Evening journal., 1890-03-11
A METROPOLIS MYSTERY.
A Woman's Body Found in a
Dark Cellar.
SHE FOUGHT FOR LIFE AND HONOR
An Atrocious Murder and AssauIt Brought
60 Light--one Clew Scrap Of Papsr.
Murderer and Suicide Jacobs May Have
Been Her Slayer.

dark, damp aud unused coal cellar at No.
3 Eldridge street for an empty beer keg
yesterday afternoon aged Mrs Levy discov-
cred the mangled corpse Of an unknown
young woman, whose body bore startling
evidences Of the heroic struggle she had
made for her honor. as well as for life, be
fore her murderous assailant completed his
work. No light penetrates this cellar and
Mrs Levy felt her way down the rickety
stairs and along the damp, desolate passage
way until she reached the door Of the closet
and then entered. While feeling about
the door for the keg, and just as she had
grasped it with one hand, the other came
in contact with what she recognized as
human foot Mrs. Levy was too much
frightened to cry out or even to drop the
keg but still carrying it, she managed 70
reach the stair and gasp out TO her son that
there was something lying in the coal cellar.
The Dead BODY Of a Woman.
He laughed at her fright. assuring her
she must be mista ken, but went himself 20
inspect, and by the light Of lamp he
carried he saw the dead body Of a woman
lying ia the closet He wus almost as badly
frightened as was his mother, and Fastening
from the scene he hurried to the Eldridge
street police station and reported the matter
TO sefgt Creeden, who sent Detectives
Reap and Mullaue to investigate aud also
notified the coroners office,
Murder Most Foul.
Tightly bound around the woman's hend
with cord that cut a deep fnrrow into the
neck was faded brown overcoat, ragged
and we'll worn. 1t was soaked with blood
and frozen stiff The body lay on its side,
cramped aud doubled up because OF the
smallness Of the improvised tomb When
the policemen cut the cord about the neck
and drew away the faded overcoat from the
head and face murder ia ali its ghnstliness
confronted them.
The woman's head was literally crushed
as by the blows OF heavy hammer or
Ratchet. Her face was covered with blood
and so swollen from repeated blows that the
features were no longer distinguishable
Dastardly Assault.
On the body were found wounds that
plainly told Of a criminal assault and indi-
Gated the origin Of the affray that ended IN
murder There were bruises and ahrasions
along the limbs, the undarclothing was torn
ia many places, the dress wrenched from its
band and some buttons torn of. Both
wrists bore red marks as though a strong
man had sought 10 restrain the desperate
womans movements. That she had strug-
gled heroically for her life was as evident as
that she had been murdered The coat, Dr.
Conway thought, was tied around her bead
after death. He thought the woman had
been dead a week or ten days, but as the
body was frozen stiff it may have lain there
for three or four weeks
'sTo MY Dear Freida with My
The pockets Of the dress were searched
and they gave up a clean large linen hand
kerchief, a door aud a trunk key tied to-
gether with a piece Of red ribbon and a
small scrap Of paper. The latter appeared
10 have been torn from the top Of a small
pad sheet, and is the only possible clew to
the murder at present. la the upper right
hand corner it was dated in a neat English
hand. "Feb. TO- ls90r aud below was
written in Hebrew, ''ro my dear Freida,
with myn and then il ended. The writing
was all good and very small The coat
that had enveloped the head was Of brown
melton and was an overcoat. 1t had satin
} lining and was we'll worn.
She Was a Hebrew.
The woman was evidently Of Hebrew
origin and, as nearly as could be judged
from her battered condition. 25 or 30 years
old She was 5 feet inches high and prob
ably weighed lbs pounds Her form is well
nodded and graceful in outline and hel
hands and feet are sVnall and shapely, while
her hair is long and black and so curly as t,
be best described as "kinky.n Her clothing
although Of poor quality, was clean anG
neat. In her ears she wore a pair Of lonl
gold earrings Of Russian make, and small
plain gold ring encircled the small finger o.
her left hand.
The Crime Was Committed Elsewhere.
No weapon was found on the premises tina
afforded any clew to the murder, and til
! police are OF the opinion that the crime wa
committed elsewhere aud the body carrie
70 the spot by one or more men familia
with the cellar,
Q Was This Jacobs AIurder9
Isaac Jacobs, who killed Herman Rogc
{ zinski in a stable yard at No 81 Ridge street
: and then, after shooting Mrs. Rogozinski i
Q the neck, committed suicide, was at on
q time ianitor Of a Hebrew school in the builc
:, ing, and the people suspect him Of the III
$ known woman's murder. Jacobs had severe
q wives, and, while janitor Of the school, live
T with two of them at the same time, il
d said, but they did not live in the building
Z and Levy never saw them. The writing /