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Show CONFESSES KILLING Jacob Wolfsohn Solves Mystery Mys-tery of Cemetery Murder at Rochester, N. Y. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE 1 Made Acquaintance of Victim While She Prayed at Graves of Relatives. 73y International News Service. PHILADELPHIA,, Sopt. 21 Jacob Wolfsohn, self-confessed murderer of Anna Schumacher, 17 years old, iii tho Holy Sepulchre cemetery at Rochester, N". Y., in August, 1009, tonight made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. After finding an improvised rope in Wolfsohn's cell, Turnkey Collins Col-lins stationed a permanent guard in front of the door. Wolfsohu had torn his shirt into strips and added to these his handkerchief hand-kerchief and belt, making n noose with which ho might have succeeded in strangling himsolf. Wolfsohn, who says ho made his victim's acquaintance by flirting with her while she wa.s praying at the graves of her father and brother, was arrested here Saturday and charged with looting a Walnut street houso to which he had T)een seut to clean windows. win-dows. He had not boon in a cell long before be-fore ho declared himself to Captain Cameron as a murderer. Dr. John Wanamaker and Dr. John Egan, police surgeons, examined Wolfsohn Wolf-sohn today and pronounced him sane. Tells of the Murder. According to the confession, Wolfsohn Wolf-sohn came from "Russia eighteen years ago at tho age of 7, and worked in a garment factory in the Now York City Ghetto. His health became bad and be drifted to a farm near Rochester, Roches-ter, X. Y., owned by a man named Drussel. Tho H0I3' Sepulchre cemetery was half a mile from the farm. It was early in August, 1909, that he made Anna Schuma'cher'B acquaintance in tho graveyard. He met her for the third timo on August 7 in the same place and caused her to run from him with tears in her eyes, but ho caught her and choked her to death. Ho maintains that he killed the girl, carried car-ried the body to a clump of shrubbery, and, after covering the body with leaves, went back to hia farm chores. Never Suspected. At 9 o'clock the same night, with a spade that he found in the cemetery, he dug a shallow grave, into which he threw the corpse, face down, doubling tho legs over backwards. He remained on the farm for two months after that and was never suspected of the crime. Sheriff Hamill and District Attorney Attor-ney 'Barrett of Rochester will be in Philadelphia tomorrow to question tho prisoner. After leaving tho farm Wolfsohn lived in a Bowery lodging house in New York until he married Ida Bremen, Bre-men, who obtained an absolute divorce from him this year. Their infant died under unusual conditions, the cause of tho death being given as "lung trouble." In Augusj;, 1911. Wolfsohn paid a $i50 fine in Rochester on being convicted con-victed of grand larceny. |
