The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-15
NN WOMAN KILLED AT BRIDGE?
,.ru STORY TO ACCOUNT FOR THE
y,oOD STAINED GARMENTS.
.r,,ta,n Tells Titus He saw woman
~" ann Il lsandaged Head Throw Them
AVA, -RoNbur,'s Woman Companion
nu.stJoned at Mr. JerOme's ONCE.

,wo,-R oNbnr,'s Woman Companion
n,ss,Ioned at Mr. JerOme's ONCE.
Two Harlem River boatmen turned in to
,olice Yesterday two rather remark
.l,,o tales. apparently, with the idea that
n,,, would be accepted as having some
,", either on the murder Of Charles W.
,',trrv or ON the finding of the blood
''.,ncd clothes near the Second avenue
,.;loe The first story was told by Mathew
nnane employed by II. d, Bahr OF Madison
ayenue and l3jth street.
n,ore was standing on the pier at the
.,o, If Lincoln avenue yesterday after
loon when the tug Three Brothers came
.,,no with barges which were going to tie
a. rho pier. Duane, who says he was
,,ohnp the revolutions of the propeller,
,.,,adenly shouted that the propeller was
fowl of body.
crowd gathered at once and somebody
coIled a policeman. To him Duane said
,hat he had seen a woman's leg churned
,'n and that he was sure that q body was
ot,ocbed to the leg. Inspector Titus was
notified
He sent for two boats Of tho harbor police
and they. with the tug, dredged the river
hottom until 73O O'Clock last night, with
ont finding anything that looked like
,voman's leg Duane watched the work,
and when the dredgers gave 1t up for
the night he said there must be some
hing the matter with their tools. He
knew that he had seen a leg wearing
black stocking and patent leather shoe,
Ipspector Titus WAS inclined to believe
Iast night that Duane had not seen any leg,
hi, he didn't hold the same notion Of a
story told by Capt A. II. Dewey OF the
barge Alabama, which is tied up at the
nier directly under the Second avenue
bridge. Capt. Dewey stood around yester-
dav afternoon while the dredging was
going on and when it was over he called
Titus aside and told him this story:
Il was coming from the Manhattan end
Of the bridge ON Friday evening about
p3Ooclock, on my way to the barge. When
within about twenty five feet Of the Bronx
end met a woman with bandage around
her head and the back of her neck. She
mad a bundle under her arm and was talk
ing to man in his shirt sleeves and straw
hat As passed the couple 1 heard the
woman say
mo, l haven't been down here before
in ak months
81 walked down from the bridge to the
pier and saw the woman proceed toward
rhe Manhattan end while the man went In
the opposite direction. l was just about
TO walk down the pier when I looked up
and saw the woman drop the bundle she
had been carrying over the bridge.
at landed on the pier only a few feet
in front Of me and when got to it, opened
garments. did up the package again and
went down to the barge. l saw by the
paper that a Waterman found the clothes
the next morning"
Inspector Titus gave out Capt. Dewey's
story late last evening and said that 1t
effectually disposed Of the theory that the
bundle was mixed up in any way with the
murder Of Charles W. Roxbury. The In
spector pointed out that Dewey fixed the
time of seeing the woman on the bridge as
$50 o'clock Friday evening. Roxbury
was assaulted few minutes before o.
~ would have been utterly impossible,
the inspector said, for the woman with
blood-staned garments to have got to the
bridge from the place where Roxbury was
assaulted by the time Dewey saw her. The
Inspector was also inclined to think that
Dewey's story disposed of the theory of
another murder.
As for the Ro1bury case, the police were
no nearer TO his assailant than they were
twentv-fOur hours before. One bit OF
evidence tended to show the course taken
bx,s h, NCh n nrfnit
after Roxbury had been attacked. A boy
playing in Walton avenue, near 181st street,
two blocks east an6 five blocks south OF
where the assault occurred, found at 905
o'clock Friday evening card Of identih
cation issued to Charles W. Roxbury by
the Fordham Council of the Royal Ar
Canum.
The boy kept the card until Yesterday,
when he turned it over to the police. Near
The corner OF l83d street and Walton avenue
another identification card of Ro1bury
issued by the Commercial Travellers Acct
dent Association of Utica was found. In
the corner Of the first card was a stain that
looked like blood.
The finding of the cards suggested to the
police that RoIbury's assailant ran down
River avenue to l8lst street, thence east to
Walton avenue and north along that avenue.
1t is practically certain that the man went
south along River avenue after the assault,
because had he gone north he would have
followed Miss Thomasch and would GER
talnly run into Yates and Schultz, whom
She had persuaded to 60 down the avenue
to ind out what had become Of Roxbury.
On the other hand, it Is doubtful il he
went down River avenue as far as l81st
street, for in that event, he would have
passed the man and woman, who, Miss
lhomasch says, were behind her and Rox-
bury. II would have been quite easy,
however, for the assailant to have cut across
lots to Girard avenue and strike Walton
avenue at l6lst street, where the first card
was found
The police believe that the couple seen
ny Miss Thomasch and Roxbury were
me ones who were in a saloon kept by
man named Schumacher, at 18lst street
ana jerome avenue, on the night of the
assault: Schumacher says they did not
Ieave his place until after clock.
MISS IhOmaSch was taken to the District
attorneys office yesterday morning and
Questioned for long time byAssstant Dis
ulct Attorney Caravan. The young woman
SIMPLY repe ated the story she told to tn o
,oroner and the police and she was allowed
TO 20.
koxhury was buried Yesterday morning
N greenwood Cemetery the Rev. DR. John
", campbell of the fremont Methodist
.nurch reading the service Only tho
members OF the family were at the grave.