New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-03

sIXTH-AvE. MURDER MYSTERY DEEPER
THAN EVER.
IMAGINATIVE CoLoRED PEOPLE THINK THEY
RECOGNIZE TIE poDY. BIT CAN TELL.
NOTHING DEFINITE-ROBEETA CURTIS
ALIVE IN BALTIMORE

NOTHING DEFINTTE-ROBEETA CURTIS
ALIVE IN BALTIMORE.
No clew which seemed to be OF much value 10 INC
detectives In 4 solution OF the latest murder my
terry was found yesterday. Several persons VINO
thought they could Identify the body OF the muir
dcrcd colorcd woman went 10 the MorSue ana were
uernit;ed TO look at the corpse. but there was no
satisfactory Identification. 1t was asserted last
night that the police were still ignorant OF the
name OF the woman whose mut!lated body was
found In front OF the New-York Bank Note Com
pany's building in Sixth-aye.. near Waverley Place
early Sunday morning. 1t was not known, OF
course where the woman had been killed ana
there was not the slightest ccw to the murderer.
The police detectives yesterday took to the office
OF the New-York Bank Note Company the cloth
with which the woman had been strangled They
thought the cloth was such az is used by the en-
Moves OF the company I'm cleaning steel plates and
that II was possible the murder had been committed
by some person who had access TO the company
premises. l.. Ii wson Purdy. he treasurer OF the
company examined the cloth. and saw at once
that IT was not chccsecloth but ordinary dress
lining 1t was also certain that the cloth had not
been used in the building Further Investigation
satisfied the detectives that no person who had
been employed in the building could have had
hand in the murder For n short time during the
afternoon it seemed that the woman's name and
antecedents established but the story told by
a colored man, Robert b. Dcdmon. who made the
found on Investigation to be worthless.
DeImon said the body undoubtedly that 81
Mamie NecIah, young woman who had come TO
New-York from her home In Virginia three years
ago she lived for while he said. with a sister
in Ncw-Jerscy afterward coming to this city. wher"
until a week ago. she employed as a cook by
Mrs Foster who had fiat at No. so Sxth-ave
The last time Doimon her alive he said, was
at the cake walk in Madison Square Garden. a
month ago. His testimony was corroboratci hy
Demous Spruiell. eXpressran. who said that ne
had taken the Ncedah woman's trunk to the Penn
sylvana railway station AT Desbrossesst. when sh"
went home to Virginia last fail The led the police
man TO no lO5 Yves. wcuty -slXth-st. the home ~
Miss Necdab's cousin. Mary BROWNING Mary told
the officer that she had gon" - the Morguc with her
neither in the morning and had seen ~ a glance
that the body was not Manle's. The men. more
over. said that Mamie NccIab had also lived al
No 100 Sixth-ave and no u Sixth-ayc.. but in
quiry 10y a reporter failed 10 disclose any traces
OF her there. 40 lDj S.Xth-avc IS used entirely FOR
business purposes, and At No. 10 nothing was
known OF any such person. Tho other address. 80.
500 sIxth-avc found to be that Of tn Broad
way Railroad Conpany's big power-hous" AZ FIJI
ticth-st.
Neither wac much crcdeuce placed In the ilcntl-
ncation OF the murdered woman made yesterday
10y Melora Robinson. Il J'rsey ely, who said
she saw her In the waltng-room 81 the Delaware
and Iackawanna station ~ Hohok.n. II MAS
learned later that Roberta curtis. the young woman
referred - by Mrs. Rob n'On. was alive ia Balii-
more. Mrs. Jossphnc Brown. colorri woman. %
No. 2ls West Thirty-cshtr-st. thought she denii-
fed the body as That of 81 sir! named Fannie OF
n doubtful character. but did not know her last
name her address. o. " Morton. coored
man. OF 30 u Corrolia-st said that Las, SATURDAY
evening b" IN DuVlls restaurant Ia Sixth
ave. one door from Hleccker-si. and saw coorci
man and woman thor qdarroAng. Tho body. he
thought. looked Ike his woman.
George Johnston. coorcd 81 80 ~ West Twenty
fourth-st. another caller said thaf on Friday or
saturday last h Jaw a cJlorcl man AMI woman
going east on Foriy-srcond-si toward the Grand
Central Station. The man had hg shiny black
satchel Tied with = piec" 81 cl1thcsliue. and thc
woman had q bundle iicl up ln me same way. he
described the man h.g rough. heavy loOk ns
fellow slightly darker than the woman n" was
clean snaveu. AMI dressed though he had Just
come from South. Johnston Hati that the BODY
IN the Morgu. rcs,mblcl The woman.