Year: 1873

A Crime that Cries to Heavcn-Wretcl1e cd


Fate of Poor Ida vaii-The Mysterious


Woman and Her Dismal DEN i'm Jersey


City.


Set away back on the rear OF lot situated in the
great thoroughfare Of Jersey City, Newark ave-
nue., is a two story and basement brick house
numbered 297, one OF those houses on which the
blessed rays OF the great luminary OF the universe
but rarely fall For years 1t appeared as II un-
tenanted. The window blinds were kept
closed and the basement served as q
doctors onice,n notice to that effect
being conspicuously posted up. On q tree
in the lawn close to the sidewalk was . neat
gilt sign, Dr. Medea,n and under it in writing was
the notice, 'Rooms to Let" Who was the doctor
Nobody in the neighDorhood could tell. Seldom
was any person seen to enter, although the police
had strong suspicious regarding the visitors to
this abode. Nearly every day


STRANGE, MYSTE RIOUs WOMAN


in black, with short curly hair, high cheek bones,
with flush thereon not impaired by nature,
coarse and heavy features, strong animal ex-
would pass out, take walk, seldom
sccomPanied except BY ySGIg LADY
the ferry, and return after visit to New
York. AS far as her nelghbors were concerned she


lived there L she lived M not S isolated Se from ron al
society OF those residing around her, This woman,
1t turns out, was rhe physician and was the lessee
set up candy store adjoining the public school p
Erie street. notice In the window set forth that
she was a clalrvoyant and had furnished rooms to
let. Frederick CrOzier-her son she calls him
lived with her. Into this Gen there entered on
Monday Of last week two Newarkers, one o stout,
respectable looking middle-aged man. the other
Q slim, delicate young woman OF twenty. A con-
sultation was held; the man departed and the un-
suspecting young girl tripped up the stairs and
entered, probably with light heart, the room she
was never to leave In life. 1t was to her


THE ROOM OF DEATH.


The man visited her on Thursday last and she
informed him that the MADAME" swore her to
secrecy under penalty of exposure. But the young
woman had no one else to conhde In, and she re-
lated that on the previous day person, so masked
ana disguised that she could not tell whether II
was Q man or o woman, entered her room. To
publish here the remainder OF her thrilling narra-
tive would not cdtfy the reader OF mature years
nor be healthiul to the curious eyes Of those yet
unacquainted with such fearful deeds. Let 1t be
to the most exquisite tortures. She would have
given all the treasures OF earth for one touch OF
her poor widowed mothers hand to cool her throb-
bing, feverish brow-for one of those sympathetic
words Which can only spring from mothers heart


THE DREAD HOUR OF CALAMITY;


but her mother was nine miles OF. Little did the
mother suspect that on that terrible day Of last
week her favorite child was hurrytng through the
dark passage away, away from her forever IN this
world. On Friday the suffering girl passed away
into what, let 1t be hoped Is for her better world
Her remains now lie In Jersey City. Her late CON-
panion, Aonzo E. Kimball, Marcella r. Metzler,
the keeper Of the den, and her son Crozier lie In
jail. The name OF the ill.fated young girl was Ida
Newark. Coroner Parslow will hold an inquest on
Friday