New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-13
|CLOSE TO GIRLS SLAYER
Partial Identification Made of
Body Found in Pond.
IN. Y. DETECTIVES IN CASE
Mysterious Trunk May Have
Contained Liquor for Illicit
Sale, They Say.
fBy Telegraph to The Tribune.

tBy Telegraph to The Tribune.
Georgetown. Conn, Nov. i2.-Detectives
Wood and Michelli, from the Central
Office squad of the New York Police De-
partment, Joined the Connecticut state
| police to-day In their efforts TO solve the
mystery OF the murder OF the woman
| found floating In pond here last Satur-
day. The New York detectives went over
every inch OF the ground already covered
BY the state men. After days WORK
they announced that they had made no
progress either in determining the dead
womans identity or in discovering any
thing which might lead TO running down
her slayer.
IL was for time thought the some
| light on the woman's identity would de-
velop from a visit OF Ernest Dallas a
/ relative OF woman thought to be miss
ing from New Haven. Dallas viewed the
body OF the dead woman carefully. and
said she bore some resemblance to Grace
| Carbone, a woman OF his family who was
held as a white slave" by a notorious
underworld character OF New Haven, but
he was not certain owing TO the condition
OF the dead womans face. He found that
the dead woman's teeth were much the
same as those OF Grace Carbone. as he
remembered them.
According TO the story told by Dallas,
this woman had threatened TO break
away from the man. who said he would
send her home I'm a box to her mother"
Shortly after this the woman dropped
from sight, and as far as her relatives
ha NOT
The point that brought the New York
detectives into the case was the shipment
OF a trunk from New York to two Ital-
ians In Georgetown II was at first
, thought that this trunk might have con-
tanned the murdered woman's body. but
further investigation convinced the detec-
tives that 1t had nothing to do with the
case. They said, however, that they
would not drop their Investigations into
the trunk until they completely eliminated
ii from any possible connection with the
murder. They repeated to-day the belief
that the trunk must have contained liquor
for Illicit sale. and therefore they were
DESTROYS OF tracing all OF its movements
After making an examination OF the
FOND where the woman's body was found
the detectives spent several hours going
through all the houses OF nearby Italians
and in interviewing the occupants. They
found them all extremely reticent. appar-
emily laboring under the fear that should
they say anything their own lives would
be forfeited Although the police an
nounced yesterday that they had found
the mysterious trunk they said to-day
that they had been in error on this point.
and that it's present whereabouts is I'M
known to them.
They did find. however, a man who said
the trunk was brought to his house by
two Italians last Friday. The Italians
said they wanted to rent a room from
him. and left the trunk at his house.
II had been there for only three hours
when they called again and took IL away.
When the detectives attempted TO get
from this man more specific statement
as TO what he knew about the trunk. he
became reticent apparently being afraid
TO tell all he knew From other persons
something was learned as to the con-
tents OF the trunk. but the police are
protecting the sources OF their informa-
ton lest the fear OF death seal their
lips also