New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-04-11
Discovery Of Hsmar Hs~as...


sUrrcsED CLUE 70 rHs FATE or ms ssAssArg
An excitement Was crested ID Albany New Ycsk,
few dsys ago, By ~ discovery Of ths maasssd ~
half decomposed Temsiss Of . tsNaIs pseked IN
boz, q de once a DE Hudsou River Rsisuad Ths
Albany journal Of the ID int has tts fblBowfsg In
regard 10 III matter:
On Wednesday lat NJ announced Is Discovery q
the fensim q 2 5sMals d ~ o1aes egthe MuxuA
svsa ss' "a Il = s's SO, y .p e sh
hsying been shipped from New York = mts NJ
attracted The stssnttca q - special dslsetvS sses
patched Mr. Mc3fsth . ~ eits y isvs ess
matter. When be LETT Szuar = ieiSla Cc~ s.fs,I
tanned in New York that the Sszsans q tie 6scs,d
were those Of Mm Brannas, VIE - CaDta q. AZ ~
appearance, resided on Staten Iaissa a ~ -
missing since the 10th Of July ast, ~ ~ i -
upon ths Island, and Is "pposd = hsss:bssa
II Win 30 recollected that Coroner D. = -
the card from the boz, and on The opposfee ~ -
found printed thereon, From ". J. Baznss, us -
100 Third avenue, corner OF Fourteenth seFeet, HeW
York." The announcement Of this MT tends To-
strengthen the suspicion that the remains IN qusoa
are those Of Nrs. BFannaD, for abe had friends red
ing near this store and was In the habit Of equendy
visiting them She Is supposed TO have been wsylsid
at night rasshed. and then murdered 10 thst vicinity
Nj. McGfath brought with him dasuerreotpye 81
Mrs.. B, and this morning, in the company ot d..
Armsby and Coroner Dean, examined ths content9 q
the soap box. They found the remains II decayfDg
state, and % mutilated that the doctor cOuId nos
give m opinion: although b MD thas thsy might -
those sought afeer Ags5 ssss ~
Dr.. Crane, Of New York, bsotheT q - deeeesed,
Is expected here In the coosss u ths az. 10 nav
throw some light upon The mystery, = thSse ~
marks upou the nails and fingers q II dsesased,
which, II il be bis sister, he can dsusify. q s9
The New York Herald Of the Al nys:s sess Is &
Mr. W. J. Barnes. whose name sppsaaG upsn In
back Of the card which the direciion "a lis -
picious box Was written, is highly respectable hF
ware merchant, and informed our reporter yetefiey
that he knew nothing Of the mesns ~ which his et
came TO be used for this purpose He seated, how.
business that the students were in the habit 81 visit
ing his store that cards similar to The Cne % Tie
box are always lying on the counter near tie dor,
and that be had heard il suggested that ponibly
some Of the medical students had, unthinkingly,
taken bis card for this purpose in sending sttn
% the subjects Of dissection are called, to fellow
student in Indiana, where 4 might b moas ifcalt
70 procure subjects than It u here. ss
was shipped from New York - extra baggage ~
also given rise 10 the suspicion that perhaps sue
medical student travelling with il, and ssctasnt
ally, or careleasly, lost il, ls;s ~
The Express publishes The following letter non
MI ". W. Mats6H, VINO ms been employed several
months in the task Of clearing up Tie mystery atend-
/ ing the disappearance Of Mn. Bfannan
| OYYIcE EAnosAL Pol1cx ConnlseaoH \
To the Editors Of the N. Y. Express Seeiug that
you have copied article from the Albany E1enjp9
Journal in relation to the mysterious body
at the Railroad Depot at Albany, and connscfina IL
with that of the lamenfed Mrs Braunan and l6r lesf
that any false impressions should get abfuad ia fsa
ton thereto We beg leave TO state that body had
been found a. stated, We dispatched one Of onr Al.
GERS 70 that city to make thorough investigation.
From the report he made to us % his return ID Til
city it appears that the entire head Of the female has
been stripped of hair skinand fesh bearing 10 mass
by which she could be identified, except two front
teeth The hands, and the toes Of the feet remain
entire, but as he unable to identify Tie body 81
them, we have telegrapbed to Mrs Bnnnan;s brother
DR.. Crane, VINO is at present In Philadelphia, to re-
turn Immediately to see il be can identify ii. The
size OF the skeleton answers exactly to that or Mrs
Brannan, but circumstance exists which tends to
preclude the idea that it 10 the remains OF that lady
The body has evidently been impregnated with
fluid for the purpose Of preserving Il from decay but
which did not prevent II from drying up. The len
arm has been cut of with saw, between the should
er and elbow, which would not have been done II II
had been intended for anatomical purposes
Respectfully, yours, w
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