The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-13
MYSTERY NAY BE CLEARED.
MORE PIECES or THE MrTI..ITED
BODY FOUSU YESTERDAYS
Identification Sow Possible -- Arm with
Tattoo Marks Picked In In One plnce
and the Jpper Part of the Trunk, with
Apart of the Head Attached, In Another,

Ci Wnlch was 1HNnI on saturday on The bay
shore NJ Bay Rige. They have all Che body
now but the feet and tks lower portion ri the
two legs and the ton Of the head from the M
r"r rHit " the nose. There is enough OF the
bod" - make positive Identification possible
nn!, II th1 man va y landsmun. the body IL
HS"lN tn b. idontiheI'at any time II he To-
lowed 'he sen. as the police think 1t is most
likely his identity may never I've established
The first PORTION Of the body found yes.
tcrday was floating IN ;hc way near Forty-sc,.
omd street South Brooklyn. 1t was seen Is
men working on shin. and they notified the
police OF the Forty third street station. who
went out in a rowbCat and recovered II. "
Wnn taken to the station. where a Dr. Hart was
called In to exa mine it. It was the upper Dor.
zion o. the body with the right arm missing
md the lowar portion Ct the head and face
The man had heavy light brown mustache.
Tho part OF the body found contained the
lungs DR.. Hart after his examination. which
vas not very careful one. said that lie did not
case 10 EXPRESS an opinion about what may
have caused the mans death or what may
have mutiated the body. The police made
u careful examination, too, and then they said
that. in their opinion. the mutlatiOn was the
work Il the propeller OF a steamship The Dor-
ton u the body was sent TO the Morgue. where
il was fitted 10 the trunk Of the body found on
Saturday. and II was plain that the two he
lOngel together. Inc MOTEue keeper. VINO Is
a man Of experience. said. after the pieces had
been placed together. that the man had been
about o.feet 8 or 10 inches tall. and that he
had weighed possibly 100 or POO pounds. liz
thought from the examinatio of the left hand
that the man was laboring man. The fin
gers were large. The hand was very large.
aud the skin had been rough. great deal OF
II had been peeled off by the effect Of the water.
THE finger nails were unusually large and had
nv. 4
that there was no question IL his mind ABOUT
the mans station In life. He thought It likely
that the man might have been n sailor.
A little while after he had expressed this
opinion There came along the second find OF the
day and it seemed TO sustain the idea that the
man was probably n sailor. 1t vas the miss.
ing arm. 1t had been picked up by the police
Of the Hamilton avenue station at the entrance
OF Buttermilk Channel. The arm had on it
some tattoo marks that are the most likely
thing to lead to the Identification. On the
hand between the thumb and foreflnger there
was tattooed an anchor. 1t WAS an inch and
u half long and no. quite so broad. There was
an anchor rope wound around the anchor..the
end reaching below the fiukes On the fore.
arm there was a crucilX and over it, in the
shape OF a crescent. we're eight stars On each
side OF the crucidx was the picture OF bread
fruit tree The cruciHx was perhap threenches
long. ne Stars eAtenueu across the forearm.
The trees were shorter than the crucilx.
But the most interesting thing about the
arm 70 the police and the least interesting to
the yellow journals. which have been endeavor
1nS.to make the case a second Gle ldsensuprs
shirt. The sleeve covered all the portion Of
the arm found and the upper edge Of 1t was
been cut up. as The yeows said. then the cut tut
ting had been done with the undershirt on.
as q The q 5o avn oSnd 'sf o' other oF
thsugM ths n9ltce made de- careful search along
Halt a dozen detectives examined the body
ion, They said they wanted the doctors to eV.
amineit. Several doctors did come in ana eX-
heals. one or two OF these doctors were in the
employs OF the yellow Journals. and they e3-
ance with yellow IDEAS. In 70 case, however.
dnd the doctors ,, make max a careful examination
careful examination was made BY the Coro-
ners' physicians OF this borough and OF Brook
F mt w Sns Rn e Of s BODY
had been done by the raddlewheels OF ferry
t9atT and the pr4pel!ers OF st cam M
42d 9ss9 doing more Hs than usual
mus, have been inflicted with knife in the
hand. ri some person acquainted with hu-
man anatomy, were not straight; smoo;h
were all torn. and the homes at every cut spot
we're Broken; There was not sign anywhsr'
mem srea was broken, The bone sroiragded
Tbs were broken on; The baGk6ome va;
been broken. and hot cut. The top Of the
heal had been torn and was not cut Tiers
sxanined as many a. fi,y splinters, OF, bono;
In act II. would seem that II the body had
been mutildted by human being as the Sel-
he work M uSt q
matIet. and not with knife, saw or al axe
bad been III the water at least forty eight
hours. How much longer they would not say.
but could not have been there more, then
man had been murdered. they said OF course
Il Was possible that he had been murdered,
hand, and the mutilation was the result.of zen.
counters with objects n the water, such a.
did not satisfy the yellows was evidenced by
the fact that after II was over their photog-
rapherE had the MorRue keeper pose tho
rous portions and they took numerous pic
lures.
naohofa mystery as ever, He ma have senons
OF half dozen men who are reported as !ssing
w 'ss RHGS Saf SsS ne
ing or outgoing shp aud WAS drowned and torn
NJ by the rrorelier of his cwn ship or OF some
$spasi F: 6fsiiiy; he S yntsooer 2, : Chat A.,
tatt6oing OF the cruclix had evidently been
done by a Burmese OF South Sea Islands tat
tooer.
The work vas not done In this country" he
said. and that is sure. anyway. It was done
well but with rude i'm elements. From what
havS'seen Of :tattooinG should:say that the
man was Catholic. because Of the tqttooed
because he had an anchor tattooed on his
hnnd, but because hiS hand vas Saonsed in in
had soaked OF in the water, Tho trees tat
tooed at the side OF the crucihx were what We
call bread fruit trees and that is aIothec indi-
cation Of Burmese or South Sea Islands work,
The blue ink Is another sign.
The anchor had evidently been tnttooed
several years before the.crucihX and was not
the work Of the same sort OF man. That was
nshhook style
Q'Reiy also said that he thought the man
had weighed over 200 pounds and tina, he was
NOT more than 80 wears old
Tho police were notified last night to lOOk
for Ii fourteen foot Nat bottomed sktH belong
ing 10 Charles w Riley. hoatman ~ Coney
Island. Riley's bonthouse il at the Nassau
Railroad bridge, over Coney Island Crock On
Thursday morning, according to Riley, a dark
Commissioned. heavy built man hired the