The times., 1898-09-14
THE Victim OF 4 crime
Light Shed on the Murder
Mystery at Bridgeport.
PROOFS OF AN OPERATION
All the Parts of the Abdomen Which
Would Indicate Criminal HialDrnc-
tice Were Carefully RemOved-The
Identity of the Remains Is Yet in
Doubt-Discoyery of Tell-Tale
Laundry Mark.

Bridgeport, Conn, Sept. 13.-That crimi-
nal malpractice caused the death of the
young woman whose head and legs were
found Monday afternoon in Yellow Mill
Pond, near Sea View Avenue bridge, is
the belief of the physicians who have
examined the trunk of the body, found
early this morning in the same pond.
The operation, the physicians believe,
was performed upon the woman early
last week, by a midwife or physician.
Blood poisoning set in and the woman
died Friday or Saturday. Then to hide
the crime the body was cut and sawed
into several pieces. The pieces were wrap
ped up in the rubber sheeting that was
used during the operation. weighted with
stones taken down to the pond in
carriage and thrown off the bridge at high
tide. They sank in six feet of water, but
the person who selected Yellow Mill Pond
was ignorant or forgetful of the fact that
ii is a tidewater pond and at low tide its
bottom lies uncovered.
Who the woman was or who performed
the operation the police do not know
Two trips We're made to the pond to cast
away the pieces of the body.
After the finding of the head and sew
cred legs at low water Monday afternoon
thorough search of the pond was made
! for the trunk of the body. This morning
| early Neils Larsen saw a big bundle ly-
! ing in the pond within a few feet of the
| bridge. Henry r. Reddy came on to the
] bridge just then. The two young men
! fished up the bundle anc round that 1t
was the lower half of the body. Nearer
| the bridge they found in another bundle
| the upper half.
At dusk on Sunday George Hall and
| his brother-in-law took a walk down Sea
View Avenue with their two bird dogs.
Nearing the long wooden bridge across
| the pond they heard shrill whistle and
| the dogs ran ahead.
As the two men stepped on the bridge
| they saw from where the whistle had
| come-a two-seated wagon. man was
| holding the reins. No one else was about,
The dogs were shifting about the wagon
| and trying to jump up to find what was
| inside. IL was not a butchers wagon.
! One of the dogs barked uneasily. Hall
called them away as he and his brother
| in-law walked by the wagon. The man
in the front seat kept his face turned
| away from them.
| After midnight last night, long after the
searchers had left the pond, came an
other mysterious carriage TO Inc DrluSe
which was heard by several persons.
| The pieces of the womans body found
this morning were wrapped up the same
way. Each part was incased in muslin
| and around this was absorbent cotton
The same rubber sheeting that inclosed
the head and limbs was found with the
| trunk Around the bundle containing
the upper half of the trunk was blacl
rubber blanket, such as is used in hos
pitals to throw over patients. Arount
the lower half of the trunk was wounC
a piece of a mans undergarment, marke,
on the waistband in indelible ink, &c. 81.
| Superintendent Birmingham, of tht
Bridgeport police. believes this mark
good clew, and is trying TO find wha
| laundry made this mark. The trunk wa
cut as a surgeon would have cut it II
performing an autopsy. All those part
of the abdomen the condition of whic
would indicate whether a criminal opera
ton had been performed, were carefull
removed, but enough of the trunk wa
left to convince the physicians who ex
amined it that blood poisoning had Sc
in after malpractice.
Thousands of men and women, yer
many Of them young men, have called a
Cullinan's morgue today TO look at tn
womans head, but so far the police hay
not found anyone who can positively sa.
who the woman was.
Now that nearly everybody in Bridge
port has been at the morgue and no on
recognizes the face, the police believe tina
the woman was Stranger in town G
that she died In some nearby town.