Deseret Evening News | 1908-12-12 | Page 1 | Murder Mystery Baffles N. Y. Police

MURDER MYS MYSTERY N Y POLICE Young Yo ng Womans Body Found in d Apartment A ar Her Herie Head ie d Almost Severed THE T E CRIME MOST DIABOLICAL u I That Victim lc 1 h In lit Confusion All Il About hout New Nen uy York Deo De 12 With th only the tile bloody tJ finger li ACI prints J ts of the murderer mUI to thy tup police e today tollay are arc scour scouring ing illg tho tit City for fOt some somo trace of the tho thoman then man IllaR n lI who what now appears to b bl l j one or of the tho most boWing baffling crimes in tIll Iho ci hys tys criminal ci ii In i history h is I Ills victim vie Li ill the young woman oman whoso body bO y was wail found last night might In a padlocked and mill barricaded apartment at east mist Klov Elev street str t hIlls luus hn not yet et been boon and iii t 1 thorough search of tho the rooms ha haH I nothing which will vIii aid 11 1 tim the pOllie In ill their theil task tal l l ery distin distinguishing murk hInd had been heen removed from front cite Iho ho 1 clothing and pictures hull had been cut froth their frames and burned together tho wl h several pieces of paper which may hewn havn borne borno addresses On Out every oVer land liand I there was wao to be iRl found evi evidence hence dence of th thO crafty care caro used u ed by time the murderer to baffle botne pursuit The discovery of tho time crime came caine about through the anxiety of the tile jani janitress tress tres o of the thc house to collect rent for fot tho the apartment 1 nearly two weeks over Oe duo due ue The rime milan man and woman who occupied oc tho Limo rooms more than two months had paid paul J up to tlc the t of o the month but iUt siner that time the flue apart apartment ment macat lieu had closed time the door locked Iodell with wilh a 0 padlock on n tho t outside and neither tho man IIan nor lIar time tho woman had lied been hen seen When mi u entrance was WIS forced foree the womans body 1101 with the tile head almost severed was wa Vi lying time the bed JIm lf room was In iii confusion Brok Broken en elf el chairs chair Won woi cI about and wearing ri I had hr l been rc re removed moved from tin nu open oDell lIuni WU was strewn about ab ul tho tilO room Under Limo tho womans body bouly bo h lay la a 1 lIzor its edge edgo c ge hacked broken The Tue condition of pC tho thia body bod In Indicated that the tile Woman oman had been dead clOud not nol less 1038 thou than two Weeks On time the door on Oil tIme Uj shoots sheets finger ii of f the Hl murderer