New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-09
Wrote to German Ambassador
Accusing Physician, and to
Police About New York Cos
tumer-Birth Marks May
Identify the Victim.
PILLOW SLIP SELLER FOUND
Embroidered Cloth in Which Torso
Was Wrapped Is Traced to
Manhattan Dealer-Whitman
Goes to Aid Of New Jer-
seq Authorities.

The beautifully formed young woman
whose torso, in two parts, was found
on the New Jersey shore. opposite
10th street, vas dismembered while
the blood still flowed warm in her
| veins.
This was revealed by the autopsy
performed at Volks Morgue Hoboken,
| Yesterday. and DR.. George w. King,
the County Physician. who was IN
| charge. asserted that the slayer was
one familiar with the human anatomy
and skilled in the use OF surgical In
| struments
Peter Sterneman, a seller OF cheap
millinery who wrote 10 the police
strange and partly incoherent letter
saving he believed the slain girl was
his daughter Ella, moved from Brook
lvn TO Jamaica Thursday. He was not
al home last night when reporter tor
The Tribune called, at No. liz Giooe
street. where he rented room from
Mrs. Mathilda Weiss.
|
dav he brought two boxes and seVerai
pieces of furniture. including bed
stead and a pine table. According 10
Mrs. Weiss these two pieces he painted
brown. When the table was examined
last night some dark brown stains
showed on the underside of the table.
| In one of the two boxes. which were
| padlocked, were found some feathers
stiffened with copper wire somewhat
/ similar 10 the milliners wire used in
tying up the torso, only 1t was olacH
| instead Of white.
New Carpenters Saw.
In another box were found a new
carpenters saw and a carpenters
chisel. with its edge slightly dented' as
If il had come in contact with very
hard wood or a still harder substance
In the same box was found mass or
dark brown paper, heavy and glazed
on one side, and a penknife. with
three-inch blade, with dark stains on II.
Mrs. Weiss said that when Sterne-
man came 10 lei HOu'N
morning he said:
"I have lust moved from Myrtle ave-
nue.. My enemies are after me IL
any one comes here. say that | don't
live here
When Sterneman read the news
papers telling of the finding Of the
torso he said to Mrs. Weiss
That is my daughter"
Mrs. Weiss said Sterneman Sunday
morning washed one of his coats his
vest. a pair OF trousers, an outer snirt
and an undershirt and a burlap paS.
The burlap bag he gave her to dry
The rest he hung out himself.
For some unaccountable reason ne
also washed some OF his stock OF white
feathers yesterday morning ana these
he hung on a chair 20 dry.
The police were looking for Sterne-
man last night, but were unable 10 ma
him.
An added element Of mystery in the
case was the discovery that Inc sfi'
who. in the course of nature. would
have been a mother in three or -FOUR
months, gave premature birth To d
child two or three days before she was
slain.
Nothing found by DR.. King or by Or.
Timothy d. Lehane, Coroners Physl-
clan of New York County. who assist
Cd in the autopsy, indicated that an IL
legal operation was performed
The murderer used no poison or
enesthetic before beginning the dread
full task of dismemberment The stofn-
ach showed no traces OF poison ana
had chloroform been used the lungs
would have revealed it.
Deliberate Murder, Says Doctor
THE woman was literally hacked TO
death" said DR.. King. IL was
brutal deliberate murder. Perhaps the
SLAYER cut her throat first. and before
life was extinct began cutting up her
body. All the physical symptoms
showed that the body was cut up while
still warm and while the blood coursed
through the veins.
Death was due TO hemorrhage.
caused by the severance of the femorai
artery. the abdominal aorta and the
carotid and brachial arteries
There was no blood in the tissues
or veins. II the murderer had waited
until the girl was dead two or three
minutes before starting TO dismember
the body there would have been blood
found in the veins and tissues, it was
said.
The police while having little TO work
on. are inclined 10 the theory that the
girl was murdered in either Manhattan
or The Bronx. There are two circum-
stances which give rise TO this belief.