The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-04
MYSTERY IS CLEARED UP.
WTLLIAM CHASER HAS MADE 4
 CONVERSION OF MURDER.

He Used Butcher's Cleaver on His Victim
 Hacked Her to Pieces, Took Her Body on
 a Car Under His Arm and Dropped it on
 Sixth Avenue, Where it Was Found--He
 Tells All About the Crime.
 New York, April 3.-Eight persons have positively identified the body of the woman which was found at Sixth avenue and Waverly place last Sunday morning as that of Mrs. Mary Martin, the wife ofThomas S. Martin, West India negro. Mrs. Martin had been liv- ing with William Caesar, negro, at No, 150 West Twenty-seventh street, as his wife. Keeper White of the morgue instructed Policeman Jennings to take measures for the arrest of Caesar.
 William Caesar was subjected to a searching examination at police head quarters this afternoon and the details were elcited. It appears that Caesar and Mary Martin had lived together about six months. They quarreled con- tinually, owing to Caesars jealousy. Last Friday night they had furious quarrel and fight, and Caesar choked the woman to death He left the dead body lying on the floor until Saturday evening, when he borrowed a butchers cleaver and cut the legs off near the knees. He then wrapped the body in some carpet, making bundle of it, and carried it outdoors. The woman weigh ed only 100 pounds and as he is a. strong man he had no difficulty in carrying the body
 A car was passing down Sixth ave- nue as he walked out and he boarded it, stepping on the front platform, think ing it was going to one of the ferries. No one noticed his bundle and the car proceeded down Sixth avenue to Waver- ly place. It turns there and stops and the murdered was perplexed what to do. He picked up his bundle and stepped into the street, walked to the front of the New York Banknote company's building and rested his bundle on the railing. The bundle overbalanced. fell into the space below. Caesar dared not attract attention by climbing over it. He walked away from the spot and returned home It was not later
  were plenty of people about and men and women were shopping and trans acting their business No one noticed the negro or the budle, however, and the body remained there for nine hours before discovery On reaching his home Caesar wrote a decoy letter to the police describing the murder which, he said, had been committed at Railway, N. J., and telling how the body had been brought over the ferry in a wagon by two men, conveyed to the spot in Sixth avenue and deposited there. He dated this letter from Philadelphia. but posted 1t in this city
 This letter was the source of the nu- merous clues which the detectives at first got astray.
 Caesar slept in his rooms that night The next day he rose early, washed the cleaver and returned it. | Then he burned everything he could | find that had belonged to the dead and washed the blood stained walls, flooring and stairs. His crime was very imperfectly concealed. how ever, as the detectives on visiting the | house found blood stains half erased | everywhere. ,Afterward the murderer went about | ae usual. He told his neighbors pleas | antly that his wife" had gone to | and would not return for | some time. No one suspected hini.. | Monday and Tuesday he worked as | usual at the hat store, where he was | employed. Late on Tuesday night, how | aVer the woman was identified and ra | porters interviewed Caesar He mani | tested alarm, but asserted that the | was in Wilmington. He was .aken to the morgue by a detective, | put denied that the body was that of lis mistress. The police, however, found evidences of the prime at his home and