The Washington times., 1894-03-21
WORSE THAN The RIPPER
Horrible Mutilation Of Child in New
York City.
THROWN INTO BOILING WATER
In Order to Conceal Evidences Of His Crime
the Villain Discovered the Body-Great
Excitement in the Region Of the Trag-
edy-No Clue Yet Found.

NFw York, March 2O.-Headless and minus
| legs or arms the shriveled trunk of little
child's body was found in coal bin in the
cellar Of one of the most dilapidated rookeries
In that unsavory locality known as "Hells
Kitchen Thirty-ninth street, between Tenth
and One hundred and eighteenth avenue, last
night. Wrapped around it were several ar
ticles of clothing such as girl in her teens
wears. and this led to the Identification of the
body as that of twelve-year-old Susie Martin.
daughter of John Martin. who lives at 656
Eleventh avenue.
That a murder more horrible and revolt
ing in its details than any which has con-
fronted the police of this city for many day
has been committed theIe can be no doubt.
Not only fearful mystery. but wanton
butchery, blood curdling in its mode of exc
cution, now awaits the solution OF the officials.
What may have preceded the death of this
child may only be imagined. Ii may never be
known positively, but every circumstance
points to the conclusion that the murder
and the mutilation of the little body was in
tended to hide forever another crime far
more revolving.
The trunk shows that the arms were sawed
off four inches below the shoulder joints; the
fleshy part of the body had first been cut
just below the diaphragm in front obliquely
to the middle of the lumbar region behind,
and then the vertebr1e had been sawed through
and the head had also been sawed from the
trunk.
What of the discovered members of the
body? That is question which may never
be solved but they were more easily disposed
of than was the trunk. Jack the Ripper
in the widest deeds, prompted by his power
full imagination, never descended to the
slaughter of babes A street of tumble-down
barns, of alley ways which lead no one
knows whittier. of low groggeries, and Of
crime hardened. drunken men and women,
whose hatred for policeman is such that
one never dares to enter there without blue
coated companion OF the little victim no
one who will tell knows anything since the
Gay she washed her pretty face and went out
on the street to play, but that she was kid
mapped Is certain beyond a doubt. That she
may have been kept alive in one of the neigh
boring rookeries, suffering tortures worse than
death, is probable. and that she was killed
only short time before what remained OF
her body was found is believed by all who
viewed it.
Mrs. James Farrell, the housekeeper of the
building in which the body was found, gave
graphic account of how the body was
discovered: =
Il was down in the cellar with Miss Null
hearn and Miss Fleming" she said, watch
ing them get the old wood out of the way.
They were clearing lot OF stuff out of the
wood closet before putting in their own
kindling wood. They had come to the last
pieces. when something rolled ont, a kind OF
bundle wrapped up in rags. One of them. l
don't remember which, began to unroll the
rags.
my God,' said the other, suppose it
should be a child. l shook like leaf.
Don't say anything so horrible l said.
l backed up against the wall. They unrolled
the bundle little more and then We all saw
there was part of body in it, Then Mr..
Fleming came in and told them not to do any
more until the police came. l sent my little
girl out for policeman.
''Whoever put that body there" she added
'knew the house and knew the neighborhood.
Although l am the housekeeper. don't know
half the people who 90 in and out OF the
place. We live mere in the rear of the second
floor. and have no chance to see much |
know that tramps have slept in the hallway
for my husband has driven them out. One
morning found an old stocking and some
rags in the hallway on the ground floor.
They belonged to tramps, think. That was
four or five months ago.
'.Tramps or any one else could easily get !
down into the cellar. Very few of the tenants
in the house used the cellar TO keep wood in.
because it was so damp that the wood turned
moldy.'
Detectives who were put to work on the
case have as yet failed to find a clue.