwald. of Long Island, had
already left the city when the body
of the attractive divorce, Rose
Ault, was found in their room.
The other two, Jacob Zelkind and
Morris Engargola, both of Brook
lyn, walked into the room while
house detectives were examining
the body.
JUST PRECAUTION
"As a matter of fact my
thought would be that it is not
a murder case" Park said. But
1 advised the coroner to hold all
four of them until we find the
cause of death. The preliminary
autopsy showed no evidence OF
violence"
Pinned to a dresser in the room
where Zelkind and Engargola ad-
mitted a drinking party was in
progress was this note:
"Jake-We are pulling out on
the 4 o'clock train. Better get
rid of it if you can. We will see
you in New York some time next
week.-Fred."
"Some of the investigators
think that the note just meant
to get rid of her, that she was a
damn nuisance" Park said.
But, I think it meant to get
rid Of the body.
SIGNIFICANT QUERY
"As soon as Green and Oden.
valid reached New York they
went to the police and gave
themselves up. Why did they
do that if they didn't know that
the girl was dead?"
A post mortem on the woman's
body failed to give any clues to
the cause of her death. Coroner
w. j. McGregor may order an
analysis of the body fluids.
Joseph R. Ault, an uncle, iden-
titled the body. He said his niece
was heavy drinker." Her father
died last week and her mother a
year ago.
Green insisted when he last
saw the girl she was in bed at the
Fort Pitt Hotel. calling Justify for
a drink. Green told the follow
ing story:
"Wednesday night the boys
started doing a little drinking.
Another delegation sent this
girl up from downstairs. I don't
know her name. She was pretty,
I guess.
CLOTHES VANISHED
"When she came in she was
fully clothed, but her clothes
disappeared. I was in and out
of the room most of the time.
going to subcommittee meetings
and so on.
"She began drinking and said
something about her father hav-
ing died recently. 1t made her
sad.
THE party went on and she
went to bed. Everybody was
drinking and cutting up. That
lasted uptil 2 a. m. Thursday,
as we couldn't get her out of the
room, we let her stay in one bed
and used three others.
Friday at p. m. Fred Oden-
walk and packed to catch the
4 p. m. for New York. There
was one bottle left and the girl
yelled for a drink. She was
still in bed with no clothes on.
Fred said" She's had
enough. Get rid of the bottle
So I put it in my suitcase. I
swear that girl was alive when
we left the room.
"On the train Fred told me
he'd left the note in the room.
He meant simply that we
couldn't get the girl out and
that he wanted Zelkind to try
1t. I know none of us had any
thing to do with her death"