The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-27
CRUEL MURDER
IN new JERSEY
Body of Unidentified Young
Woman Is Found in
Shallow Pond.
CAME FROM GOOD FAMILY
TWO MEN HELD AS SUSPECTS
NO REAL CLUE.

Newark, n. J., Dec. pa murder.
combining the elements of mystery and
deliberate cruelty that took it out Of
the ordinary. was committed in Hack
sensack's meadow in the town of Har-
rison early today, and the nude body of
the victim, a COmely woman of perhaps
30 years, nearly submerged in the icy
waters of a little pond. Only the feet
projected when chance passers broke
the ice in which the exposed portions
We're encrusted and dragged the body
ashore this afternoon.
The dead woman was finely fea-
tured: her hair and nails gave evidence
of a recent and scTupulOus toilet, and
such of her clothing as was subse-
cuently found, suggested in texture and
style an owner of refinement rather
than one whose habits might lead her
to frequent the vicinity Of the crime.
The pond in which the body was
thrown is made by the overflow from
the Passaic river, and is directly across
the river from this city.
Body Is Not Identified.
The body had not been identified to-
night, and it was pretty well estab-
Iished that it was not that of a resi-
dent of this city or Harrison It's de-
scriptiOn does not correspond with that
of any woman reported to the police as
missing. Two men. who occupied a
yacht mOOred near where the body was
found. are detained by the police but
the most important clue obtained was
furnished tonight by Peter CoOgan,
Waterman employed by the Marine
Engine company, who recognized the
body as that of a woman whom he had
pany with a man early today. Later
he saw the man alone. He then car.
ried a bundle in mis- arms. The man
was short and stout. COOgan, whose
duties keep him in the neighbOrhood
of the murder, told the police:
while outdoors at 2 o'clock this
morning l saw this woman in COM
pany with a man cross the meadows,
going in the direction of the pond.
| They passed so near me that 1 am able
| to recognize the woman's features.
Some time later, perhaps an hour. the
man returned and again passed me,
this time going in the direction from
which the two had come when I first
/ saw them. This time the man was
alone. In his arms he carried a bun
die which he had not had before. In
| build, he was short and thick-set."
| COogan could not give a better de-
| scription of the man. Two girls re-
turning to their home in Harrison long
after midnight this morning heard a
woman's cry floating over the marsh
/ land. They seemed 10 come from the
direction Of the pond. and to the star
/ tied girls sounded like Spare me-" and
| Help"
| Nearer home the girls were ap-
! preached by a WeII-dressed stranger.
who accOsted and. followed them until
/ d policeman was met. when he turned
and fed. The girls had a good view
/ Of the man under an electric light and
while he was well and neatly dressed,
/ his hands showed either that he was
! accustomed to manual labor or had re-
| Gently been engaged IN work that
soilel his hands
Had Been Dead Ten Hours.
Life was extinct, according to the
/ coroner, about ten hours. A mark on
/ the neck indicated that strangulation
was the manner of death. Scratches
/ on the leg and trunk and pieces of Gin
der forced into the flesh showed that
/ the body had been dragged along a
| cinder path which skirts the pond.
| Along the path the police picked up a
/ white silk waist slashed up the back
a skirt and a pair of silk carriers. Fol-
! lowing the path the police came upon
/ the yacht Idle Hour, which was tied
| up at a point on the Passaic about 300
feet from where the body was found
On the yacht, the police say, that they
found a sealsllin muff and a fur neck
/ piece.
The occupants Of the yacht were Al
bert Thompson, Al years Of age, of
! Elizabeth, a boatman, and Frederick
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