St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-01
CHOKED TO DEATH.
A New York ColOred Woman
Murdered and Horribly
Mutilated.
STRANGLED WITH CLOTH.
Her Legs Both Severed From
the Body Just Above the
Knees.
STRANGLED WITH CLOTH.
Ak OR BUTCHERS CLEAVER
Used to Mutilate the Woman
--Her Identity Not Yet
Cleared.

NEW 4Ohh, MdlC III CiiO
the most mysterious murders COM
mitted in this city since the mutllat-
ed body of old Shakespeare was
found in low resort near the East
river front, for whose butchery the
Algerian "Frenchy' is now serving
2 life sentence, was discovered today
shortly after o'clock a. m. The
victim in this case was young col
ored woman, whose dismembered
body was found wrapped in pieces OF
carpeting and partly hidden from
view in the area of the building OF
the New York Bank company on the
southwest corner of Sixth avenue
and Waverly place. How long the
CHASTITY remains had been lying there
is not known. AS yet the police have
no clue to the person or persons
who deposited the body there. I'M
mediately on the discovery of the
crime the police of the central office
were notified, and half dozen of the
best detectives were detailed to
fathom the mystery if possible. The
body was found at almost the same
time by two men. One of these was
Joseph Phillips, a young electrician,
and the other Patrolman Edward S.
KaSmire, of the Mercer street sta
ton. The bundle in which the re-
mains were found was bound at
each end with pieces of clothesline,
and leaving the middle portion some
what loose. Around her neck was
tied
!. IN A DOUBLE KNOT
a long piece of cheese cloth. This had
been tied so tightly that it had
caused strangulation, and had forced
the tongue to p1otrude from the
mouth. Her hands were tied across
her breast with a strong piece of
cord by means of a slip knot. Her
legs had been cut off just above the
! knees, and one of them lay on the
top of the body, with it's foot toward
her head, while the other was found
underneath the body. Both men,
! bers had been hacked off with a
sharp ak or a butchers cleaver.
Pieces of ragged skin and flesh
were hanging from the dismem-
! bered legs. The only clothing the
woman had on We're a chemise and
chemisette of white material. When
these were removed, gaping wound
nine inches long, and which pene-
trated to the bone, was disclosed
just above the right thigh. In a
bundle there was found a piece OF
note paper. On this paper was a
clot Of blood, and written in pencil
were these words, so far as they
could be made out:
March %, Raw Way, N. j., James
Cor Jane) Surindell, Raw Way, N. j.
Beneath was the word Solomon" ant
also the word brother" while the
word ditto was written between
them. Deputy Coroner DR.. Donlin frs
removed the stout cord which bound
the hands together. This cord hat
been tied so tightly as to make grea
CREASES IN THE FLESH.
He next unloosened the long piece o
cheese cloth with which the woman
had been checked to death. He fount
that this had been tied in a double
knot, and that it had been the direc
cause of death. The other mutilations
he said, had been made after dealt
had come. The deputy coroner saic
that he had no doubt that the woman
had been cut with a sharp ak or
butchers cleaver. There was evidence
however, in the cut on the thigh, tina
the murderer had used a knife at first
in order to severe the whole leg from
the trunk, but had given that instru
ment up for a more powerful one. Tn
legs had been cut off just above tn
knee joints, the murderer having evi
| IDENTIFY failed to find the articulation
between the parts. There was no
where to be found any evidence of
struggle on the part of the woman
The deputy coroner was positive tina
the woman had been dead more tina.
tWenty-four hours. He also said tia
the woman had been a mother. Anon
the slight clues which may eventualI
| lead to the Identification of the bod
are those furnished by a plain gol
ring the woman wore on the thir
finger of her right hand, and by TIL
fact that she wore a porous plaste
on her left breast. 1t is the opinion g
the police that the woman is a mem
Der of that class of colored women VIII
live on streets running out of Sixt
avenue, and gain their livelihood a
women of the town. They make no al
tempt to explain the motive for tn
crime. The police of this city sen
to Railway this afternoon to find
any one of the name of Surindell, tn
name which appeared on the piece {
note paper found with the body, live
in Railway, n. J. No one of that nam
could be found in the town.