HUNT BY 500 POLICE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3980, 13 July 1915, Page 3

HUNT BY 500 POLICE.

FOR A GERMAN. I ' j Unexampled activity is being shown j by the police in the search for the j murderer of Mrs Julia Heilner, who j was killed yesterday at her home m ‘ Brooklyn under circumstances of nn- j usual brutality (wrote the New York j correspondent of ‘‘The Daily Mail’-' on ! April 24). j A week, ago Mrs Heilner and her ' husband, a wealthy manufacturer, ' both of whom are ardent sympathisers ' of the Fatherland, asked a German ' relief agency to send them a needy re- ; servist a s a servant. The agency sent Joseph Hanoi, who represented himself as a steward in the German linc-r ‘ Vatorland, rendered destitute by the internment of the vessel. As a general utility man in Mr Heilner’s unpretentious household, Hanoi appeared anxious to please. Ho could turn his hand to anything. i Yesterday Miss Buck, Mrs Ileilner's companion, left her for a few hours, and on returning in the afternoon she met Hanoi hurrying away from the house. All doors were locked, blit a boy who climbed to the kitchen win- ( dow saw the body of Mrs Heilner j lying on the floor. | When the police forced, the door . they found she had been strangled with a rope after having been beaten insensible with a beer bottle. j Her diamond earrings had been torn from her ears, and rings from > her lingers. The murderer had aJ*so taken Mr Ileilner’s will, a deed to property in Germany inherited by the j dead woman, and miscellaneous silvci-. ware. THE MYSTERY. 1 The theft of the will and the deed adds an element of mystery to the crime. Mr Heilner, who is an invalid, I has no idea- why they were taken. j Instead of the usual, procedure of > detailing a few detectives to mvestf-i gate the case, Police Commissioner Woods yesterday ordered the immo- j diate issue of circulars hearing repro- t ductions of a photograph of the sus- j pcct, and hundreds of thousands were posted on railway stations, elevated subway stations, pawnshops, lodginghouses, and at other public places. He also told off 500 men to run down the murderer. Police squabs last night visited the crowded East Side lodging-houses, where they flashed electric lamps in the faces of the sleepers in their search for Hanoi.