The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-28
Gave Name Of Mrs. Annie
NevanS at MOntCIair
Employment Agency.
MRS. WRIGHT SEES BODY
Proprietress of the Agency Says
Murdered Woman Sought
Place on Dec. l7.Had
Worked for Two Men
in Brooklyn.

A positive identification was made
today of the woman whose nude body
was found in a pond in the Harrison
dumps near the Passaic River Thurs
day morning.
She was Mrs. Annie Nevans. OF
Brooklyn. She recently kept house for
two men there
The body was identified at noon at
the Harrison morgue by Mrs. Margaret
Wright, who conducts an employment
agency at 44T Bloomfield avenue, Mont
clair
Mrs. Wright stated that the woman
called at her employment agency on
December II and applied for position,
seying that she had been keeping house
for two men in Brooklyn, but had tired
of the position Mrs. Wright, aftel. as-
certaining her name as Mrs. Nevans,
asked for her address, but the woman
refused to give this, saying she would
call again.
Mrs. Wright first identified the vari-
Gus articles of the murdered woman,
which had been found, separately. She
saw the muff lying on wicker basket
used for carrying corpses, and said:
THAT is the muff she carried when
she visited my offics."
Then she identified the fur stole the
woman wore.
County Detective charloch, Of
! Prosecutor Speer's Office, entered the
morgue at this point and showed pic
lures taken of the dead woman. Mrs,
Wright positively identified these.
| She said the woman wore a white
picture hat With white feather. which
| agrees with the statement of Thomas
! Coogan, the night watchnan of the
| Marine Engine Works, Harrisse.sss-
/ claims the woman he saw Christm8S
night in company with a short, stout
man. who wore such a hat. Mrs.
Wright further stated that the woman
wore tan gloves, which agrees with the
| statement of an elevator operator in
Market street department store, who
had the woman as a passenger in his
car Tuesday night.
Mrs. Wright then saw the body She
! exclaimed
THAT is the woman. She WAS Annie
| Nevans, and she called at my place"
| The two boatmen. Thompson and Kirk
man. are still held in Harrison. but moth
ing new has developed as far as they are
! concerned.
| The womans pla was found by James
| Kelly. q years old, of East Newark. He
was at the scene of the murder this morn
ing. and when walking near the bridge OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad on the Harri-
son side OF the river he picked up
| breastpin, hcart-shaped made Of mother
Of pearl, and across the heart Is the letter
"S.' the old Spencerian style with double
| scroll The rs" is IN the centre Of the
pin aud is held by loop OF imitation gold
wire, which passes over the front and is
riveted to the back. This is considered a
valuable find by the police.
Thomas Flanagan, OF 500 Hunterdou
street. this city, who is employed as an
elevator operator In a Market street de-
partment store called at the Harrison
morgue this morning and positively ldenti-
! fled the murdered woman as the same one
| who rode on bis elevator In the departs
mcnt store on Christmas eve several tines
aud who said she had an appointment ia
the store with man friend.
The operator stated that the woman
entered his car at 9;9o o'clock on Tuesday
night and asked where the toy department
was located, and was told it was on the
fifth floor. and she entered the car to be
taken TO that floor She alighted when the
floor was reached. but in a few seconds re-
turned and rode down again.
She said to Flanagan, he says:
II expect to meet a friend here, and he
4
The woman took three rides in the car
and then asked to be allowed to make an
other trip, acting as If she wanted to
meet her friend on the elevator. The
operator t1ld her 1t was against the rules
OF the store to allow passenger to make
so many trips under such circumstances,
but finally responded to her urgent plead
lngs and told her to take up a position
in corner Of the ear SO as not to interrupt
| =, nf o,,d
ing, which she readily consented to DO,
After few more trips she left the car
at the first floor and then apparently weut
out Of the store.
At 11:2O Flanagan completed his work
for the evening and then went out with
Arthur Smith, another employee, separat-
ing at Bfoad and Market streets. Flanpi-
gan says he went down to Chinese res
taurant situated near Market and Null
berry streets and when he entered the
place saw the same woman who had been
anxious FOR so many rides seated alone
at a table with tan gloves thrown care
lessy on the table. She saluted him with
the title. Of elevator man" and said she
had not met him yet" and asked the
operator If he knew where "Chermanr
restaurant was located, accounting the
word, which led Flanagan to believe She
was a German.
he told her where a place was located
In Broad street, but she said that II wae
not the place she desired 70 visit and then
he told her where the Holland House ia
Market street WIS situated, and she said.
"J'hat Is the place.
This evidence eorroborates William shy
der, Of IS Market street, this city, WIZ
yesterday identified the woman as aas
who had asked him Tuesday night for q
caear restaurant, stating she had llttle
money.
Morgue Keeper Walsh. OF Harrison. to-
day received postal from man who
signs the missiye 'John Meyer Room Sis
3S Park row, New York. and on the card
he asks Mr.. Walsh If the murdered woman
has black hair, small mole on the right
cheek and a scar on the left jaw He asks
to he notified In case the body bears these
marks, but the description does not tally
William Carmody, a night walter ia ths