The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-10
ANOTHER CHASTITY FIND.
MURDERED WONAN'S RIGHT THIGH
IN 18TH STREET ASH CAN.

Told to tho Police Until Yesterday
Woman's Petticoats Found Next Door
The Flesh Went to the Ash Dump.
Another fraRment-the right thigh-of the
| woman who was killed and cut to pieces In
this city last week has been accounted
for. but tho police have not got 1t yet.
Police Captain Schmittberger OF the
West Twentieth street station notified
Capt McClusky at Police Headquarters
last night that he and his detectives had
got this information from Mrs. Billings wife
OF the janitor OF fiat house at 22l West Fiji
| teenth street.
At $3.50 o'clock on Friday morning Mrs.
Billings went into tho areaway and saw In the
ash can bundle wrapped In paper, She
knew that tho bundle had not been In
the can when she set 1t out before going to
bed the night before and this Is what attracted
her attention to It. She was afraid to leave
tho bundle In the ash can. MS the ordinance
against mixing paper and ashes is strictly en-
F.! forced.
She began to rip of the paper. The
first wrapping was OF manila paper
Then came a COPY OF an Italian paper
Inside Of this was copy Of the
| journal OF Oct. g. All OF those wrappngs
were bloody. Inside the Journal was large
piece OF flesh with big bone running through.
1t appeared to weigh about 10 or II pounds.
1t had been neatly sawed at both ends, She
did not examine IT, particularly as she supposed
that It was piece OF spoiled meat that some
body was anxious to get rid Of
| She pushed IL down deeper into tho ashes
and covered It up 30 that the street cleaning
man would be sure to carry 1t away. 1t was
removed that morning and was taken with the
| rest OF the ashes to the dump at the foot OF
| West Sixteenth street
Mrs. Billings put the wrappings In the box In
| which shc kept old papers. Luckily. the paper
| wagon did not come around to the house and
| when she read OF tho murder she immed-
! lately thought OF the flesh that she had in
the ash can and went to the box and hunted
| up the rapers. She took them from the box
and saved them for tho police. The rarers
were taken to police headquarters last night.
From some other points In the desert ption
| given OF the fragment found In the ash can.
| Capt. McClusky said last night that there was
| no doubt that this was the murdered woman's
! right thigh. The left thigh. similarly wrapped.
| was found In West Seventeenth street twenty
| four hours later.
Capt. SchmittberGer said that Mrs. Billings
| had told her husband when she went into the
house. after hiding the fragment OF the
body under the ashes. that some one had put
part Of a human body In their ash can and that
she had hidden 1t. She had not reported the mat
| ter to the police but he had heard Of 1t. Capt.
| Schmittberger sent a mum ber OF his policemen
to the dump at tho foot OF West Sixteenth
street and they began digging through the
ashes. He hoped that the piece would be found
before morning. Central Office Detectives Nc
| CafYerty and McKenna went to the offal dock at
the foot Of West Nineteenth street.
| They raksd over the bones and meat picked
out by Italians for a contractor who max es
soap fat. After an hours work. they had found
nothing.
| Tho Italians declared that they had forgotten
the contractors name. but said that he called
every morning between 3 and 5 O'Clock. The
detectives fear that the contractor carried
away this fragment on Saturday. Sunday or
| yesterday morning.
Meanwhile tho Fifteenth street house WINS
| ransncked by twenty detectives. About mid
night. Capt. schmittberger found a bundle
| In the rear OF the basement at 219. next
door He opened It and found that It con-
| tanned four pettiooats and one small petticoat.
such as would be worn by girl OF 10. The
| garments were all In a good state OF repair
and Capt. sehmittberger thought 1t strange
that they should be bundled up and put In
such an out-of-the way part OF tho house. as
they were too good to throw away.
The janitor said that tho bundle had been
found on the dunn bwaiter at tho top Of the
house on Sunday morning. Every tenant
! in tho house denied all knowledge Of
the bundle and he believed that some
one had entered the basement at night. put
the package on the dunn bwaiter and then
pulled 1t up to the top OF the house.
From the finding OF these pettcoats." said
Capt. schmittberger. and the knowledge tina t
| ono fragment OF the body was in this same
block. I am forced to the conclusion that the
probably on that block.
Il hope that am mistaken. but I am afraid
I'm not am going to start house-to- house
search In the morning. and am going to have
all the sewers examined"
Tho detectives failed to connect with the
case any Of the women reported missing. Pre-
tended identincations OF the unidenthable
fragments at the morgue began to multiply so
that at O'Clock last night Deputy Coroner
Weston. who wishes to keep the remains In
tho best possible condition. gave orders that
no more persons were to be allowed to SEQ
them unless sent to the morGue for that pur-
Dose by the police
Capt. Price directed the work OF the corps OF
detectives from tho West Thirtieth street sta
ton. Precisely the same line OF investigation
was followed as on Sunday. The house to-
house search through the precinct was con-
tinusd without discoveries. Capt. Price is
still satisfied that tho murder was committed
In his precinct and tho region Is swarming
with detectives.
Ono thing I feel satisfied OF now"
said Capt. Price. before news OF the third
find came. and that is that no more Of
that body has been disposed Of yet. l felt sure
yesterday that the murderers had only Just
begun to distribute the remains when the two
fragments were found You can make up your
mind that those concerned in this crime are
Watching US pretty closely. and it's not reason
able to believe that they are going to take any
chances. At tho same time they must get rid
OF the rest Of that body. Now what are they
going to do about III I'll stake my reputation
rs an officer that they can't drop any more
bundles In the street or In the river without
being caught. mot only are policemen
afoat and along the shore. but every
citizen whose business keeps him on either
river front are on the lookout We have
searched ash heaps and garbage piles.
and every imaginable place on land and can t
help believing that the rost OF that body 10 still
in the place whore It was cut up"
While going over the m mar and nord ~ ba