The evening world. Newspaper, November 19, 1918, Page 6

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NO CREDITS NO EXCHANGES WOMEN’S SUIT SHOP-- Balcony Floor | District Attorney Talley asked him if THE POLICE “CASE” BASED ON 8 MARKS OF TEETH. |kawed tn Government work and that Nie absence might re with it john J. Doherty, a manager, No. West is2d street, was temporartiy accepted. | Cleveland Moffet, magazine writer, No, 16% Mast 66th Street, was excused when he eald that e favored the abolition of capital punishment. Francis J, Donovan, No, 601 West Tist Street, hesitated when Assistant nterfe he would be influenced by the fact that the defendant was @ woman and then said that he thought he would. He wan excused, Ellaabeth Baksa, who Pa, 1 house, the charge aga her, the have constructed their “case” way: The girl and the jandiady quarelted, and the former seized a wi used when dollfng clothes the older woman over the head, Then the two clinched and fought, biting and scratching, till the older woman was exhausted, ‘Then, the police al- lege, the girl dragged her to a lounge and strangled her to death with a towel, Later, she washed the blood stains from this towel and her apron and hung tham on a line in the yard to dry. To complete the “caso” the police charge she took money trom tne victim's purse and some jewelry, for- getting or ignorant of the fact that other jewelry valued at $2,000 and $800 in cash were hidden in the bed- room dresser, She then left the house and, on the following day, went to a number of Sixth Avenue shops and it and engaged a t 16th Street, The ody was found, burg and re- mained there with bi parents three days and then returned to the 16th Htrect address, where she was ar- rested on Feb, 17, | What evidence have the poilce? Why do they accuse the girl of the unwitnessed murder? “Recause,” tays Inspector John J. Cray, Chief of the Detective Bureau, “ot the teeth marks on the dead woman's arm. There were two dogs in the room with the body, but from | investigations by Capt. Arthur A.| Carey of the Homicide Squad and my- self { know that wound was made by the girl's teeth.” | Though for three weeks following! her arrest the Bakaa girl was mercl- | lessly grilled by the police and as- | sistants of the District Attorney, in a| vain endeavor to wring from her the | slightest admission of guilt, ahe re- mained firm In protesting her inno- | cence, THREE police this | WEEKS’ GRILL FAILED TO SHAKE GIRL. When questions failed, Inspector Cray says he resorted t@ the age-old subterfuge of playing ofa woman's vanity, He says that he casually re- marked to Elizabeth Baksa that ahe had very pretty teeth. 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