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Cincinnati, Ohio, February 13, 1903.

A horrible murder was committed on Lynn Street last night, and a large detail of police is investigating

the crime. The victim of the criminal or criminals was Mrs. Ada Geiger, age 25, wife of Fred

Geiger, an employee of the Hickory Carriage Company, who resides with his family at 1613 Lynn Street.

At 1029 last Thursday night, George H. Murray, who lives two doors from the Geiger's home at 1913

Lynn Street, heard a man yelling at his door. When he got the door open,

he found it to be Fred Geiger, his near neighbor. He said that Giger had on no hat and only a dark

colored sweater, vest, and pants, who said that somebody had broken into his home and murdered his wife.

Murray returned with Geiger to the latter's home, and there he found the body of Mrs. Geiger

crammed into a sink, her head and breast in the sink, and the rest of her body on the

drawing board, and her skull crushed, and her body bruised in several

places. Look at the condition of the house, he protested, as if desiring to call particular attention

to its ransacked condition. Murray gave the alarm, and when he came back, he found Geiger

sitting on his side door steps with his hat, coat,

an overcoat on, and his four-year-old son Stephen in his arms. He had blood on his hands where he said

he had placed them on the bloody corpse of his wife when he discovered it. The matter was reported

to the police and an investigation was begun. Pending the

investigation, Geiger was taken in custody by the officers and is being held at the central

police station awaiting developments. An investigation of the room disclosed pieces of a heavy washbowl, a pair of scissors, and several pieces of the room disclosed pieces of a heavy wash bowl, a pair of scissors, and several pieces of cloth bloodstained.

The scissors and the pieces of the bowl showed that an effort had been made to wipe the blood away.

Some evidence was found of an entrance to the house having been forced,

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