Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-10
STERNEMANN TO
SEE BODY TODAY
Admits New Hudson's Victim
May Not Be His Daugh-
ter Ella.

Peter Handel Sternemann, the &C.
centric itinerant millinery whole
saler, who asserts the victim of the
gruesome Hudson river mystery is
his daughter Ella, will be taken from
New York to Hoboken this afternoon
to view the parts of a woman's body
found opposite Cliffside and Wee
hawken on two days last week
Sternemann was taken to New York
early today after spending the night
in Newark, where he was brought
from Jamaica, l.. l., on the plea that
he did not want to view the remains
without a nights sleep.
While Sternemann weakened some
what In his story under much ques-
tioning and admitted that perhaps
the slain girl was not his missing
daughter, it was noted with interest
at the same time that the Sterne-
mann family lived for eighteen years
in Jersey City Heights. not far from
the place where part of the dismem-
bered body was found.
His Story Handles.
Sternemann's long tale rambled at
times. He said that he believed his
daughter might have been murdered
by persons who wanted revenge on
him because of having separated from
bis second wife.
Relatives and acquaintance of the
eccentric German were mostly of the
opinion that long series of troubles
had affected his mind, and that Ella
was keeoing away from her father be-
cause she was afraid of him.
Sees ScnIp on Chrome,
A possible clew to the missing parts
of the murder victims body was given
to the New York police today by
John Reid, Is years old, of 27s9
Eighth avenue, New York, who told
of pulling a woman s scalp out of the
water while rowing in the Staten
Island sound last Wednesday near
Chrome, N. ]. A police launch is
searching for the scalp, which the
boy threw overheard in fright as soon
as he saw what it was.
The most important development Is
the discovery that the brown moth"
paper in which the two parts of the
torso were wrapped was purchased at
the drug store of S. H. Hurwitz,
directly across the street from the
Eighth avenue store of George Sachs,
the secondhand dealer, to which de-
tectives have traced the pillow slip in
which one section of the trunk was
also enclosed.
Paper of Same Texture.
The sheets of paper found about the
body are similar in texture to those
sold by Hurwitz. He says these were
bought last week by a man who was
in a great hurry when he made the
purchase. These, he says, bore a
black printed Label
The police of Weehawken have
summoned Van Brunt Tandy, of 1855
Seventeenth street, Brooklyn, to APP
pear before Recorder James Terrier in
the Weehawken Police Court today as
a result of a story told by an Erie
gateman and Mrs Albert Sternecke,
wife of a Weehawken drug store
keeper.
They reported that red auto
mobile was speeding so fast on Satur-
day night that it crashed through the
Erie railroad gates. The police be-
lieVe that an automobile might have
been used to take the dismembered
body to the river.
An Erie gateman caught the NUM-
Der of the automobile as 1880 New
York. That number, the police found,
belongs to an automobile owned by
Tandy. He stoutly asserted that some
mistake must have been made and
that he could readily prove an alibi.