New-York tribune., 1903-07-13
BLOODY CLOTHES CLEW.
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the cause of the death of Mr.. Roxbury this
morning.
The blood the umbrella and on the gar
ments found by the police will be subjected to
chemical tests.
When the clothing examined at the
Alexander-ave. station on Saturday morning
much blood was found on the neck of the shirt
waist" said Inspector Titus yesterday. In
fact the neck of the shirtwaist was saturated
with blood and in the back part of the shirt
waist just at the neck band was hole that
looked as if it had been made with such a thing
as an umbrella Now the blood on the shirt
waist was fresh. AT least am satisfied 1t was,
and there a physician present who thought
So The neck of the shirtwaist being saturated
with blood would mean. think that the wound
from which the blood flowed and stained the
garment could not have been a superficial
wound 1t must have been deep wound 1t
looked as if the owner of the clothing, if the
clothing had been worn when the shirtwaist be-
came stained with blood, may have had her
head chopped off.
There was much blood on the outer side OF
the top of the umbrella which ROXbury car
ried. am of the opinion that ROxbury fought
back at his assailants; that he tried TO return
blow for blow, and that he used the umbrella
1t may have been his umbrella that caused the
wound which stained with blood the shirtWaist
found by Patrolmar Coleman
Some persons who heard the theories advanced
by Inspector Titus jumped to the conclusion
that the inspector was convinced that the ROx-
bury murder had been committed by man who
was accompanied by a woman, and that he
killed the woman to make sure that there were
no witnesses to his crime. The detectives tried
to gain some light by reasoning these lines
early in the day, and carefully looked over the
ground once again where the clothes were found
and searched up and down the Harlem River
between the Second-ave. bridge and the Central
bridge.
The assault took place at Northumberland
sixty-dfth-st. and River-ave, near the junction
of which streets is said to live an ex-Convict
with whom Inspector Titus anxious to have
a talk yesterday. Nothing has been discovered
which would at present indicate that this man
might know anything about the crime but he
is to be questioned about it Just because of his
unsavory reputation, and If he is unable to give
good account of his whereabouts on the night
that the murder committed he will probably
be arrested placed under surveillance.
From what could be learned last night the
detectives after they had completed their days
work. leaned to the theory that woman figured
prominently in the fatal assault on Mr.. ROX-
bury; that in defending himself he jabbed the
point of his umbrella into the back of her neck;
that his assaant left Mr.. ROxbury staggering
In a daZed condition from the place of the as
sault; that the woman and the man hastened
to the home of the woman, after waiting for
some hours in some secluded place near One
hundred-and- sixty -ffth-st. and River-ave,, so
that she might get to her home without meet
ing any one. at least without being seen
covered with blood; that she took off the
blood stained garments in her home and gave
them to the man, who decided to dispose of
them by throwing them into the river from the
SeCond-aVe. bridge In the darkness II would
he easy for person to misjudge the width of
the river at that point. and throw the valise
containing the clothing so that it would strike
the ground and bound under the stairway The
valise is thought to clinch the supposition that
the man and the returned under cover
of the darkness of the night to the home of the
woman.
There many indications that the de
tectives were working the theory that the
motive for the murder woman's spite
against Roxbury. and that the rnurderous de-
sign was planned and carried out by a man. who
also had no KINDLY feelings for him.