The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-04
POLICE HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO
UNEARTH ANYTHING.
In the Field Some Distance from
Where Miss Quinn Lay, the Club
with Which Her Skull Was
Crushed Was Found Yesterday,
and Her Yeast Bottle and Hair
Comb Were Also Picked Up-Au-
topsy Showed That the Skull Was
Terribly Crushed.

III the death of Miss Mary quinn early
yesterday morning.
With daylight yesterday the police
searched the field where Miss Quinn
lay when found, and its vicinity, but
were not rewarded with anything In
the nature of clue to the perpetra-
tors of the crime Some circumstances
connected with the crime suggest that
more than one person was engaged in
it.. but there Is nothing definite even
about this.
From the developments of yesterday
it is known that when Miss Quinn left
her home about Q o'clock Monday even-
ing, intending to go to house near
| the Hyde Park shaft for yeast. she
stopped at the home of a friend, Mary
Herrick. on Twenty-second street,
where she remained until after 10
| o'clock.
| She realized it was too late to obtain
| the yeast then and started towards
| her home. She walked out I.uzerne
| street to the Continental road leading
| towards her home and had reached a
point midway between the house and
| Luzerne street, when she was assault
| ed.
| HEAVY CLUB USED.
A struggle evidently ensued in the
roadway. when her assaiant felled her
! with heavy club. There is mark on
the road at this point as If a small
pool of blood had formed. The indi-
cations are that at least two blows
were inflicted with the club. Every
thing points to the fact that Miss
Quinn was partially carried and par
fioll ha
| through broken fence to the place in
the field sixty feet from the roadway
| where she was later found and where
she was in all probability outraged.
A comb from her hair and the money
which she was carrying to buy the
yeast were found in the road near
the break in the fence, as if they
had dropped at the first attack
Between this broken fence and the
point where the body lay is the clump
of bushes where her switch was found
Monday night. From the fence to the
| point where she was found trail of
blood was discernable.
Some distance away, possibly 200 feet.
the yeast bottle. containing penny,
was found beneath clump of bushes
The paper in which the bottle was
|
| the bottle was cracked, indicating that
it had been thrown by some person.
The club, with which the woman was
assaulted. was about four feet in
length and several inches in thickness
This was found about $50 feet away
from where the body lay, with blood
stains on it.
A PIECE OF OAK.
The club is a piece of oak and was
evidently secured at one of the nearby
collieries. where it was probably used
as a prop starter 1t is quite heavy, and
if there was but one man he could not
we'll have taken the woman into the field
and carried this club. Either there were
! two men or the one was q wonderfully
| self-possessed fellow, who after crush
ing in the woman's skull and outragins
her. threw her yeast bottle in one drec-
ton, placed her switch in a clump of
bushes and going back to the road Sc
| cured his club and either hurled or
carried that into the field From the
pool of blood found where the head lay
it is argued by some that she was
again struck over the head by club
when she was thrown to the ground in
the field. but this seems unlikely. 1t is
doubtful if anything definite will be
known about many things connected
with this terrible affair, since the lips
of the only person who would tell are
sealed in death.
The city police and county detective
are at work on the case. but as yet
nothing in the way of definite or sat
isfactory clue has been discovered
At daybreak yesterday morning Lieu
tenant Davis made an examination of
the premises and traced footprints
from the roadway, leading up the hill
west of where the woman was first at
tackled. Some of these footprints
would indicate that the assailant was
barefooted. The trace was soon lost,
however, in the grass.
THE BODY PREPARED.
DR.. j. j. Brennan remained with the
woman until she expired Funeral Di-
rector Cusick later prepared the body
and embalmed it, and at 3 o'clock yes
terday afternoon Coroner Saltry began
his autopsy, assisted by DR.. Brennan.
The autopsy revealed the fact that
death was due to a compound commin-
uted fracture of the skull, extending
from the forehead to the base of the
brain. The brain matter was badly
ruptured and torn and pieces of the
skull We're imbedded in the brain.
The skull was literally cracked into
fragments, and the wonder is that the
victim lived as long after as she did
In the opinion of both physicians il
was the severest fracture either had
ever seen
, Coroner Saltry impanelled the fol.
lowing jury on the case: Peter O'Don-
nell, John Howell, Fred Lidstone. w
, II. Hughes, John McHale and DIR. j. j
Brennan. An inquest in the case will
be held as soon as some tangible evil
dence can be secured.
Some time ago a disturbance occurred
in Quinn's place, at S22 Keyser ave-
nue., when Frank Sipple, of Morris
court, was assaulted and several of his
ribs were broken. The alleged assail-
ants, Joe lima, of Continental Hill
Stanley Novakofski, of 342 South Key
. ser avenue: Stanley Villinski, of Con.
tinental Hill; Frank KumwislSi, of 50,
Twenty fourth street, and John Wiso,
waski, of Twenty-fourth street, were
arrested, and indicted by the granl
Jury. and their cases are ON the tria
list for today.
SKULL FRACTURED.
week ago last Saturday night an,
other fracas occurred I'm Quinn's hotel
In which Joe Dudoci, of Continental
Hill, had his skull fractured. This oc'
currence the police believe may have
some bearing on the present case.
John Soubrisky and Frank Omaka