The evening world., 1894-03-22
DEEP IN MYSTERY.
No Light on the Butchery Of
Susie Martin.
Following Up the Theory that a
Chinaman Killed Her.
Traces Of Ammonia Found on the
Child's Clothing.

The detectives are as far from solv
ing the mystery regarding the butch
cry Of Susie Martin as ever. \ re-
mark made by a Central Otfice man
this morning serves to illustrate their
position.
We have been detailed on tire case"
said he, since early yesterday, and
our orders at the start were not to re-
port to the office until We had some
news. We haven't reported at Head
quarters yet"
The boiled trunk Of the poor little VIC
tim still remains at the Morgue. Mr..
Martin Is very angry at the refusal OF
DR. O'Hare. OF the Coroner's office, to
issue a certificate enabling him to bury
the body. DR.. O'Hare and the parents
DO not agree that the trunk is that of
Susie Martin.
The doctor declares the trunk showed
ocnclLs'vely that it belonged to a body
of child not more than nine years old.
The Martins say Susie was eleven years
old.
Or. OHare that the girth OF the torso
and the bones Of the shoulder show the
| body to be that OF a nine-year-old child.
there is little reason to doubt that the
/
| cellar Is all that remains of the body Of
Susie Martin. The most convincing evil
dence is the clothing in which the trunk
! was wrapped Then again. no other
child in the neighborhood is missing.
Before moving to $50 Eleventh avenue,
the Martins lived at iB West Thirty
ninth street. only half a block away
from where the trunk of :he child was
| found
Detectives Valley. Dowling, E"anhoe
and Rogers, Of the Central Office, we're
nj N on fhn rl Ir1nF N
were almost hopeless. The !oor leading
TO the cellar at 5l7 West ThirtynInth
street was locked to-day by a Drani-new
paddock. 1t was placed on. the door
last evening by an agent OF the Ste
vensOn estate. which owns the 'ene1ent-
house and the brewery, at me corner
set up by The Evening World yester-
day that the crime was the work OF a
Chinaman Laundries by the score have
been visited by the detectives.
1t is admitted that one entirely unac-
quainted with the premises at 5l7 West
/ Thirty street could not have found
his way into that cellar at night. The
are rckety and steep, and to a total
stranger would be extremely dangerous
to descend. 1t is folly to fancy that the
time. Too many persons are passing In
and out OF the hallway leading to the
yard in the daytime, and a stranger
presence in the yard would have been
noticed.
Weight is added to the clue that the
boiling OF the body was done in laun-
dry by the finding of what DR.. Edspn
clothing OF the child and the strong odor
OF ammonia which emanates from the
body. AS an offset. 1t Is stated; that
there would be a natural exuda ton OF
amnoniacaf properties from the body In
Ammonia Is used largely by laundry
men in boiling clothes for quick
cleansing of the garments, These facts
are treasured highly by the detectives in
following up the Chinese laundry clue,
ENLARGED on by The Evening World"
yesterday.
A statement published by two news.
papers this morning that skull had
5 Wes In IS dss
by the police.
In support Of DR.. o'Hare's belief that
the, trunk belongs to a body younger
scribed to be is the statement made to-
day TO an Evening World reporter by
Mrs Kate Price Of ,, 2S5 l-2 West ;,,ss sixty; y
Martins lived four years.
II saw Susie grow" said Mrs. Price
from a mere fodder to a well-ievelopet
, girl. 1t IS not so that she was slight,
built child She was short, but locke
to ne at least fourteen years old. She
. was plump, and her bust and limbs were
those OF girl at least two years Older
than she, u
, III the body found in the cellar Is tina
OF a small, poorly developed child. 1t Il
not Susie Martin"
Or cyrus Edison said to-day that thi!
murder was without parellel In New
, York's criminal annals.
1t Is the most mysttfying case will
which l have come in contact" he said
, but the fiend, in my opinion, will b,
. surely run down. and at no distant day.
. lis IL an established fact that the por
t tion OF the body which has been identi
fled as belonging 20 Susie Martin /
: really that OF a girl he was asked.
NO, 1t is not" was the response
: There is every reason TO believe II is
part OF the unfortunate girls body. hu
the conclusion is only arrived at through
l circumstances, the chief feature o
. which is the clothing discovered witt
2 the trunk.
There are no distinctive marks I,
5 show that the trunk Is not that OF a boy
= The breasts Of the child had been ap
1 parently cut of with a knife by the cold
2 hlooded wretch. And. besides, Their
We're no distinctive traces about tn
= breasts which might be looked for in
: child OF Susie Martins years.
. "F'hile | say there Is no positive proc
= that the trunk Is part OF n girls body
a am inclined 10 believe that II is