New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-24
HEADLESS BODY FOUND.
,,J,RDERED, SAY POLICE
S,oL Wounds IN Breast-Legs Dis
nnrered a Block AEcay.

-,...s .bs 6rding OF a headless body wrapped
a. burlap sack. labelled z h Mano. AZ go &c
- an excavation at no. 6o4 West So'h
-. Yesterday morning. the police believe
- have a ghas,ly crime 70 unraveL
,hopt = o'clock yesterday morning John Essel-
night watchman for James Stewa4s &
contracting hrrn which Is building an an
= - -he Anheuser- Busch brewery, al the Soth
- address. was making his usual ROUNDS
- ne premises when he saw a sack lylhg AZ
-. bo,tora OF one of the excavations.
some one has ieft HIS tools he said III
her, I'D ont Of there for fear they %
stolen" -.
r,-,othy Kelly and David Creighton employees,
..s rbey would get the sack for him Tney sho
s,vn q ladder 10 the bottom of the excavauoh'
-bi-h is about twenty-four feet deep ano
minute later they dragged themselves 10 me
surface.
Tbey told the old watchrnan that there was
mans body down there, ana not tools as ne
"a supposed A patrolrnan named Msgee was
,-so-rsed. He telephoned 10 the SIth street
80 station. and Captain FIannery. with eight
ss,ectives al his heels. rushed 10 the scene.
-sen Coroner -Acr1teIu was told. and all went
A., into the hole Coroners Physician Weston
being with the party.
Tbev found an oblong shaped parcel IN
rsvspaper dated September TO- the outer COW
s-inF q which was q strip OF oiicloth not big
enough 10 hide its ghastly burden. The lower
ro-tior q q human body was bursting from the
sises Dr Weston tore OF the cover and ~
vssles The trunk OF q man with both legs OF
t-om The thiChbone.
A hasrv examination showed that the body
has been dissected. Dr. Weston believes by
-s-son skilled in surgery. None other could have
i.-e the work SO minutely. the physician thinks
From The general appearance of the trunk II
had been washed after the legs and head were
cut or There were mary stab wounds on the
t-sssf and Indications suggested that the vic
,i-.'s throat was cut from ear 70 ear before the
bsrs vas finally torn from the shoulders. Il
~us NO bunrrnE Job as far as the dissection was
lor-erre5 on This point me coroners and their
physicians agree.
Cartafr Flanoe-y and his men began az once
q, search the whole neiehborhOod for the miss
ing a. and head. An hour later. n q freight
- in Fish Doerr & CAROLS yard 36th
street and Eleventh. avenue. they found two
legs sron me kneecap down, carefully. almost
neatly. wrapped in a portion of a woman's
skrt the whole being covered with a news
rarsr of the same name and date as that which
covered The trunk
The read and thighs are stiu missing. and
though the detectives and police have searched
every section of -he neighbo-hood. they had not
a. midnight found these portions Of the body
TIE trunk ard other portions found were taken
% the m0rgus
Inspector Walsh leans 70 the theory that the
head and thighs nay have been thrown into
me river
Dr. Westo7 believes the murdered man was an
Italian d mechanic. about thirty-fve years old
Fr1m the condition NJ rhe body the crime. f. is
believed was not committed later than Satur-
cay ne police have a theory that the murder
WIS committed hv a number Of men. and in the
Heghbghoo5 where The trunk was found. They
eEe1 20 solve the mystery within forty-eight
h'gS They attach some importance 10 the
l'e. Z K Nano- found on the burlap sack
N which -he trunk was found.
q ,5e directory The name 2 K Mano appears
as nut importer. ~ No. 81 Washington street.
Nano :, was said "a, this address. died six weeks
ago and three weeks ago his wife auctoned OF
hFTock Something like sixty sacks similar 10
~ one i- which -Es body was found were
s-olg he effects sold
" t15s- ffreea we've sold 70 Balan & Balish.
10 - Washington street. also in the nut
'-snfss so--e % man named H9msey. a rug
'7pHie-. '' 80. l'3 Washington street. while
De r business at No gs Greenwich street. is
sso reported to have bought some OF them. Il
Eas as7 learned that th,s man had leased
tah'S old -lace and is % establish there the
saT4 Inc ~ business
To ne basement n 10 lO3 Washington street
'o'n was recently opened. The patrons be-
t a. SEra1s. Inquiries there yesterday failed
-.- me purchasers of The remaining sacks.
-''-'aFe Sergeant Pe-ros,no. who. with sew
'.ner ltslisr detectives. s. working on the
saia -1st High- thar he did not believe that
''' ct The man was thar of an Italian. He
'ea NE T.e.l- was ar Armenian.
=" While lasr night che police thought they
& uncovered The identity - the murdered
--eE fa1ushr he was Luigi Ottone. a
.-@.ei. aT--g Uira his wife and two children
= 80 81 West SOFIA street. Ottono has been
iran his home since Saturday morn
t-e1 BE- started ,o 20 70 his work IL Ho-
D. o. 1tloEe was reported missing 10
i'iee -as' night. and they took a brother-in-
/" iae missing mar 10 the H.orgue. He said
+ -a mol believe it was The BODY Of his brother
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