The herald., 1895-04-01
Mysterious Murder of a COlOred
Woman in New York
BODY WRAPPED IN CARPET
Unfortunate Victim Dismembered by
the Assassin
Cheesecloth Was Used to Choke Life Out First
and Then an AK Was Used In
r1utiIating the Body

FNEw YORK, March 31.-One of the
most mysterious murders committed in
this city since the mutilated body of "Old
Shakespeare" was found in low resort
near the East River front, for whose
butchery algerian Frenchy" is now
serving a life sentence, was discovered
today shortly after o'clock this morning.
The victim in this case was a young col
pred woman, whose dismembered body
was found wrapped in pieces of carpeting
partially hidden from view in the rear OF
the building of the New York Company,
on the southwest corner of Sixth avenue
and Waverly place. How long the re-
mains had been lying there is not known.
AS vet the police have no clue to the per-
son or persons who deposited the body
there. Immediately upon the discovery
of the crime the police officers were noti-
fed, and half dozen of the best detec-
tives were detailed to fathom the mystery.
The body was found almost at the same
time by two men. One OF them was Jo-
seph Phillips, young electrician, and
Patrolman kasmire of the Mercer street
station.
The bundle in which the remains were
found was bound at each end with pieces
of cloth and leaving the middle portion
somewhat loose. Around her neck was
tied in double knot long piece of
cheesecloth. This had been tied SO ightly
that it had caused strangulation and had
forced the tongue to protrude from the
mouth
This had been tied across her breast
with strong piece of cord by means OF a
slip-knot. Her legs had been cut off just
below the knee, and one of them laid on
the body with the foot toward the head
L, ,lo In oh H0r naat |,
the body Both members had been
hacked off with sharp ak or butcher S
cleaver. Pieces of ragged skin and flesh
were hanging from the dismembered legs.
The only clothing the woman had on was
a chsmise and chemisette of white mate
rial. When these were removed gaping
wound, nine inches long and which PEN
etrated to the bone, was disclosed just
above the right thigh. In a bundle was
found piece of note paper on which was
a clot of blood and written in these words,
so far as they could be made out:
March %, Raw Wanj, James (Jane) E.
Surindell. Raw Way, n. J"
Beneath was the word Solomon, and
also the word brother, F" while the word
ditto was written between them.
Deputy Coroner Donlon removed the
piece of cheesecoth with which she had
been strangled to death. He found that
this had been tied in a double knot and
that it had been the direct cause of her
death. The other mutilations, he said,
had been done after death, probably with
a sharp axe or a butchers ceaver.
There was nowhere to be found any evil
dence of struggle on the part OF the
woman. The Deputy Coroner was posi-
tive that the woman had been dead more
than twenty-four hours. He said also
that the woman had been mother. The
woman wore on the third finger of her
right hand a plain gold ring and on her
left breast a porous plaster.
1t is the opinion of the police that the
woman is a nemb Der of that class of col
ored women who live on the streets run
ming out of Sixth avenue and gain their
livelihood as women of the town. They
make no attempt to explain the motive
Surindell could be found in Railway,
n j.