St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-01
CHOKED To DEATH.
A New York CoIOred 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 YORK, March S.-One OF
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
a 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 a dozen of the
best detectives were detailed to
fathom the mystery if possible. The
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
f. q 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 mem
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 were 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 and
also the word brother while the
word ditto" was written between
them. Deputy Coroner DR.. Donlin first
removed the stout cord which bound
the hands together. This cord had
been tied so tightly as to make great
CREASES IN THE FLESH.
He next unloosened the long piece OF
cheese cloth with which the woman
had been checked to death. He found
that this had been tied in a double
knot, and that it had been the direct
cause of death. The other mutilations,
he said, had been made after death
had come. The deputy coroner said
that he had no doubt that the woman
had been cut with a sharp ak or a
butchers cleaVer. There was evidence
however, in the cut on the thigh, that
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 The
legs had been cut off just above the
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 a
struggle on the part of the woman
The deputy coroner was positive that
the woman had been dead more. than
tWenty-four hours. He also said that
the woman had been a mother Among
the slight clues which may eventually
lead to the identification of the body
are those furnished by a plain gold
ring the woman wore on the third
finger of her right hand, and by the
TACT that she wore porous plaster
on her left breast. 1t is the opinion of
the police that the woman is a mem
Der of that class of colored women who
live on streets running out of Sixth
avenue, and gain their livelihood as
women of the town. They make no at
tempt to explain the motive for the
crime. The police of this city sent
to Railway this afternoon to find If
any one of the name of Surindell, the
name which appeared on the piece of
note paper found with the body, lived
in Railway, N. ]. No one of that name
could be found in the town.