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Show KUPtBSR HAS NEW YORK ' DETECTIVES GUESSING NEW YORK, Sept. 11. What may develop into another mysterious. hotel murder like that of Jacob H. Thompson, Thomp-son, a well-known editor, was discovered discov-ered yesterday In an obscure hostelry at Sixth avenue and Fifty-sixth street. Through the odor of escaping gas, a maid In the hotel was drawn to a room occupied for the night previous by Alfred Al-fred Kattringer, a public accountant, who lived with his wife, father and brothers, In West Fifty-second street. The room was broken open and Krat-tlnger. Krat-tlnger. was found dead In the bed. There were no signs of violence and it appoared to be a commonplace suicide, such as Coroners handle a dozen times a week.' A Coroner and detectives made a systematic examination of the body and they Immediately' began to discover dis-cover things that set them to thinking.. It was observed that the transom of the room was half open, while the room showed ho unusual preparations for suicide by gas. When the Coroner came, to examine the bedy closely he discovered that the face was not blackened black-ened or discolored, as frequently hap-pens hap-pens In asphyxiation cases. Then he saw a large bruise Just over the right ear, near the temple. It. was such a contusion as might have been caused by a hard fall or a blow from a heavy stick or blunt weapon. The Coroner could not determine . from cursory examination ex-amination whether the skull was fractured. frac-tured. That will be determined today by the Coroner's physician. krattlnger's brothers told the Coroner Coro-ner that there should be found on the body a diamond pin, worth $1100, and a considerable amount of cash. The only .thing found In the pockets was a cheap pocket knife. There was no trace of the diamond pin. : It was subsequently ascertained by the Coroner that the hotel register had been tampered with and the time of Krattlnger's arrival changed. The hotel ho-tel employees professed entire lgno-, ranee as to who made the change.. Krattlnger's father and brothers declared de-clared after the examination that they were positive the accountant had been murdered in his room early yesterday morning for his money and pin, and that the thief and murderer had escaped es-caped by the Sixth avenue window after af-ter arranging the body neatly and turning on the gas to create the Impression Im-pression of suicide. |