The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-11
w ON a ms Thigh and
Bloodstained Under
shirt Found.
AGED ECCENTRIC
is ELM IN A TED
Two New, Important Clues Dis
covered in Search for Guilty
Parties Throw Officers on
New Trail, Which They
Expect to Follow
Successfully.
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New York. September lo.-The new
| clues discovered in connection with
| the Clnside murder mystery led the
police to believe that a solution Is in
| sight. woman's thigh was found
on the shore of Raritan Bay. at Keans-
! burg, y. J., and almost simultaneously
. a bloodstained undershirt was found
In the woods near Clinside. about a
mile from where the upper part OF the
| torso of the murdered woman was
! found.
! 1t was learned late tonight that a
mans shirt, bearing stains that ap
peared to be blood. had been sent to
the Princess Laundry al 25l5 Seventh
Avenue by a man giving the address
| OF II. Baloian. 1925 Seventh Avenue"
! L, was found that Baloian is an Ar
mcn!an carpenter about forty years
! Of age who lives part of the time on
4 small truck farm in Staten Island.
! Occasionally he occupies fiat on
| Eighth Avenue, near 147th Street, his
twenty year-old daughter acting as
/ his housekeeper He conducts cabi-
net-making shop at the Seventh Ave-
| nue. address. but has not been at the
shop for three days Neither he nor
| his daughter had been seen al the Sew
| enth Avenue fiat for several days past
! Access could not be gained to the fiat
/ to- o-night.
Descriptions Agree.
Descriptions of Baloian given by
| neighbors tailed with that Of the
/ mysterious man who purchased tar
! paper from Druggist HorwitZ last week.
! Peter Sternemann. the eccentric let
! ter writer whose sensational kidnap-
ping by two newspaper reporters pos
ing as detectives stirred the police OF
two States yesterday was practically
eliminated from the case TO day
Sternemann's. daughter, Ella, 10
Gated to-day at the home or relative
! in Fresh Pond. l.. L. She had found
employment as a domestic and did
not want her father to know where
she was living, as he had brought
about her discharge from several posi-
/ tlons In the past, because of his inter
! ference with her work.
! Sternemann was taken to the North
| Bergen morgue to-day and allowed 10
examine the two parts of the body
/ found in the Hudson. After a careful
scrutiny he said he could not be Ger
tain whether or not the body was that
of his daughter. Later in tho day the
| girl was located at Fresh Pond.
| SIN I'm Custody.
Sternemann is still in custody OF the
New York police, and Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Murphy announced to-
| night that the man would he committed
to Bellevue for observation rs to his
sanity. The man talked in a rambling
disconnected manner to-day and in
sisted from time TO time that the
murdered girl was his daughter.
| The discovery of the blood stained
undershirt was regarded by the police
as the most important clue yet de-
veloped 1t would seem to indicate
that the murder was committed on the
Now Jersey side of the river and not
| in New York. rs the police have be-
| lievcd until now.
| Following the discovery OF tho
| bloodstained undergarment, one of tho
| detectives working on the case said:
! This is the most important discov-
| cry far. ] cannot say moro about
| 1t now, but I can say this much ii
Will enable us TO solve the mystery"
| Whether or not the severed thigh
| found at Keansburg to-day is that OF
/ the Cliffsde victim VIII not be known
| until tomorrow. when it may he taken
! to the Iobollen morgue, where tho sew
cred torso is.
Cuts Made by n Saw.
Tonight the gruesome relic was cX
amined in the North Bergen morgue
| by DR.. Field. of the Monmouth Me-
| mortal Hospital DR.. Field stated tina
| there was n clean amputation of tho
| thigh at the upper end and another
amputation just below the articulation
| of tho knee joint. Both cuts were
clean. and had evidently been made by
| n saw. The severed limb is fourteen
inches in length. and Is seven inches
wide at the upper end and five inches
at the lower end. 1t was in good con
!
salt water. DR.. Field was of the Opin
ion that 1T had not been in the water
many days.
| The blood clotted undcrshirt was
| found early Saturday morning by Mrs.
| f.. H. Geomann. wife OF druggist,
whose place of business Is on Lawton
Avenue, Grantwood. Mrs. Geomann
found the garment near her doorstep
about o'clock in the morning. About
2 o'clock she said she had been awak /
| ened by the sound of n man running
or walking rapidly past the house. |
This was followed by the noise of an
automobile going at top speed. The
blood on the garment was still wet
when it was found by Mrs. Geomann.
1t. was not until to-day that she
thought of reporting tho discovery to
the police. Alongside the Geomann
store Is road leading to tho river |
front. where the first part OF the torso
was found.
Still Another Clue.
Still another clue was obtained to-
day In the form OF an inquiry by the
mother of Lucy Smeads, aged twenty. |
Of Keyport. N. j., who said she believed
the victim might be her daughter. who
had Disappeared from home on June /. |
Samuel Altman, of Richmond, Ind. |
| Is reported to be on his way to New
York to. try to identify the body as
| that of his wife, who left home on Au-
gust 20 to come to New York.