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SAYS HE SLEW ANNA LLOYD(Continued From First Page)The investigators, according to tho results which they report, seem to be confronting a blank wall of mystery.Through all the unraveling of the tangle of rumors and clews the police have failed to gather one clew which will point conclusively to any one motive, the municipal deparfhient is apparently agreed that robbery or attempted criminal assault incentives are out of the case, but in their place they offer no other motive than that of revenge, which has no substantial reason to back it.Slightly at variance with the police Coroner Coe steoutly maintains that a criminal degenerate murdered the woman Just for the joy of seeing blood flow and of bathing his hands in the warm life fluid.Late last evening it was reported throughout that section of the city hat the implement with which Miss Lloyd’s head had been almost severed had been found by a man named Nicholas ErhardL, who lives almost opposite the C., H. 1). station In Fairmount on Carll street. This report had it that the broad ax whicn is sffter the style of those used in the- lumber yards had been discovered underneath one of the piles of lumber nearest the mill.' No verification on the part of the police could be g-ained.New Incident Crops Out.One new incident cropped out last night when young George Felix, whose father conducts a boarding house where Erhardt lives, told of how on Friday evening, about the time of the murder, he was crossing the Hopple street bridge and saw - a man at the - western end.The boy says that underneath a light he saw a man whose cap was well down over the head with the beak hid ing the features. He says that as he approached nearer the man thrust his hands into his pockets and sloucheo toward him. The lad says he gave him nil the room possible and .when hie had passed the fellow broke into a run and chased him to his hofhe over 100 yards distant.At a late hour last night the condition of Mrs. Lloyd, the mother of the murdered girl, was serious. The shock of the murder and the funeral held yesterday morning have left the aged woman with little vitality. Another Kerchief Found.Another blood-stained medium-sized woman's handkerchief belonging to Anna Lloyd, victim of murder and butchery, was found a mile and a half west of the C., H. D. bridge which crosses West Fork creek, a little over a mile north of where the woman was found. The discovery was made yesterday morning by George Zaus, paper carrier, living at 4 243 Kirby road, while he was delivering papers to residents in that district.The police believe the find furnishes another link in the chain which is supposed to mark th© direction taken by the murderer from the scene of his satisfied passion. The finding of the handkerchief yesterday makes the fourth discovery which points the direction. Saturday afternoon the womans handbag, partly rifled, was discovered near the West Fork C-, II. D. bridge beside the tracks.Wash Blood Stains Away.Sunday afternoon two white handkerchiefs, one of which was bloodstained and a bloodspotted canvas glove were found within three hundred feet of where the murder was committed, and to the north on the embankment which runs up to Hopple street. Later andther handkerchief was found to the west of the West Fork bridge, n,ear the edge of the stream. Here footprints were noticed which led the investigators to believe that the murderer had Slone to the edge of the stream seeking a place to wash the remaining marks of blood from his hands. Evidently he accomplished this and accidentally dropped the kerchief with which he attempted to dry away the stains.Yesterday's find leads the detectives from the edge of the creek up and along a path which cuts through English woods, tops Roll’s hill and finally turns out on to what is known as the old Rolls road. It is believed the murderer circled Cumrainsville and proceeded on toward Westwood.Following the footpath for a mile and a half to a mile and three-quarters one comes to a point almost directly west of where the woman's pocketbook was found. It was here almost at the foot of a hill that Zaus noticed the handkerchief.Noticed Blood Stains,Friday night children had been using the incline for their sledging and ruts were worn into the earth along the pathway -which many use as a short cut to tneir he meg laying over the hill. Zaus rays that for some Idle reason he stopped at 1 he bottom of the hill and was looking toward the top thinking about his children being there Friday night *nd l aving a good time. When he started to move on he looked toward the earth and saw a kerchief.The man says that at first he thought it belong to some of the children and when he picked it up and noticed that it had faded blood stains on it he immediately remembered the murder case. He went to the nearest telephone and notified the department.Zaus says that as near as he can estimate tho time it must have been about 7 o’clock yesterday morning that he found the kerchief.The handkerchief evidently belongs to Mis*» Loyd, as ip one comer there is a larg embrodiered L” in the angle of which is another and smaller L”. The piece is medium slue, with hem-stitched edggg and of dimity. Detectives Bell and Crlm last night brought the fabric to headquarters. It was still damp and slightly earth stained.Knew Country Well.The police, are inclined to believe that the finding of the handkerchief in that particular spot points to the suppos'tion that the murdeder is well acquainted with that part of the city and country. In order to follow a line from the bridge to the spot where yesterday’s blood stained handkerchief was found one would have to climb through barbed wire fences, through little gullies and over fence*. It is believed that only a person well acquainted with the country could have made the trip at night time. Further in support of this theory the police aay the man took the line of leastresistance and that no evidences for yards ana yards about the spot where the find was made was tracked up.Gsorgo Lewis. 