The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-12-30
NECK TWISTED !
LIKE A REED
Until Bones Protruded and Left
Her on Highway
ACT OF SAMSON FIEND
RECORDER GoFF WITNESSED
YOUNG WoMAN'S MURDER
BY cYcLoPs WITH
RRAWNY ARMS.

New York, Dec, 2y,-Following the
discovery that the young woman in
the great Christmas mystery of River.
side Drive had been murdered by
man, who, with great strength. had
twisted her head about on her shoul
ders until the neck bones snapped in
two places. high legal authority. said
to be none other than Recorder Goff
came forward with the positive state
ment that he could identify the muir
darer; that he had seen the man and
tha woman a short time after her
nee. lad been broken, when the man
was carrying her numb body to the
henel where il was found seven or
eight hocfs ater
After long conference with Re-
c0rde Cot who lives at Riverside
Drive and Ono Hundred and Fourth
street Coroner Scholer announced:
~Cne of the ii CHEST legal authori.
ties In the city las been with me to
the niorgue and has Identified the
body OF the murdered girl as that of
the woman ne saw late Sunday night
with a man. The man was carrying
the woman IN the stone steps from
the narrow park into the drive at One
Hundred and 81 taeath street. My
informant thought thai the woman
was drunk and that the man was try
ing TO sober her In the brisk night air. |
Can Identity Murderer.
My informant was on his way
home, il being his custom 10 take
brisk walk fesoee retiring, and he fol
lowed tie pair down the drive to one
Hundred and Twelfth street. where
they stopped. AID he went on his way
home. paying no more attention to
them than to take 7;cl- good look
at them that today he was able 10
identify the body OF the woman and
viii be able to identify lid man.
He now believes that he saw the
woman soon after her neck was bro
zen and hnl eyes that what he mis-
took for intoxication was paralysis
resulting from the brolrn neck"
When 1t became definitely known
that aft srnoon that the young woman
'ea victim Of = foul murder Po-
lice Commissioners McAdoo took per-
sInal interest In the cas-,
He first ordered Inspector Mcclus-
ky 10 detail detectives from the cen
trail office TO the case.
Tor ne. ! Physician Weston held an
autopsy on the body, showing that the
&. rs .ie~K was broken In Two places
- IL .pI erful stranger. who twist
ed 4 r hsad about on her shoulders as
e weather-cock.
Al er the death injuries had been |
iafl led she was carried or dragged |
to the bench on Riverside drive near
Gre Hundred and Twelfth street
Her Neck Twisted.
That she was murdered in peculiar
N amer Is The conclusion Of Or. Yves
tom The fracture OF the neck bone is
not straight break. such as would
have been sustained had she received
a severe blow, quick jerk or hard
fall; but IL IS fw ste1 fracture, such |
as might have been produced had the
murderer or murieress clutched her
head firmly and twisted It in cir
enlar ma61fer white her body and
shoulders were held fixed
The autopsy. further showed a Sc
we're abrasion on the right elbow, as Il !
the woman lad fallen or been thrown
down and haa f-st struck on her Ell.
bow
Police Inspector Ebert o. Smith,
who had taken his nrst personal In
terest in the case today before the au-
topsy was held. put more than a score I
Of detect YES to work on the case.
There has been but one possible I
clew in the mystery so far. and the I
police do not hold that as positive. /
The victim answers the general de. /
scription of a young woman who was
with another~ woman and two men
Christmas night in the Riyerview cafe
few blocks from the neighborhood n
which the.dying girl was found.