The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-09-19

Passaic. When it was found the tide
was extremely low, and the bottom OF
the canal almost entirely exposed. The
body lay face upwards about half way
between the bank nearest the plank road
and the centre of the cut One leg
was drawn up in an almost perpendicular
position and the long golden hair which
adorned Mrs. Pulitzer's head was lying
across her right shoulder and reaching
down over her head. The body was,
entirely without clothing and tied around
the waist was three-quarter of an
inch wide leather strap, about six feet
six inches in length, with snap slip at
tached to either end, and one of these
clips was snapped into the ring of a
twenty pound carriage weight placed
directly in the middle of the woman's
body.
When the morgue keepers arrived, they
were puzzled at first as to what means to
pursue to get the body ashore, as it was
impossible to walk out to it. A rope
was procured and stone weighing about
three pounds attached to one end. That
ing the rope in, the stone caught under
the body and it was gradually shifted
around within reach and hauled up on
the bank. The body was in what APP
peared at first to be terrible state of
decomposition; but when brought to the
morgue, as it was Immediately, and the
mud washed off, the exact contrary
proved true. 1t was in a remarkably
good state of preservation.
As the body was taken from the Water,
a little knot of employees of the Traction
Company gathered and watched with
bated breath the gruesome sight as the
mud covered body was slowly dragged
ashore. When the gaping wound in the
left side of the abdomen was discovered,
the little group fell back in horror.
Quickly placing the body ON the wagon
it was driven off, and sigh of relief
went up from those who unnecessarily
witnessed the horrible sight
MEANS OF APPROACH.
There are three approaches to that
portion of the Plank Road bordering on
with little or no suspicion being excited
if the vehicle carrying the body were not
of extraordinarily odd manufacture.
These two approaches are by way Of the
two bridges, one from Newark over the
Passaic and the other from Jersey City
over the Hackensack. Constantly during
the day, and at night with diminished
numbers, wagons and carriages of all or
dinary makes, of all sizes and all colors,
pass to and from Jersey City. A wagon
about midnight being driven over either
one of the bridges could be halted for
fully ten minutes between the bridges
without the fact being noticed.
The third approach is one that is
known to but few residents of this city,
but which would have been the surest
route to reach the spot where the body
was found without running any risk of
being seen. This route is by what is
known to those familiar with this sec
tion of the county as the river road.
1t is road running from a point about
100 feet above the Hackensack bridge
to the Harrison turnpike road, which it
runs into at the railroad bridge of the
D., L. & w. railroad. This road is sell
dom used and a rig going out over the
turnpike road could readily enter the
river road and leave it gain the plank
road without anyone seeing it on dark
night. The road is seldom used except
by the wagons which carry the dead ami
mails to the reducing plant situated on
the meadows.
The heavy rain which fell prior to the
discovery of the body yesterday, obliter-
ated all tracks which might have been
made on Wednesday night by WI von
passing over this road A