New-York tribune., 1907-12-30
DIED FROM DROWNING.
AUTOPSY ON VICTIM.
Doctors Say Young Woman I" as
JusensibIe When ThrO7cn Into roma.

. as nerforrned yesterday afternoon
on the body of the young woman louiiN 0i -,
dsv tn q pond in Harrison. n j. III fefe"'ou -.
d.a.b had been caused by drowning In aooi'io, %
=. ,t,s the examination showed that before oea'h
che woman had been hit twice with d piuH' n ~
e.runent back of the right ear IheSe Oo"7' -
,hvsicians said we're Of sufficient force 'o e-I0
the victim unconscious. An examination oi '1'
- - -hou,ea so the doctors said. that. WINE
the woman had been addicted TO the use OF aleoio
she had not been hard drinker- IL. 20
Tho oninion Of the physicians and the pohce OF
Harrison is that the autopsy goes iohs w.
,ovrara sl,pportinz the dentifcations made ny Mi9
Margaret Wright employment agent OF nune- ,'
clair who said she knew IN woman as M
Annie Nevins' and OF Detec' - sergeant 'oiiN
Drabeil of Orange. who said thu ,omah "as Asn
o'Keefe at Inn employed = ,Tahse 81 " ~
r,,.s,,c According TO Drahcl. tn O heeie woman
,.,.S remarkable for he clcSe application 4 hei
duties bat she went au occasional spree ~ =
on the theory that the woman IS agnes - N0ei'
the police working. -.
The statements made by Peter Coogan a night
rvatchnan at the Marine Engine Works. at Isl
street and Railroad avenue, GEAR tie scene oi '"e
,,,rder wer. strengthened according 10 the poiice'
hy the result of the autoIgy toegan tod lie
police about seeing woman answering the "o
scription of the dead woman pass MIN. accom-
NAMED by q rnaa and go in the direction OF the
nona In which the body was discovered mat
uss on Christmas night about 1870 O'Clock Two
hours y he saw the same man return aiohe'
carryins a IEIndle and going toward Newark
The autopsy was performed in Bernard Naish :
n,orsfe sn ztlh street throng of morbldly Gu
rious men, women and children blocked all streets
leading to the Tnorgue There were present at the
sutopsv DR. c H Schultz. of the United Labora-
1ories Company of No. IS East 42d street, Man
haitian: County Physician Charles 5. Converse,
Deputy County Physician Henry Alters, of HarFi-
son: DR. ArtlrursA Mulligan ana Coroner Chauncey
V Runrlell who VIII preside at an inquest on
Friaay night Parts of the body were taken away
There were thousands who visited the scene OF
the crime yesterday. They arrived from all parts
Of the state reached by the local and Hudson
County trolley systems, and many went there from
but as they arrived in the afternoon they could
rot because Of the autopsy. Around the morgue
there was such a throng the Harrison police had
their hands full preventing the crowd from burst
ing in and obtaining a view of the body by force.
The doctors began work at O'Clock and worked
Until after o'clock. Two abrasions were found al
the base of the skull hack of the right ear. The
lungs showed she had breathed after being struck
and after her head thrust into the water They
were well filed with water and with the sediment
of ashes which had been stirred up as the body
went into the water.
Miss Alice NJ Harvey a trained nurse, formerly
of East Orange. N j, and recently employed IN
White Plains whose at one time brought
in as the possible murder victim, is stin being
sought by the police. She disappeared on Christ
mas DAY. after receiving letter which seemed TO
trouble her.