The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-18
CORPSE 3 YEARS IN A TRUNK
~ urn az ND PtRTIi MN
NIFIED ~ TINE.
Trunk Opened o., Chance Yesterday
MraShrr HAD Got Tired of storing
~ for Lewis, whom the Police Now
>rra Appears To Br u Mans Bosi,


>rra APPEARS To Br u Mans lB0d,
A trunk in ~ outward appearance
cheap and him~y and within deliberately
oontrIvcd for ia purpose and containing
an almost 'nummfi.d human body
was found yesterday afternoon in the
basement of tn. tenement at 40 West
fifty-iourth street. The trunk, so the
police were told. had lain in the basement
seven wears untouched and in another
place year before that. and its contents
are ~ condition to make ident ifcation
difficult
III. West Forty seventh street police
heard at I Is O'Clock yesterday afternoon
from Philip Meagher, a steamfitter. who
with his family occupies a fat on the third
cNcit"d when h. told Lieut. O'N.ill about
the trunk alt h"ugh he had not completely
opened At He had broken the lock and
lifted the wooden cover and had found
another trunk hut 81 metal. within
L. was Meagh.r himself who brought
Tho trunk to the tenement eight years
ago He formerly lived at 57s West
Forty seventh street Will. he was there
with The family Tor six months or So.
Lewis had brought The trunk with him
has name W Lewis in black letters
appears on the end and. Mea CHER SAYS.
had told him that j. cont aimed artists
materials Meaghsr had not learned JUS,
what TN" driver was doing with artists
materials L"wl- went away. Meagher
says and old Meagh"r ~ TAX" care II the
trunk until he ra,urned. He promised
20 ON" back and get - some day. and
asked Lewis not 10 open II
soon af'.rward LAT. in 1900, Nea CHER
and h,- family moved 10 the tenement
AZ ii" West Fitty-fourrh street and took
he 'rIun along. II remained in the |
-aru" spot IA n. cellar until vest .rday !
afternoon
H"c"nrlv MeaCher mad. arrangements
% :anV" acA.n and decided tn open the .
'r.RE hlI -n. 4 y was worth keeping .
II" smashed he ,oCk
r." '-IHk = about q feet .ong nv >
fec: =, gh ~ feet Wild" rather smaller .
'han 'hn ,-ua ,r'IE- Its Top - fiat. I
There are 'wo metal hasp~. somewhat
u.s. n and n" lock also - r1Is'.d Two
straps run around me trunk |
Inside his wooden box - s,u- oox f,
made # >h...'- -o,iere'. together III"
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'rr..-anfing "a surface. upon vhira .
na Cat -l-e' ~ &inc MAS .a!,! FOR a cover
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sal trd wp.. hen poN-- was sled vi'h
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