The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-09-19
Mutilated Body Of a Handsome
Tenderloin Woman Found in
the Canal Near the
Plankroad.

had last seen in perfect health and good
spirits, he cried: MY God. it is she, !"
and sank to the floor in a fainting con-
dition.
Pulitzer arrived at the morgue with a
friend, Thomas Shields, and was led to
the room in which his wifes body lay by
Deputy Morgue Keeper Henry Griffith.
Shields and Griffith assisted the man to
another room. He was for the moment
a nervous wreck.
Just as the three men left the room
in which the body lay, a hanson cab
drove un to the front door and two sty-
Iishly dressed women alighted and en-
tered. Seeing Pulitzer, they rushed for
ward and he exclaimed, ITS Annie!''
THE DEAD WOMAN.
The body thus identified by Pulitzer
was that of woman twenty-six years of
age, feet 2 inches in heighth, well
formed and weighing 120 pounds. The
hair was of a light golden color, about
one foot and half in length and of fine
texture. The eyes were grey with heavy
lashes. A long full nose and rather
large mouth with a thick under lip were
striking features. The face was more
circular in shape than oval, and was fill
ed out as though the dead woman had
been used to good living. The hands
were soft and we'll shaped with long
slender fingers, and gave no evidences of
bard work ever having been performed
by them. The feet were small and we'll
shaped with the exceptions of corn on
the inner side of the large toe on the
right foot. The upper teeth were~all
missing and from the condition of the
gums it was evident they had been ex-
tracted considerable time ago. The
lower teeth were in good condition. No
false teeth were found anywhere along
the plank road, nor could they be seen
lying ON the mud at the bottom of the
canal.
County Physician Charles B. Converse
made superficial examination of the
body during the course of the evening,
and stated that the woman had been
dead for about two days, but had not
been in the water for any great length of
time The wounds on the body were de-
scribed by him as being fracture of the
skull about two inches above the left
temple. severe bruise on the right side
of the forehead and bruise on the left
cheek, evidently from blow from some
ones fist. There was also a cash five
inches in length in the left side of the
abdomen, running downward from the
medium line from left to right from
which the intestines protruded. Either
the fracture of the skull or the wound in
the abdomen might have caused death.
But the abdominal wound would not
have necessarily caused speedy death.
When the body was taken from the
canal it had fastened to it twenty
pound weight such as is commonly used
to prevent horses walking away when
unattended. The weight bore the name,
in raised letters, of the Covert Manufac-
turing Co., and it was attached to the
body by a regular hitching or tie strap,
wrapped around the body twice just
above the hips and tied in a hard knot
in the middle of the back. The weight
was bSbught close to the body When
being removed, the strap had to be cut
about six inches from the weight, in or
der to unite the knot When the strap
was removed slight mark was evident
where it had compressed the skin and
flesh around the waist