The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-28
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swollen neck
Coroner S~chwannrcke discovered nlso
that there was a large hr,hae on the left side
~ the head n might have been caused
before or after death there was nothing
to show which The Coroner found that
the only clothes on the body we're a black
and white striped shirt waist and y black
skirt, both OF poor material. There was
no undertaking, shoes or stocking.
While the Coroner was examining the
body Char ga =. Moore, a private watch
man employed by lumber companies and
canal boat captains along that part of the
He saw the face Of the lead and
said:
why, I know who that IL. was with
her on March 10. She y the wife OF a canal
boat captain
Coroner Schwannecke had the Waterman
detained and Capt Hayes Of the Alexander
avenue station questioned him. Moore
said that he had seen the woman first along
In last january. He saw her again on
March 10 last. he waS sure. NJ had gone
into a ginmill near the river to buy q pint
OF beer FOR her husband, a canal boat skip
per. Her husband was captain either Of
the Cherry Hill or the Maybe yer.
Detectives sem out to look Tor these
boats came back with no information.
Nobody knew anything about the Cherry
Hill and there we're az least six M4yiowers.
None OF the captains of the Mayhowers
was minus a wife. The Coroner decided
that Moore knew nothing Of value and
let him out of custody.
The autopsy. performed by DR.. Riegel-
man, Schwannecke's Physician, determined
nothing definite, except that the body
had been in the water for a long time. per-
haps two months. 1t couldn't be told
whether the woman had been murdered
or whether she had committed suicide.
Schwannecke thought she had been muir
dered. Re'couldn't account for the tightly
twisted cord in any other way 1t was
tied tightly enough around the woman's
neck to strange her, 1t was possible, he
thought, that the woman had been struck
on the left side OF the head heavily enough
to stun her, and then hat she had been
strangled. The body may have been
thrown into the river with a weight attached
to the hempen cord. and the action of the
we ter may have caused the weight to slip,
letting the body to the surface. Then,
in oil probability, it drifted to the edge Of
the lumber pier and the skirt caught on the
iuttinR spike.