Show l lot t. t iJ 1 i OLD WOMEN VICTIMS t r OF MEANEST MEAN Sf SLAYER Spreads Terror Through the f f West Welt Side of Manhattan New York York New New York Yorks meanest murderer Is spreading terror through the West Vest side Hide of ot Manhattan while some soma 1000 policemen and detectives glorifying In the title of the linest wrack their bruins brains nod exhaust their energies In n a vain aln search parch for tor him The Tile meanest murderer In the killing of helpless s old women thing alone lie Jle pounces jounces upon them thero I generally when hen they Ihy are arc asleep and ond smothers or strangles tron ll them thErn to death without giving them a chance to make muke an nn outcry Four of them have hll gone to their rewards re at ot his hlA cowardly hands In to this fashion In lu the last few sv wells weeks all within a II rn radius of a n dozen down blocks or so fIO and ond so 10 stealthily has hils the slayer gone cone about aboul his hili work and 1 HO en 11 skillfully has he covered up his trucks tracks that the police are yet t without the slightest clew to his Identity or whereabouts Indeed some of the best bent detectives of the force tore have hn suggested In lu view hw of the character of the crimes crimI's and und In lieu 1111 of any definite evidence that the killer might be a woman Motive Uncertain Moreover Morlo the time best minds of the department here have at so 80 fur been unable to determine for a n certainty certainly Just what l motive may actuate the strange killings kill ll ings In In some cUS cases evl evidence has hasben been ben found to warrant a n theory of rob robbery bery hery but since none DOnI of the victims enjoyed enjoyed en In joyed a station In life which might he be dignified even VEn by the tI title of well wIll to todo todo todo do and since Ince In at nt least two instances Instance In In- stances stance the victims' victims hoards of a few coins were left untouched the suggestion suggestion rs tion seems somehow lacking hacking Some Investigators express the opinIon opinion opinion ion that the fugitive Is III a maniac but I Just why ho he should hould limit his hits operations opera to elderly women no one can cnn I guess Whether one or man many however the meanest murderer still stalks his way unmolested unmolested unless unless ss his fate has hus t. t overtaken him unknown to the police while old women quake In terror and refuse to be hI left alone The latest victim of the series was Mrs Mary flay Day ay seventy S years old who wa was found smothered slI In bed hed In her little flat on the second floor door of ofa t. t a 1 building In West Nest third Fifty street t i A small bottle of milk nail mill n II copy of the Irish World IVorid still untouched In f trout front of her door brought about the I discovery of the murder i t Sometime between 7 and f 0 n a n. n mg m m. 4 g I according to the time police and anal Dr Ir r. r Charles 1 Norris chief medical examiner sonic some someone I t one came caDle Into the three room flat tint i threw n u shawl and n a blanket over r the head ead of the victim held It tight tI until 1 t she ceased to struggle ll and then tied I her troll frail arms behind tier her with ban han r tinges Mrs na Day had hall received recently r. k I from n hospital I. I t. t Whether It Will was n a man limn or woman or orr rr r more than one person the limo twenty de- de reporting nt lit the scene Ille were f unable to II say Mrs nay Hay was seas so frail trail It was wa belies believed that even een n II woman r might have I killed 1 her without arous arous- R In lug Ing th the neighbors C Neighbor Finds Find Body Dody For five 11 years Mrs Irs Ihl Day had hall lived 11 j alone In the tenement house supported b. b apparently by hy n II savings Ia account In Ii a the New v York Savings Ra bank hank of which I 11 I there Is It still 11 1331 I left She hl hu had l no nn nott tt known relatives and during the years 4 she hI II lived ed In the building Mrs Irs na Day nl nl- ways left her hlf door open during the iO tiny day a sign that nel neighbors were wet wel come 1 r The Ihl copy of the I Irish World II cud nud the bottle of milk drew the attention of Mrs Julia Jolla Shortly after 1 I Ip p p. p m m. She had not seen the aged ogell woman wom wont an on since the morning I before fore Mrs told Murray hurray son lIOn of ot the janitress coil he be found the body holly and ond notified the poll police cr Nothing had bad been disturbed list when the police arrived The body hody lay Iny on ona onn onn n a bed hed In the till room mono which tidied acted HI us her living room and kitchen Only an nn open bureau drawer showed that lint robbery robbery rob roh bery might have 1111 been the thee motive A pocketbook containing n a little more morl than 5 i wn was nn fill the floor beside her bed While the police pollee were mystified ns nIl to 10 time the cause of nr the Ihl murder lime they IhlY nIl ad admitted milted that Mrs irs Ir Day hind hall withdrawn n sum Bum of from her IIII hl money savings account ac no- count sonic some time ago nod tint that the slayer or members of the IIII same wane gang an responsible for the death of the three Ihre other aged ald women woman might have followed her hr from the Ihl hank bank and learned where she h Kept 1 th the money matey nt at hone home Each Radl of the Ihl other oilier murders has IIII taken taken tak tak- en ln pi place II 11 In touch much the tle same carne limo manner and In hl I the hI snore same HIlI neighborhood n nail and nil each Inch l victim tI In was arcs s nn nu II n elderly woman n II liv 11 living I I log ing nit a alone Ion |