Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-16

gash, and beneath it, as County Physician
 Converse afterward found, the skull wal
 fractured. There WAS another gash over the
 right eye. Both of these gashes were ap-
 parently made with the edge of 8 stone. The nose was broken in the middle. The right side of the head had apparently been crushed in by stone. The left ear was injured as if an earring had been torn from it. Search was made for the missing earring, but it was not found. An earring with gold pendant was in the right ear. On her left hand was 8 ring, in which were set pearl and an emer- aid. On her breast was handsome cameo brooch. Her face had become blackened by the sun, which shone upon the spot where the body lay. The features were small and symmetrical. She wore number one or num- Der two buttoned gaiters. Near the body, and stained with blood, was copy of the Staats Zestu7lg, dated April 28, and not far of was long empty bottle, such as Rhein wine is sold in. No odor could be detected about it. It is not thought by those who have investigated the affair that robbery was the motive of the crime for valuables found on the body preclude this idea. The dress was of black cashmere, as were the overskirt
 
 coat, two thin red flannel underskirts, one calico undershirt, and red and gray mixed stockings No hat was found. The body is that of medium sized woman, neither very thin nor very stout. The hair is brown.
 Yesterday afternoon Frederick Bulthmann, who with some other lads living in the vicin- lty had visited the spot whence the body had been removed, said that he saw two large black snakes lying there motionless in the sun. Afterward Coroner Wiggins, who re- visited the spot yesterday afternoon, said he saw five black snakes there. His idea was that they were attracted by the smell of blood. He and his companions, he says, killed two of the snakes. The body bears no marks of having been molested after death. A story was current yesterday in Guttenberg that Mrs. Toff of that place. saw, last Tues day, young woman in a black dress pass her house, near the Gutenberg brewery, on She way up toward Bulls Ferry, accompanied by two men that the two men, on their re- turn alone, were asked where the woman was, and that they said she had run cway from them Mrs. Toff says that to the story should be added the fact that the woman was not dressed in black, and that she afterward saw her return to the ferry with another party. She says she can remember nothing about the appearance of the party that would throw light on the crime
 The murder has excited deep interest, and until late hour last evening 8 throng of persons was constantly to be seen in front of the morgue. A man from Williamsburg looked at the body in the evening to see whether or not it was that of his sister, who was married and ran away from her home seven months ago. He concluded the body was not his sisters. It is conjectured that the woman came from New York, or at least that she does not belong in the vicinity of Bulls Ferry, because in that sparsely settled neighborhood the appearance of a woman would have become the subject of general talk. Physicians are of opinion that the crime may have been committed as late as week ago, but that probably a considerably onger time has elapsed since it occurred.