The times., 1899-10-10
SOLVING THE MYSTERY.
The Various CIeyys to New York,s
Horrible Murder

Horrible Murder.
NEW YORK, Oct 9-Another fragment
the right thigh of the woman who was
killed and cut to pieces in this city last
week.-Mrs. been accounted for, but the po-
lice have not yet got it. Police Captain
Schmittberger, of the West Twentieth
Street station. notified Captain MsCiuskey
at Police Headquarters tonight hat he AMI
the detectives had obtained important in
formation from Mrs. Billings, wife of the
janitor of fat house at 221 West Fiftee1tl
Street
Early Friday morning Mrs. B llings W, Mt
into the area way and saw in the ash can
bundle wrapped in paper. She began to
rip off the paper and inside was large
piece Of flesh with a big bone running
through Ii appeared to weigh about ten
or twelve pounds. 1t had been sawed at
both ends. She did not examine it ragtic-
ularly, as she supposed it was a piece
of spoiled meat that somebody was anxious
to get rid of. She pushed il down deeper
into the ashes and covered it up so tat
the street cleaning man would be sure
to carry it away. 1t was removed that
morning and was taken with the rest OF
the ashes to the dump at the foot o. West
Sixteenth Street. When she read Of the
murder she Immediately thought OF the
flesh that she had seen in the ASH can and
hunted up the papers. She took them from
the box and saved them for the police.
The papers were taken to Police Headqr ar
ters.
From some other points in the descrip-
ton given of the fragment Captain Nc
Cluskey said 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. Schmittberger sent a
number of his policemen to the dump at
the foot of West Sixteenth Street and they
began digging through the ashes. He
hoped that the piece would be found before
morning.
While going over the paper and cord of
| the bundle on which the second fragment OF
the body was found Captain Price found
| today reddish eolored hair, about ten
| inches long. Captain Price will save the
| hair, as it may become a clew. Ii il was
| in the original bundle he says it means one
| of two strange things, either that the
! murdered woman had red hair or some
| woman who was concerned in the killing
| or packing up of the remains had red hair.
| The police regard the coal dust in the
| twine with which both bundles were tied
and the chips and splinters of wood in the
| bundles as the only real c-ew that they
| have. The detectives say that it might
indicate any one of many things. the
most reasonable suggestion being that the
| bundles were tied up in a cellar where
| there was both coal and wood
/, One of the reports received by the police
| today, to which they are paying particular
attention. came from David H. Hiergesel
| of Brooklyn. This man said that his wife
eloped about six weeks ago with a boarder
in her house, whose name he gave, a gate
man employed at the Fourteenth Street
| ferry TO Hoboken. He understood that the
| gateman was back at work again, but he
had been unable to find out anything about
| his wife 1t was reported several times that
| the gateman had been arrested, but this is
| denied by Captain McCluskey. William
| Thompson, a master stone cutter from TrOy
went TO the morgue and said he thought the
woman might be his wife. There were sew
eral other alleged identifcations with NO
| definite result.