Evening star., 1941-03-10
All Clues Fail.
In Staying
OF Bride
Four Are AbsoIved
After Questioning
BY Police

Police continued their investiga-
ton today into the battling attack
Staying of Mrs. Rose Abramowits
which threatens to become another
case on Washington's growing list
of unsolved murder mysteries.
Chief of Detectives Bernard w.
Thompson admitted that all efforts
so far to determine the Identity OF
the murderer have failed to uncover
tangible evidence. Neither finger
print nor f1ngernail tests provided
workable clues, he said.
The investigation yesterday was
confined largely TO residents and
others connected with the apartment
building at 1901 Sixteenth street
NV. in which the 28-year- old bride
of a month was found strangled
Saturday. Medical tests and ques-
tioning absolved four men whose
presence in the vicinity on the day
of the Staying or earlier last week
drew them into the case.
Will Release JanitOr.
Williams, colored, 26, janitor of the
apartment house. George Darnall
of the homicide squad said he would
be released today from First Precinct
Station, where he was held until
certain aspects Of the case could be
cleared up.
The others were Walter Packe,
colored. A, of the 100 block of T
street NV, a former janitor Of ths
apartment house, William J. Ely,
colored, 35, friend of Williams who
helped shovel snow at the building
Saturday morning, and Arthur T.
Gilmore, colored, %, Of the 500 block
of Rhode Island avenue NV, a
carpenter who worked in the base
ment of the apartment house earlier
in the week.
A coroner's jury was sworn in
over the body at the District Morgue
this morning. Coroner Macdonald
said an inquest probably would be
held when the police investigation
of the case is completed.
Husband to Accompany Body.
Afterward the body, released last
night to the Dansansky funeral
home to be prepared for shipment,
will be accompanied to Kansas City,
Mo, home of the bride, by the hus-
band. Barney N Abramowitz, 25-
year-old Social Security Board eX-
aminer, and fellow employe.
An autopsy conducted late Satur-
day night definitely established that
the pretty, red-haired young woman
had been assaulted by her slayer,
| Marks in the apartment indicated
the slayer grabbed her near the
apartment door and then dragged
her into the bedroom.
In their investigation, police gave
serious attention to the theory that
Mrs. Abramowitz was murdered by
q peddler or by a workman who
entered the apartment by ruse.
They also considered the likelihood
that the slayer was an acquaintance
the young woman recognized and
admitted after unlocking the
tramp chain an attachment,
which. when fastened, would permit
the door to open only few inches.
Only Three KEYS Known.
Police consider it fairly well estab-
lished that the killer entered and
left the apartment by way of the
main door. Only three keys to this
door were known to exist, two OF
which were held by the janltor,
while the third was in a pocket OF
the house coat worn by Mrs. Abra-
mowitz at the time of her death.
Mrs. Esther Simons. mother Of
Mrs. Abramowitz came to Washing
ton with the bride last month and
was on her way back to Kansas City
after visit in Chicago.
In Kansas City, Mike Altman, an
uncle described Mrs Abramowlt1
as a serious girl who did not 60 out
with boys and who had no enemies
as far as he knew. To this was
added the statement of her former
employer, Dr. Julius Baer of Kansas
City. who said she was "a sweet girl
whom everybody liked"
Mrs AbramoWitz's body was found
on a bed in the apartment by her
huSDand Wnen ne returned from
work early Saturday afternoon. Miss
Madge Davis, Miss Mitzi Jones and
Hugh Stephens. living in neighbor-
ing apartments. said they heard
screams between 10 and II o'clock
that morning A physician sum-
moned to examine the woman told
police she had been dead several
hours.
Mrs. Abramowitzs murder is the
second unsolved Staying in WASH
ington in the last few weeks. Mrs.
Fannie Cohen was shot by colored
bandit IN her dress shop in the 1900
block of U street NV last month.
The slayer still is at large.
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