New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-29
NOT MURDER, SAY POLICE.
GIRLS NECK WAS BROKEN.
John ". Golf, Jr., Thinks He Sa10
Her zCith a Han.

The authorities have no positive cIew yet to
the identity Of the young woman found dead
last Monday in Riverside Drive. near One-hun-
bred and-twelfth-st Patrick Hanlon. of No
$50 Thrd-ave visited the mOrSue last night
and said she closely resembled Mary Sullivan.
formerly chambermaid at the Netherland Ho-
tel.
He showed photograph of the Sullivan girl
which bore a striking resemblance 10 the dead
woman. He would bring his wife, he declared.
to view the body, she knew the Sullivan girl
better than he did
John w Cot. jr., son OF Recorder Golf. thinks
that lie saw the dead woman with a companion
shortly before her death. The with her
apparently an employe OF the elevated
road subway.
Mr.. Golf said last light:
was walking south Sunday night about 10
O'Clock in Riverside Drive with my dog. on my
way to my home al No. $40 West One-hundred-
and-fourth-st At -hundred-and-si sixteenth
ST. l noticed a and woman coming up the
steps from the drive proper They reached tns
top of the steps just passed My dog leaped
on the mo- =. just as he was passing the woman
up the las, stairs
The man spoke to the dog. as did the woman.
Both We're obviously under the influence OF
liquor or some other Stimulant. / kept on down
the walk followed by the couple. At One-huu-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. they turned aside and sat
down bench. l kept them In sight for some
time, but did not suppose that it was anything
more than a drunken couple trying 10 walk Off
the effect of the liquor
I am not sure that the woman I the
one later found dead. The one 1 saw was below
the average height. She a black skirt.
light jacket and a dark hat that covered most
OF her face
The was big and well built. He wore no
overcost. He had a short doUblebreasted coat
and hat such as is worn by elevated and sub
way employees The number covered by the
band when OF duty Both were pale and
appeared to he ill., ! shall so to the Morgue to-
morrow TO see if l can identify the woman.
Another witness has been found by Coroner
Scholer. This also saw the couple the
steps Of One-hundred- -sixteenth-st. The
woman appeared 10 be Ill. This man has seen
the body in the Morgue. and has identified 1t as
that of the woman he saw
There was much excitement at the morgue
late last evening, when Theresa and sadie Hart.
of No. 16S East Seventy-nnth-st. asked to look
at the body. They told the norgue keepers that
they were looking for their sister Mabel. who
had been missing from home for two weeks.
When they saw the body Theresa exclaimed:
THAT is Mabel Yes, that is she"
The girl then tainted. She was carried into
another room. Her sister. Sadie. then looked at
the BODY, and said that 1t was not their sister:
She saw the clothes the dead' girl had worn. and
these also she failed to identify.
The autopsy was performed by the coroners
physician, DIR. Weston. He found that death
directly due to broken neck He found
also, Commissions on the The lungs were
not ccnsested. This condition is always found
in cases OF exposure. While the woman died a
violent death. there is evidence that she
was murdered. The autopsy showed that she
was heavy drinker. and probably while intoxt-
Gated she fell, hitting her neck against the edge
Of a bench and breaking the second and third
CerVicuur vertebrse.
The police have made a house to house
search I'm the neighhorhood OF the wOman's
death and have found several who had seen her
prior to her death
v. IL Arnold, OF No 54o West Ons-hundred-