Evening star., 1941-08-29
New Evidence Backs Strieff Staying Confession
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coat and underclothing into trash
container, and hid her white UNI
brella in the garage.
Drove to Another Garage.
He then drove with the body to
another oren garage in the rear Of
the TOO block of @ street NV.
There was another car parked in
the garage. He pulled up close to
the door ard dumped the body be-
side the car. The only clothing on
the body was the girls sandals and
socks.
He said he later saw police search
ing the alleys for the girls clothing.
He believed, however, that the
clothing had been removed by trash
collectors before the girls body was
found on the morning after the
murder.
Three or four days ago, he said, he
returned to the S street garage and
recovered the white umbrella, which
he gave to a colored woman living
in the 1900 block Of Swami street
NV, in the immediate vicinity OF
the garage.
He described Miss Strieff's cloth
ing in intimate detail and the in
teriors of both garages. He gave
the same colored woman a second
umbrella, which, he said, he took
from another colored woman he
had killed. He gave the same
woman a hat taken from another
victim, also a colored woman.
A colored woman with whom CAtoe
had been living Is employed as q
maid in the 22O0 block of MaSsa-
chusetts avenue NV. She told ON
GERS, they said, she had been sup
porting Catoe for year. New York
police said Catoe was employed In a
New York restaurant some time ago
and was discharged for making ad-
vances to white waitress.
In his oral confession to the muir
der of Mrs. Abramowitz. Catoe was
quoted by 1t Flaherty as follows:
At about 10:3O on the morning Of
March he was walking west on T
street and came to the doorway OF
the apartment on Sixteenth street
where Mrs. Abramowitz lived. He
was wearing q black chauffeur's cap
at the time, and Mrs. Ambramowitz
apparently supposed he worked In
the building or nearby.
Asked to Polish Floors.
Have you seen the janitor?' she
asked.
NO" he replied.
DO you have time to do some
work for me?"
What kind of work is it?"
Il want somebody to wax and
polish my floors"
Catoe followed the young woman
to her upstairs apartment, and into
the kitchen. She told him she ex-
pected her husband, Barney Abram-
owitz, a young government employe,
would be home about l pm. Catoe
seized the young woman In the kit
chen, where he choked her and as
saulted her.
He then carried the body to the
daybed in the living room and laid
it down. He placed the girls shoes
near the bed.
He described the location of fur
niture in the apartment and the
location of the apartment in the
building.
Investigators said Catoe told them
he took a $40 bill-a- circumstance
of the murder hitherto known only
to the murderer and detectives as
| signed to the case.
! 1t. Flaherty said that at no time,
even when making the admissions,
did Catoe lose his composure. Typi-
cal of his attitude was his posing for
news photographers at headquarters
yesterday. He walked toward the
| cameras without being asked.
No Charges Yet Placed.
1t was emphasized that no charges
had been placed against the man
under arrest and that checking Of
his statements was continuing His
address was given as the 1700 block
of Swami street NV.
Catoe, still as unrufiled as when
he entered the building at 8:45 am.
yesterday. was taken from police
headquarters to No. precinct sta
ton shortly before 6 am. today.
He was permitted to rest, but police
said questioning would resume some
time today.
Further reconstructing evidence.
police said Catoe had pointed out
the garage in which he said the
assault-murder took place. calling it
to the attention of detectives as a
headquarters car moved through an
alley in the rear of the 1900 block of
S street NV. Catoe was said to
have noted that the garage had been
painted since the date of the Strieh