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Show MOROEB MYSTERY ! BAFFLES OFFICERS 1 ; Body or Unknown Young Woman .r "Pound iu 'Room of New York ApailmentJIouse. ' c ' CRniE AVAS COMMITTED SOME TWO WEEKS AGO Murderer Planned to Escape Detection De-tection by Destroying Means of Identification. NEW YORK, Dec. 12. The mystery surrounding tho murder of a young woman in an apartment at 337 East Eleventh street Gtill baffles tho police. The only development in the case today to-day was tho information obtaiued by .the police that two women had7 mado their homo in tho apartments, each so closely resembling the other that it is believed thoi' were twins. Captain Carey of v tho detcctivo department de-partment and his men have made a searching investigation of the Hat where the woman's body .had lain for probably two weeks. They found blood prints on tho picture frames out of which photographs of tho twofwomou had been torn. Nothing was discovered to substantiate . the belief that the woman camo from California except the statement of thc janitor that the lodger had said somo timo ago that she' came from Cnliforiva with her husband. Lieutenant Pctrpsini of the detective bureau expresses tho opinion that 0110 or both of the two women who wero slaying at the fiat had lured tho woman on Rome trip to rob her of hqr jewels, as it is said before her death sho had exhibited jewels of considerable value, consisting of ear rings, brooches and several rings, all diamonds. Identity Unknown. Tho dead woman was known in the neighborhood by the name of "Flora." j A gs receipt was found in tlio fiat I which boro tho name of Dolello. The I gas company, however, could throw 110 light upon the case from this receipt. Tho discovqry of tho crime came about through tho anxiety of tho jani-tross jani-tross of the house to ,collcct rent for the apartmeut, nearly two weeks over-duo. over-duo. The man and woman who occupied occu-pied tho rooms moro than two months had paid promptly up to the first of j the present month, but since that timo tho apartment had been closed, tho door locked with a padlock on tho outside ami neither tho man nor tlio woman had been aeon. When nu entrance was forced thc woman's body, with the head almost severed, was lying on the blood soaked bed. Tho room was in confusion. Broken chnirs were scattered about and wearing apparel which had been removed re-moved from an open trunk was strewn I about tho room. "Under tho woman's body lay a razor, its edgo hacked and brokon.' The condition of tho body indicated in-dicated that the woman had been dead not less than two wcoks. On the door knob aud on the shoots wero tho finger prints of tho murdoror. Tho murdered woman had told her landlord that sho camo from Santa, Clara. Cal. Tho man who had shared the Hal with her gave thc name of Botello, said his companion'.'? nanio was .'Flora and thai he came from California, Cali-fornia, t . r ' |