CRIME IN AMERICA

Evening Star, Issue 22627, 20 April 1937, Page 9

CRIME IN AMERICA

GIRL VIOLINIST MURDERED SEARCH FOR REJECTED SUITOR Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, April 19.. Julia Nussenbaum, aged 24, a violinist, died in "hospital nine hours after being found unconscious behind the draperies in a rehearsal studio, with her skull fractured by blows from a hammer, which was left nearby. Employees saw a man leave hastily. The police are looking for a rejected suitor. The body was discovered by a woman dancer who was practising in the studio. . The violinist was preparing for an engagement at a Toronto (Canada) cabaret. G-MAN DIES FROM INJURIES TOPEKA, April 18. Mr W. W. Baker, the G-man who was shot by robbers, died. The robbers will be charged with murder and the death penalty will be asked for. It was Baker’s first assignment for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. OARING HOTEL ROBBERY NEW YORK, April 18. Three bandits entered the fashionable Del Monico Hotel in Park Avenue, menaced four guests and a lift operator with guns, and took jewels and money to the value of 15,000 dollars. They forced their victims, one of whom was a retired industrialist. and the others women, to leave the lift at the eleventh floor. They then threatened the lift operator with death unless he remained silent until their departure. They strolled unnoticed through a crowded lobby and escaped in a stolen motor, which was later abandoned.