The sun., 1899-10-09

street was deserted
Fragment iuNn rt"r OF the b6iy Henry, Rnmpr q 40
West Eehtsenth street the h6ye1pSS IRA q cbs 69y
went down 70 the pier At the i9ot ot West We,
night TOT to sh with a drop line, had been
fishing almost two hours and had cann T. IN
snI m2'H foHHd HS TS That coSldnt pull i in ,withui
breaking either The t string & Or ,h tmG hook =, i
OF the wooden piles. but when | leaned owe
the strngrIece say that It was sooiInn around ths
srgdG Of sE ba"dS ESd f1t az Nn Mas eSy nsd ws
whirlng around and around.
"Of course wanted to get the bundle out OF
the water and see what was In II. 80 1went ur
the pier and got a boat hook, first tying my
line so the bundle couldn't lont away II took
around the cord but once got 1t there had
no trouble in getting the thing un: ! laid It NJ
SeR Seenr ~ that IrS It was % esH nsde dCeded eli d chat
didn'twant to see any more until got police
ri hed been oil alone on the p.ier w to this
time but wh@n tnrMrE o 70 20 aSr ts st,eGn1 eGh
beside me, Hs asked m" where ! got got tnn m
a, out II and an id was going after rocc-
man. He didn't say any more and left him
there. When came back with cop he was
gone. never saw the man before. but he mnv
have hcen one OF the watchmen around there.
There's a lot of Of thSm oa along the river front
'
Young Rnnlpf was sent away with a detective
TO try 10 find the man with the brown mus
The police didn't get a fair start. on the
casc until Yesterday morning. Chief Devery
tod Capt. Price that he could have tnl charge
and call for MS many men as he wanted. can't.
Price took tn. Chief at his worl aud said that
he wanted all the experienced detectives that
Tho Chief began bv sending a squad o; Gem
tral O(llre men to Can't Price and then began
cincts. Cant Price said he'd cover the entire
West Side @f the city tf,Capt McCIusEy would
cover the East Side and this arrangement was
agreed upon. In addition to that. Chief Devery
9rd"red three r4n" i, l2iun1ShGs 1S TO & go UP ani an,
W i was e eh en6mgh " a. and @ search sea- oF other
fragments of the b,oiy
making n house 10 house search in tho vicinity
o. West Seventeenth street. The detectives
inquired of eycrvnodv whether they had seen
inquired Tor missing women. They heard Of
not on III" records at Police Headquarters.
but, managed to run them all down before
night
:, The POLICE go, Load which promised great
things Mrs Hrnls., who keeps BOARDING.
h4 It Ncs W WbHm srss shs s2 haS as
pluved but had discharged. had dieappeareh
he dg,s%tiyC tr9Ge! th" N"}ssn ssn woman to lt2
there with n Mrs. Gleason. The latter said that
Altc" loft on THURSDAY night to take place on
Tho police went 10 the house indicated. but
the Neilsen woman had never been there. In
found n waste bneket in the hall on; side OF
was fow spots oi hiood she notified a police
man. In about ten minutes Cant Price with
five detectives was going through Mrs. Glea-
sons apartments lk" n cyclone. while that
good woman sat in n corner Shivcring with
Nothing vas found in tho place but the dctec-
ing: evnn going into the cellar and up on the
roof. Later in the, afternoon a detoctivc. who
street. found the Nescn woman wo"eing in q
hoarlinE-h house. CAPT. Frank Lund of the barge
K4Gk"rhofESr of BHth % M% wHGt has E""n
ternth street for the past weak. told one OF
Cant Prices detectives that while he was coil.
r and q O'Clock Saturday morning. n single
furniture wagon camo rapidly down Seven
tennth street and drove out little way on the
pier.
a man got off Of the front scat md after wan
the wagon. turned his horse around md drove
nwar. \ pile OF bricks on the nier concealed
wc SssRn R n@@ the rv"r 2na be
bind thIs pile h,,d and ,ss ou, OF his siGh. .As
mnn m " "unGadSd nothing g" from m' ihe s wagon. At At
= o'clock the man and the furn iture van came
down Seventeenth street again. The driver
cam" OUT on the pier once more but for no ap-
parent object. for after walking around for
awhile. he drove away without having unloaded
German. about 30 years Of age, and Of medium
height. He had sandy or rod moustache and
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ture wagon. on the side Of which was printed
wagon was drawn by Il medium sized bnv
hors"
aCnr. Price regards the information given bv
Cart Lund as extremely valuable. The conduct
OF the driver; he says, was very suspi,ious
and worth looking. into, in view OF the
jms three blocks south Of this polnt ON n' the
sam" day. II the driver is nm innocent man.
reads Of tho notice taken Of his condnct in the
papers. and explain what he was doing on the
Srvcnteenth street pier at such an hour in the
sin nnothcrclue which Capt Price il investi-
GcmG com bT WAS Smre co w ~ OF tn"
}" RG%"rs. The conductor saws that at o
o,rlork Wednesday morning two men got on
wrapped M in cory Of the World Tho men
acted Hueerly and he took particular notice OF
shifted his bundle around and the coniu"tor
saws that the bottom Of il was covered with rod
have been plood. wa. oozng out ~ tho parrr
The conductnr says thnt he woul know thc
men again il he he saw thom, He couldn't r"cs,
conductor on the Sixth avenue surface
rond was found Yesterday, who told a story OF
bringing two well dressed women, each one of
whom carrie n bundle wrapped M In newa-
,aG" paG"r mowrtown rhc between and > clock Sat
rersntion together all the way downtown the
conductor said.
One woman got OF the car Mt Fourteenth
strcef and the ot her rode 10 Fourth street The
women got on the car somewhere on Amster-
dam avenue. the conductor said The conduc-
tor will give descriptions Of the women to the
polio" to-day
Cant. Price explained his object In flooding
his precinct with detectives as follows:
Il don't want tn hrag. but from the first I
have had q feeling that quick action in this
case would result In the whole mystery being
solved within tortv-eight hours, anyway. may
be wrong. hut 1t sticks in my crop that
this murder was committed in my precinct
that It was rlan..cd here and that tho body was
cut M here cannot get it out OF my head
either that tho whole thing was done near 100
West Sey .nteenth street. where tho first frag-
mcnt Artho body was found
] have made diagram and am sure that
thnt body was cut into AT least ten pieces The
trunk was cut into three pieces, the arms
are two thighs, one, Of which we we
have. and the legs from the knees
down. making ten portions in all. Ny theory
IL that the murlercrs were lust beginning 10
get rid OF the fragments wEon we found the
first bundle II isn't reasonable to believe that
whoever left that bundle in front Of the Seven
teenth street house putt in such. nm exposed
place from choice. Why. il might have led
to his instant arrest. for thero was
nothing to prevent instant discovery OF thu
character Of the contents, No sir. the man who
was carrying it became frightened and threw
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