The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
Identity of Murdered Woman Is Established
SEARCHING FOR MURDERER
Some Slight Clews Have Been Found Which May Lead to the Discovery of the Man Who Killed
 Agnes o'keefe.

New York, December 2S.-( -(Special.)- A double Identification of the victim of the Jersey swamp murder, curiously effected today. makes 1t practically cer- tain that the woman was Agneb O'Keefe, sometimes known as Mrs. An nie Nevins.
 As Mrs. Annie Nevins. she was posi- lively identified this morning in the Harrison morgue by Mrs. Margaret Wright of Mont Clair, to whom the woman had applied recently for position as housek eeper. As Anges O'Keefe, she was with equal certainty identified an hour later by Detective Sergeant Drabell of Orange, where the detective declares she was employed as domestic in several families up to year and a half ago.
 The curious circumstances which ap- parently unite these conflicting identi- fications are these:
 As Agnes O'Keefe, a woman resem- bling in every way the victim of this Christmas night tragedy was employed
 
 Nevins, a wealthy contractor, who has since died in Ireland. Annie Nevins, niece of the contractor, and Agnes 0Keefe were fast friends during all the time that the latter lived in Orange, and it is regarded as not unlikely that when she left there, inasmuch as she had had trouble in retaining positions, she adopted the name of her friend in beginning new life elsewhere.
 Applies For Position.
 It was as Mrs. Annie Nevins that a woman, again resembling in every te- spect this victim of the swainp mur- der. applied to Mrs. Wright in Mont Clair for position, Mrs. Wright behg at the head of an employment agency there. She told Mrs Wright that her home was in Brooklyn, but that recent ly she had been keeping house for two men in Newark. She was attired pre- cisely as the woman who lies dead at the morgue, and Mrs. Wright identified the garments today before she looked at the body. She gave no address when she went away.
 Tonight detectives were securing Brooklyn, Newark. Orange and the near by towns for traces of either Annie Nevins or Agnes O'Keefe, but without result. And even if this dauble bar reled Identification shall prove to be correct the mystery which surrounds the crime Is not q whit nes.rer solution, for no hint of the identity of the mur- derer has been forthcoming up to tn e present time.
 Following the gruesome procession of garments that have been picked up within half a mile of the spot where the body was found. the seal cap un- doubtedly worn by the victim, was located today under the bank of tn @ Passaic near the Acetylene works. It Is a simple skull cap with two feath- CTS fixed at the front and rolls on either side which may be drawn down over the ears for protection against severe weather There was nothing about 1t to aid in the Identification save the fact that 1t matched the muff which the scene of the crime has al- ready given up.
 Little Trinket Found.
 Nearby also was found a simple little trinket in the shape of heart-a device wrought of mother-of-pearl with the let ter IS" twisted across the front in thick gold wire It may have belonged to the victim of the tragedy or some other woman thoughtessly treading the same ground may have dropped it. It was placed among the other relics.
 The final find of the day of the mur- der was mud-stained and torn fragment of a letter torn directly In half. with the signature missing and the salutation even so blurred that it is practically flleglblc. The letter Is addressed to My dear Cora" or My dear Cousin" and so much of 1t as can be made out reads as follows:
 and thank God to help you. You may yet be saved and thus restored to your loved ones. Now think seriously of these words. Pray earnestly over your future. God is good and I know
 There is no more of 1t that can be made out.
 As yet nothing has been done by the county health officers to determine def- nitely the cause of the woman's death so that the police are seriously handicapped In their search for the murderer.
 Piece of Evidence.
 The day brought forth another striking piece of evidence, however. which tonight was being very closely investigated by the proper authorities. Four men, all reputable residents of Harrison, at s o'clock Christmas night returning from Newark, saw near the Pennsylvania rall- road station at Harrison. canvas cover ed wagon turn out of Fourth street Into the rough road which leads across the dump down to the embankment over which the woman's body was thrown.
 On the strength of the information thus secured. reporters yesterday followed the tracks of a wagon along this path, across the refuse heaps and drawn to a point about 100 yards from the fatal spot. There a curious discovery was made. The wagon tracks described loop. indicating that the wagon had come to a stop. and had then been turned around slowly. This clew is being followed, the idea being that the murder was committed some distance from where the body was found