21, the young man arrested in AVyoming, Sunday night, proved an alibi yesterday afternoon and was released by the police.In Hamilton Jail.Lewis declared from the time of his arrest to a few minutes before, that on Friday and Saturday night he had been locked «P in the Hamilton (Ohio) Jail and could not possibly have been connected with the crime. Yesterday afternoon Detectives Schaeffer and Kueffers went to Wyoming and after a thorough investigation of the young fellow’s actions reported to headquarters that they could find nothing definite in that line beyond the young man’s declaration that he had been in Hamilton.Chief of Detectives CrawfOrd clled the Hamilton authorities and after giving them a minute record of the man's measurements received word that Lewis had been in the Hamilton jail from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning. Lewis declared he walked from Hamilton Westwood and thence to Wyoming. Lewis was a stoker enmpoyed on the lakes. He gave his residence as “in Cleveland.Henry Cook, 34, butcher, living at 3115 Spring Grove avenue, and James Fields, negro, living at Cummins and Dempsey streets, who were arrested on request of Coroner Coe, are still in custody. They declare they can furnish complete alibis.Theories Differ.Theories are becoming more and more firmly fixed in the minds of the investigators .concerned in the probing of the murder. Chief of Police Millikln still maintains that robbery or criminal assault taken as motives are out of the case and that the real Incentive must be looked for in the woman’s life. A sweetheart at some time, who became enraged with her, vowed vengeanoe, business jealousy or some enemy for an entirely different reason offer possible clews which the police are inclined to delve into.Coroner Coe still holds to the belief that criminal assault was the object of the murder and that the man who so brutally hacked and chopped the woman’s neck is a degenerate of the highest type of criminal cunning.Acted Suspiciously.Chief of Police Millikln yesterday received word from Rising Sun, Ind., that a man of dark complexion was seen acting suspiciously in that town Sunday. When the authorities received information regarding the man’s actions and attempted to find him he had disappeared. A lookout Is being kept for the Individual in that section of the country.Up until a late hour last night the police had been unable to locate the Implement with which the throat of Miss Lloyd had been horribly cut and hacked. It was reported to the authorities yesterday that a boy named Gnau, who lives in that neighborhood, had reported that he had been seen a bloody hand-ax concealed beneath a lumber pile In the vicinity of the murder. The police were unable to establish anything In the line yesterday.Chief of Police Millikln had a number of conferences with Mayor Schwab yesterday and informed him of the progress made in the case.WAS CITY EMPLOYEE.Snooper Captured by Police Turn* Out Official on Duty.An incident occurred yesterday afternoon at the stockyards, several hundred yardg from where the Lloyd murder was committed, which serves to show Hie alertness which is being shown by the police department in tracing down every imaginable sort of clew in their anxious effort to clear the case of mystery.One of the employees of the yards, Benjamin Spinner, noticed a dark-complexioned man snooping about one of the pens and watched him for a while. The map seemed to have no particular object in view. Spinner sent for Detectives Bell, Crlm and Schaeffer, who respond ed, and after watching the man for j while accosted him.The fellow drew' out a card, which showed he wa« In the employ of the city, in the bridge department. His name was not divulged.ATTEMPTED ASSAULT REPORTEDMan Hunt Organized in East End for Second Assailant.East End residents organized a man hunt last night after an attempt was made by a man in Hazen street to attack Miss Elsie Linger of 2018 Gladstone avenue. Miss Linger had just gotten off an East End car and was going up Hazen street, toward Gladstone, when the young man who had been on the car with her. and had left the car when she did, suddenly crossed from the other side of the street and made an attempt to grab her.Mftss Linger screamed and ran back toward Eastern avenue and took refuge in Renner's saloon. While she was In the saloon the man entered Hollbrook’s saloon in Eastern avenue, and had a glass of beer. He then made his departure.Renner watched Miss Linger while she went to Hollbrook’s to get one of the men to accompany her home, and when she described her ^would-be assailant they recognized the description as answering that of the follow who had just left the saloon. The crowd scoured the neighborhood for the fellow but he had succeeded in covering up his tracks.MOUNT LOOKOUT CLUB MEETSEdwin L. Grlest Chosen President of Organization,The annual election of the Mount Lookout Business Men's club wag held last night. The election was hotly contested and candidates were running neck and neck throughout. Edwin L. Grlest was elected president; K. R. Heitzman, first vice president; N. L. Abraham, second vice president; J. L. Rebert, treasurer; R. ty. Fahnestock, secretary; W. 13. Barr. A. L. Beymer, C. D. Fehl, Victor A. Gebhard, Fred A. Heitzman and Luke W. Smith, directors.The various committees made their annual reports on improvements made during the year, the most important b^ing the leveling of Grace avenue to enter Linwood avenue, and the grading and paving of Herschel avenue. Sewers were also laid in all the principal streets,
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Tue, Jan 04, 1910
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