The record-union., 1897-06-28
new YORK'S MYSTERY.
TWO PARTS OF A MUTILATED
BODY FOUND BY BOYS.
The Trunk Had Been Cut in Two
and the Legs and Head Have
Not Yet Been Found.

NEW YORK, June 27.-The lower
part Of the trunk of a man was found
by two boys in the woods at 116th
street and under Cliffe avenue this city
to-day 1t was terribly mutilated and
shows plainly that a murder has been
committed 1t was wrapped in oil
cloth and manila paper, exactly as
was the upper part Of trunk found
in the East River off Eleventh street
on Saturday. 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 oilcloth was evidently cut
from the same piece as that which in
closed the upper part of the trunk. 1t
is new and of a cheap pattern bright
red. 1t is like that commonly used
for table cloths in tenement houses. The
find of to-day was in a bulky bundle
lying against a wall next to under
Cliffe avenue, where the shrubbery is
very thick. 1t has not been dissected.
which does away with the belief that
the body had been handled by medical
students. Besides it had been terri
bly, hacked when separated from the
upper portion.
1t was sent to the Morgue where it
exactly fits 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 between the fifth and sixth ribs
and one between the sixth and sew
enth in the region 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. DR.. OHanlon
found, too, bruise on the left forearm
and under the right forearm was a
confusion, showing the imprint of a
heel, with hob nails like those on heavy
boots. He found an incised wound in
the palm of the right hand which he
said was probably caused by the vic
tim seizing the weapon with which he
was attacked. There was no water or
serum in the lungs, which We're we'll
filed with air. There was a knife
wound two inches long in the apex of
the heart, corresponding to the wound
between the ribs. Numerous contu-
sions were also found on the body,
which wounds DR.. O'Hanlon thinks
could not have been inflicted after
death.
The doctor stated that the man could
not have been dead more than thirty
six hours and perhaps not more than
twenty four. He calculates the mans
age at about 35 years and his hight at
five feet ten 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 indicates a well
Inourished, 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, seven miles from where the 9TH
| er part was discovered. Two boys
found the first part of the body and two
other boys came across the portion of
| the trunk in the woods. The boys were
hunting for berries when they noticed
the bundle lying against a wall. They
| left it 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.
The work of cutting off the lower
limbs had been done very cleanly,
without hacking. In the wound be-
| hind the left collar bone, there was an
| escape of blood beneath the fascia and
right pleural cavity and as blood does
not flow after death, the Deputy Cor
oner expresses the belief that the
death, and not after There is also
blood under the thumb nail of the left
hand and there are numerous contus-
ions on the body that could not possibly
have been inflicted after the death.
According to the Deputy Coroner's
statement it is to be presumed that the
man was stabbed to death and the po-
lice are trying to form a theory as to
where the dreadful work of murder and
butchery was committed
If the murder was committed in the
neighborhood of High Bridge and the
upper part of the trunk thrown into the
Harlem River, it would have first float
ed into the East River on account of
the conditions of the tide. The police
are wondering in what spot the limbs of
the corpse will be found. They think
they will turn up some place before
| long, but do not think it likely that the
head will ever be found. They think
| the murderer has either buried or
burned it in a furnace in order to keep
secret the identity of his victim. This
| would hardly be DONE however, unless
| the identity of the murdered man would
easily lead to the identity of the mur-
derer. No surgical skill was employed
| in dismembering the body. On the
| breast of the trunk large piece Of the
| flesh had been hacked away. This may
have been done to prevent identifica-
| ton by means of tattoo marks.