Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-08
olice andP Prosecutor S
Office Say Man Is
Dead--Body Not at
the Morgue.
BELIEVED TO BE VICTIM
OF BLACK HAND GANG
Wounded, He Staggered to
Drug Store in Bloomfield and
Called Aid-AII Trace of Him
Is Lost.

Following the shooting of an un-
Identified man in Bloomfield, near
the Newark city line. early today, the
prosecutors office and the police OF
three municipalities conspired to
cloud the attempted murder with an
array of mysteries that has never
been equaled in Essex county.
In fact. they insist that the man
is dead, but if he is, his body has APP
parently been spirited away.
Detective Sergeant Walter Cod
frey, of Prosecutor Motifs staff, says
that it Is in Kunz's morgue, Orange.
AS matter of fact, 1t is not there
and never has been, according to
Morgue-keeper Gustave Kunz.
Not Notified Of Murder.
Furthermore. so peculiar is the
case. that not even County Physician
Mckenzie or his deputy, M. Herbert
Simmons, has been notified of this
murder.
A man riddled with bullets stag
gered up to the drug store of Joseph
C. Sale. Broad street and Bellevilla
avenue. Bloomfield, at 1:30 this morn
ing.
He made feeble effort to cry for
help and kicked the door.
| DR.. Sale heard the noise and went
| downstairs As he opened the door
the man pitched inside and groaned
| one word
| Shot"
To DIR. Sale the wounded man ap.
peared to be Pole, SO he directed
| him to the Office of DIR. T. Paczk
/ kowslSi. at 7o4 Broad street. next
door. and notified the police.
| Then the man disappeared. SO far
| at 1t is possible to discover. AL
though the prosecutors office and the
police assert that they will stake
their professional honor on the fac.
| that the man is dead, it is never
theless rumored this afternoon that
he is still alive in the Mountainside
Hospital.
But one of the queerest stories told
in connection with the mystery con-
cerned the Victims movements i'm
mediately before he was found OUT
side the drug store
The injured man wandered blindly
into the very midst of a dance given
at the Bloomfield High School in
honor of the teachers. A girls fright
ened screams attracted the attention
of the dancers to the blood-stained,
speechless spectre that had blundered
among them.
Some of the boys, not realizing that
the man was dying, directed him, 1t
| is reported, to the drug store.
The fact that the victim of the
| shooting survived so long and walked
so far is due to the intense cold
which coagulated the blood that
] poured from his wounds and stopped
| the flow.
The mantle of mystery thrown
around the case by the authorities
may be due to the fact that the shoot-
| ing is the climax of long series Ok
daring murders by a BLACK Hano'
organization operating in the nort%s
ern part of New Jersey.
Shot Five Times.
! The man is said to have hesSa sured
to the silver Lake section OF ts'tSm-
field and shot five times in Penalty
for violating some order of tas So
i ciety.
Before he died in Mountainside
| Hospital, IL lnal is Wnefe ne was
taken he is alleged to have made an
ante-mortem statement. s.
The authorities of Bloomfield and
Newark are apparently allowing only
what facts they please to become pub
lic if they know what is back of the
mystery themselves.
Here is what some of them say
Lewis NJ Cullins, chief of police.
Bloomfield 1.-The body of murdered
man was found in Soho and there is
/ some doubt whether 1t was in Belle
VILE or Bloomfield. The man was re-
moved to the hospital. The body is
now in Kunz's morgue."
Gnstaye kunz. morgue- keeper-I
have no body and have not been no-
titled to call for one
Detective Sergeant Godfrey, ot
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