The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-24
HER BODY UNIDENTIFIED
IN UNKN0WN WOlLAN SEEKS DEATH
 ON THEO. II. NORTH4M.


 The Body Found in stateroom-Paris
 Green Was the Poison Used-Clues to
 Her Identity-A Description of the Body
 and Ciothing-Letters Found on Her Per
 son-Probably Employed by n Former
 New Haven Firm-Information From
 Clues Expected To-day-The Suicide
 Well Planned.
 The identity of the woman whose body was found in a stateroom on the steamer Northam Saturday morning last still remains a mystery, and all attempts of the authorities to learn the woman's name or the cause of the sui eide have met with no success. The woman weighed 120 pounds, was five feet four inches in height, had dark hair, face oval and rather narrow, chin long and projecting, lips thin, nose rather long, upper teeth false set on 8 plate and one of the front teeth miss" ing. The body was dressed in Bonele skirt made of a greenish material, with a red and white mix cast, black di- agonal cloth jacket bearing the name H. Batterman, Brooklyn, by whom 1t was doubtless made; stockings black, shoes russet Oxford ties, underwear balbriggan, and white sailor hat. In the pockets were found a white hand kerchief, house key, thirty three cents in money, 8 pair of tan colored Suede Mousquetaire gloves, size 4. The woman also wore black silk belt with a silver buckle, and black Windsor tie.
 She got aboard the steamer c. H. Northam at 7:30 Friday evening and soon after purchased a ticket, but left the boat then and returned in a little more than an hour. When she return ed to the steamer she engaged state room and then went out on the rear deck. She sat there for some time. and it was noticed that she appeared very -dejected and melancholy. She was mo- ticed by the chambermaids. Finally she returned to the saloon and request ed the stewardess to show her to her stateroom Soon after entering her stateroom she came out with glass in her hand, and. going to the water tank. filled the glass about half full of water and returned to her stateroom. The evidences found indicate that after re- turning to her stateroom she put por- tion of one and one-half ounce pack age of paris green into the glass of wa I she disrobed and dressed in night robe, She placed the parcel of paris green on the stand near the head of the bed and then, taking an ordinary piece of brown paper, wrote on 1t this sen- tence:
 T trust my sisters will forgive me for this act.''
 This paper she put in her grip, where it was afterwards found by the New Haven authorities
 The suicide was evidently very care-. fully plarined, and to be sure that her identity might be in the end revealed. the young woman took a photograph of herself along with her and before ending her life wrote on the back of this photograph the following mes sage:
 "Sallio-If you had spoken word in season this might not have been May prosperity go with you. {Signed)
 "OSSIE."
 The handwriting of this was in clear bold hand of the Spencerian style, and would indicate that the wo- man belonged to the middle rank of life rather than being creature of the slums, as was erroneously given out when the body was discovered in this city The handwriting would show that the woman had at some time been in some clerical employment, possibly a typewriter as the note was correctly capitalized, accurately punetuated, and and it was evidently written by one accustomed to the ready use of pen or pencil.
 The poison. as near as can be calcu lated, was taken shortly after midnight and the body was discovered by the steward of the Northam at 9 o'clock Saturday morning Among the effects found on the body was a pawnbroker's ticket, No. 3O,755, dated August 21, showing that on that date she had re- ceived from J Harris x Son, No. PA Court street, Brooklyn, the sum of fifty cents advanced upon a gold ring. At this pawn shop the woman gave her name as Raymond The letters, of which several were found among her effects, were addressed to Miss Emma Oswald, care of the Spencer Optical company, Maiden Lone. New York, near Broadway One of these letters bore the date 1895 and the other was written in 1S92 The authorities claim that neither of these letters reveals the girls place of abode or the names of any of her friends. and if the body is unclaimed it will pass into the hands of the selectmen for burial in Potter's field, or for such disposition as they may see fit to make of it.
 The authorities have learned that a Mrs. Hancock, colored stewardess of the steamer Idlewild, which plies be- tween New York city and Glen Cove daily, knows the young woman and would probably be able to give her place of residence in New York or Brooklyn and the names of the sisters to whom the letter was addressed just before she took the poison. That the woman "Sallie,'' to whom was address ed the message on the back of the pho tograph, was an intimate friend of the deceased is evident from letter found upon the body and signed by "Sallie," in which the latter expresses her re- gret for having failed to keep an ap- pointment to dine at the house of the suicide. This letter was apparently of