Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-31
TWO MEN SEEN
WITH CADAVER
MURDER MYSTERY DEEPENS
IN NEW YORK
Shakeup In Police Circles Follows
Failure of Officers to Reveal
ldentlty--Wltnesses Make
Revelation
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July S0.-That at least
two men were concerned in the murder
of the unidentified woman whose half
charred and acid scared body was
found In the Green Point avenue dump
ing ground, in williamsburg, BROOKLYN
early yesterday morning. was estao-
lished today by the police
Philip O'Brien, a laborer OF Great
Point, saw a covered wagon drive 10
the dump at dawn yesterday. TWO men
got out and lifted from the wagon what
the witness supposed to be only an OLD
mattress. He saw the men pile a heap
of brush on the mattress. pour oil over
1t and set fire to the bundle. Believing
the mattress was being destroyed be-
cause it was disease infected, the man
avoided the spot.
There is little doubt that the mat
tress is the one in which the BODY or
the murdered woman was concealed,
This led to the discovery that the COW
cred wagon was seen by several other
persons, and the police now have
minute description Of the two men
They were foreigners.
Seen by Woman
The wagon was seen by a Mrs. Muir
ray, who lives in the neighborhood. IL
was seen going to the Green Point ferry
by another witness, and the gate
keeper at the ferry remembers check
ing such wagon with two men IN II
when the ferryboat Alaska made an
early morning trip to East Twenty-
third street, Manhattan.
Another feature of the case was dis
closed when a physician, DR.. Wuest,
made a second autopsy upon the corpse.
His first autopsy revealed deep cut
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autopsy shows that this cut was made
by a person who is expert in surgery.
The incision, says the coroner's ply
sician, is such as is made in desperate
cases of diphtheria, where 1t is neces-
sary to pierce the windpipe to prevent
strangulation. Whether this wound
caused death or not. DR.. Wuest is un-
prepared to say.
VIII AnaIyze Stomach
Dr. Wuest will make a careful analy-
sis of the stomach to discover whether
drug was administered. Besides the
incision in the woman's throat, her
skull was fractured and the police be-
lieve that poison may also have been
used to make thrice sure of her death:
Failure to establish the identity OF
the victim is the greatest obstacle the
police have to overcome. A general
alarm has been sent out for Mrs. Ma
mie Muskovitch and her husband Stan
ley, who have disappeared.
Detectives learned that the couple
are missing, and there is possibility
that the murdered woman may be Mrs.
Muskovitch. Muskovitch and his wife
left Green Point last Monday, suppos-
edly for Stamford, Conn, and Mrs.
Muskovitch has not been seen since.
Her husband returned to Green Point
Tuesday alone, it is said.
Because of the action of the police
men attached to the Hamburg avenue
station in Brooklyn following the
finding of the body of Barbara REIN,
Police Commissioner Bingham today
transferred all the lieutenants and
sergeants and fifty-six of the one hun
dred and two patrolmen who were at
tached to that station.
David H. Shellard, patrolman con-
nected with the Hamburg avenue sta
ton, Is under arrest charged with
shooting Miss REIN. 1t has been
charged that, although many of the
policemen connected with that station
knew her well, none of them disclosed
her identity for considerable time
after the finding of the body
The report that the policemen of that
station have contributed sum of
money to defend Shellaro Is believed
to have actuated the commissioner in
making the transfers. Although cor
oner's Jury has declared after an in
quest that Barbara REIN killed her
self, Shellard has not been released.