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Show SPURNED (MCE 10 ESCAPE HER DEATH NEW YORK, July 11. Ruth Cruger 1 spurned a - chance to save her life by giving a pledge to keep silent about the attack on her by Alfred Cocchi, according accord-ing to additional details of the murderer's confession made public here tonight by District Attorney Swann. When the high school girl continued to scream for help, Cocchi Is quoted as having said, he struck her three blows on the head, which killed her. Then he buried the body in the cellar of his bicycle bicy-cle shop, covering The excavation he had made only with a wooden box. He put on a pair of leather gloves to wear while moving the body and then washed them ! with benzine. Detectives visited the shop that nfter-, nfter-, noon, went down in the cellar with him, 1 made a brief examination and then left, he declared. Mr. Swann announced he had come Into possession of new evidence indicating that Cocchi had accomplices who aided him In getting out of the country. The grand jury investigation of police negligency in connection with the case was continued today. It was said that this inquiry also would include a thorough sifting of all evidence of "white slavery" in this city. Miss Evangeline Booth, commander of the Salvation Army, sent out an appeal tonight to a young girl who, "between the early part of February and the middle mid-dle of Mureh, attired in scanty clothing, escaped from very dangerous and improper im-proper surroundings" in this city to communicate com-municate with her with every assurance of "comfort and protection." |