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

Crane. 10 years old, of-Sa Broad street
this city. tell his story of how he dis
! covered the nude body Of the murdered
) woman. Young Crane says he is employed
: In Lawyer Bigg's Office In the Flat Iron
Building, Manhattan. His story to an
EVENING STAR man is as follows:
Il don't know the exact date, but !
think 1t was about FIVE days prior to
Christmas. 1t was showing, and I was
sitting in Asa Haskins's repair sheds, at
the foot of First street, Harrison. We
were looking out of a window up First
street, when we saw Peter Coogan, night
Waterman at the Marine Engine works,
with another man coming towards Has
kins's dock The other man carried a
satchel, / think you call it a telescope.
He had it on his shoulders. and Coogan
was talking to him. They passed along
to the Idle Hour boat and later I learned
that the new arrival was named Kirk
man, and that he was a friend of Thomp-
son, owner of the boat.
On Thursday last l went down TO Mr..
~Haskins's place, and thought there might
be some ice in the creek. When I got
over TO the edge of the bank of the dumps
l saw legs sticking out of the water. I
ran back to the Idle Hour, meaning to go
10 MI. Haskins's, when / saw Thompson
picking up drift wood. / told him what
mad seen and he said, Let's go and
look. We went over and both of us
pulled the body out. She was lying on her
lace and her arms were outstretched.
There were scratches on her pack and we
Threw water on the body TO clean the
dlrt off. 1t was [ who suggested going
Tor the police, and Thompson said he
would stay there. He was in his shirt
sleeves. When 1 got back Kirkman was
sta!lding there, That's all l know
cranes statement, that he saw Coogan
with kirkman, tallies with the story told
ny the prisoner, who said that If 1t had
not been for Coogan ne would never have
been able to find his friend Thompson.
Asa Haskfns, when seen and asked about
Crane, said:
He is a young lad who works around
mere off n on. tie worked for me
prior to Christmas and earned $3.50. He
ana no work Christmas week. He only
worked for spending money, and when
not employed by me ran brands FOR his
motner. III he works in a lawyers office
ne never let me know, and l never knew
him to do anything except tinker around
mere. He has not been here since last
thursday, but then that Is nothing I'M
usual
When Thompson was asked how the
woman's sealskin muff came to be on his
boat, he said that he had been. out getting
1873 FVobs II iOunu II on the S0OTP. The
stole, he said, had been picked up by a
man named Miller.
Today an EVENING STAR man learned
something of this man. He Isl Harry
Miller, who lives with a sister somewhere
IN HARRISON. when he Is in the town. He
Is employed on the oyster boat Isabelle,
owned by Jack Ke1ett, and the boat Is
moored off Clay street, Newark. Miller
was in the vicinity OF Haskin's courthouse
Yesterday hmf tho Ioooi o41a-t4f1. t...-
not had time to quiz Miller.
President John j. DAILY. Of the Harrison
Town Council, was advised by Michael IT.
Barrett, the towns legal adviser, today
that the authorities could offer a reward
for the arrest Of the murderer. although
there was no special provision for it.
Mr.. Barrett advised him to await the Of
fetal report Of DIR. Converse as to the
actual cause of death. and as to whether
this crime was committed in Harrison. A
special meeting will be called II the MUIR
der is officially declared to have occurred
in Harrison.
When Hudson County Physician Con-
verse arrived in Harrison yesterday after
noon to perform the long-delayed autopsy
he found such a big crowd In front OF
Walsh's morgue that he quietly slipped
into the place through a side door He
was accompanied by Dr. Otto II. Schultz,
head of the United Laboratories in New
York city, who stands high in his profess
sion; Deputy County Physician Henry AL
lers and DR.. A. A. Mulligan, both OF
Harrison. DR.. Schultz conducted the OPP
erations. The autopsy was begun at $3.50
O'Clock and lasted till after 5 o'clock.
None Of the officials would tell what the
autopsy had revealed, but an eye witness
TO the autopsy said to an EVENING
STAR man:
The examination disclosed positively
that 1T was a case of murder. Wounds at
the base OF the skull told how the woman
had been foully dealt with. Her tongue
showed that when she was attacked she
either was in the act of speaking or cry
ing out, for the imprints of her molars
were distinctly seen in the centre of her
tongue. Her throat, filled with pieces of
cinders, may prove a good clue If followed
up. The cinders and dirt were either
placed in her mouth to stife her cries or
they got there when she was dragged over
the dumps. head down That she was
alive when cast into the creek is certain
beyond all contradiction. Her lungs prove
this. There was water in them"
The informant said that the physicians
admitted in their discussions that the dead
woman had never been a mother. There
was doubt as to whether she had been
assaulted. Portions Of her body were taken
to the laboratories, where they will be
chemically analysed. There will be no re-
port from this part of the proceeding for
several weeks.
Investigating the unusual phenomenon of
bright red blood flowing from the body OF
a woman who had been dead for four
days, the physicians found two bruises on
the back of the head near the base of the
skull. Close examination brought to light
sufficient evidence to warrant the ply
sicians in believing that the bruises from
which the blood flowed had been caused
by two blows from a blunt instrument,
eithtr of which, 1t was thought, would
have been sufficient to render the victim
unconscious for possibly some minutes,
and maybe hours.
A slight cut was also found on the back
of the head. The cut had apparently been
caused by a Jagged piece of glass or a dull
instrument. 1t did not penetrate the skull.
An examination was then made of the
eye to determine whether or not death
had been caused by a stab from a hatpln
or e similar weapon forced through under
the eye TO the brain. No evidence was
found to warrant the physicians In the be-
lief that the victim had met her death
in this manner, and the scalp was then
replaced While al examination of the body
was made.
If WINS found that mona of +ba limbs had