Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-28
THE JERSEY MYSTERY
DEATH OF UNKNOWN WOMAN
IS STILL UNSoLvED.

NEWARK, N. J., December 2s.ETne
Lamp Black Swamp mystery, involving
the death of the woman whose nude body
was found in pond near Harrison. SEEM
ed no nearer solution today than 1t was
on Thursday, when the body was taken
from the water. Not only are the police
completely in the dark as to the identity
of the woman and the person or persons
who killed her, but they do not even know
the cause of the victims death. Three
small boys looking around the scene of
the crime came upon a brooch pin near
where one-half of the woman's jacket
was found. The pin was a mother-of-
pearl affair about an inch and half
long. and three.quarters of an.inch wide.
On it was the letter So formed with a
small gold wire. The brooch was turned
over to the police.
The body was positively identified today
by another man. who said he had seen
the woman in Newark on Christmas eve.
His description of the woman before he
viewed the body tailed exactly with that
the police have made up. The new identi-
fer said he was Thomas Flanagan, an
elevator man in Bamberger's dry goods
store. on Broad street. Newark. The
woman, he said. entered his car about s
o'clock on Tuesday evening. She rode up
and down with him once and then asked
him If she might remain on the car for
while, as she had an appointment to
meet a man there. He agreed and she
rode up and down until 9:30 O'Clock. Then
she said she had given up all hope of her
Friends arrival and left to go into the
store. While she was on the car she
seemed very nervous.
Flanagan says that he quit work at
11:15 o'clock and went to a Chinese res
taurant on Mulberry street near Market.
He saw the woman there, and asked her
If she had-foundj her friend. She replied
that she had not, and asked to be direct
ed to a German restaurant. Flanagan
mentioned two. and the woman left, say
ing that she would go to one of them,
and that she might meet there the man
she expected to see.
Officials Have Hopes.
About the only hope the officials en-
gagged on the case have thus far received
in their attempts to establish the identity
of the murder victim came today, when
the manager of an employment bureau
said she recognized the body as that of
a woman who had sought work several
weeks ago.
Mrs Margaret Wright. who has an en-
ployment office at Montclair, n. j., said
she is certain the body in the morgue is
that OF a woman who called at her Office
early In December and gave her lame
as Annie Nevins. The applicant gave no
address, but said she had been employed
as a housekeeper n Brooklyn. and want
ed similar position in Newark or Mont
clair. The woman never returned 20 the
| office after the first visit. nor was any
word received from her
The identification made by Mrs. Wright
| is not accepted as positive by the po-
| lice however. The hands OF the dead
woman had been carefully cared for and
showed no traces of rough work of any
kind.
1t is believed that an anonymous let
| ter which reached New York police
| headquarters today may be of Material
aid in establishing the womans identity
The writer of the letter said he was
certain the murder victim was a Miss
| Smith. who at one time was employed
rs telephone operator at the Hotel
Grard, in West 44th street. NV York
sity The writer said she was known
to have had trouble with a man in New
ark No one who knew Miss Smith has
yet visited the morgue. but detective
who went to the Hotel Girard with a
description of the dead woman was told
| that it answered very closely the ap-
pearance Of the fomer telephone opera,
| tor.