The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-01
WAS CHOKED TO DEATH,
The Body Had Been Butchered
and Then Hidden Behind
a Building.
DETECTIVES ARE AT WORK
They Have a Piece Of Paper as a
Clew Upon Which to Trace
the Crime.

| NEW YORK, N. Y, March 31.-One OF
the most mysterious murders committed
in this city since the mutilated body of
cold Shakespeare was found in low re-
sort near the East River front, for whose
butchery the Algerian "Frenchy" is now
serving life sentence, was discovered to-
day shortly after O'Clock A. NJ. The vic
tim in this case was young colored
woman whose dismembered body was
found wrapped in pieces of carpeting par
TALLY hidden from view in the rear of the
building on the southeast corner of Sixth
avenue and Waverly place. How long
the remains had been lying there is not
known.
AS yet the police have no clew to the
person or persons who deposited the body
there. Immediately upon the discovery of
the crime, the police of the central offices
were notified and half dozen of the best
detectives were detailed to fathom the
mystery. The body was found almost at
the same time by two men. One of them
was Joeph Phillips, a young electrician,
and Patrolman Kasimire of the Mercer
street station.
The bundle in which the remains were
found was bound at each end with pieces
of cloth, leaving the middle portion
somewhat loose. Around the woman's
neck was tied in double knot long piece
of cheese cloth. This had been tied so
tightly that it bad caused strangulation,
and had forced the tongue to protrude
from the mouth. Her legs had been cut
off just below the knee and one of them
laid on the body with the foot toward the
head while the other was found under
meath the body. Both members had been
hacked off with sharp ak or butchers
cleaver, and pieces of ragged skin and flesh
were hanging from the dismembered legs
The only clothing the woman had on was
a chemise and chemisette of white material
When these were removed gaping wound
nine inches long and which penetrated to
the bone, was disclosed just above the
right thigh. In bundle there was found
piece of note paper on which was a clot
of blood, and written in pencil these words,
SO far as they could be made out:
"March %. Raw Wani, James (Jane)
e. 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 removed the
piece of cheesecloth 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 death.
The other mutilations, he said, had been
done after death, probably with sharp ak
or butchers cleaver.
There was nowhere to be found any evil
dence of struggle on the part of the
woman. The Deputy Coroner was positive
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
porous plaster.
1t is the opinion of the police that the
woman is a member of that class of colored
women who live on the streets running out
of Sixth avenue. They make no attempt
to explain the motive for the crime. No
one of the name of Surindell could be found
in Railway, n. ].