The evening world., 1893-11-24
The Headless and Armless Body
of a Man Found.
Indications that an Awful Crime
Has Been Committed.
was He . Companion OF the MUIR
dered Girl?

The East River has given up another
body, this time the mutilated remains
of a man. AS in nearly every instance
of the kind, there are no clues to the
mans identity, but the torn trunk points
TO but one conclusion-that a shocking
crime has been committed.
The ~headless, armless, body of the man
is now lying at the Morgue.
The right leg is also missing. The only
article of raiment found, was a gaiter
UPON the left foot. The hasty examina-
ton made did not disclose any mark
that might possibly lead to identiica-
ton.
One week ago yesterday morning, just
at the same hour, the body Of a woman,
whose head and face were slashed so
as to make recognition almost an i'm
possibility, was taken out Of the river at
pier 46. 1t was a murder. All the cuts
pointed to that theory. and the autopsy
afterwards made proved its truth, The
male victim found this morning was only
a few blocks away at pier AZ.
Already the police are figuring that
two crimes were committed; that the
butcher responsible for the woman's
death may have killed the man. The
woman's body ave every evidence that
it had been In the water four or five days.
Had the man been killed the same time
the body would rave been in the water
about two weeks. Its appearance this
morning indicated that 1t had been in the
river at least that long.
All kinds of reasoning OF the widest
kind is being INDUCED in, Not the least
accepted story Is hat both crimes were
committed by a woman and that the
latest body may turn out to be that of
the woman's husband. In this connec.
ton a canal-boat IL generally believed
TO have been the scene of the crime.
Patrolman Driscoll, Of the Madison
street station, was on duty near pier AZ
this morning when he saw a group of
men talking excitedly and pointing at
something in the water. The object was
about 200 feet away, and at the distance
1t was impossible to recognize IT.
All along that section of the water
front cana. boats and railroad floats are
loading and unloading all day., several
thousand men being employed. All kinds
of material is floating in the river at all
times, but the object at which the crowd
was gazing was different from the tim
Der and vegetable matter which sur
rounded 1t.
The crowd as we'll as the officer
watched 1t for several minutes. until
finally one of the men called out that
it was a headless human body. None of
1ne OtneTS DelleNeu MIN, DuI 10 Indhe
certain Driscoil procured a yawl from
one of the schooners anchored near by,
and inviting a couple OF men into
the boat with him he rowed out.
The sight which met their eyes made
some of the men shudder. 1t was indeed
the body of a man, but In a shocking
state from, decomposition. ,,
The head was gon and to the vivid
imagination of those in the boat 1t had
been chopped off Just as II 1t had been
first laid on the block. TIL arms were
Fight leg had apparently been chopped
OFF at the trunk.
Every one in the boat could easily have
reached out his hand and touched the
body, but the sight was such a shocking
one that all feared to do so. A rope was
thrown around the remaining leg and
on the first attempt to tow the body
through the water the leg almost came
off. At this additional shock to the
nerves, one of the men in the boat
Finally the body was taken along and
carefully lifted to the stringpiece of the
dock. where hundreds of men and boys,
as well as a few women. rushed over to
see 1t. Nearly all turned away horror
stricken.
Then the body was covered with an old
piece of tarpaulin, and policeman Dris-
coll rushed to the sta~tion-house to report
the discovery.
The Coroner was notified and a call
sent out for the dead wagon. In a short
time the wagon arrived from Bellevue
hospital and the remains were taken to
the Morgue. 1t Is doubtful IL this latest
mystery will ever be solved.
The Deputy Coroner will make an ex-
animation early tomorrow morning and
try to discover how the mans limbs
came to be amputated. That such was
not accomplished by the paddle-wheels
of a steamer Is clearly evident. The
Faiter on the remaining foot seems to
demonstrate that the man had been
partly dressed when killed. 1t also tends
to show that the body had not been
upon the dissecting table Of a hospital,
as might at first be imagined.
The body Of the woman found muir
dered In tho river a week ago was also
only partially dressed.