New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-16
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.
PRO sABLE MURDER AT JERSEY CIT

PROBABLE MURDER AT JERSEY CITY.
About 5 o'clock on Saturday morGing, as privat
Waterman Baldwin was engaged at bis duties on tn
CuDard dock Jerey City, bis attention attracted
TO something in the alter at the end of Yorkst pier
Upon close Inspection ne discovered Il TO be the fee
of human being, with the head and body immersed
in the water. Thinking that this might be one Of the
victims of he floop Spray, the Oyster boat f.. A.
Jobnson, tie wstehman summoned his partner, and the
two attached rope to of the limbs aud attempted
to Draw the body TO the surface when they found that
it was held firm by some weight attached to il.
They then made the line fast to the dock and notified
Coroner Morris. The Coroner shortly after proceeded
to the spot and upon taking ont the body found it to
be that of woman in perfectly nude state, with the
exception of the yoke of a ctemise and about three
inches of the top of white cotton stocking. One
end OF rope was found passed around the neck,
and drawn twice tightly through tn, mouth, which
caused the tongue to prorude The rope fastened
by peculiar knot called by boatmen climber hi ch."
The other end Of the rops was fastened TO barrel
OF pitch, which was considerably imbedded in the mud
end is supposed could not have moved any distance
after having been sunk. The remains were taken to
Mr.. Hopes, undertaken, in Newark avenue, where
they remain until to morrow for Identification.
THE INQUEST.
Coroner Morris summoned Jury, when the follow
ing evidence was taken;
jonathan ii. Baldwin testified reside at No. "a
Essex street. and Waterman at the Cunad dock about 81
O'Clock this morning went into the shed OF the Cunard dock
Of human being swaing back and forth 10 the water the end
Of the street pr tsrucl thai might be Of the
persons that bad been murder recently the vessels
tod my partner Peterson and we went down. and hitched
Il was when discovered that the BODY was sncRored to some
things then went and notified the Corone present when
I G sno b s I o and
drawn tight 20 much so that the tongue ProFuded the
was sbou ten feet IN esh Lhe water where the body wa.
feet low tide; DO thns the barrel bad oaied all but
think body and barrel had been thrown into the water At the
same time
Peter Peterson testified AN private Waterman
at ue Cunad Dock corobosts the testimony ofoceI Bald
the barrel about ten feet from the dock do not think
Il had moved after in the water; have been
night wsetman that DICK the three yesrs and have ne
at tbs. place was a5ou in the morning some ten
days when Baldwin and man Ri from
apparently ishmsn DO know that tchoone loaded
with pitch had laid al that dock very recently.
As person could be found to identify the body, and
no further evidence touching this mysterious aar
forthcoming il was decided TO adjourn the investigation
until Tuesday next in order 10 give it publicity which
may come to the notice of some of the friends or
acquaintance of the unknown woman.
POST MORTEM.
DR.. Quidor, City Ply sican, made careful post
most examination of the body, which wac in good
STATE of preservation, having it is supposed been in the
water about ten days. He found considerable extra
vasated blood in the throat which might have been
csused by strsngulaton by the rope the left collar
bone dslocated extensive bruce the left breast
and On the right side of the stomach.
DESCRIPTION.
Deceased is suppoeeo to be ali English woman about
30 ears of age about five feet in hight and rather thick
set black hair; teeth all perfect with the exception Of
The right eyetooth and the noar tooth on the left side
which are gone.
The uppostion that the deceased either belonged to
a yessel or had been induced to go board Of in
that vicinity where che violated, and then perhaps
murdered to prevent al exposure.
On the 18th Of January last, Mr.. F. b. Woolsey
nssed barrel of pitch from the end Of the York street
pier. The impression of the physician, however is
that the body could not have been in the water over ten
or twelve days.