The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-10
MORE OF The BODY FOUND.
A Boy at Quarantine Finds
Part Of the
Trunk.

NEW YORK, October 20, 1S99.-Interest
In the murder mystery growing out of the
finding of the left thigh OF Woman's
body in West Seventeenth street, last
Saturday, was greatly increased today by
the recovery this morning OF what is be-
lieved to be another portion of the same
body at Quarantine Station, Staten
Island. John Heinemann. II year Old
boy. while walking along the beach at
Quarantine at seven o'clock this morning
picked up package wrapped in newspa-
pers and manila wrapping paper. He
opened it and found a piece of a. wom-
ans body from the waist to the neck.
He reoorted the ffnd to DIR. Doty,
health officer. who made an Investigation
and reported that the flesh seemed quite
fresh and appeared to have been in the
water. but a short time There was cl1l
about two inches long over the r@ignt @
breast, but this was merely nesn
wound, and DR.. Doty said did not indi-
cate THE cause Of DEATH The doctor says
this portion of the body is the upper part
had never been mother. The cuts in
the neck were jagged, showing that the
head had probably been hacked on, and
the arms had been cut OF close to the
shoulders in clumsy manner.
The police were notified and took charge
of the find at once. They removed the
body to police headquarters whence 1t
was taken to the morgue for comparison
with the parts of a womans body already
there.
The parts of the body now missing are
the head, the arms, the legs from above
the knee down, and the right thigh, which
was found but carted off to the city
dumps.
A name that looks like 81 J. Neuman"
ana the fSis mar5ng marx on ths
white skirts in a bundle of clothing found
in the basement of No 2ls West Fifteenth
street. This house is next door TO the
areaway in which stood the ash can where
the right thigh of the murdered woman
was found.
The letters forming the name are not
distinct. They are partly washed out and
laundry mark is distinct. however. and is
expected to lead to the Identification OF
the owner. 1t will then be aSy to learn
whether or not she was connected in any
Chief of Detectives McC1usky said this
morning that the case was as complete
mystery as ever, that no point which
would go toward establishing fdentiftca-
tion had ben made, and that that was the
first thing necessary. 1t was true, he said,
that numbeh of clues had been run
down, btu the & eose stands Jqst tns as bna II dad
He said further that he had men search
ing every conceivable place for evidence
of crime having been committed
1t IS quite pOSSipde, ne StiIu tAdt tue
murder if such it was, had not been com
mitted in New York City at all, but that
ii had been done in some other city and
the parts of the body brought here. Cap
tain McCiusky thinks the clothes found
Street have no bearing on the case. In.
his opinion the bundle was left where 1t
was found by frightened thief Even
with the portion Of the body found on
Quarantine Captain McClusky thinks
Identification will be almost impossible
unless the head should be found
The police of Brooklyn found human
skull. with the top sawed on, this morn
irg 1t was picked up in a lot near
Washington avenue and Montgomery
street The skull had been preserved In
alcohol for a time. A portion OF the flesh
Of the lower part of the face still adj
hered to the bones. Part of the windpipe
also remained. The New York police were
notified and they sent detectives to inves-
figate the Brooklyn find.