The San Francisco call., 1897-06-30
Scores of Detectives
Are Engaged on the
Great Mystery.
Peculiar Theory as to the
Murder Formed by a
Physician.
Believes the Assassin Was an In
sane Butcher Who Practiced
CanniballSm.


on Saturday and one on Sunday in |
widely separated parts Of the city is no |
nearer solution than it was when the two |
pieces were fitted together at the Morgus |
on Sunday. The clew which it was hoped |
the oilcloth wrapping about the body |
would furnish has proved worthless be-
cause of the impossibility of finding out
the purchasers of that cloth. The broken
fineer-nail on the left hand has proved
almost as useless a clew. 1t has merely
served to render the case m ore involved,
for by it no less than twenty persons have
identified the BODY as that of some per-
son whose body # was not, and it has
taken time to run down aud disproye
each Identification.
A more hopeless case the police have
| never had. Without the possibility OF
Identification there does not seem 10 be
any likelihood of ever unraveling the mys-
terry. But somewhere in this city, for it is
almost certain that the murder was COM
mitted IN this city, there is a room that is
stained with blood. There are blood
! stained garments and bloodstained
weapons and probably blood stained
walls. In that room there is indehbly
| fixed evidence of the murder and of the
| cuttin, up of the body. 1t Is evidence
that cannot be destroyed by fire. Herein
| lies some possibility that the mystery may
be solved. 1t is with some vague idea of
finding this room to- night that the police
were at work. They were started on this
track by DR.. Frank Ferguson, pathologist
of the New York Hospital.
The murder was very similar to that of
Susie Martin. the 12-year-old girl who was
killed in March, 1894 in the cellar of her
| home in Thirty ninth street. The SINH
larity was in the cutting up OF the bodies
and the scalding. Susie Martins body
| was scalded. 1t was dismem bered as was
this body, and the head was never found
! Some time after the murder, in the cellar
of house near the one in which she was
killed bones, were found. These bones
were given TO D.. Ferguson, and he made
a series of examinations. He found that
they were certainly parts of The bones Of
the arms OF the murdered child. Flesh
on them had been cooked and had been
chipped off, The doctor became greatly
interested ID the case. He made several
examinations of the body. He found that
the saw used in cutting up the child's
body was one Eillimeter thick. Susie
Martins murderer was never found.
The doctors conclusion was that the
murderer was an insane man, probably a
butcher and German The child had
been in the habit of visiting e nearby
slaughter-house and butcher-shop also.
Ferguson's attention was attracted TO the
present case by the description in the pa
pers OF the way in which the body was cut
up. 1t recalled the Martin case to his
mind. To-day hs inspected the body at
the Morgue. The body was taken to the
dissecting- room, where there were three
other doctors and Detective Price of the
} Central office. ferguson made exact
measurements of every part. He found
on ono Of the ribs the mark of the saw
that had been used in cutting the body in
two pieces. The saw had gone through one
rib and had Just entered the rib below it..
1t was made by saw one millimeter
thick, the exact thickness OF the saw
used in cutting the body of Susie Martin.
Ferguson said his examination showed
the head had been cut off while the body
was lying on its back. The murderer had
begun his cutting in front and carried the
knife around and had then used the saw.
!, The missile cut had been made when the
body was face down. The murderer had
stood upon the righthand side. He had
stood or knelt on the left side of the body
when he cut off the left leg and gone
: around to the right side TO cut off the
e other one. Dr. Ferguson's examination
b developed the fact that the body of the
= murdered man had been cut in two in al
y ! most precisely the same spot that Susie
Martins body had been cut, and that the
cutting was done i'll precisely the same
way and the same kind of instrument
that he had concluded that the saw was
butchers saw and that the object o
mutilation was the horrible one OF can
L nibalism.
his conclusion was that the murdere
y was the same person who had murdered
Susie Martin; that he was a butcher,
foreigner and insane; that at times tn
mans insanity took the form of an ire
sistable desire TO kill and torture an
: muulate human flesh. He expressed TIL
e opinion to the police that the murde
r was very likely committed within a com
10 paratiyely short distance of the spo
c where the lower half of the murderet
mans body was found, and he advised
ID them that wise thing to do would be I
1t prosecute rigid search of every cellar an
sr every out-of-the-way house in that loca
s. ity. He thought it might develop som
i evidence that would at least show wher
n the murder was committed. This sug
IS gestion was promptly acted upon, and
5 score of detectives were put at work I
h develop the theory the physician.
n Superintendent Louis Zimm OF Baum
er gartsn's planning mill at College Point an
r three workmen from the mill to-nigt
h inspected the mutilaled body and declare
h their most positive belief it was that
at their fellow-workman Theodore Cyklau
who disappeared last Thursday. The
k, declared the articles found in the satch
A positively belonged to him. They sal
ID Cyklam had an injury to his tin2er ma
RS like that'on the finger OF the corpse.
ID The Journal claims to have made
W positive identification of the murdere
* man. 1t says that seven different peop
K. identify the remains as those of Willial
to Guldensuppe, a Murray Hill Turks
he baths attendant. There is woman
ID the case-MrS Augusta Mack, midwif
Se whom Guldensuppe lived with. Her hu
We band, from whom she separated. rhrea
j. ened to have revenge on Guldensupp
a The latter had been sailor and had II
>, body OF woman tattooed on his breas
: This The murderer cut off to prevent ide
10 titication.
Another rival of Guldensuppe figures