Show s i iS BUTCHERY OF AN ANit S it 1 I WOMAN I I i Bolly Body SodY Found in a Padlocked 1 Apartment of New t Yorka York a Rooming House HouseS I J S S i MURDERER MAKES ESCAPE CRIME PROBABLY COMMITTED S ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO Now Nev York Tork Dec 12 With only the bloody finger linger prints of or the murderer to assist them the police pollee today are scour Ing Inq In tho the city elty for some trace of or the man manI S who committed what now appears to tobe tobe I be one of at the most baffling crimes in inthe inthe the th criminal history lis victim C the young youn woman whose body was wasI I found last night In a padlocked and andi j i barricaded apartment at East Elev Eleventh Eleventh Eleventh street has not yet been Identified and a thorough search of the rooms I has revealed nothing which will aid thep the thep police p lIce In their task Every distinguish distinguishing ing hug mark had been removed from the womans clothing and pictures had been cut from their frames and burned together with several pieces of at paper which may have borne bonne addresses On every hand there was to be found evi evl evidence evidence dence of the crafty care used by the murderer to baffle pursuit 1 1 Rent Was Overdue 1 The Tho discovery of the crime came cane about through h the anxiety of at the ss of the house to collect rent for forthe forthe 3 the apartment nearly two weeks over overdue overdue overdue due The man and woman who occupied the rooms more than two mouths months had i paid promptly up to the first of the present month but since that time the b apartment has been closed the door locked with a padlock on the outside and neither the man nor the woman had been seen sen When an m entrance was forced the wo womans I mans body with the head almost sev severed uZ credo ered was lying on the bed The room was In confusion Broken chairs were scattered about and wearing apparel which had been be n removed re removed removed moved from an open trunk was strewn about the room Under the womans body lay a razor its edge hacked backed and nd broken Dead Two Weeks The condition of the body indicated that the woman had been dead not less than two weeks On the doorknob andon and andon andon on the sheets were the finger prints of the murderer The murdered woman had told her landlady that she came came from Santa Clara lara Cal The man who shared the flat fiat with her ber gave the name of Botello said his companions name was Flora and that he came from California |