The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-01-03
WHERE WoMAN'S BODY WAs
| FoukD--PoLicE HAVE cLEW
70 MYSTERY.
STRANGER BOARDED CAR
Night Of Tragedy Near Spot Where
Some Garments Were Found
Two soafmen Are
unds~xAgrest.

Prosecutor vickers, Of Hudson coun.
Itys will undertake tomorrow the task
4 OF draining the stagnant pool II
Lamp Black swamp. where the body
of the victim Of the Christmas eve
tragedy was found. The work or
dragging the Passaic river frcm Cen
ter street bridge to the Pennsylvania
railroad bridge. witt be. begun.
i II IL believed thar the shoes, corset
and rnder garments Of the mysteri0us
unknown may thus be located and
some progress thus made III hev
identity Particularly III the hnlsr of
making find In the river Just on tTs
Center street dock where the skirt
was picked up. Charles voeltz. who
discovered this garment IN the water.
declares that as he took II out some.
thing heavy fell from the folds OF the
skirt and sunk back into the water
This may have been the missing
shoes, or 1t may have been pocket
book or bag carried by the woman
Similarly, In the pool where the body
was found. II is thought some vaiu
able clew may be ;ocated. Mr.. Fick
ers announced today that he would
leave no tsone unturned 10 solve the
mystery,
Among the things Mr.. vickers has
IN hand III the attempt To verify the
story OF Albert Thompson, one OF the
i boatmen under arrest that his wife.
whom Rachael Richardson of England
lsays came 10 America with him four
Years ago, d nwdbom Thompson says
Is now IN New Zealand. Impcrtaat
communication from New zea'aad
are expected within day or two.
II Az the facts In the case are HIftel
down. II becomes more and more aI,-
lrarent every day that the woman
was killed within circle no close to
the Idle Hour, on which Thompson
and Frederick Kirkman spent Christ.
mas eve. that II is practical imposRi-
bilIty for them not TO have heard the
outcries she must have made.
Acting independently OF the county
prosecutors Office, the Harrison pcos
pie have decided to call Mrs. Hull be-
fore them once more for further ex-
| animation as TO her statements that
| the woman in the morgue is really
Mary Jeanette CASTOR. her longlost
half sister.
Dispatches from Knoxville. Tenn.
tonight said that telephone messa~e
from Servila. Tenn. where Mrs Hull
located her sister. declared that no
one there ever heard of CASTOR
The place is a little mountain town.
about thirty miles from Knoxville. A
hotel proprietor IN the place. who
claimed to know every one in the
county, said he had never heard cs
the family name.
The first clue to the murder was OBJ
tanned late tonight when Theodrrs
volz. responsible Newark business
man, informed the police that at 4:45
O'Clock on Christmas morning a man
appearing under great excitement
boarded car on Broad and Market
streets in Newark. On the left side
OF his face werc Eve freshly made
scratches, from which the blood was
still oozing The left side OF his hat.
coat and trousers was covered with
thick swamp mud and cinders. as
we're also his shoes, and his hands
we're similarly stained
The man gazed furitively around
the car from time to time. and II was
observed that his general appearances
was untidy. he was more anxious TO
remove all OF the soil from beneath
his finger nails. at which he iabored
with a pocketknife all the time be
was In the car.
The man offered the conductor a
torn bill in payment OF hts fare and
when the conductor declared he had
M change. the stranger drew from
another pocket a big roll cf bills srl
rendered a SO note. The conductor
still declining to take the money. th-
man then said:
We'll. maybe you will take this.
then" and exhibited a vomsn's ring
with a stone about a half karat in
weight in II. He rode as far as Breaf
ailghted. and may have sought a
room IN one Of ths many cheap icdz-
Ing houses In that neiehborhcod. Or
NAV have taken a Deiaware. Lacka-
wanna and westera train. the STATEN
Of which is near AZ hand.
Broad and Market streets. vhere
the man first boarded the train =
rot more than Ave miuutes' wax
from Center street bridge. which Is
the shortest cutoff from the spot
where the body vss found.
The Harrison police tonight a.
serted belief thar this man vas the
assassin Of the woman and that he
was escaping from the scene II bis