The Cairo bulletin., 1905-09-25
A WOMAN s HEAD
FOUND IN TIDE
And the Police Of Boston are
Baffled at Mystery
BODY IN A SUIT CASE
W0MANS HEAD FOUND 6 i.
LITTLE PROGRESS MADE IN PROV
ING THE IDENTITY or THE
MuTlLATED REMAINS OF
YOUNG WOMAN

Boston, Sept. 24.-over 1000 poIiea
and detectives in Boston and its VI
einity are working earnestly tonight
g solve the weird mystery which
wraps the case Of the finding Of the
lismembered body Of young woman
In suit case which was discovered
boating In The waters near the Win
,hrop Yacht Clubs dock
The search for the head OF the vic
tim was ra-doubled today, and. as re
suit. the police learned that what was
lpparantly the severed head of wo.
nan was seen floating on The ebb tide
n the waters Of Shirley Gut on Thurs.
lay morning BY Harry Green, d
| youth who resides with his parents
| on Snake Island
In the belief that the head seen by
Green was that OF the victim on this
battling crime. tho police who heard
the boys story are patrolllng the
neighborhood Of Snake Island and
grapplng In the hope of bringing The
greusome object to the surface.
1 Without this head or one OF the
arms or limbs that may contain scars
Jr birthmarks there IS scarcely any
| hope of establishing tfe identity OF
| he murdered girl, and therefore OF
running 10 earth her murderer.
coincident with the report of Greens
discovery William Pritchard OF the
Point Shirley club. told the police that
Il be saw Yesterday while lobstering In
'sf winthrop cove floating stocking
which he believed contained the limb
pf woman, When he attempted to
! drag it, toward him with an oar the
sbjecr sunk from view.
A CHASTITY Discovery
Still one other ghastly discovery
1as been reported in the mysterious
'1se The police have the name OF
nan VII ch they refuse to divulge. who
aicEed up sn shirly point. where 1t
had been washed ashore, grim thing
(which might be fragment OF 1esh.
) Il is Of a grayish hue and has been
landed ever to the police. who will
nave II examined by physicians To ae.
tenn its exact nature
These and the important discovery
that the olive hued suit case. in which
he trunk was found has been twice
repaired within sixe months, were the
chief developments Of the sensational
Suit Case Murder today
The repairs In the first case were
made by Cummings who aald the case
originally, ard while he does not
now the name OF the man who
brought the case for repair he has
giyen the police an accurate descsip-
( ton Of the person.
N Still later, evidently within few
I, months, new handle was put on the
, case, either by harness maker or
: by cobhler. and the police are
lragging the city To locate this man
n the hope that he may pnt them on
The track OF the murderer,
II At such straws the police are
! clutching and necessar " 50, for tine
| murderer IN this case was apparently
J superhumanly crafty. and went about
J the destruct on of evidence that
would lead to his detection with a
! master skill
y So far as they have gone there Vi
i only this to work on.
i The holy Of the girl. frcm what re-
mains OF the body a pretty light com
plaxioned woman OF 20 to 25 years,
vas found horribly mutilated In the
suit case, her head, arms ana limbs
not toa cleyerly severed, and wrap
ped in a bit of white rubber sheeting.
rhe mute evidence Of the crime Is the
! lhysical determination thar the girl
| had been dsmembered tc hide another
] trime, the greusome torso and the
)liye green leather suit case
There are thirty or more girls re-.
1orted missing In and about Boston,
? aud the authorities are being flooded
With letters from the friends and reia.
tives Of these missing ones, asking
. FOR details which the police are abso-
iwely unable to furnish Clews BY
ne dozen are being run out hut in
zach instance the detectives are con
'rontel at the end Of their search by
nne Of the two problems which must
be solved preliminary 70 ths clearing
Of the great mystery.
Who owns the suit casee Who is
he vict m OF the knife. Chief Of Po-
lice. w. Ii Mcneil. of Boston. said
tonight; "By the autopsy there was
shown to have been an unusuai crime
committed. We are not going 10
think about such small thing as
sleep So long as we can 40 anything
~ solve The mystery
I'VE are going over every foot of
the territory. Our little force On III
cycles arc searching All over town
ror clews and we have found some
that seem good. The mystery sur
Z | rounding the SUIT case murlcrs has