The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-28
MUTILATED BY A MURDERER.
PIECES OF THE VICTIMS BODY
FOUND EIGHT MILES APART,

nc SNADDeu TO
Death-He Appears to Have Been u
LabOrer.
New York, June 27.-The lower part Of
the trunk of a man was found by two
boys in the woods at One Hundred and
Seventy-sixth street and Undercliffe ave.
nue., this city, to-day. 1t was terribly
mutilated and shows plainly that muir
der has been committed. 1t was wrapped
in oil cloth and MANILA paper, exactly
as was the upper part of a trunk found
in the East river, off Eleventh street. yes
terday. The two are parts of the same
body
The two pieces were found more than
eight miles apart one in the water and
the other on land.
The part found to-day comprised the
lower part of the trunk from the fifth rib
to the hips, the legs having been severed
from the body at the hip joints. 1t was
wrapped in three folds of oil cloth.
The oil cloth was evidently cut from
the same piece as that which enclosed the
upper part of the trunk. 1t was new and
of a cheap pattern, bright red, with gilt
figures on it. 1t is like that commonly
used for table cloths in tenement houses.
The find of day was in a bulky bun
die lying against a wall next to Under
cliffe avenue, where the shrubbery was
very thick. 1t had not been dissected,
which does away with the belief that the
body had been handled by medical stu
dents. Besides, it has been terribly hack
ed where separated from the upper por-
ton.
1t was sent to the morgue, where 1t ex-
actly ftted the part found Saturday.
Deputy Coroner o. Hanlon performed an
autopsy on the upper part of the trunk
to-day before the other had been found.
He discovered two stab wounds, one be-
tween the fifth and sixth ribs, and one
between the sixth and seventh in the re-
gion of the heart. There was also a stab
wound back of the left collar bone that
extended down to the apex of the left
lung. DIR. OHanlon found, too a bruise
on the left forearm, and under the right
forearm was confusion, showing the i'm
print of a heel with hobnails like those
in heavy boots.
He found an incised wound In the palm
OF the right hand which, he said, was
probably caused by the victim seizing the
weapon with which he was attacked. There
was no water or serum in the lungs, which
were well filled with air. There was a
knife wound two inches long in the apex
of the heart corresponding to the wound
between the ribs. Numerous contusions
were also found on the body, which
wounds, DR.. O'Hanlon thinks, could not
have been inflicted after death.
The man could not have been dead more
than S6 hours and perhaps not more than
"a. He calculated the mans age at about
S5, and his hight at feet 10 inches.
He was a laborer and the nails were
down to the quick as If from a habit of
biting them.
The condition of the body indicated a
well nourished healthy man.
The detectives of two precincts and the
best central office men are working on the
case.
The second portion of the butchered
corpse was found north of the Harlem
river miles from where the other part
was discovered. Two boys found the first
part of the body and two other boys came
across the section of the trunk in the
woods.
The boys were hunting berries when they
noticed a bundle lying against a wall. 1t
was wrapped in heavy MANILA paper. fast
ened with thick wrapping twine. The
boys were prompted by curiosity to open
the bundle. They loosened one end of the
bundle, when sickening odor from the
package caused them to desist from fur
ther investigation. They left the bundle
lying exactly where they found it. Their
father stood guard over it while the two
boys went and called two policemen, who
opened the package.
When the paper was removed the po-
ueemen came upon oil cloth that was also
fastened with heavy twine. That was un-
roIed from the bundle and then another
covering OF MANILA paper was removed,
Dut sun the contents of the strange pack
age were not revealed. 1t was still cover
ed with a roll of oilcloth and beneath that
was another wrapping of MANILA paper.
Wnen the CHASTITY fragment Of a corpse
had been uncovered the policemen sent
Tor stretcher and the bundle was con-
Neyed to police station for examination.
Ihe legs had been cut Off close to the hips.
me section Of the body was taken to the
morgue, and there II was found to fit the
piece picked up In East river The lower
portion OF the body had not been mutila-
ted, except where the work Of severing II
had been done.
WI VI GaAliHk Oll AAt lOWtT uNlDs
had been done very cleanly without hack
ing. In the wound behind the left collar
bone there was an escape Of blood be-
meath the fascia, and right pleural cavity,
ahd as blood does not flow after death the
deputy coroner expresses the belief that
the wound must have been made before
ueath and not after. There Is also blood
under the thumb nail OF the left hand
Dr. O'Hanon also contends that there
are numerous contusions Of the body that
could not possibly have been inflicted az
Ter death. According 10 the deputy cor
Uhers statement, IL Is TO be presumed,
.nat The man was stabbed 10 death ana
ms body at once dlsmembored. There
are no marks on the completed trunk that
give any clew 70 the Identification OF the
sutehered man. The condition OF the abb
uomen shows that he was well nourished
at the time OF his death. Il is believed
that the murderer purchased the oil cloth
especially to wrap the pieces Of the body.
me detectives have already set 10 work