Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-12-29
CUT IN HALVES.
Philadelphia's Latest and Most Re.
voting Murder.
THE BODY UNIDENTIFIED.
It Was Fo,.nd in Two Bags Hidden in q
Water Pipe. and Gives Evidence
That Terrible Struggle Pre-
ceded the Fatal Blow.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29-Aithough the
entire detective force of the city is working
on the case, the dismembered body of the
man found in Fairmount park Wednesday
has not been identified.
AS public interest in this case is increasing,
mention of all that is known concerning the
crime is of interest. In two burlap sacks
the corpse had bsen placed, with both legs Oft
and the head so badly crushed that 1t was a.
most severed from the body. The CHASTITY
bundles lay among the water mains strewn in
a field, near Thirty-eighth street and Colum-
bia avenue, and were discovered by two
boys who were playing there. Into a coarse
sack were crammed the head and trunk Of
man. The whole was wrapped in MANILA
hemp and clumsily tied together Upon the
sack, in black stencil, were the letters &c A.
& Co, selected magnums.n A mass of clot-
ted blood and brains fell to the floor of the
station house when the head and trunk were
removed from the sack. The head was
shockingly mutilated, the skull being crushed
in as though with a heavy bludgeon.
The expression of the mans face was that
of one who had been engaged in deadly
encounter the fists were clenched and the
muscles tightly drawn. 1t was thought that
a hatchet had been used in infiicting the
cash which almost severed the jawbone
from the head Three shirts covered the
body-a light percale dotted with black, a
gray flannel and light gray merino. The
bag containing the legs was of the same ma
terial as the other sack, and was marked
-. ID. A." in red letters. By reason of the
distorted and twisted condition of the limbs
it might have been supposed that they were
deformed. They had been as cleanly sepa-
rated from the body as was possible, n sharp
knife evidently having been employed in per-
forming at least portion of the CHASTITY
work
In the bag containing the head and trunk
We're found fragment of The Philadelphia
Record of Dec 5, 1888, and portion of a copy
of The German Demokrat of Aug 5, 1885, A
few lines written in cramped hand were
discovered upon the edge of The Record
copy, resembling "Hohler Helah, Hoboken
Hotel" Mrs. Hohlern or "Mrs. Kohler." In
the bag were also found three letters, which
the police authorities decline to make known.
A few feet from the pipe where the body was
found there was picked up a copy of The
North American of Oct. s, stained with
blood, while the interior of the iron main
was spattered with blood and brains
A postmortem examination has been male
by DR.. Formad, the coroner's physician. lie
gives it as his opinion that the murder was
committed on Christmas night only few
hours previous to the discovery of the cut up
body in the section of water pipe. The APP
pearance of the parts where the legs were
severed from the body, the physician says,
indicates that whoever did the job had some
experience at that sort of work. The flesh
was cleanly cut and the saw used on the
bones was fine one evidently meat saw.
The inquest developed the fact that the muir
dered man was not addicted to the use of
alcoholic liquors.
Chief of Detectives Wood states that he is
absolutely at sea in regard to the finding of
the perpetrators of the foul crime The
body is undoubtedly that Of German, aged
from 80 to 80 years, dark brown hair, cut
rather short, and light brown mustache
Chief Woods theory is that the man was
killed during a fight in a house not great
distance from where the remains were found,
the cutting in half of the body being
done in order to more conveniently carry it
to the lonely spot in the park The condi-
ton of the muscles indicated that the man
struggled terribly before he was finally over
powered and killed by blow on the back of
the head, which was dealt with sufficient
force to crush in the skull Until the body
is recognized the chief says it will be almost
impossible to gain clew.
Mrs. Koehler keeps a boarding house in
Heboken which, it is said, is sometimes
spoken of as the Hoboken hotel She says
the description of the man tallies with that
of George Etzald, one of her boarders who
she thinks went to Philadelphia recently on a
search for work Etzald's hair, according to
her statement, is black, however, while that
of the murdered man is brown.