Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-30
DEATH STILL MYSTERY
IDENTITY OF MURDERED JER-
sEY WOMAN UNREvEALED. d.

NEWARK, N. j., December 30-Al-
though hundreds Of persons have viewed
the body of the young woman who was
murdered and thrown into a pond In
Harrison Christmas night. her identity
has not yet been determined positively.
Nor, SO far as can be learned. has any
definite progress been made by the po-
Nice In their effort to apprenend the per-
son or persons responsible for the
woman's death.
Two men who were taken into custody
Immediately after the body was found.
are still under restraint, but they are
held merely as suspicious persons, and
no direct charges in connection with the
death have been made against them.
Practically every effort of the officials
engaged upon the case is now being exert
ed toward Identification of the body. Hav-
ing accomplished that they feel that they
then would have something tangible to
work upon. In the present condition.
with no known motive for the crime and
with no knowledge whatever of the habits
or associates of the woman, they con-
fess to be completely at sea.
The only real hope of the officials at
least Is based upon a mother-of-pear pin
and letter addressed to Cora" and found
on the shore of the pond where the body
had been concealed.
A man who visited the morgue late last
night said he was searching for missing
woman. whom he described as Cora S.
declining to give her full name. He had
read Of the finding of the letter and PIN
he said, and was thus led to look at the
body lying in the morgue. His descrip-
ton of Cora s." was remarkably like
that of the dead woman, and when he was
admitted and looked at the body he fell in
a faint He was taken away by friends
before he had recovered sufficiently to
make statement
Many Visit Morgue.
Whether he had recognized the body as
that Of the woman he sought or had been
overcome by the grewsome sight Of the
murdered woman, is not known. Among
those who waited all day long outside the
morgue yesterday for an opportunity to
get inside and see the body was man
from Brooklyn, who said the description
of the dead woman was very like that of
his divorced wife. He declined to give
his name when he left last night after be-
ing unable to gain admittance to the
building, but said he would return again
today.
So great is the crowd which has been
attracted to the place where the body is
lying that the police have found 1t neces-
sary to question very loosely those who
seek admittance to the building
The police are convinced that many of
the visitors are actuated solely by morbid
curiosity. 1t was expected that the num-
Der Of callers at the morgue today would
be fully as large as yesterday, as many
messages have been received from men
and women in various parts of New York
New Jersey. Pennsylvania and other
states. saying that they would arrive to-
day to look at the uody.
Owner Of Yacht Held.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEWARK, N. j., December 3O.-At the
request of County Prosecutor Spier. Judge
Branegan in the Harrison court today
held for further examination Albert
THOMPSON, the owner of the yacht Idle
Hour. near which the body of the woman
who was murdered in Lamp Black swamp
was found, and Frederick Kirkman, who
worked for him. Mr.. Spier said that he
had received information which he wanted
the detectives to investigate. He said
that he also wanted to have conference
with Dr. Converse, the county physician.
This conference, he said, would be held
late this afternoon.
Another search of the Idle Hour was
mad. today by the detectives, and pa
were examined. Facts CLEANED from them
tended to contradict the story that
Thompson has told the police The yacht
owner had said that he was never mar
ried One letter was apparently from
his son, o. Thompson, who lives In Aus
tralia. The writer said that on the day
of sending the letter he was twenty years
old.
Another letter. written N 1906. was from
a woman in England. who signed herself
Rachael B. This spoke of the writer's
intention to join Thompson here as soon
as possible. Thompson has said that
he had nothing to do with women for
eight ten wears,