The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-29
SAILOR DAZED; WOMAN DEAD.
NEARLY ALI HER RIBS BROKEN;
MURDER SUSPECTED.

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Couple We're Found Lying In Riverside Park
Member Of IndIanA's Grew says lie
Lost Count Of Everything AFTER q Drink
on the BOwery win q Soldier.
A policeman walking through Riverside
Park about, ? o'clock yesterday morning
came across a man and a woman lying
huddled under a bush not far from the line
Of Seventy fifth street. They were lying
back to back. the woman overskirt
draped over the man for protection against
the cold.
The policeman leaned over and shook the
woman vigorously. She did not stir. He
then turned his attention to the man, who
came to with a dazed air and blinked as he
saw the policeman n then the woman
alongside him on the ground.
The woman Is dead said the police
man. who are you and what are you
doing here?"
The man, who was only a young fellow
and wore a sailors uniform, looked puzzled.
Apparently he did not Know anything about
il. When he got a look at the woman he
said: Il don't remember meeting her and
/ don't know how / got here"
The policeman decided that the only
thing to do was arrest the man and notify
the Coroners' office. He took the sailor to
the West SiXty-eighth street police station.
The body was taken 10 the M0TsGe.
Later in the day the man., who said he
was Clinton c. Clark, able seaman of the
U. s. s. Indiana, was arraigned In the West
Side police court and after a brief examina-
ton was held without bail for further in
vestigation.
He said that he came ashore on Satur-
day afternoon on leave with several other
men from the battleship, and that they
headed for the Bowery. After a little while
he met a soldier and the two went into a
shooting gallery TO try their skill. Clark
said he beat the soldier and then suggested
that they go into a saloon and have a drink.
They did so. From that point on. Clark
declares, he knew nothing until he was
awakened in the park when the policeman
shook him.
There is some idea In the minds Of the
police that there may have been a murder.
Coroner's Physician Timothy d. Leblanc
said after the autopsy that the woman
had nearly all her ribs broken. He gave
the cause Of death as a hemorrhage follow
ing the fracture OF the ribs.
The body was in the Morgue yesterday
afternoon. II did not show any bruises,
except a slight n on the right shoulder.
The woman's face was stained with blood
and II seemed as II ner nose mao Deen DieeQ-
ing. From general appearances she was
about so years old. weighed 1855 pounds
and was S feet 9 inches in height. Her face
was not good looking. II was, intact. rather
coarse. Her hands were not well kept
either. Her nose had been broken, but
apparently it was an old break.
Taken all in all. she resembled aSgreat
deal the " pc of woman 10 be found IN places
along the Bowery hat a sailor not quite
himself would be likely to take up with.
1t was conjectured that Clark had not
enough money to get a place 10 remain in
over night and that he and the woman
walked about until they reached the park.
1t is a long wav from the Bower, certainly.
When they lay down under the bush It is
supposed hat she took of her overskirt
and put il over Clark to cover him..
DR.. Lahane and the police will look over
the ground carefully to-day, and after the
investigation Clark will have another hear
ing. 1t is the opinion Of some of thepolice-
men in the West Sixty-eighth street station
house that il was not a murder They be-
lieve that Clark would have fastened away,
no matter what his condition. If he had killed
the woman. 1t is barely possii lie that she
fell from the roadway above and broke her
ribs that way.
Clark's utter bewilderment when he was
awakened and the fact that he declared
that be did not know how he got there have
convinced the policemen that he NJ inno-
sent. The woman wore glasses and q gold
band wedding ring. Clark is 81 years old
He enlisted in the navy at Columbus, Ohio,
hin home.