Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-10
Another Link in the Murder Mystery
at New York.
HEAD and ARMS STILL MISSING
Find of Today Picked Up on
Staten Island Beach.
POLICE HAVE SLIGHT CLUE

NEW YORK, October 10.-1nterest In the
murder mystery growing out of the finding
of the left thigh of a womans body III
West 18th street last Saturday was greatly
increased today by the recovery this morn
ing of what Is believed to be another por-
ton of the same body on the beach at
Quarantine station, Staten Island.
John Heineman, twelve years old, Wh1le
walking along the beach at Quarantine at
I O'Clock this morning, picked up pack
age wrapped in newspapers and mania
wrapping paper He opened 1t and found
piece of woman's body, from the waist to
the neck. He reported the find to DR..
Doty, the state health officer, who made an
investigation and reported that the nesh
seemed quite fresh and appeared to have
been in the water but a short time. There
was a cut about two inches long over the
right breast but this was merely flesh
wound, and, DR.. Doty said. did not indicate
the cause of death. The cuts in the neck
were jagged, showing that the head had
probably been hacked off, and the arms
had been cut off close to the shoulders in a
clumsy manner
Police Take 1t In Charge.
The police were notified and took charge
of the find at once, and removed it to police
headquarters, whence it was taken to the
morgue for comparison with the parts of a
woman's 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 of to the city dumps
A name that locks like -. ]. Neuman'
and the laundry mark u. ]. N. 49, were
discovered this morning on one OF the white
skirts In bundle Of clothing found In the
basement of 213 West 18th 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 AMI
a little blurred. The y. ]. NJ Of the
laundry mark is distinct, however, and is
expected TO lead to the identification of the
owner. 1t will then be easy to learn
whether or not she was connected in any
way with the crime.
Case Involved in Mystery.
Chief of Detectives McClusky said this
morning that the case was as complete a
mystery as ever: that no point which would
go toward establishing Identification had
been made, and that that was the first
thing necessary. Ii was true, he said, that
a number Of clues had been run down. but
the case stands just as it did at the first
finding Of the part of the body.
Capt. McClusky thinks the clothes found
last night at 219 West 18th street have nc
bearing on the case. In his opinion the
bundle was left where it was found by a
frightened thief. Even with the portion of
the body found off Quarantine Captain Nc
Clusky thinks identification will be almost
Impossible unless the head should be found
The fragment of the womans body
found at quarantine was examined at the
morgue by Coroner's Physician Weston,
who says it undoubtedly belongs with the
other two portions there. He says they fit
exactly. The newly found part contained
the heart lungs and portions of the stom
aoh. The detectives say there is cut over
the heart which they believe to be a stab
wound