The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-19
Musician Arrested
 For Murder OF Girl
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Mischa Ross, a percussionist and the manager and booking agent of Miss Leelova. It was he who had encouraged her professional career and it was he who had rented the sound proof room for her practice.
 Ross Roaring Drunk
 At 3:30 a. m. today, Ross came LID on the porch of the home of his father-in- law, Nathan NesseloWitz, at Monticello, 30 miles from New York. His estranged wife, with whom he hadn't lived for two years, was there. The waiting police said he was roaring drunk"
 A month ago Miss Leelova broke off her engagement to her booking agent who had lured her from the modest profits of classical music to the sentimental music of the night clubs. Her father in Bridgeport, Conn, had been told that Ross was annoying her. He came to New York two weeks ago, believed he had stopped the annoyances,
 Yesterday a little before 10 a. m. Miss Leelova went to the rehearsal studio in Times Square which Ross had engaged for her. Fifteen min utes before, the elevator operator, Paul Klein, had taken a powerfully built man to the same floor, watch ed him walk down the corridor to- ward the studio. A half hour after she went up, Klein took the Strang- CT back to the street.
 Lancer Finds Victim
 Miss Leelova, was to have used the studio from 10 a. m. to noon. At 2 p. m, Moya Engels, a dancer, its next user, pushed open the door and entered. In the center of the room, on the floor, was canvas violin case. Even as she listened to labored breathing, intermingled with groans that came from she knew not whence Miss Angelo saw trickle of blood near the windows. She and her accompanist, Pianist Stuart Sirnons, next saw 9 woinan's legs protruded from beneath the heavy gray drapes which hung down the walls.
 Miss Leelova had been struck on the temple by claw hammer and the blow had been so ferpcious that it broke her skull. The bloody Wea- pon was nearby. From the position of the few chairs in the large bare room, and the position of the wound police knew that she had entered and found her assailant waiting for her. That she knew and trusted him was apparent from two chairs, one splattered with blood. She had sat there, facing her slayer, chat ting with him. Suddenly, something happened to enrage him. He swung out with the hammer and the deed was done.
 Head, Hand Smashed
 Miss Epgels said there had been a terrible hole" in Miss Leeloya, $ forehead and that her left hand had been smashed, as though she had lifted 1t to protect herself. Ro- lice said they found bloody finger prints "all over the room. The slayer apparently had attempted to drag the dying girl into a dressing room of the studio. But the door stuck, and he put her behind the drapes, stretched on the walls to correct the rooms acoustical faults.
 Police questioned Michael C.. MichaelS who rented the studio on an hourly basis to musicians and dancers. His records showed that it had been rented from 10 8. m. to noon in the name of Zachary C.. Ross, bother of Mischa, and a book ing agent, too. Zachary said his brother apparently had used his name. He told them that when he last saw him at about noon Sunday, two hours after Miss Leelova's skull was broken, he had been drunk and was talking about going to his par laws hame in Monticello.
 State Police Get Him
 Sttae police found him there. He became acutely i'll immediately, in capable of consecutive thought. Turned over to New York City he was brought back to the city.
 Miss LeeLova was born Julia Nus senbaum, daughter of Nathan Nus senbaum who operates a window cleannig service in Bridgeport. A child of remarkable musical talent, she had been accepted by the Julliard School, one of the finest in Ameri- ca, and finished with honors. Be- cause Nussenbaum, obviously, was 9.