The spelling of her name was never fully nailed down, it was reported as Katie Bradschoff, Bradshepf, Branerhoff, Broedehoft, etc. Menken had taken her away on New Year’s Eve and they were to be married immediately. They identified the woman as a 23-year-old servant at a residence on Eighty-Ninth Street. The District Attorney of Chemung County telegraphed the information on Menken and the stolen jewelry to Inspector Thomas Byrnes of the New York City Police Department, who put his detectives on the case. His name was William Menken (aka Meineke) who had been sent to the Reformatory after being convicted of robbery New York City. Officials at the Reformatory confirmed that a man fitting that description had been released on parole, in 1882. His left eyelid had a peculiar droop.įrom some comments he made it was suspected that he had recently been an inmate at the Elmira Reformatory.

He was slender, five feet, eight inches tall, with a light complexion, brown hair and had a light mustache and side whiskers. No one knew the man who was with her, but those who saw him provided a fairly thorough description.

Neither the money nor any of the jewelry were found on the body. She had displayed a large roll of bank notes and was wearing some distinctive jewelry-a gold watch on a slender gold chain, large old-fashioned gold bracelets, a large ring, earrings with long pendants, and a gold breastpin. The unidentified woman had been seen in several Elmira beer shops the previous Friday afternoon, accompanied by a young German man. The coroner determined that the woman had been murdered, causing a sensation in the small town of Elmira, on New York State’s Southern Tier. Two boys playing near a bridge at Carr’s Corners outside of Elmira, New York on Sunday, Janufound the body of a young woman frozen in the snow under the bridge. Pete and Pat Bondurant are twin brothers who murdered a series of victims. Other than a troubled legal history that includes many scrapes with the law, not much is known about Robert Spahalski's high school years at Elmira Free Academy. He had been arrested driving a stolen car.

Robert Spahalski's first appearance in the Star-Gazette came in July 1971 when he was 16.

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