New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-11
RIVER MYSTERY STILL UNSOLVED.
MANY ATTEMPTS AT IDENTIFYING The
MANS TRUNK IN THE MORGUE
LEAD TO NEW CLEWS.

MANY nersous in search of missing friends called
nj the Morgue yesterday to look at the mntiiate"
body of tie man found floating In the inciosuie
between the ferryboat slips at Roosevelt-st ana
the East River on Tuesday and several strong at
tempts were made 10 identify the body
The most promising attempt at identihcauoh
came from a waiter and cook employed ia faiA
Row restaurant who called at the Morsue III inc
morning and said they Were looking Tor n"eue
named Oeson. who disappeared two weeks ago.
OIeson they said. formerly employed as
d,sbua sher in Park Row, but recently was WORK
ing as a longshoreman near the place where the
body was found He came TO this city from DDS
ton about six months ago leaving wife ana ch'o
in Boston lie had been employed there as risser
and had several Italians under his charge. In
quarrel he whipped one Of them and the ltahah
swore out warrant for his arrest. ana oesoh
came TO this city to avoid trouble. The men
thought that the trunk was that or Oieson' VINO
was muscular and wore his hair in about the saiie
style They departed. promising that they "ouu
return with some who knew olesoh WE'LL oul
were not seen again. The fact that Oiesoh hau
worked near the place where the trunk was fouho,
had ouarreled with Italians and had disappeared
about the time the died whose BODY was re-
Gently found set the detectives at WORK on this
possible clew.
Another visitor who aroused great interest was
Sanford G. Gable, of No 26o West Tweiith-S' ne
said that he was in quest of William Block, OF No
24O West Twefth-st., whom he had not seen iui q
week He added that his friend had the sdine h,
OF hair and the same shaped ear as the muIueIeu
man Gable found also many other strong poin.s
of resemblance between his friend ana me man,
Block was hfty-four years old he said and had an
income of 500 month from England liable i sac s
that while he and another irieh9 WT entered the
place and told them that his wife had died, ano
that he trying to raise money, TO oui! ne;
his missing friend interested the detectives az m
Morgue so much that they took him 10 Pohce f'eao-
This Identification impressed Captain Nc Nc.
CIusky that when 1t was confirmed ~ biock .
three brothers, two of whom are saloonkeepers a.
No "a Reade-st. and the third a bookkeeper az NO.
iSS Nott-st he announced last night without
qualification that the body was that Of BLOCK ana
Later however the fact was brought 10 ms az.
tention that man who died in lodging mouse use, a.
No 20 Bowery last Sunday was probably EHoch.
The laters brothers said that he disappeared Iast
week while on a spree following his wifes death.
inauence Of LIQUOR staggered into the clearinghouse
He signed the register Jonn Egah; d ana on annar
day afternoon he was found dead IN g 6ed a app
registration card Of the Ninteenth Election Dslres
Of the Hh Assembly PO i'r So 9sa West twelfth.
St" The body taken 10 the Morgue, ana ~ ~
there yet. Just before midnight 1t was poSi'iVes
identified as that Of Block ..,,. nova,
At an early hour yesterday morning woman
who said that she was from Syracuse and that she
looking for her father called No the MG Tse
wich-st and Charles Cobb, of Flushing, Long
SGbb was d in ssarf ss and
strom was looking for Louis Nelson lqnesh9re-
y Eho has bo 6 yGs IN iv Wes
viewed the body and thought that the neck OF ,he
murdered man closely resemeied ,haI a Ut is
The missing man who employed In restaurant
in Sixth-ave. The police are investigating MS
movements from the time he disappeared
A microscopical examination Of the decoration on
the right leg of the murdered man, whicn vas
to have been made by bullet resulted from art
on the Instrument used to amputate part OF the leg