Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1898-09-20
IS AGAIN IDENTIFIED
But the Bridgeport Mystery
Remains Unsolved.
THE SIXTH ALLEGED IDENTIFICATION.
A Worcester Man Recognizes the
Fnce-ThRt of n Girl He Met
In New Haven-Her Name
Forgotten.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Sept 20.-There
is still another Identification in the
Bridgeport murder mystery case, max
ing the sixth since the dismembered
body was discovered in the yellow Mill
pond.
After viewing the severed head. e. 3.
Van Keuren of Worcester, Mass, de-
clares it to be that of a girl he met in
New Haven boarding house two years
ago and had again seen last summe-.
He is very positive in his identification.
He does not know the name, but prom
Uses TO find out
T. b. Van Keuren Of 745 Main street,
Worcester Mass, a brother OF General
Van Keuren of the military staff of
Governor Cook Of this state. called at
the morgue late last night and made the
sixth positive Identification of the re-
mains of the young woman found in
| Yellow Mill pond week ago.
! When shown the photograph Of the
dead girl, he studied 1t carefully for
nearly half an hour, then told Mr.. Gull
Imam that while there remained hardly
a doubt in his mind that he knew the
original he would Ike to make sure by
viewing the head itself.
His request was granted. and he ex-
claimed instantly: 1T is the young wo-
man I thought. l do not know her name
and have not seen her for a year. but I
am certain in my Identification. During
the summer of two years ago, while liv-
4 ing in n boarding house in York street.
= New Haven, near Chapel street, this
a young woman became an occupant OF
4 one Of the rooms. She did not board
B there. but / saw her often and remem-
Z bered her She was Of medium height.
4 slender. had reddish brown hair and
had, I think, dark gray or dark brown
81 eyes. l have forgotten her name.
she still lived in the New Haven
house when I moved away, but 1 saw
her again last summer in Westminster
street. Providence. 1 expect to go to
New Haven tomorrow, and will then
learn her name and if possible her last
address,"
Mr. Van Keuren said he had not when
he called at the morgue expected to find
the dead person was any one he had
4 known, but on recognizing the face he
n had felt obliged, in spite of possible no
+ toriety, to tell what he knew in the in
81 terests OF justice. He went from the
3 morgue to police headquarters and
made a full statement to Captain Ar
mold.
Mr.. Van Keuren is a man under mid
die age, is a travelling salesman for q
tobacco house and has the appearance
OF a keen business man.
A search OF the local laundries dis
closed the fact that the laundry mari
"G5l," which has played so important {
part in the Yellow Mil pond mystery fl
+ in this place as We'll as in New HaveI
the laundry mark of Dr. Nancy Gull
ford.
At the Crawford steam laundry. wher
II was said 'G51" was found, II wa
learned that 1t had not been so. Worl
had been done for her, however, as lat
= as the last week in August. They ha,
been shown the "G51" found in one o
the mysterious bundles. but could no
say whether the mark had been mad
there or not. All of Mrs. Guilford'
clothing, they said. had borne this mari
S when first brought there.
At the Pembroke laundry il was foun
that the mark "G5i," while appearing
on their books, had not been used dur
ing the last six years, the young wOma
to whom it originally belonged havin
married and ceased to be a customer
At the only other laundry where th
mark Col" was found it had not bee
In use for two years. another mark hav
ing been substituted for 1t.