The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-25
POLICE SEEK A HEAD
View York Authorities Trying to
Identity a Mans Dismem-
bered Body.
SEVERED LIMB is FOUND.

Boys Discover Knife With Which MUIR
derer Is Believed to Have Dissected
corpse-Handreds Aid Detectives In
Seareh-Two Arrests Made-Lookine
For OiIcioth Buyers.
New York, Sept. 25.-InspectOr Walsh
has sent out detail of fifty detectives
on new clew to the identity of the
man whose dismembered body was
found in an excavation at Eighth ave
nue. and Thirty sixth street.
Believing that the victim of the
butchers was himself a butcher and
that he was a member of one of the
numerous clubs of employees of the
packing and slaughter houses, the in
spector decided to take census of the
membership of these clubs to ascertain
who is missing.
With the arrest Of John Randakex,
twenty three years old, and George
Capenake, twenty-four, partners in
candy and soda water store at 139
Eighth avenue, the police believe that
they may soon have clew to the mys-
terry.
Several hundred men and boys are
aiding the detectives in their search
for the head and one leg Of the body.
The territory from Thirty fifth to For
ty-second street and from Tenth ave-
nue. west to the North river is being
turned inside out, and a thorough
search of every car in the New York
Central and Pennsylvania railroad
yards is being conducted.
Must Find the Head.
Inspector Walsh said that the whole
energies of the police were directed to-
ward recovering the head, as until the
remains can be identified the task of
running the murderer or murderers
down will be practically hopeless.
Another CHASTITY find added a thigh
and portion of the leg from the knee
down to the dismembered body, which
is supposed to be that of Syrian
Joseph Flynn, employed by Burns
Bros, coal dealers, at the yards at the
foot of West Thirty eighth street, while
engaged in taking the numbers of emp
ty coal cars came across two small
bundles wrapped in burlap. One of
them contained a portion of a mans
leg from the thigh down to the knee.
The other contained the remainder of
the leg.
Flynn at once notified police head
quarters. The limbs were removed to
the morgue, where they were added to
fho torso aud cavorad orpac
Boys Unearth Knife.
Two boys rummaging through a pile
of old lumber at the southwest corner
of Thirty sixth street and Eleventh ave
nue. came across a huge knife, the han
die of which was clotted with blood.
This knife was used, the police de-
clare, in the dismembering of the body.
The work of amputation was we'll
done, there being no hacking or break
ing of bones.
The knife, which was given to the
police, is about fourteen inches long,
with a blade ten inches in length,
sharp as razor. 1t has a composition
handle, dark red In color, which bears
several notches. n
Dark stains and what is believed to
be clotted blood are on the handle and
hilt.
A microscopic examination will be
made of the substance on the knife.
There was no blood on the blade.
Seeking OicIoth Buyers.
Mrs. Adolph Broidi, who has small
house furnishing shop at 510 Tenth
avenue, notified the police that the
pictured oilcloth in which the torso of
the dismembered body was wrapped
was sold by her two weeks ago.
Two men who spoke English with a
foreign accent, she said, called and said
they required oilcloth for tables. They
told her that they purposed starting
restaurant in the country and would re-
quire several cloths. She had only
three in stock, one bearing picture Of
the Brooklyn bridge and the other two
with views of Columbus discovering
America. These two the men pur
chased.