Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-09
POLICE SEEK WOMAN
WHO BOUGHT PILLOW
Continued from First PaEc1

1t was made on or about April %
The date Mr.. Sachs fixed by means of
records OF other sales he made on
| that day.
He recalled that a woman, stout,
APPARENTLY of middle age and wearing
| no hat, entered his store and for a
long time bargained with him for the
purchase Of one of the pillows. She
| gave Mr. Sachs twenty-five cents to
bind the sale and told him she would
return that evening and complete the
purchase.
She arrived at the store, as Mr..
| Sachs remembered, soon after dark
and paid the remaining fifty-five
cents. Then she left the store, the
pillow under her arm, and turned
| north in Eighth avenue. He did not
recognize the woman as one of his
| regular customers and was surprised,
| he said, at her appearance in the
store without a hat. This fact as
much as anything else Impressed the
incident of the sale of this particular
pillow upon him.
Of the other pillow gone from the
lot he purchased from the Robinson
| Roders Company, Mr.. Sachs was
unable to remember anything. 1t
may even have been stolen, as such
| small articles frequently have been
when he displayed them outside his
store; but he was unable to recall
| for the police definitely whether he
| ever had so displayed any of the
twelve pillows of this particular and
peculiarly cheap lot. He said that
| because of their low price he might
have been tempted TO make a display
| of one of those pillows rather than
of a higher priced piece of material
The Hudson County police ut work
On the case expressed confidence to-
night that the murder was a parallel
to that of BILLY" Brown by Chester
| Gillette. Like Gillette's victim, this
girl was to have become a mother in
a few months. The New York police.
however were working on a theory
| that maniac was the murderer.
In this connection the New York de-
tcct.ves were attempting to secure
some trace of Ella Sternemann, Of
Brooklyn, whose father sent Il letter
to DR.. King reporting the disappear
| dnce CT his daughter and stating thae
he feared she was the Hudson River
victim. The letter was of a rambling
nature, as if written by victira of
delusons.
Sternemann is a millinery sales-
man. The wire found around the
torso of the slain girl was such as
is used in trimming hats.
Sternemann has been known for
many years as an eccentric char
acter." Eight years ago he was ar
rested on the charge of trying to kill
his wife with a sabre. The charge
was dropped by his wife. who has
since died
The record is on the blotter of the
West Hoboken police station. The
address given in the police records is
607 Paterson avenue West Hoboken.
| At that time, according to the detec-
| tives and one of the men named in
| Sternemanns letters, Sternemann was
| conducting an artificial fiowes factory
at that address.
I'VE have identified Sternemann as
the Peter Steinemann' named in the
police record said Detective William
J Charlock. He was arraigned on
that date for trying to cut his wife.
He moved from Paterson avenue sew
| eral years ago"
Reporters for The Star, VINO discov-
cred the house where Sternemann
| lives in Jamaica. found that it was in
a furnished room house kept by Mrs.
| Martha Weiss at 113 Glove avenue.
Mr.. Sternemann has been here
about two weeks" she said. HE read
the account of the finding of the girls
body and said that it might be his
daughter Ella, for whom he was
searching. He said he had written to
the authorities about it,
Sternemann spent Sunday night at
| home, according to Mrs. Weiss, but
left early yesterday and could not be
| found.
A close analysis of the letters writ
| ten by Peter Sternemann to Chief of
Police Patrick J. Hayes, jr, of Ho-
boken, and to the superintendent of
| Volk's morgue discloses the interest
ing fact that the writer shows signs
| of mania similar to that which led
Harry X. Thaw to STAY Stanford
White on the Madison Square Gar
den roof
II have worried for girls for years,
especially Ella. / have warned her
of DR.. Ms son." runs an extract
from the Hayes letter. The writer
also mentions reporting cases to
charity departments" and the police.
Three separate Investigations of the
crime are now under way. One of
them, from which results are expected
rapidly, is in charge Of Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Deacon Murphy, as
sisted by Detective Clinton Wood at
tached to the district attorneys Of
fee. Another is in charge of detec-
tives attached to the Office of County
Prosecutor Robert II. Hudspeth, of
Hudson County and the third is being
/
err George Dougherty, who assigned
several men to pick up the New York
end of the case.
An attempt was made to identify
the victims body by Mrs. Josephine
Reckenwald, of Hoboken. She said
that her daughter had been lured
away by a New York man last May.
She said that she had met the man a
week ago, but that he had refused to
give her any information as to her
] daughter. She was not allowed to
see the body.
, In an effort to establish the identity
of the river victim two launches,
, under orders from Police Chief Marcy,
of North Bergen, patroled the Jersey
shore all day today. The missing
. head and limbs were not found, but
. the search brought to light the body
r of a stillborn child about 300 feet
from where the second section of the
3 torso was found yesterday.
e The police theory is that the body
was cut up in New York and dropped
{ overheard from a rowboat in the
$ Hudson. Without establishing the
S identity of the girl they would be
e dnable to convict the slayer, unless
he confessed.