New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-21


-. DorEr As TO WHETHER THE
TRUNK IS THAT or Coy
or GIRL
1,hs police Of the West Thirty-seVeh'n-s'. s'a-
,ileI BIZ a corps OF Headquarters detectives
are lust now trying to solve the secret o' "'r' -
"'' ,h,, one Of the most brutal ard rcyoitins
P'o' Y ,,o,yn in the criminal annals OF the city
li". t.o,er they have failed TO find cew as
,t, accomplished the butchery Of little Susa"
T.r,in and 50 FAR as their Investigations nave
conc II seems almost certainty 'ha' 'he hi"I,
So with fen days to his or her advantage VIII
@1ro,.sr escape detection. The stories published
.,, only told Of the first discovery of the
- IN tine cellar IT 40 81 West Thiriy-nintn-
- Mrs Farrell. the janitrcsa; Mrs. Ellen rlehlhs
~, Mis-. Bridget Mulhearn. who were gropiiS Tor
@.ood in the woodbn. and found the bundle OF
esb and bone lying under a rotten Ola piece oil th'
n ooo, el Yesterday to Detective Sergeant Crow
I, and The Tribune reporter the story that they
had told on the previous nIsn' Inc H''ie Iorh'
i,b only the clothes 10 mark the identity OF 'he
W., law all through Yesterday in the rear yard or
sta west Thirty-sevcnth-st. station All remaining
-. hat the body was that Of Susan Martin is
5,.no,,e3 bv second Identification Of the clothing
,rada by her mother. Mary and her father John
Marin a boiler maker. who live at No. %0
Eleventh-ave.
Mr. Martin was calmer Yesterday, and as she
,,,l over the blue dress. the travelling cap, the
r.1 aonnel shirt and other clothing found on the
hd, If the child she identified each article sepa-
ratelv down 10 the odd buttons sewn upon the
back OF the dress.
,nv question that the girl was murdered is set at
49,, h.. tho successive examinations made yesterday
., and 4 o'clock of DR.. Cyrus Edison and Deputy
coroner DR. O'Hare. On the left side OF the trunk
lust over the heart was penetrating STAB "ounu
elk inches deep, which had been made by Il KhIie
and had entered the lung. This wound had peeh IN
Nicted before death. Both medical men agree 'h"t
,bo body was boiled long enough to stop the flow OF
blood and certain portions of the trunk snow hdihs
of burning such might be caused py contact WIN
a hot stove The mutiation which probably pre-
oodad the boiling had been accomplished by rough
unskilled hand In severing the head from the trunk
tho murderer had used first knife 70 cut the
eeshy part of the neck and then saw TO part 'i'e
cervIcal vertebrate. So with the arms WIZ" i''
-. c,,+ off four inches below the shoulder. and
with the whole lower part of the trunk whch ia"
been severed just below the diaphrasm, inc hi,ie
,1 saw in this case having cleaved through tiie
Kidneys. Deputy Coroner O'Hare. however Is un
certain whether the body Is that or Doy OF s'
al,bouc4, Dr. Edison has no doubt that the pou! We
,nnre5 10 a girl. Again DIR. OHare thinks that 'he
r,rk Is that of a child eight or nine years ou "ilie
cusan Martin was in her eleventh year under lfe
,c,,on Of the boiling water the trunk would SHRINK
and be considerably reduced in SIZE
HER COMPANION WAS LYING.
par, q, the work done by Detective-Sergeant
Crowley yesterday afternoon was the dlscoNeiy ma
on the afternoon OF Thursday March D. lne uas u.
which she disappeared, Susan Martin han peeh see'
with Maggie Wagner and Annie DoieS, WV .,r,s
a. No SAG West Thirty ninth-st The three eiriS
n.ers constantly together. Accompanied by jams jams
Martin a brother of the girl Detective W sen
STSw MSo T s fourteen re ems years old denied
EnSxing h a aSSat admitted that
been her constant companion she; W. ~ HiSap-
pearance That the girl was lying ana ying MIN MN
brazen effrontery and hardin2gHd pe tlch.n was
eriaent and it was evident also that some strong
fence sise'-''' '''''
No TRACE OF HER MOVEMENTS
,t,,. been learned that Susan Martin had been IN
.ha habit of begging-probably without the kho"i-
edge of her parents One of the persons traceu III '
connection was Italian fruit Veioel n''
Ane,,ste Massa, who keeps stand at foi'9 ~.
st and Tenth-ave. But Massa, while adiiiit'ns ''"
he frequently gave oranges and apples 10 'ie -,
huaran Who swarm in the neighborhood. couid ho'
remember Susan Martin by any KIND OF uesci p'o,
Two months ago Michael seneIlo ana H, Cor the
Penesso. who assisted him. LETT Ne" io'A ~
Thus it will be that between GrGeh w oH
that nv her mother as she walked down Eey
enS-ave until the scared o trunk Vas Ne i S Vest
Thrty-nint-st all clear trace OF her in
tSi,aed that he had gained clew which might iea
10 Important results. but detecusSess nd no i'm
these things when the case Is hopeiesS' anu Nv 49,
portance need be attached TO II. ,tr, tho first
The Tribune reporter. carefully scanning IN, WEI
stories OF the case and comparing Win s hs ~ he
q, ca ~ MANY similar the other sue vi Ia
en- V Mod that he could trace the manu-
Of crazed woman through all the detahso % Ie
murder His view is partly shared by r DR. ,ndcaies
''rhe evident use OF a saw, 10 my nlniu and
that the murder committed by a ~o, n,iiat ton
for this In nearly all cases o, nan uses
by women saw has been USED. a liah NOD
chopper, that being the quicker ana rous"'i ''N
Of dissection" 60. 49,. Tho hatchery
Dr Cyrus Edison, too. believes that 'he Sem
was Accomplished by maniac These Vie% %,a 5fe
70 NEGATIVE the suggestion made IN some Iui nind
that the girl was first assaulted ana uen h er
nv one OF the butchers who work IN the siaub" and
houses al Forty-third-st. and E!eEehth-aNe' anu
70 whom she well known