The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-09-14
BRIDGEPORT'S MYSTERY.
Any Number Of Positive
Identitloations But None
is Trustworthy.
FACE is LIKE MISS ROuRKE'S
She Was a Nurse Employed
in the City About
Two Weeks Ago.
ACE is LIKE MISS ROBRKE'S

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Sept. IA, 1895.
The police are working steadily today on
the Yellow Mill Pond murder mystery.
There havo been a number OF more or
less positive identifications. People have
viewed the dead woman's head at the
rnorgue, and positively recognized it. In
vestigation by the police and reporters
has generally resulted in such identifi-
cations being proved groundless.
1t was confidently reported in some Of
the outside papers yesterday that the
woman was Rachel Warner, q nurse.
That was the opinion of Or. A. H. Holmes
OF this city. After stating that he
thought the face of the murdered re-
semnled Mrs. Warner he left for Maine on
his vacation.
A reporter who set out to investigate
DR.. Holmes claims proved that Rachel
Warner was alive. Incidentally another
clue was discovered. The residence Of
Mrs. Jeremiah Meyers, who lives at Ne.
24S Myrtle avenue, where MRS. Warner
has rooms when she is in the city, was
visited.
Mrs. Meyers and her sister, Miss Mary
Wallace. who is visiting The former from
New York City, said that they had just
come from the Morgue and had examined
the countenance thoroughly and 1t was
not that OF Mrs. Warner.
1t seems, in the first place. that Dr..
Holmes had said that he thought it was
Mrs. Warner. Mrs. Meyers on hearing this
told the reporter that probably the doc
tor had made a mistake in the two nurses
that had helped him ON g, case In Broad
street couple OF weeks ago. One of
them was Mrs. Warner, the other stopped
at the residence Of DR.. II. Adeline Themp-
son of Warren street. DR.. Thompson
said there was nurse who had stopped
at her residence couple of weeks ago,
but she was not there now. She was Miss
Mary Rourke The nurse who helped DR..
Holmes and Mrs Warner on the case IN
Broad street was Miss Brawls, who IS
now engaged at Varuna Hall. taking care
of the sick soldiers
The doctor had just returned from the
Morgue, and she said there was a strik-
ing resemblance In the face TO some one
she had known. but could not exactly
place it. When asked if it resembled
Miss Rourke, she could not say. It was
some face she had seen before, and the
resemblance to Miss Rourke was strik-
ing
Miss Jennie r. Teerhune, graduate of
the Bridgeport Hospital who was at the
office, was called, and she described the
face of Miss Rourke. 1t tailed exactly
with that at the Morgue. In company
with few others She viewed the body
but could not say whether it was the face
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Miss Rourke, also visited the morgue and
said that the face was very striking, but
would not positively say whether it was
the woman in question.
Dr. Thompson has a picture Of Miss
Rourke, which resembied the face at the
rnorgue very much.
Through g. call from DR.. F. E. King,
of New Milford Miss RourlSe went to the
latter place three weeks ago. She has a
brother in this city who had not heard
from her since the first of September.
When the latter was consulted this
morning about the matter he said there
was nothing to the rumer and that it was
not his sister at the Morgue, although he
had not been there to make sure. He was
requested to so to the Morgue yesterday
by Dr. Thompson, the latter thinlSink
there would be no harm for him to go
and clear the matter up, as there were
SO many who thought it was Miss Rourke
at first glance.
In talking the doctor said:-"As you
look down upon the hair for the first time
it appears to be brown but to look at it
to the light it has reddish tinge. These
I think should be made known. l cam
not help but think that the crime was
not committed in Bridgeport. I rather
think. from observation, that the deed
was done by some medical student, as
no one without experience could have
done such neat piece of work. I have
worked upon a dissecting table myself
and it looked as though the whole thing
had been done with students knife and
with a students hands. Meadows End is
a very tough spot, ard | have no doubt
but what the crime will be traced to one
of these summer resorts.
In tracing up the different clues, the re-
porter ran across man that is well
known In this city. For several reasons
he does not want his name published.
He said:--
evening and came Tuesday morning, ar
irving here about 130 She was brought
horne in a hack, Sea View avenue. way,
and taken across the bridge to her home
The hack turnde around and went back
across the bridge again.
A well known butcher ON Stratford ave-
nue. said last night that he knew OF two
hacks going across the bridge Tuesday
morning between one and Two ocloch.
and that they were bringing parties home
that had been out of the city the day be-
fore.
These statements may explain the story
told by John Calhoun of hearing a wagon
on the Sea View avenue bridge Tuesday
morning They apparently disproye the
theory that the trunk was placed in the
pond on Tuesday morning by some one IN
a carriage that went across the bridge.
a Comfortable Corpse.
When Wilson Barrett did his "one-
night-onqyp performance of "othello' in
Melhnurne on Wednesday evening of last