The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-10

NO bouTciIuG Ol CeHhTb anu GOAL ybtub Will "
continued to-day
It was learned yesterday tina. the writing on
the margin OF one OF the newspapers
Journal OF Oct. 5-wrappod around the second
fragment OF the body found was ''18c." instead
OF &c TO-" This writing In on tho fourth page
OF the paper. 10 very small and written with .
very black pencil. Being on an inside shoot OF
the paper 1t can scarcely be the mark OF q
newsdealer. Tho newspaper had been used A.
q wrapper for some square packaR probably
o box. before IL was used to con-
ceal part OF human body. bome OF
the detectives Yesterday were Of tho
opinion that the mark means 10 ccnt.." and
was shopk ecper's or laundry m an s marx. The
police will welcome any suggestions from the
public on how to use the clue to advantage.
1t was said yesterday that some writing had
also heen discovered on the copy OF the World
NJ Oct i. ono OF the newspapers in which the
first fragment found was wrapped.
Tho report was that on the first page In the
upper right hand corner q letter wv" had been
discovered, also that on another page Will"
had been written. On the second page OF the
paper 1t was said Nv" was written In the
upper left hand corner and In the same corner
OF the third page 'W-l2" was written. When
Capt Price was asked about those he said that
there wero no such things on tho paper at all.
nun Der OF detectives. who had OF anfned the
paper In question. said thnt there was writ
ing on any part OF It. lit is there now they
said. it must havo been written by persons who
have had access to the papers since they were
found.
One OF the reports received by the police
yesterday to which they are paying particular
attention came from David HierResell OF 1000
Greene avenue. Brooklyn. This man said that
his wife eloped about six weeks ago with a
boarder in her house whose nnme he gave.
gateman employed at the Fourteenth street
ferry to Hoboken She took 5000 with her. he
said. He understood that the gateman was
back at work again. but no had been unable to
find out anything about his wife. The latter is
2S years old about 5 feet q inches tall and
weighs 100 rounds.
The gateman's place OF employment is but
one block from where the second fragment OF
tho body was iished out otths North River. and
that he rose m bles some what the man described
by Capt. Lund OF the barge Knick booker as
having driven q furniture van out on the pier
at tho foot OF West Thirteenth street. twice.
early Saturday morning. for no apparent pur-
pose. led the police to make thorough invssti-
cation OF the matter, 1t was reported several
times that the gateman had been arrested. but
this was denied by Capt. Price and Capt.
MoClusky. He was not to be found by reporters
Edward Connolly. captain OF the Delaware
and Hudson canal barge 3.005. told the police
yesterday that between 10 and 80 o'clock
Saturday night he was on the deck OF his barge.
which is lying at the foot OF West Thirteenth
street. when he saw a woman. who had pre-
viously been talking to q man on the street.
walk out on the pier alone. When she got
about twenty yards out from the shore, he
said. he saw her throw out her hands as though
she was hurting something in the water. he
heard a splash Immediately afterward. aud
then saw the woman run down the pier as fast
as she could 90. Connolly described the woman
rs OF medium height and slender. He couldn't
make out her features at all.
Mrs Anna futile OF rs Charles street called
at tho Morgue last night and said that she was
positive that the body was that OF her daughter
Frances. who. she thought. had goue away with
a life insurance agent last week. Capt. Nc
Clusky sent a man to investigate the story,
who reported that no did not think there was
William THOMPSON. a master stopecutter
from Troy. went to the Moraue and said be