The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-21
OR IS IT MURDER !?
The Mans Head Almost Sew
cred From His Body-A
Gashed Razor by
His Side,i
Cory and Terrible Scene When
William Green's Room Was
Broken Open.

What may possibly prove to be terri
BILE murder came to light in Hoboken to-
day. If it is not this, it is one of the
suicides on record.
Stretched at full length on bare floor,
the head almost entirely severed from
the body and surrounded by CONCEALED
blood to which the clothing stuck fast,
thus was the body of William Green
found in furnished room in Hoboken
this morning.
t about ten o'clock this morning ner-
vous little woman rushed into Hoboken
Police Headquarters and asked that a
policeman be at once sent to the boarding
house, No. 110 Third street, as man who
occupied furnished room on the third
floor in that house had not been seen
since noon on Tuesday and she feared
there was something wrong.
Detective Gallagher was sent to inves-
tigate. By the time he reached the house
news of the mysterious affair had been
spread throughout the neighborhood and
a crowd had gathered and gaped at the
house. Gallagher pushed his way through
the crowd and up the hallway which
was filled with the affrighted tenants.
Reaching the third floor, Gallagher
knocked at the door of the room from
which the lodger had not been seen to
depart. He received no response and
looked through the keyhole. He
could see the bed and noticed
that it had not been oc
cupied. Then he forced the doer.
After he broke the lock the door still
offered some resistance, and Gallagher
pushed harder, until he had made room
enough to permit of entering.
A sICKENING SIGHT.
The Detective was prepared for sur
prise; but he shrank back In horror at
what he saw.
There lay the body of well preserved
man. The feet had been pressed
against the door. The throat was cut
clean through almost to the spine; to that
the head appeared to be connected
with the trunk only by a small
piece of flesh and rolled around In a
horrible manner when the body was
moved. Blood wasall around the body.
What made the scene more
revolving was that the blood had con-
gealed and in some places it was half an
inch thick. A few feet away was razor
whose keen edge had been hacked away
in two places.
CORONER PARSLOW SUMMONED.
Coroner Parslow was Immediately poti-
fed, aud with his assistants was quickly
on the scene. Accustomed though they
are to handling all kinds of cases, the
morgue assistants evidently did not like
the job, and went about the removal OF
the body very gingerly.
The dead man was William Green.
Very little is known about him except
that he claimed to be an unmarried man
and was employed as a waiter in res
taurant ut the corner of Barclay and
Church streets. New York. He hired a
room in the house about three months ago
and was regular in his habits, although
the landlady says that at times he ap-
peared moody and Respondent He was
in one of these moods ON Tuesday when
he entered his room and locked the door.
He was not again seen alive.
Most of the attending circumstances
would indicate that the man committed
suicide; but how any one could so nearly
sever his own head from his body, the
police cannot conceive. This feature
makes the case look like one of murder.