Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-12
nEADLESS BODY FOUND
Horrible Murder Revealed In New
York Bay.
LIKE GULDENSUPPE CASE
Head, Arms and Parts of Legs Miss
ing-The Limbs Evidently Chopped
on With Heavy Instruments.
Police Looking For Clews.

New York, June officiating In Oh
the food tide from the Narrows Satur-
day came to the Crescent Athletic club
pier at Bay Ridge the body of man
who had been murdered within "A hours
1t was headless and armless, and both
legs had been cut off just below the knee.
As surely as William Guldensuppe
was killed and his body cut into pieces
and thrown into the water so surely did
this headless and armless human trunk
that the Brooklyn police now have meet
his death by foul means and at the hands
Of murderers, who cut and hacked his
corpse afterward, thinking to dispose of
all evidences of their crime. The muir
derers initiated Martin Thorn and Mrs.
Augusta Mack in Remembering the body
Of their victim.
The body is that of man who in life
was large and powerful perhaps 30 or
35 years old broad chested muscular,
in good health and fine physical condi-
ton. He stood perhaps s feet II inches
in his stockings. He was a man who
looked all his inches when sitting in a
chair. His legs were short, but from
the waist up he was magnihcently devel-
oped.
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His skin was white and firm, and there
was not mark or scar, a mole or blem-
ish on him when alive between armpit
and knee. The heavy growth of black
hair on his chest and legs shows that he
was of dark complexion. Perhaps his
hair was jet black, perhaps a dark
brown. 1t was not light or red or sandy.
The murderers, after killing this
brawny man, set about cutting up his
body precisely as the Guldensuppe as
sassins did. The head, arms and shout
ders, as well as the feet are still miss
ing, but it is more than probable that
the head was cut off first. Then the arms
were severed at the shoulder, and then
the great cut was made which detectives
| and medical experts will study with care.
From an examination of the headless
trunk made in the Brooklyn morgue it
seems likely that no saw or surgeon s
knife was used in ACKNOWLEDGMENT. but
that a heavy, sharp knife and broad
cleaver or Ratchet were the tools used by
| the murderous butchers.
| The trunk WAS cut off just below the
armpits. The big, sharp knife made a
clean cut across the chest and then plow-
ed through the body, cutting off ribs. the
| brea stbone and the backbone. EXAMINE
| tion of the severed back bone shows con-
| clusively that a sharp knife or cleavel
| was used and not Il saw.
Met Guldensuppe's Fate.
The protruding end of the spinal col
umn is rough and a bit jagged. This cut
| is almost the same as was made Oh Gull
densuppe's body by the Thorn Mack pail
| II, ho ~ np at WnnJciIo Tho opl1, dtr
| ference is that it was made about one
inch lower on the breast, so that the nip
pies do not show OH the body that was
found yesterday. Like the work of the
Guldensuppe murderers. too, was the
| first attempt to cut off the legs.
The body has a deep cash made by :
cleaver or Ratchet on the back of the
right leg just above the knee. The stec'
split the bone, and the broken femur is
held in place only by the flesh and liga-
ments surrounding it. When this cut
was made the corpse was lying on its
stomach. 1t is evident that the murder
ers changed their minds suddenly, how
ever, for the leg was not broken off at
this point. as was done in the Gulden
suppe case. On the contrary. the murder
crs turned the body over on its back and
set to work with their knife and Ratchet
or cleaver just below the knees. An inch
below the kneecap the skin was cut clean
around. and then the bone was chopped
or hacked down to almost point. The
same operation was performed on both
legs.
Simply Hacked Away.
There is not the slightest indication
that the murderer or murderers were
familiar with anatomy or accustomed
wen to cutting animal carrasses Their
is no evidence Of any intention to per-
form the butchery even neatly. One Leg
is cut off about three inches lower than
the other.
The fact that it had not been in the
water longer than ~ houEs inclines tn,
police to believe that it came originally
from the East river, though there is a
possibility that it came around Staten
Island from some point on the New joy
sey shore. 1t did not come from Coney
Island. Those familiar with the vagaries
of the tides said that it would take five
days floating back and forth for bod,
to work up from Conveys beach, through
the Narrows and into the cove at Owls
Head, where the Crescent clubs summer
home is.