The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-30

eye and penetrating the brain in this man.
ner.
The small iagged cut on the back OF TIN
head might have been caused By the
woman's falling to the ground and striking
her head against a bit of glass. Tie
scratches on the knees and face might
have been placed there by dragging the
woman a few feet over rough ground.
Thousands Of persons who went TO the
nnorgue from every town for miles around
in Jersey, and from Brooklyn and New
York, have looked at the body and failed
to identify it. Women who refused to
give their names. but who sought for
sisters or daughters, have been there in
scores. Dozens of men who were looking
for runaway wives have gone TO the
undertaker's shop in the past few days.
None of them found what he sought.
Restaurant keepers. even Cinnamon, who
run chop suey places In Newark and Jer-
sey City; policemen, department. store
agents OF charitable societies. none Of
them had ever seen her before. A few
men thought they had, but the descrip-
lions they gave might have fitted equally
well any other good-siZed woman in a
red dress.
It was thought the woman might have
been a woman named Agnes O'Keefe, who
worked as a servant in the Oranges and
was known to the police. Thomas Lynch,
a butcher, of 356 Plane street. this city,
who knows the O'Keefe woman, said 1t
was not her.
Among the Brooklyn people who called
was William Lewis. Of 1910 Nostrand ave-
nue., Brooklyn. He was accompanied by
Detective Lieutenant Graham. of the cen
tral office of that city, and Detective Ser
geant Farrell, of this city. Lewis thought
fha the dead woman might be his missing
sister, but a glance SATISFIED him that such
was not the case.
All day yesterday the streets of Harrison,
in the neighborhood Of the BLACK Lamp"
district were filed with a curious mob
while around Walsh's Morgue stood men
and women gaping as II there was Il cir
Gus in the town. The c~hurchgoers who
expected to hear something on the murder
from their church pulpits were dlsap-
pointed because not one word was seie
in reference to the case by any OF ne
pastors.
when an EVENING STAR man intet-
viewed the Rev. Samuel II. Switzer, pastor
of the Harrison Baptist Tabernacle Church
In Central avenue. he was not afraid to
exnress his sentiments on the case. He
said:
THE situation is ludicrous and shame
full. 1t is too bad that this happened in
Harrison. If 1t had happened across the
river or in New York much more progress
would have been made in solving the mys-
terry. The failure promptly to perform
the autopsy hindered the work of the
local police. 1t is a ringing shame to
have this town disgraced in this manner,
and I, for my part. would do all In my
power TO stir up the people SO that some
drastic action might be taken.
1T seems to me, from what l have
heard. that the murder was committed
outside Of Harrison, and the body was
brought here. l don't understand DR..
Converse's attitude. | have heard, when
one of our officials asked him when he
to perform the all-important au-
he promptly snubbed the official and
L attend to my own business in
my own time
I'VE have no chief executive In this
place and we are without a head. Had we
u man the same calibre q ) former Mayor
Joseph p. Riordan then t,fngs would have
been conducted, as far 4 j this affair is
with more eneAgy."