The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01
MYSTERIOUS MURDER
UNKNOWN C0LORED WOMAN sTRAN-
GLED AND CHOPPED TO PIECES.
Her Remains found Tied I'm a bundle
and Lying In the Rear of a
New York Building.


NEW YORK. March s1.-One of the most
mysterious murders committed in this city
since the mutilated body of "Old Shak-
speare' was found in low resort near the
East river frcnt, for whose butchery the
Algerian, "Frenchy,'' is now serving life
sentence, was discovered to-day, shortly
after o'clock a. m. The victim in this
case was a young colored woman, whose
dismembered body was found wrapped in
pieces of carpeting, and partially hidden
from view in the rear of the building of
the New York Bank Note Company, on
the southwest corner of Sixth avenue and
Waverly place How long the ghastly re-
mains had been lying there is not known.
AS yet the police have no clew. The bum
die in which the remains were found
bound at either end with pieces of clothes
line, leaving the middle portion somewhat
loose. Patroln1an Kasimire put his hand in
side and drew out the lower part of
human leg.
The body proved to be that of an un-
known colored woman between twenty lone
and twenty-five years DID, She was four
feet, nine and half inches in height, and
weighed about 10 pounds. She was we'll
formed, with fiat nose and high cheek
bones and her skin was of dark coffee
color. Around her neck was tied in dou-
bic knot long piece of cheese cloth. This
had been tied so tightly that it had caused
strangulation and had forced the tongue
to protrude from the mouth, and had
been tied across her breast with strong
piece of cord, by means of slipknot Her
legs had been cut off just above the knees,
and one of them lay on the top of the
body with its foot toward her head, while
the other was found underneath the body
Ir<,+f,
sharp AK or butchers cleaver. Pieces of
the dismembered legs. The only clothing
the woman had on were chemise and
cnemisette of white material. When these
were removed a gaping wound, nine inches
long, and which penetrated to the bone
was discovered just above the right thigh.
was composed of an old brown table cover.
which some thought to be a piano cover,
a piece of carpet and an old rug.
In the bundle there was found a piece
Of note paper On this paper was a clot
of blood and written in pencil these words,
DELL. Raw Way, n, j. Beneath was the
err while the word @ @ .ditto @ W9ra Was wpiften
between them.
At the station house Deputy Coroner
hound the. hands. He next unloosened the
long piece Of cheese. cloth with which the
found that this had been tied in doubie
Knot, and that it had been the direct cause
OF death. The, other mutilations, he said,
nad been made after death had come
There was no blood on the wonian's person
and none on the light clothing she wore.
which DIR. Conlin accounted for from the
had been chopped up. The deputy coroner
said that he had no doubt that the woman
er's cleaver. There was nowhere to be
found any evidence of a struggle on the
part Of the woman. On the neck was an
hxr he, rIn rz-itI
she was strangled and a slight abrasion on
the other side of the neck. The deputy
coroner was positive that the woman had
been dead not more than twenty-four hours
before the body was found, and that she
had probably been dead not less than four
teen hours. although the time might have
been less. He said also that the woman
had been a mother.
Among the slight clues which may event.
are those furnished by a plain gold ring
the woman wore on, the third finger of her
porous plaster on her left breast. Two
other things found near the body in front
may prove valuable were bottle of alcohol
and small bag of salt. Until the remains
were removed to the morgue during the
dreds of colored people living in the vicin-
ity but none of them could identify her.
although Henry Allen, a house cleaner,
thought he recognized her as a woman who
once worked In his employ. but he could
not tell her name.
II IL the upiIiDu OI the ponce tEaI the
woman is a member of that class of col
ored women who live on streets running
out OF Sixth avenue, and gain their liveli-
where the body was found is occupied only
by the building of the bank note printers.
parochial school of ST. Joseph's Church.
and during the early hours of Sunday
morning is quiet and obscure. A who
manufactures candy in a basement oppo-
site saw wagon rapidly driven down the
west side of the avenue shortly after .
O'clock in the morning, but Ii did not stop
in front Of the place where the body was
found.