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Show CONFESSES HE HAD MURDERED GIRL Philadelphia. Sept 21. Jacob Wolf sohn, Belf-confessed murderer of Anna Schumacher, 17 years old. in the Holy Sepulchre cemetery at Roches ter. N. Y.. in August. 1909, tonight under un-der an unsuccessful attempt to com mit suicide. After finding an Impro vised rope In Wolfsohu's cell, Turnkey Collins stationed a permanent guard in front of the door Wolfsohn had torn his shirt into strips and added to these his hand kerchief and belt, making a noose with which he might have succeeded in strangling himseh. Wolfsohn, who eas he made his victim 6 acquaintance by flirting with her while she was praying at the graves of her father and brother, was arrested here Saturday and charged V.ltll loOtinp a UMnnl .,,., . hnnc which he had been sent to clean windows. win-dows. He had not been in a cell long be fore he declared himself to Captain Cameron as a murderer. Dr John Wanamaker and Dr John Bgan police surgeons. examined Wolfsohn today and pronounced him sane. ccordlng to the confession. Wolf sohn came from Russia eighteen years ago at the age of 7. and worked In a garment factory' in the New York City Ghetto His health became bad and he drifted to a farm near Rochester. Roches-ter. N. Y., owned hy a man named Drussel. The Holy Sepulchre cemetery ceme-tery was half a mile from the farm It was early In August 1909, that he made Anna Schumacher's acquaintance acquaint-ance in the graveyard He met her iui ine miru time on August in ine same place and caused her to run from him with tears In her eyes, but he caught ber and choked ber to death He maintains that he killed the girl, carried the bodv '. a clump' of shrubbery", and nfrr covering the body with !v,.s wenl back to his farm chorea At 9 o'clock the saute night with a stpade that he found In the cemetery, he dug a shallo w grave. Into which h? thre" tii,. corpse, face down doubling the legs over backwarns. He remained on the farm for two months after that and was neer susperted of the' crime. Sheriff Hamlll and District Attorney Attor-ney Barrett of Rochester will be tn Philadelphia tomorrow to question the prisoner. Alter leaving the farm. Wolfsohn lived in a Bowery lodging house In New York until he married Ida Pre men. who obtained an absolute dl f yorce from him this year. Their In fant died under unusual conditions, the cause of the death being given as lung trouble." In August. 1911, Wolfsohn paid 3 v-0 fine nt Rochester on being convicted con-victed of grand larceny. |