Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-04
CAESAR HER MURDERER.

1t has Teen definitely ascertained
that the negro VIM. Caesar killed the
woman, Mary Martin, whose body was
found in New York on Sunday. Gaze
sar had been living with the woman.
In some respects the story of the crime
is one most remarkable, and the ac-
count of the transfer of the corpse in
its rude bundle from Caesars house, on
west Twenty-seventh street, by means
of Sixth avenue car in the early part
of the evening to the place where it
was found seems hardly possible. AS
stated yesterday, the mutilated re-
mains were fully identified as those
of Mary Martin, and the fact
established that Caesar had been living
with her. Inquiry as to the mode OF
domestic life pursued by Caesar and
his reputed life revealed the fact that
there were frequent 'auarrels between
the two, caused by the mans jealousy.
On occasions he would knock her
down, aud other tenants in the house
said that he had often threatened her
life. 1t was ascertained that on Friday
night the couple had violent quarrel,
and that the woman threw a glass at
the man, hitting him on the head. He
then threw her down of the floor, after
having grasped her by the throat with
both hands. There, lying on the floor,
it is said, he held her throat in such a
grasp that he thought he had killed
her. But when he released his hold he
discovered that she was still breathing.
Then he secured the piece of cheese
cloth which was found tied around her
neck on Sunday morning. This he put
around her throat and twisted it, and
then tied it into q double knot and
strangled her. He slept as soundly, it
is said, as if the corpse of the woman
was not almost in his very sight. The
next morning he went to work, as
usual, locking the door behind him.
At noon he went back to the house,
unlocked the door to see if the body
had been disturbed, and then returned
to his work. On Saturday evening
Caesar went back to his home and pre-
pared to dispose of the body. On his
way TO his rooms he borrowed butch
er's cleaver from man he knew. He
bad an idea, it is conjectured, that he
had better throw the body into the
liver; hut to do this, in order to trans
port the body such distance, he must
get it into smaller compass. He.
therefore, proceeded to cut it up. He
first attempted to cut the legs off at the
hips, but failed in that, and then cut
them both off just above the knees.
Having proceeded SO far, he took q
piece of the carpet on the floor, and an
old rug which was in the room, and
rolled the body up in them, after hav-
ing tied the hands firmly, SO that they
might not fall apart. 1t was at this
time he picked up the bundle and took
it in his arms from the house, which is
not far from Seventh avenue,l to Sixth
avenue, where he boarded Sixth ave-
nue. horse car, bound down town,
and stood on the front platform.
The car on which the man happened to
take passage was one of those which
stop at Waverly Place on the down trip
and then switch and go northward. AS
the car stopped at Waverly Place
Caesar got off and walked over to the
west side of the street, in front of the
building of the New York Bank Note
Cole leaned against the railing in front
of the building TO rest, and put the
bundle on top of the railing, which is.
five inches in width. In some way,
however, the bundle slipped and fell
from the railing to the ground on the
other side. In attempting to regain pos
session of the bundle Caesar met with
some difficulty, and finally decided to
let it remain where it had fallen. On
Monday the New York police received
a letter stating that the murder had
been committed in Railway, n. J., and
that the body had been carried to New
York in wagon. The letter purport.
ed to have been written by the murder.
er, who said that he was going to Wash
ington, The missive was dated from
Philadelphia, but was postmarked from
New York. The writer forgot that the
place from which the letter was dated
and the place from which it was post.
marked should correspond. Sunday
evening, after having returned the
cleayer to the person from whom he