The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-04-03
WOMANSOR BOYS HANDROUND
WITH 4 FOOT ~ 4 CIGAR bon
LEFT IN THE STREET.
-. r." on Q Gold slgnet Ring-"R." on
Handkerchief In German
and English Torn to BITS May BE
Alfred Felly's Hand Curse Of Drink.

HondkefCnlet-uAVNef VI sscuWA"
and English Torn to Blts s-May BE
Alfred FeIly's Hand Curse Of Drink.
Four boys playing tag on East i2Sth
street about $50 o'clock last night found
cigar box containing a right hand be-
lieved to he woman's. or perhaps boys.
on which was gold signet ring marked
"A. r." In the box was also left foot.
Coroner Holtzhauser. who examined them
later, said that in his opinion the find in
dicated murder and that the members
seemed to have been torn or hacked from
the body and not cut OF as a surgeon
would cut.
Clarence Clark found the box lying
close to the door OF vacant shop at
i7s East 125th street. He picked it up
and threw il at James Kelly. who lodged
and the box struck woman. When
it fell to the sidewalk the cover broke
open and the hand and foot fell out on
the sidewalk
They were wrapped loosely in part OF
German newspa per from which the date
line had been torn of. One OF the boys
ran around to the Fast l28th street police
station and got Detectives Curtayne and
Brennan. The detectives found crowd
gathered about the box and its contents.
which the boys had allowed to remain
where they fell.
On the third finger Of the hand was
the gold signet ring Inside the ring was
a jewellers mark a &W." The boA had
contained cigars from the factoIy OF
Theodore Muehling. Rutherford. n. J.
Coroner Holtzhauser had the hand and
foot sent to the Harlem Morgue and has
ordered Coroner's Physician O'Hanlon to
examine them
In the bottom OF the box were found
bits OF torn letter. The letter was writ
ten partly in German and partly in Eng
lish. and in a good hand, apparently that
Of @ woman. although Of this the detec-
tives and Coroner was not sure.
1t had been torn into very small bits.
A few Of these which were found together
were pieced ont to spell .curse OF drink. !"
One OF the bits contained the letters
"su-". but in the first attempt to get
sense out OF the letter puzzle the rest OF
the word could not be found.
Both hand and foot were rather long
and slender. They were wrapped partly
in white handkerchief apparently new
which had in one corner the initial r." ="
The signet ring was Of q weight worn
more often by women than by men.
The only person missing. according to
the police records, whose name has the
initials A. F." was Alfred Felly. is years
old. Of 227 West Twenty eighth street.
His mother, Leone Felly, reported to the
police on January 2 that the boy had
vanished on December %.
Mrs Felly said last night that the boy
had not come home. He had a ring on
his right hand. she said, but whether it
was a signet ring or not she couldn't Z
remember Mrs. Felly. who is French
woman. said that the boy had gone away
in answer to a newspaper advertisement
and had expected to find job in laun-
dry or in an automobile establishment.
She said that soon after the boy dis
appeared. she found, when she came home
one afternoon. four men in her rooms.
She had never seen them before and she
couldn't tell how they came to he in her
rooms. They proceeded, much to her as
Constituent. to burn incense and to drop
balls on the floor. Finally one OF them
picked up chair threw it on the floor
smashing il. and remarked in French.
"Thats the way your boy is going to 60. "
Then the men. who appeared to be French
men, went away.
The police up to | O'Clock had patched
together enough fragments of the letter
found in the cigar box TO make two SEN
tences. They were in English and read
Please excuse this writing. 1t is 30 hard
10 rif In he'd "