New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-10
MURDER BY STRANGLlNG.
Autopsy ON THE MUTuATED BODY
FOUND IN THE EAST RIVER
r,rprrry CORONER DoNILN FINDS EVIDENCE
THAT THD MAN HAD MADE A HARD FlGhT
FOR 1IFE-rRIFNps OF MISSING
MEN LOOK At THE BODY
But THERE rs NO
IDENTIFICATION.

r,o,.r vas performed by Deputy Coroner
Donun Yesterday on the mutiated pooy on ING
man found floating IN the Enclosure between inc
tor-vhoa. Sins at Roosevelt-st- and the EASY
p,ver On Tuesday. II showed that the man mao
hoe, murdered by strangulation and that ne
,sd NOT been killed without fierce struggle
rb,s fac. was disclosed by the discovery by Dr'
r,on,n Of q fracture of the hypoid ball In the
victims throat II was also found that the
sternum had been fractured. that the rips hao
been broken that there was a fracture OF the
backbone about the shoulder-blade ana tha'
most Of the vital organs. especially the heai7'
were abnormal in size.
The appearance OF the enlarged organs m
dtcated according 10 Dr. Donlin. that the man
had fought hard for his life and that IN his
struggles he had strained the muscular tissues.
Dr. Donlin added that the man must have been
dead at least three or four days before he was
found His theory Of how the man was killed
was that somebody had felled him and knelt
on his chest and choked him until he ceased
70 breathe.
In kneel.ns on the chest the murderer tract
ured the sternum and the ribs, Some Of the ribs
had pierced the lungs. The pelvis. said DR..
Donlin. was fractured before death. and the
backbone was broken after the man died. on
the right leg, few inches from the point at
which part OF the leg was cut Of Is lacera-
ton that resembles a bullet wound. The flesh
about the wound will have TO be examined
under the microscope before the nature of the
laceration can be determined.
The superficial examination Of the body
showed that the murdered man had iron-gray
hair. that he was about Ave feet ten inches tall,
weighed about go pounds. and had been shaved
and had had his hair cut little while before he
was killed In mutilating the face small knife
was first used and then a cleaver or some sharp
and heavy Instrument. An axe or adze had been
used on the other parts Of the body. DR.. Donlin
thought that the man was Scandinavian and
that he had been killed q ship.
Captain McClusky announced yesterday that
he hooed TO learn the name Of the murdered man
before many days AT present we have
clecv." he said.
Many persons in search Of missing friends
called at the Morgue yesterday TO look at the
body. None Of them identified the murdered
man. p. Ayers. of No. 16S Elm-st. visited the
Morgue at early hour. He said that he
looking for John Jones, a real estate dealer
with an office at No. 20 Nassau-st.. who lived at
No 500 West Forty -ninth-st Later another man
called and acted in such a manner that he
taken to Police Headquarters by several de-
tectives. The police refused TO say anything
about him. II. Strasser, of Goerck-st. also called
at the Morgue to If tho mutilated body was
that OF Jacob Demoine a shoemaker of
Patchogue. Long Island. Demoine has been
missing q week
In the afternoon Miss BERTHE Bale Of No 143
West Twenty-seventh-st.. and Mrs. Octavia
Degane. OF No 523 Hudson-st.. looked at the
body. They were in search OF John Lanerey,
who was employed in a restaurant in Sixth-ave.
He has been absent from his home for two
months