The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-19
MYSTERY WITH A BONE IN IT
KEEPS BRONX CRIWINOLOGISTS
BUSY on a DULL SUNDAY.
1rhey Hsd TIE spot Marked y 10 start From
and worked Back to n Again without
Achieving Even q Respectable Theory
-MOrwue Has what Corpus There ".

Iihey HAT the spot Marked y 10 start kreln
and Worked Back 10 n Again without
Achieving Even q Respectable Theory
-Morwue Has what Corpus There ".
The Bronx police, Coroners. newspaper
men and amstcur detectives had some
thing 70 do after ell on what cooked like
the dullest Sunday ever. It all onme about
through a very innocent act OF Nathan
Guesmsn. Nathan is ianitor Of a fiat
house at 1893 Washington avenue. He
makes a point every night Of pulling down
the dumbwaiter to see about the garbage.
Saturday night he was an hour later than
usual. and didn't get at IL until half-past
8. The dumbwaiter was clear up 20 the
top floor. When he pulled Il down right
there on top Of il was the Mysterious Bundle.
Guesmsn picked up the Mysterious Bum
die. IL was heavy. Perhaps there were
carpenter tools in IL. thought Guesman.
But no. when he had peeled on an after
noon paper OF The date of August II, which
was serving as a wrapper. he discovered
a bone.
As Guesman himself says, q bone Ia q
zone to him. But there was something
about this bope-even the %janitor doesn't
know what it was about it--that made him
UNI in tiO ~ thV bo'hoi "
his expert opinion. The butcher examined
the bone closely and finally decided that
II had never belonged to any OF the animals
with which he In familiar. So tho %jsnitor
called in a policeman and the policeman
called in n doctor Of the neighborhood and
all hands fell to work. The doctor placed
the bone alongside OF human bones in his
collection. and sure enough it Tailed with
Sha r,uks thluh hanA - m aA,xlt ht,v,aH
being
The policeman called up his precinct
the Bathgsts avenue station-snd Capt.
Sam Price OF the Bronx detective bureau
got busy too. Then Coroner Schwannecke.
who was over on his boat anchored near
City Island. was notified, and yesterday
Capt. Price had Detective Riloline or the
job; the precinct police furnished plain
clothes mon canine and Fagin and the
Coroners' Office was represented by DR..
Curtin.
The police went over the Washington
avenue building questioning all available
members of the twenty-one families. They
went to the roof and looked for blood
stains. although the doctors who examined
it said the bone had been out of its natural
habitat for from three months to a year.
The newspaper was carefully tied up for
further investigation. The physicians said
Niibt btlo bOtt I'M Ocob bOtAg AAu DtIRPCd
after the manner In vogue among medical
students, but there doesn't seem to be a
medical student in the neighborhood.
And there you are. Nobody ever wants
the bone now. The police thought the
Coroner ought 70 keep 10 in his office, but
the clerk there couldn't sec IL TINT way,
and IL was finally taken as q last resort TO
the Fordham morgue. The detectives
searched the building in vain for other
portions OF q BODY. There wasn't even
another bone in sight, And this one O
been scraped 30 clean that IL told no tales.
The problem has resolved itsef into this:
Given a thigh Don and a newspaper with
hysterical headlines. What's the answer
At latest accounts the police don't know;
the C~oroner's ONCE doesn't know. and
even the Bronx newspaper reporters. who
have Imagination IL nothing else. don't
know. There was a strong suspicion in
the mind Of some yesterday that II was a
plant but who planted il and why re-
mains 10 be explained. Janitor Guesman
and the n do not always agree. any
more than other ~janitors and other tenants
but why should Guesman play such a grew
joke on the people upstairs. OF why |
should they on himf There's a stioker for |
you. It's certain the police didn't plant IL, |
for they have 20 work on the case through
the hot spell. And finally the newspaper
men didn't plant it or there would be- more
details than there are.
OF course. the investigators haven't
given up vet. and there are a lot Of deduc- |
tons and differences and suspicious and
things to be run to ea<th. But for all that
il does look very much as IL another Bronx |
had been gotten away with