New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-04
LITTLE LIGHT ON A MYSTERY
INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF WOMAN.
PHYSICIANS BELIEVE THAT SHE WAS KILLED

PHYSICIANS BELIEVE THAT SHE WAS KILLED
The coroner and police Of Newtown are stu
puzzling over Long Islands latest mystery, the
strange death of Lizzie Buhler, whose mutilsted
body found on the Long Island Railroad
track. The result of the coroner's investigation
yesterday seemed to establish reasonable grounds
for belief that the girl had been murderd and
that her body had then been placed on the track.
Coroner Brandon examined John Sahr, twenty
orc years oli a milllman living in Mazpeth. Young
Sahr declared that he had not seen the girl for
weeks. lie said that he knew the girl we'll and
had taken her the theatre late last April.
but he denied that he had been intimate with her!
After Sahr's examination by Coroner Brandon, he
told the reporters that about four months ago
Joseph Easer, in speaking of the Buher family.
asked Sahr what he was doing around there.
Sahr also said that Easer admitted TO him year
ago that he had been intimate with Lizzie Buhler.
Richard Feltman, seventeen years old, said that
he knew Lizzie Buher we'll, and that he met her
on Flushing-ave. on Friday evening about go
o'clock lie said that Lizzie and John Louby were
standing talking together. Louby had been horse
riding, and he had gotten of his horse and was
holding the horses bridle-rein over one arm
Feltman stopped and spoke TO Lizzie, and asked
her for a flower, and she gave him bouquet which
she carried lie said he stood there about five min
utes when young Louby got on his horse, ana Llzze
went away in the direction Of Schumacher Park.
John Louby, about twenty years old, was then
examined by Coroner Brandon. Louby admitted
meeting the girl on Friday evening, and said that
lie talked with her. But he declared
that Feltman was with her when he
rode I'D on his horse. Loudly also
insisted that his conversation with the girl
was short. Louby left her and rode to Benders
at Garrson-st and Flushing-ave., where he left an
order for some feed for his cows.
Loudly however, told the reporters that he did
not speak to the girl on the night in question.
He SANS that he passed her at the corner without
Speaking to her. Louby said he had been
painting fence on Friday afternoon, work.
ing until $3.50 O'Clock in the evening.
after which he went on his horse to order the
grain His mother and little sister corroborated
this statement and said that Louby was not gone
from home over ten minutes If this is true
Louby was at his home at 40 o'clock. lie said
he went to bed at 0 o'clock. He slept alone In
a room on the ground floor of the house.
Joseph Easer, the young man referred 70 In
Sahr's testimony before the coroner, has dlsap-
peared Constable IIoc< on going to Easers nome
at o'clock yesterday morning with subpoena for
him to appear before the coroner, Immediately
was surprised to find that Easer was not there.
Easer lives with his father, Adam Laser, VINO
kecrs liquor store in Metropolitan-ave., Eas5
williamsburg, near the spot where Lizzie Buhlers
body was found Both Easer's father and brotner
denied knowing anything of the man, and said
that he was not home on Saturday night.
Coroner Brandon has not formed a satisfactory
theory as 10 the girls death lie thlnks the eNl
dencc of Dr. Combes who made the autopsy, goes
70 show that she had received the wounds on the
head before the body was run over py the cdrs.
The phvsican's testimony showed that her hears
had ceased to beat hfore she was run over ne
autopsy showed that the heart was full OF con-
cealed blood, and the physicians say that nad tno
heart been working when the woman Wa
struck by the ears. the blood wouid
have been pumped out of the heart
II is the belief OF all those concerned In tying
70 solve the mystery, as well as the railroad men
in tie eighborhood that the girl was first struck
on the head with some blunt weapon, ana that
her body was afterward laid on the truck. 1t Is
held that her death could not have been caused
bv accident as when the body was run over, it
must have been lying on the track. Had she been
staoding up. they say. her body would not have
bccn cut i'm half without her limbs being mangled
The funeral OF the girl took place az oclork in
tLe AFTERNOON at her parents cottage Ia last
Williamsburg The burial was in Linden CenH-