The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-09-19
Chief Murphy, was as follows:--

Chief Murphy, was as follows:--
Il met my wife about five years ago.
l became acquainted with her through
a street Irritation which was practically
a solicitation on her part. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that knew she was way
ward woman, / took fancy to her and
shortly afterwards married her. and we
lived happily until last Tuesday night
when she disappeared Previous to mar
rying my wife, was engaged in the
merchant tailoring business with my
brother on Broadway, opposite the st.
Clair Hotel.
'Last Tuesday / acted as a captain
at the twenty Assembly District
primaries for the Greater New York
Democracy. / returned home about
eleven O'Clock. My wife was at home
when / reached the house and we de-
cided to have light lunch. We needed
a box of cocoa and some fruit, and /
was to go for the cocoa and my wife for
the fruit. Before leaving the house, my
wife removed gold chatelaine watch
and four rings which she was wearing,
but kept ON her wedding ring and pair
of three-fourths carat diamond earrings.
STRANGE MAN STORY.
"While conversing, previous to start
ing, my wife told me that she had gone
to Mock's restaurant, on Forty-second
street, for dinner We had been in the
habit of dining there. She told me that
when she left the restaurant to COME
home a strange man had accosted her
and offered her all kinds of money to
20 with him to his fat. She did not
say where it was. She refused to go
and we laughed over the matter.
''We then started for the stores and
she never came back.
THE next morning went to the Fifty
seventh street court to make inquiries for
her. but could find no trace of her."
Chief Murphy at this point asked
Pulitzer why he went to the court instead
of the police station, and if his wife had
ever been arrested Pulitzer answered
yes, that his wife had been arrested for
soliciting and he thought she might pos
sibly have been arrested again.
THE DISCOVERY.
He resumed his narrative and said
''The next -yesterday,-I went to
Police Headquarters and gave descrip-
tion of my wife, asked the police to
look for her. This evening | read an
account of the finding of the body of
a murdered woman. 1t seemed to be
like her. Calling up the morgue, at this
place, found that the description of the
body held here tailed with that of my
wife. / telephoned to her parents at
Perth Amboy and, l think, they will be
here tonight. I know no more about the
affair than you do"
At the beginning of the examination,
which lasted over two hours, the two
women, who had arrived in the ham
som, refused to give their names, but,
later. the elder said her name was Mrs.
Mortimer and she lived at No. 146 West
Forty-sixth street. The younger woman
answered to the name of Miss Rose and
is an inmate of the house of which Mrs.
Mortimer is the proprietress. They said
they also had read of the case in an even
ing paper, and knowing that Mrs.
Pulitzer was missing, had come over to
see if they could identify the body as
hers.
The young man who accompanied
Pulitzer to the morgue was Thomas
Fleming, stepson of Mrs. Eva Flem-
ing, who let a furnished room to the
Pulitzers about month ago.