The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-09-19
4 NORTH RIVER MYSTERY.
uorHER,s TDENTIFICdrION OF
yut CoRpST or HER CHIID'

p.o,,v unry Ellen Biazicr the Possible VIC.
lin Of Outrage aud Murder '""- r.
Ntnn suspected of the uorrid 'rl"' '"'
uodv of the ainn seen IN thr hlN'r'
robn Mcdonald. Thomas Proctor, ana !
lanes Richards. boatmon, we're potter'hH a"uu'
,o,r boats a. the foot Of Thirteenth street. no
hokon. on sunday morning. wheh Mei""''u
,ow an object floating slowly ashore. AS -"on
Ill cot into shallow water. they saw that IL
30 the body OF a girl. floating face downwaru'
r,,v dre,y ~ upon the shore, marking III :"
aotnp that the textures Of the girls dress Erea-
s,ne and SILK. were good, and that tue g"Ineh'
neatly fitted the slender form. upturhlnR Tue
bodv the men saw that the face was that oil
c,,i about eight years Of age. Its features were
almost hidden by thick splotches oil Tar Inc
nose seemed to have been crushed 10y u dow
The hair was clotted with larry paste. lieln
In It's place by this paste WINS crimson bow.
Inv sold earring was In the right ear. The dis
arranged Undertaking consisted of white
muslin chemise. frillcd cotton drawers. brown
urped stockings, and tiny laced Kid shoes com
oetod the attire Every article was neat and
whole The body was nearly a. fully developed
,s that Of girl of thirteen. 1t was taken to
lhe morgue.
A much erleved man aud woman entered the
9arden street. Hoboken, police station yester-
isy morning. and told Can't. Donovan that they
we're Hermann and Mary Blazier the former
being captain OF the canal boat Catawba, moored
At tue foot Of West Seventeenth street In this
pity. and that they believed that the oodS, oI
which they had read In ruE SuN, was that OF
their daughter, Mary Ellen, VINO disappe"reu un
Tuesday. Cant Donovan described the appareI
Of the body, closing with mention ol tno eai,
ring. "she's my child, captain, eNcln me,
Mrs. Dlazier. sobhing. Here the mate oi tuat
earring" he iptatn took Nr. and Mrs. Blazier
to the Morgue, aud they recognized the BODY.
ION Tuesday afternoon sud MT. bld1ier,
"Ellv asked me for O. slice II the loaf of bread
that had just taken from the oven. told her
H. wntt until mad cooked the squash for her
flthcr's dinner. She went up to the deck and
told the other children that was going 10 give
tnem each a sicc Of fresh bread. AS soon az
he squash was cooked broke the loaf and
diyidei ii among the children, keeping q piece
for Ely told my eldest eitl to 70 to the bow,
- Nh~ came back ana told me that she
Couldn't mud Ely. diinh think II was strange
bee iuse Ely was "A regular little old maid about
hating herself away TO take an aftern ON nap
Hooked into the forw. I'd CaOin. the hold, every.
where, but no Ely. Then my husband NOTICED
that tue small boat at the bow was gone. IN.
children told iue that IN N with melons hau
been a; the bow, and perhaps he ooaAed Eli'
into his boat, for Ely WAS very fond OF melons
And then he must have chlorOtormed her. be-
Cause | have taught my chiiurSn never To e
s Etsi Wwei.kers little sray. ilsed To- Come OF
the pier every afternoon before the Afternoon
ELY disappeared aud SIT On tue spiles near al
boat and read book Oi prayers, lhe al
o. Heaven we thought Il was. II had
biz gilt cross on Its back. One after
noon ELY went and sat on the te-heam near thu
nm. lie looked at her and sand, Lake care
my little girl. You are too pretty 70 fall over
called ELY, and told her that she must no
hlsturo the man, because he had maybe littl
pnes at home, AMI came down 10 the pier ute
bis " rk, IKE good man, to read sometaing
DO his soul good. ELY said that she wouldn't
because she Thought lac must be very goo
man. He has never been here since the altel
noon before ELY disappeared. ! have watche
ID n
pot come. Ely's left earring was broken acc
gentally and put = py TO be mended. =
INHALER children, Ely told me that she wante
q shoestrinR. and asked me 10 send ashore IL
some. | told her that II was too early. The
she got a white cord aud laced one Of her shoe
with II, because she wouldn't wear Il loose sho'
EysrylnI1a aISe' ner s %us Was Se awa
gery pretty, and many pecpie nave ASKED III
let them adopt her. buried my baoy- on
County Physician Converse OF Hoboken sal
yesierd ~ that he did not think that Ellen ha
been outraged, or that her nose had been broke
bya blow. The tar might nave settled NJ on h'
lace during hei drifting. The night watchme
81 The neehaWHe n on u,VHS 80 sts ,"s ny, ~
body past them. IL would correspond TIE
say, w,th the description Mrs. Bezier siyes I
The bearded. elderly man who freQuented I'll
pier end, and talked win Ellen. They burst NJ
lauu . huai to overtake Tor Tue river VI
full Of big. ioaming waves. Detective Galagh'
said that the body viii come ashore, prubao
To-day. al the uo'd rce lie thinSs that y
the roty Of the u..u W lao luuhEed a. our u
Cntawba, and cnticed Ellen iat1 row BOAT, "
tloy vith criminal Latent. In the s,tuss
somewhere near thc jersey snote' attending
effort 90 accomplish ~, intent, tne nUa.
overturned and ne and Ellen were drowned
A sewer from the gas house emptles its'
Into the river at the foot 81 seventeenth sire
A considerable almixturc u Tar Is al ays amo
IT. yomitiugs. The TAR sinks ana Iorins pai
mass upon the river hott' I'm. Lines OF vess'
have come ~ from the bottom biAckenec "a
sticky IN spots with TINS very adhesive p's
Ellen may have acci1ehte.h i'ii.n heAa'Sus