Ogden Sun | 1905-09-19 | Page 1 | Woman's Horrible Death

WOMANS HORRIBLE DEATH evidence that she was assaulted and then killed new york sept 18 A largo force of detectives Is at work today searching for joseph girard for arrest a has been issaef in connection ditl the r ol 01 sa pait fer near the pelham roda chester on monday last several reports of the mans movements lc wednesday davs been received and the detectives expect to find him within twenty four hours girards home is said to be nashua N H girard is a i luck driver annl hoarded with mrs julia mahon on the road not tor from the where the body ol 01 mrs was found the police assert that hey found a quantity of the mans in the sink n mrs macons kitchen and that she told him that girard n ad changed all his garments except his underclothes on thursday moraine she had found blood stains on the clothes she said but he offered no explanation as to how they came there coroner OG onnan said that he be the young woman lay alive in the woods two days after the first assault and was killed in a second attack by the same man the coroner said 1 I do not believe the girl was killed outright right I 1 think she waa rendered unconscious and the brute a ho attacked her dragged her body into the bushes and hid it thinking she was dead probably she lay there all of thursday and friday unable to move or make an outcry and the murderer returned friday night to look at his victim finding her alive he finished her she undoubtedly knew the man who killed her otherwise there would have been no necessity for him to have added murder to his first crime he killed her because she recognized him