New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-04
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THE BODY FOUND AT FREEpORT.

BEGINNING OF THE CORONER's INQUEsT-No I'M
PoRTANT TESTIMONY HEARD. BUT MUCH PROM
IsED.
The excitement attending the finding of the n9t ,
woods at Freeport, L. I, on FRIDAY, august : rs
has not abated vet, but no definite ciew mas Zen 1
oner Denton has been informed that woman
answering the description oil TINS one, naSims INC
Inissnr fro from He@pstea since March, and he ex-
pccted that witnesses would be present 10 esllv "a
this fact at the inquest Yesterday put sney ia.eu
q black fan and new pair OF ladies' putt9hed
CATERS were found on the pier at Merr.ck by Ben
jamin Carpenter. On the evening lore the mt
in of these articles woman was seen on the
meadows, and when called to she started and ran
away. 1t is also asserted that on March u a man
who is known to the authorities was seen in the
woods near where the remains were found by Two
boys who trout fishing and this will be in
At the inquest yesterday. held at Euterpean Hail.
there was large attendance Joseph Ritchie testi-
fed to finding the remains August % while gun
ming IN the wOois owned by Mrs. Raynor H. Smith.
The remains we're lying III tue same place on Satur-
The place whore the body was found unfre~
quented spot, about 400 feet from the track the
hontauk Railroad, and three-quarters of mile
from the Freeport station The remains could have
been taken to this place easily from the wagon
Rhame, of BeIlmore, testified that he had made
minute examination of the body. He found that
p obably the woman wore false teeth i" the upper
jaw. On the forehead there was running di-
agona!ly midway between the right eyebrow and
the hairy scalp, almost to the edge of the left eye
brow. Five vertebr;e were attached to the head
The skin OF the throat had the APP earauce of hav-
ing been cut with some sharp instrument.
he fifth vertehra removed from the sixth
without breaking any of the processes of bone, in
dicating that 1T was done by practised hand The
hair, darS brown, was twisted up loosely Mt the
back of the head aud fastened wi a htlrpin. The
skull norIual, with fractures. CThe skin from
the forehead showing plainly the scar was here ex
hiI,ited To the jury)
The scar on the forehead was evidently of some
years stSndlng aud the front hair was not
banged as before reported He could not ma Ike
out the color of the eyes, but he thought that the
woman was about thirty years of age, and of
medium height. The hal been pierced for
rings. This closed the testimony for the day, and
the further hearing was adjourned until September
IT, DIR. Rhane will make further examination of
the remains and preserve the head for identitica-
ton.
Detective Payn yesterday informed the jury that
while lie was i'll the woods, on the morning after the
finding of the body, near where it lay he picked up
a small envelope, which he took home and carefully
dried, on which, so far as he has been able TO de-
cipher, is written Mary -, Newest, Brooklyn"
from Freepor depot leading from the Merrick plank
found. Miss Fannie Powell, one night in the early
part of June last while at the house of her grand
mother, heard wagon leave tn held road and 90
toward the place here the body found. De-
tectve Payn believes that the remains were brought
from the city i'll wagon on the evening that Miss
Powell speaks of, and he is at work this
clew He says he will be able to show that the
person who took the body to the woods lives only
short distance from Freeport.