New-York tribune., 1871-08-28
PRICE FOUR CENTS.
A MYSTERIOUS VICTIM
A WOMAN PACKED IN A TRrrNK.

GRAPH OF THE CORPsE-NO ARRESTS
A plain cab, drawn by one horse, stopped
before the principal door Of the Thirtethst Hudson
River Railroad Depot, last Saturday about p m It's
occupant O young woman OF small stature, plainly
dressed, allghted upon the sidewalk and neryously
handed money to the driver who thereupon drove
away as II In great hurry Hundreds Of carriages had
thus and during the day, and this incidenb
was naturally unnoced by the bystanders. The
paused moment the sidewalk thinking intent
ly number Of boys were standing near wSiting for
opportunities to carry baggage for passengers and
OF them attracted her attention. She called
him and said that wagon would with
trunk which che wanted him TO help carry into the bag
gage-room. The boy, who known TO his companions
ss Paddy" readily assented TO the engagement, and
told the woman that would be necessary for her b pu
chase ticket before she could get check for the trunk
from the baGsagemaster He then led his employer TO
the ticket office. where she purchased ticket for Chi
cago The boy, who very observant, that she
gave the ticket agent so and received sis change, tho
price Of the ticket being s22
THE MYSTERIOUS TRUNK
Returning TO the sidewalk the woman led the boy 10
truck which had been driven up before the window or
the baggage Office during their absence This trpck was
very small one with three bars painted red Sn each
side, and also with the Trip" painted upon one
Of Its panels. The trucnan was old OF slIQbt Stature
and wore the blue Overalls OF q common cartman He
was greeted by the woman an old acquaintance. A
cheap packngtrunk OF small size was on the truck The
woman remarked to the boy that this trunk contained
good deal Of glassware, and would better be carefully
lifted. On attempting TO raise IT, the Id nearly came off,
and the anxously asked the boy he coGd not
purchase rope. paddy" bought a strap Of the bag
gagemaster for ST. and brought 1t to her The trunk
then securely fastened carried into the baggageroom,
and placed upon the counter. The baggagemaster was
hurried and upon being shown the ticket, quickly
handed the woman check, and, attaching another
TO the trunk, flung IL upon pile OF Others
Tho boy received his compensation and walked care
lessly with the woman toward Nnthave, meanwhile
thinking very curious that passenger should come to
the depot so early in the afternoon when the Chicago
train started at o'clock in the evening The woman
left the boy upon reaching Nnthave, after engaging
him TO meet her the OF Thrtethst at 72O aud
show her what car to take. che went down Nnthave,
and last seen by Paddy walking with great haste
THE DISCOVERY.
Meanwhile the trunk moved about here and there
in the reckless of baggagemeD, until finally IL
was out OF the baggageroom upon the platform
from which the trunks placed in the luggage car
Doubtless from this rough handling the lid was in some
manner loOsened for porter leaning over to lft the
trunk noticed a nauseOus stencil proceeding from It,
Robert Vandeward the baggage-maser, was told of
this by the porter and resolved to open it, The lock was
very fragile and upon the first pressure rave way The
I'D was lifted, and upon the top ordinary quilt was
seen under which thick blanket found Upon re-
moving these, horrible sight met the eyes OF the
baggage-master.
In the bottom of the trunk with the head resting upon
the knees was the body Of young woman. The trunk
was only two feet six inches long and IS inches deep,
and yet body feet in length had been forced into
It, To do this the ends had placed the corpse upon It's
right side, doubled up the legs and bent the head for
ward The girl could not have been over Is years 2f age
and was unusually beautiful "bonde" with fine fea-
lures and complexion of extraordinary clearness. Her
1att hnaN
over her shoulders and hid her breast Her
hands, though small and slender, showed that che
had labored. No cuts marks Of assault were found
upon the body although there slight signs OF de-
composition about the pelvic region.
:; on TRACK OF THE MURDERERs.
Capt Caffrey OF the Twentieth Precinct Police in
formed OF the discovery and Immediately began hunting
for a Coroner He succeeded, about O'Clock in the
evening, in finding Coroner Young by whom an order
signed for the removal Of tho body 10 the MOrgue.
During this time hundreds Of persons, moved by curl
osity, were permitted to gaze upon the body.
At Police Headquarters, IN Muberry-st., Inspector
walling examined all the records of the past three
months, but found account Of missing girl cDrre
spending to the victim. On the information furnished
by the boy known Paddy" but whose true name
found TO he Alexander Parks, Inspector Waling ex-
amined the list OF truckmen but found that there
only one carman In the city OF the name OF Tpp, and
he easily cleared himself from all suspicion. Orders were
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order was obeyed but after detention of several hours
he was released Parks positively asserting that he
not the man.
Banled in this direction, Inspector Walling issued,
about a. M, general order to the police 10 examine
all the trucks the city, to discover, possible, the
described by Parks This search also unsuccessful,
word coming all the precincts that no truck OF the
kind could be found The police were, however
full Yesterday morning in finding the man who drove
the cab for the mysterious woman in the person OF
yery-man who keeps stable in Twentythird-st, near
Third-ave The cabman told the police that, about
o'clock Saturday he returned TO his stable and fonnd
waiting there a woman who wished to 20 the Hudson
River Railroad depot. He took her there for 81, and
noticed that acted strangely upon getting ouf the
cab As for describing her. he said that was beyond his
power as he did not her closely and regarded her
as he would any other common passenger
The body OF the young woman was removed to the
Beeyue Hospital DeadHouse about 10 o'clock on saur-
day night Here it was taken from the truck and placed
in common pine coffin No effort made to preserve
~ upon ice for Identification for the photographers.
The body when found in the railroad depot showed few
signs of decay but six hours in the deadhouse converted
Il into loathsome object. The face and neck sweled
into horrible proportions, and the upper portion c the
body turned almost black from rapid decomposition.
when the photographers at last arrived about yester
day afternoon face sochanged that they deemed
it useless take picture, as she could not baye been
recognized by her dearest friends
Deputy Coroner Cushman arrived at the Morgue at IL
a. M yesterday and made a careful postmortem EXAM
ination OF the body. He believed the woman bad been
dead three or four days On opening the abdominal
ty he found 1t filed with liquid, and showing sigma Of
peritonitis The womb large and contained svi-
dences that fetus had been expelled. DR.. Cushnan
was OF the decided opinion that death was caused by
acute peritonits, resulting from an abortion.
IL CLUE.
The police making every effort to discover the au.
thors OF the horrible outrage but yet without the
slightest success The failure OF the Photographers TO
obtain portrait is regarded by the detectives hard
ardth tho ~ nf