The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-20
A GIELDSENSUPPE FIND ?
FISnED OUT OF 4 WooDs1DE DRAIN
BIZ TWO CHILDREN.

a Grus,oms Bundle which May Have Com
Saincd the Missing BAD Plaster OF Paris
Shell. Hearing the Impression OF a Human
Ear. Found in q fragment or Carpet.
There was another find In connection with tho
Gieldscnsuppo murder case yesterday. 1t started
the Queens county authorities at work harder
than ever. Shortly after noon two little girls
who were picking golden rod in q vacant lot
opposite the house In second street near Ander.
son avenue, Woodside, which Mrs. Mack and
Martin Thorn are said to have hired, and wher
II Ia believed the murder was committed, no.
ticed u bundle In the drain which runs along
the sidewalk. This drain runs parallel with
Second street, and 10 the outlet for
the sewerage OF the houses on that
street. 1t is four feet wide and is the
place where some of the residents cay
they saw bloody water running at the time tho
murder Is supposed to have occurred. One Of
the girls, Lizzie Nuenheimer. z years old. who
lives 70 a house on Anderson avenue, just back
Of che Second street house. pulled the bundle
oct OF the drain. 1t came apart and disclosed
an oval piece OF hardened plaster Of Paris. Tho
Suenheimer girl ran home to her mother, Mrs.
Clara Nuenheimer, and told her that she had
found part OF Gieldsensuppe's head. Mrs. Nuen.
helmer walked to the spot indicated by her
nhugntcT. SDc IOuuu inc oval piece OF plnSLCT,
which had been wrapped In an old pair Of
painters overalls and a piece of Brussels carpet.
Mrs. Suenheimer went back to her house and
got a bushel basket and, placing 1t in a toy
wagon. she trundled it around to the drain and
carefully picked up all the articles. She placed
them In the basket and took them to the back
yard OF her house. Then she told her husband.
Charles, OF her find. He looked over the stun
and thought that the plaster contained an i'm
preston OF the side Of q human head. and upon
closer examination he saw what he thought
was human hair clicking in the plaster. He
hurried OF and reported his find to Coroner
Haslem. The Coroner took the articles to his
office in the rear Of Schrciner's Hotel. He sum.
moned Deputy Coroner Edward A. Keuling. and
they got garden rakes and dragged the drain
for more evidence. They spent the Afternoon in
this manner without getting anything else.
DR.. Samuel A. Wood was called to examine
The articles found. The oval piece Of hardened
plaster was shell shaped and about eight inches
In diameter and an inch thick. The inner side
was indented with lines and marks which might
have been made BY 4 human ear and part Of q
nose. An unpleasant odor came from the plas.
ter. and DIR. Wood found traces Of decayed cab.
bage In the shell. The yard OF the Second street
house was hled with. cabbages at the time OF
inclos d Q cabbage head or . human head wrap
ped In cabbage leaves. There were three human
hAirB Embedded In the shell.
Tho overalls were old and stained with what
seemed to DO paint. The CARPET wrapped around
the o~veralls and she'll was q yard long and hall
o yard wide, and was 10 thoroughly water
eoaked that the color was unrecogniznble. Mrs
Euenheimer identified the carpet as q piece thai
abe saw lying In the yard Of the Second street
moved. away. They occupied the house
eeveral months prior TO tho time when Mira
Mack and Thorn are sid TO have hired It. MIRA
Suenheimer Identified the carpet rs Q pieee aha
had asked for when q %5unflnsn called at ths
moving away. She wanted 1t to place under
meath O mantel in her kitchen. A piece oil
wrapping paper around the carpet bore The
name of Lord & Taylor.
Mrs. Nuenheimer says that the bundle mus
have been lying where II was found for some
eral weeks ago. but she paid no attention to hi,
story. thinking 1t was mere childish pratt!e
Coroner Hhslem will notify District Attorney
Youngs to-day about the find and the drain viii
be thoroughly drodRed.