The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-20

parallel with the surveyed line OF Second
street On the other side of the stream the
fields are full of goldenrod.
LIZZIE Nunhri;ner was gathering golden
/, rod 10 put on tie mantel at IL a. m. yes
terday. Standing at the brook side she
saw piece OF carpe. protruding from tho
| strear
Since the discovery of the murder the
| Woodside denizens. young and old have
been alert and suspicious. Every baby in
| the neiehtorliood has become a detective.
Unable to reach the carpet herself. the
tod,.ler hurried home and told her father
John Nuuheimer hurried his big numbering
form along ia the footsteps o Z his baby and
she poirted the thing nut To him.
He took hold ~ the carpet and pulled
IL oaine up slowly and he was excited
There seemed 20 be some heavy o lect al
tached To il. and 1T stuck in the mud OF
| the stream
AS be hauled another fabric cane TO
view
In moment tie had the whole mass
out on the bank, and had unrolled.it To the
sunShide. He knew the carpet IL was
an old scrap which Mrs McMnnimen, for
mei tenart of Mack cottage. had tried To
selito the rag ran when she fuovedaway
The rag man wouldn't take it, and the
McMnnimens lrfl IL i'm the yard
NunLeiner's wife had called his atten-
tion TO Ia few days afterward. and had
told him iu would do To tack over broken
window IL their cellar. From that time
they had thought no more about IL until
about three weeks after the arrest OF Mrs
sha
then, it was gone.
She Supposed it had been taken POSSES
sion of by the detectives and told her hus-
band so. They thought nothing More about
il until Yesterday when Nunheimer pulled
IL from the brook and found wrapped in it
the plaster, which he fully believes once
held the head OF Guldensuppe
The overalIs were dark, made darker nv
tte dirt and action of the water, and were
badly torn. large portion of the back of
the right leg was gone.
But the thing hich made them most i'm
rortaut was that there were great brown
stains on them, which were not paint, ard
bore every appearance OF blood. IL looked
as If they might have been worn by Thorn
when he was at work hacking up the body
of Guldensuppe in the bathtub.
Woodstlc y. Y, Sept. 20 Coroner Has
lam. after working nearly all night on the
drain, was again early in the field today.
lie aE nounced that he was about to draw
off the water of the drain and OF the pond
from which il flows. Ne would then set
men at work to dig up all the deposited
mud until District Attorney Youngs should
obtain the missing head, or else lie salts.
fled that il had not been buried i'm this
pond or drain. A call was issued for
men 20 he on hand at 1880 O'Clock this
morning. By that time large crowd d had
gathered.
Yesterdays find Of plaster affd overalls
and carpet was carefully preserved with
disnfectant at the coroner's office Hu.
man hairs, short and of light color, were
found ON several of the plaster fragr1e nts
The outline and veining imprinted ON the
concave surfaces Were plainly from cab
bage leaves. This, however, did not dis
courage the theory that the actual be ad Of
GuldeBsuppe had once been wrapped i'm
side and covered with layer or two Of
leaves.
Men VINO watched the dredging yester
day said that the head must have been
renewed by the murderer in fear of de-
lection Where he threw it they could only
surmise and everybody proposed some
stream or swamp as the likely place A
theory more current today was that the
fragments found did enclose a Cabbage
head used Tor experiment and that Gulden.
suppe's head, when discovered, would be
found Similarly encased., This theory the
coroner was disposed to reject.
1.-The evidence" he said, "is more than
sufficient to warrant us in looking for the
head right here, or as near by as might be
possible for n man to transfer it hastily.
We shall make this search thorough"
Tic. carpet in which the plaster was
wrapped was today discolored, but plain in
pattern. II was positively identified by
the Nunheimer family. The overalls used
were covered with paint, not blood
District a Attorney Youngs. when saen ut
Long Island City, said that his office had
received nc official notification OF the
possible new evidence. He would be ready,
h.wever, to promote the most thorough
seatch possible. The possibility of this
added link In the chain OF evidence was to
be taken very seriously indeed, and be had
hopes OF definite results.