The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-05
THE THREE DEAD B1BES.
A Car Conductor Corroborates the Story
Told by John Engel.

The police made little headway yesterday in
discovering who had left the bodies of the
three children that were found IN Maurice's
woods. at Maspeth l.. l.. on Saturday. Capt.
Creeden of the Newtown police station found a
motorman employed on the Grand street line,
running from the Broadway ferry to North
Beach. who corroborated the story told the
police on Saturday by John Enge, a saloon
keeper in the neighborhood
The motorman's name is John Bloss He
told the police that at o'clock on Friday night
he saw two men get of the car within 800 feet
OF where the bodies were found. One OF them
was carrying a bag or a large bundle. he wasn't
sure which The men were Of dark complexion
and locke like Polish Jews. One was dressed
in dark suit and the other wore light cloth
ing. They were both young. He said he never
saw either OF them before.
Capt Creeden also noticed that the copy OF
the World that was wrapped about one of the
bodies was a Brooklyn edition. This. he
thinks. rather demolishes the theory that the
bodies were left in the woods by an undertaken
from the east side in Manhattan. Mr. EnGel
said yesterday that the two men he had seen
on Friday night entering the woods with a
bundle must live some distance away from
Maspeth as he knew everybody that lived in
that vicinity. Detective Granville of the New
York Detective Bureau called at the Ncwtown
be"1nr ss and % ke1 Sths
lead pencil note that had been found on one of
the bodies.
II have postponed the in9uest. for two, or
because want to give the police every chance
to find something. There is no doubt that two
OF the children were strangled to death. II the
police don't discover who left the bodies there,
January the body Of baby with rope around
its, neck was found in, this vicinity, and the
police have done. nothing ahou il. Within
a year over thirty bodies Of children have been
lence. Those that did not clearly show this
were SO badly decomposed that no one was
able to tell how they died, Six years ago a
a, short. distance from. Maurice's woods. It's
about time this thing stops"
An attempt yesterday to FOLLOW, the clue Of
f"red by the nenclled message. Fl. Ridley Il
nors." which was written on one OF tho pieces
Of paper in the package, led to nothing posi-
tive. Joseph Hcckler,of 59S East l4;'d street,
chief clerk in the RECEIVING department Of Rid
covcd from outside pass: George Roden Of
t93 East l44th street. the examiner who han
dies al freight and express parcels. and Charles
s.. John Of 40 Market street. who is in
9f all packages made UNI in the store
itself. are all positive that they know no one
named Connors or j. T. Knox. and none of
them remembers handling a package marked
with either Of those names II was suggested
as possible that package 30 marked might
have contai ned samn es sent in in advance OF
the call of some salesman and opened and
their contents exhibited by him later. In such
cases the packages are usually rewrapped
The store makes a practice OF using old wrap
ping paper anyway. 80 that the value OF tho
paper clue is not very great. Old paper is
nearly always used in doing UP hardware.
crock and such articles