The sun., 1883-10-31
PERTH AMBOY PUZZLED.
TWO INQUESTS HELD BIZ CORONER
GARRETSON YESTERDAY.
A Headiess Woman who wns Fownd In the
Woods. an Unknown Man Mysteriousiy
Drowned, nud Woman Adrlff.

A Hesdiess Woman who Found In the
Woods, an Unknown Man Mysteriousiy
Drowned, and Woman Adrin.
Two Coroners inauests In one day is
very unusual event for the quiet town OF Perth
Amboy. Nj. The few citizens who were not
away in New York on business or working at
the coal wharves gathered at the City Hill to
watch the proceedings Judge Samuel &. Gar
retson acted as Coroner. and twenty-four shop
keepers hotel keepers. and mechanics made
up tho two juries. The City Hall has meet
ing room on the second floor. capable OF ac-
commodating about 800 people. There Is q
stage at one end set with side scenes for dra-
matte performances. Coroner Garretson set
his small desk in the centre Of the stage and
draped 1t with large American flag. The jury
sat in row OF chairs. facing the staRe on the
floor below. Leaning against a side scene was
maple saplng about six feet long. A piece Of
common wrapping cord was tied to its upper
| portion. and. hanging down. ended In a noose
The indussts wero begun al 3 O. o'clook. but be-
| fore that tho Coroner had taken the twenty:
two nrSe o STAGES M Snd we're driven ONT to
city, They won't straight to the small stone
and examined two bodies that were there.
One Of them. an elderly man with gray whs-
table. The wrinkled and beached skin OF the
| hands. and the appearances Of the head and
water. The other body was in a square box.
and was far advanced In decay. 1t was that
The Identity Of neither body was known. and
| in each case there were circumstances which
Sosy a ,Ss S SS pay found bv
hunters IN patch Of woods near @ FertS Amboy
on Oct; . l9 She was lying s on her breast:
side this body in the woods stood the maple
away !te severed head was found. The posi-.
sion Of the body. the oyerhanginv cord; and the
on had ks iSd hsrss by that
ing herself forward on the cord. Her
% tom and the Strain Of the the cer% ord al aded i By De-
composition probably severed her head from
It to the place whore it. was found. She had
been dead when found about four months She
and she wore a pair Of CATERS nearly new. She
had no rings and there was nothing in her
years; .lThe cord was tied to the ,sapling
and into q moose In rude way by, half
such as woman might mig have made
police remembered that on June last u
strange woman had been in Perth Amboy. She
Perth Amboy about three days before that and
by the landlord, who thought her character was
not good To the police she gave her name as
and said that she had had been a; broueht there b,
Carl knutzen. Swede; employed in the terra
Gotta works shs paid her ne and started to TO-
did not reach The body was found md near the
Eo,sd ,, which runs in that direction: KnptSeI
eThs Tss SSd v5 XII s1
) head as though he had been struck with SOM
face at n place where the coal sioop Ben Bran
. dreth had been lying two weeks ago He wa wa
, Some people understood that ne was Joh
tho S a1sn but hs sss ob sS hay
sons on the boat. i was declared: IA
sp7ss and % Wills Rshe Georse fell SSSsaa'
from the small I boat Of Of the slooR and wa
j. BY Capt, Rahn, The sloop went away the mex
until The body came I to the surface. - '' ''''
m Sny so sow s ts sn the S
p tie tug j. +. Alien % arrived I'd OF Of Perth Ambo, Ami q
It Cart Seeley had on board woman whom h
: boat boat fr@Sm @ which sSeorgs had 6een droS"s,
ssn BranSdrstR She e said ep 1hat the sio9p VA va
e had some trouble with her husband whic
a ended in her getting adrift with one oar in tn
% :, small boat. Her story was very, confused .Sh
l. went over to Tottenville. took some drink
K and went to New, York; It,is thought probab
n that she got ndrift In the small boat Will
l. under the influence. of liquor The small bot
70 now lies on the beach near the ferryboat lane
ing at Perth AmbOy.
O. These facts were known to tho Coroner IN
fs tho jury when the inquest was begun: Th
ir case OF the man George was first cOnsidere,
~ DIR. n: Williamson, tho County Physician. an
/, Drs Wilson and Van Deveon. testified that til
i. trivial. and had been made by fish or by rul
1r bing on the bottom of tho bay. The skin Wa
l. abrnded. but the tissues underneath we're III
injured showing that no blow had been struc
at death by drowning. the lungs being filed wit
OF water. There were no marks OF violence.
Undertaken Fox said that when ho lifted tn
rt body from the water the wound in the forehea
jy bled freely. DIR. Williamson said that this ";
at tho blood remained fluid. This WIS all Il
g. evidence taken. and the case was adjOurne
g. II IL thought possible that the man may ha'
Rr been thrown into tho water while insensiblc.
The case Of the unknown woman WAS take
q. composition Of tho body was so great th
" nothing could be learned by the post morte
at except that no bones were broken. Ii W,
81 quite possible for lhe cord to & have severed =
an sOmn time. The sapling and cord were car
,r fully examined by tho Jury.
or Coroner Garretson said that the clothing
ay the dead woman had been shown to sovcr
n they were of the opinion that it resembed VIII
en- she Ind worn. The Coroner said he propos
to SEQ tho Public Prosecutor in reference
in | both cases. in order that steps might be taxi
il to sift each to the bottom.
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