The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-10
POLICE OF NEW
YORK ON TRAIL
OF MURDERER
Officers Have Followed
With Some Degree of
Success Cold Trail Left
BY Parties Who Skilfully
Cut Up Victim And Sank
Body.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.


New York, Sept 9.-The cold trail
of the murderer who skillfully cut UP
his victim and sunk her body in the
Hudson river less than ten days ago
led detectives today to the second hand
svore of George Sachs on the upper
west side. There was sold the pillow
with the fancy red and blue ticking in
which a portion of the slain girls body
was found. A middle-aged woman,
stout and poorly dressed, bought 1t last
April.
The hunt narrowed today to search
for this woman, Who she is ard where
she ifves were questions a. swarm OF
detectives set themselves to answer.
The pillow was traced directly to her
because the manufacturer had made
only a dozen of its kind, had sold that
dozen to Sachs, and Sachs had sold
only two. One of these was accounted
for; the other went to the woman
sought by detectives.
The river had yielded this morning
no further members of the Victims
body and identification was still guess
work. Until the head is found or the
woman who bought the pillow, identi-
hcation probably will be impossible.
MANY STORIES TOLD.
Stories of girls missing from home |
attorneys Office since the murder came |
to light. There were two instances, |
however, in which detectives were in !
terested above all others. One was |
the case Of Ella Sternemann, missing |
a year, whose father is the author of |
several incoherent letters sent to the |
pcrgue keeper and the district attor-
ney. Sternemann himself has disap-
peared and is sought to tell more Of
his conviction that the slain girl was
his daughter.
The long vigil of detectives at
home was rewarded by
his appearance He was led away by |
detectives, no one seemed to know
where.
The other case is that of Jeannette
Norman, vaudeville actress employed
at local vaudeville park. She dis
appeared on August 81. That is the
date of the newspaper wrapped about
the second portion of the torso. Indi-
cations that the slain girl was an ac-
tresg have caused the police to insti-
tute a general search for Miss Nor
mar.
TO IDENTIFY VICTIM.
The police and the newspapers con-
tinued today to bend their efforts
towards establishing the identity of the
]
were found on Friday and Sunday on
the New Jersey shore of the Hudson
river.
The strongest clue yet turned up Is
the discovery that the pillow ticking
IN which one portion of the girls torso
was found was sold by George Sachs,
who runs a second-h hand furniture store
1t the corner Of Eighth avenue and
l47th street From the factory in
Newark where the pillow was made. 1t
was further learned that the only sale
Of this peculiar style of pillow thus far
aad been made to Sachs, and the lat
.er's record showed that he had dis
posed Of only two of the pillows
One he remembers distinctly of hav-
ng sold to a hatless woman as far
oGck as April last. and from his books
1e verified that the sale was made on
April AZ The woman was poorly
Pressed and il is believed that she was
living IN the neighbcrhood. Sachs
,ouId not recall the sale Of another of
hese pillows, but his stock showed
hat two were missing. The fact that
he pillow was bought in New York | !
urther confirms the theory that the I
murder was committed in this city ]
arher than in New Jersey.
Although yesterdays autopsy seemed !
o show that the young woman had I
,een cut to pieces while yet alive, IL i
.ould not be determined whether she
vas conscious at the time she was as \
auited. 1t seemed certain, however. ]
hat no drugs had been used. u