The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-09-19
husband IDENTIFIES
Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer
Disappears From Her
Home and Is Dis
covered a Ghast-
ly Corpse.
MYSTERY OF Her MURDER
Vehicle in Which She Was
Brought From New York
Located in Hoboken.
MYSTERY OF Her MURDER

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Lying face upward in the black, Shiny
mud at the bottom of the Morris Canal
tidal ditch, midway between the Hacken-
sack and Passaic Rivers, with twenty
pound weight strapped around the waist,
the nude body of Mrs. Annie Pulitzer,
twenty-six years old, Of No. 160 West
Forty-sixth street, New York City, was
found shortly before one o'clock yester-
day afternoon. The body bears num-
Der of marks which show that the woman
was brutally murdered by some person
! or persons whose identity as yet remains
a mystery
The body was found by David Powell,
a motorman on the Newark and New
York Branch of the North Jersey Trac-
ton Company, which runs from Jersey
CITY to Newark, via the Plank road
While midway between the Passaic and
Hackensack Rivers, on his regular run,
Powell saw the body lying in the canal,
alongside the trolley tracks.
He leaned over the gate of the car
and made sure, as the car dashed past
that he was not mistaken. He did not
stop the car, however, until it reached
the west side of the bridge over the
Hackensack River, at which point an
inspector boards every car.
Inspector Walter Blair was the one
who boarded Powell car, and Powell at
once told him what he had seen. Powell
then went ON his way to the Jersey
City ferry. Blair Immediately sent a
man to the point indicated by Powell
to make sure that there was no error, and
upon learning that Powell's statement
was correct, he called up the Jersey City
Police Headquarters and notified Chief
Murphy of the gruesome discovery.
BY the time Blair had notified the
Chief, John f. Keller, driver employed
by Browns Express Company, of No.
122 Ferry street, Newark, had also seen
the body, and, whipping his horses, had
driven to the Fourth Precinct station
house on Communipaw avenue and in
formed the police.
POLICE AT WORK.
The place where the body was lying is
amid what are known as the Kearny
meadows. 1t is within the limits of Kcar-
ny township. The case was therefore
outside the jurisdiction of the Jersey City
police, and the Kearny officials were no.
tilted. Word was also sent to Prosecu-
tor Erwin and to County Physician Con-
verse. The latter ordered the Jersey City
morgue keeper to take charge of the body
and a wagon and two men were immedi-
ately sent to the place. The body was
taken to tile morgue ON Communipaw and
Garfield avenue, and there, at 9:25
o'clock last night, Joseph Pulitzer posi-
lively identified it as that of his wife, An
ME.
The murdered woman was last seen
by him, he stated about eleven O'Clock
last Tuesday evening, when she left sheir
rooms, at No. 1G0 West Forty-sixth
street. New York, to go to a store short
distance away to buy fruit. From that
time until he read in last nights New
York evening newspapers about the find
ing Of the body of woman, the descrip-
ton Of which agreed with tllat Of his
wife, he said lie was vainly searching the
hospitals and police stations for trace
Of her.
AT THE AIORGUE.
When Pulitzer sazed upon the ghastly
remains Of lis wife, whom, he said, he