New-York tribune., 1913-12-30
Police, Summoned by Boys,
Find Body, Dumped
from a PuShcart.
VICTIM A POLE,
NAMED KREMEN
Death Probably Caused by
StrangulatiOn-MOtive
Not Yet Clear.
TWO MEN ARE SOUGHT
Thousands of CompatriOts Al
lowed to See Slain Man in
the Search for CleWs.

the Search for CleWS.
Slain, probably by strangulation' ana
then crowded into a trunk the body
of man believed TO be John kremen'
Polish lsborcr. about twenty five
years old was found in front of NO.
41 Pitt street yesterday noon-giving
, the New York police their third trunk
mystery in four years. The other two
are still unsolved. In the present one
, there are to-day only the vaguest
| clews either TO the murderers or to
/ their motives AS a beginning 10 their
! investigation the police allowed
throngs Of the victims compatriots TO
view the body last night. in the nope
| that this might reveal some definite
! line of action.
After several hours Of investigation
| by Deputy Police Commissioners
| Dougherty. Inspector Faurot and
score of detectives. an alarm was sent
out for two men. one was described
as we'll dressed. about thirty years old.
feet II inches in height. weighing
, about 1870 pounds. and wearing a gray
overcoat and black derny hat. The
other is said to be feet u inches in
height and weighing 100 pounds. lie
wore gray sweater. m unbuttoned
| vest and dark gray cap.
The body was in a sitting position.
held so by clothesline strung around
the shoulders and tied to the lower
limbs. The attention of Pstrolmen
| Kenning and Storjohan. of the Clinton
street police station. was attracted to
| the trunk by two boys, who said
J that two men-the ones for whom the
! police are now looking-told them Ito
watch" the trunk until they returned .
I The policemen say the body was still
warm when they forced the lock Of the
| trunk.
! DR.. Edgar T. Ray the Coroner's
, physician. said if the man was not dead
when put in the trunk his death was
| caused by strangulation. Coroner
Holtzhauser is of the opinion that the
man was Still alive. though dying, when
, put in the trunk. and that his neck was
| broken while he was being crowded
| into the narrow space.
Thousands View Body.
| Deputy Commissioner Dougherty.
convinced by the contour OF the dead
mans features that he was Of Polish
origin. instructed a squad Of patrol
| men from the Union Market station 10
canvass the boarding houses, restau-
| rants and cafes in the precinct fire.
| duented by Poles TO made inquiries and
/ TO send all men of that nationality TO
| the police station on q chance that the
man would be identified in that way.
| At > o'clock the iron gate leading To
| the court yard of the police station was
opened and hundreds Of the excited
crowd that had gathered i'm Clinton
street were allowed TO file past the
/ body and the trunk in which it was
| found Within half an hour Poles
from the E,as. Side began 10 arrive and
the Jewish element was excluded. Un-
Ill late. last night countrymen of the
victim continued to arrive, the police
of other precincts in the city being
notified Of the novel method by which
| the Commissioner was seeking to ef-
! feet an identification.
BY o'clock more than 1000 men
and women h.1 viewed the body. one.
a man whose name is withheld by the
police. said he was positive the dead
man was a brother Of his wife. and
was so certain of this that he left the
station house. accompanied by "A de-
tectiVe, TO go To his home, at No. ll3
I'd street TO get his wife to look at ,he
body. The police refused TO allow tns
man 10 be questioned. Twenty trunk
dealers in business in the neighOor.
hood Of where the body was found in
the trunk looked the trunk over in the
station hous. but none could identify
it as having been sold by them.
When found in the trun the body
was fully dressed, i'm clothing of cheap
material. but for the absence of shoes
and hat. over the head was tied a
black and white striped woman's short
petticoat, and the head rested against
q blue striped straw filled pillow. In
the bottom of the trunk was larger
pillow.
Two Men Hired Pushcarts.
The police learned soon after the
body was found that about $50 o'clock
Yesterday morning two men went to
the "pushcart stable" of Louis Steir, at
| No. - Sheriff street, and from Joseph
Cooper. an employe, rented for couple
of hours one of his pushcarts. The bet
ter dressed of the two paid a deposit
Of 81 on the cart. He showed a roll
of money, and was described to the po-
lice by Cooper as a sport" About
noon both men came back and returned