The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-09-19
STRANGLED TO
DEATH WAS GIRL
GIRL FOUND UNDER HAUNTED
TREE IN NEW YORK PARK
POLICE SAY CASE MAY AL
WAYS REMAIN A MYSTERY

New York. September 1S.-The body
of well dressed, pretty woman who
had been numbered by stragulation
was found today in a thicket in the
woods alongside Pelham road. nea"
Liberty street, in the borough of the
Bronx
Thai she was not killed where the
corpse was discovered Is established
by the absence of marks of a struggle
and tracks indicating that the body
was dragged from carriage or an
automobile in Pelham road and core
fully secreted in the bushes.
The woman was about % years old
She had brown hair and gray eyes.
Her outer clothing. of excellent quail
| ity. consisted of black skirt and a
black Elton jacket. She wore a yellow
straw hat trimmed with red velvet
and two hat pins. one with a rhine
stone setting, the other with setting
Of sea shell.
Captain Burfeind, of the Westches
ter station, after a careful inspection
announced that the woman was prob
ably killed somewhere in Manhattan
and that the body was taken to the
/ lonely stretch Of woods in d vehicle
He is of the opinion that no more than
one man was concerned in the disposa
of the body, for the woman wa:
slight of stature and two men coult
have carried her, whereas her shoes
and skirt show that she was dragged
/ from the road One of the shoes wa.
torn completely from the foot
Mud on the skirt and other cloth
ing shows that the body was probabl,
placed In the woods after or durin.
the rain last Thursday Some Ills
lance from the body small suit case
such as is used in carrying bathing
! suits, was found, but thus far Their
is nothing to connect this with tn
mystery Of the murdered woman
Mrs Black, of No 1873 East One Hur
dred and Seyenty-fifth street, walkin
through Pelham road this afternoon
caught sight of the body through a
opening in a clump of bushes abou
fifty feet from the highway Shi
could see only the feet and the lowe
edge of the skirt, and was afraid /
investigate further Policeman Nasl
of the Westminster Station, was clos
her discovery. Coroner Berry WI
summoned. From his examination |
: determined that the young woman ha
been choked TO death. There al
finger marks on the throat and I'll
face Ii scratched in several place
Apparently the victim lost her Ii
defending herself against an attempte
assault
The only clew in the possession
the police, is the shoes which we
|. brand new, and had been bought
the store of Blyn Bros, One Hundrt
and Twenty-second street and Thil
avenue. They were of the Oxford t
!, style, and had been worn probab
not more than once before the own
!, met her death
!. The murderer picked ont for the di
pcsal of his victim spot under
> tree called the haunted oak, becau
Of the report that a spy was hangt
: from its branches during the war
the Revolution. The story is we
), known throughout the neighborhoo
. and The spot is generally stunned
!. wcmen and children,
a Detectives of Inspector McClusky
+ staff, after look over the ground, sa
q that the mystery would prove TO be a
other Jennie Bosscheiter or Pea
n Bryan case. They are of the opini
1 that the girl was drugged before S
was murdered.