New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-12
SLAYER USED A BOAT TO
SCATTER VICTIMS BODY
Jersey Official Says Fragments
Were Not Thrown Into the
Water from Shore.
WATERS STORY DOUBTED
Police Place Little Faith in His
Identification of Woman as
His Missing Wife, Who
Had Eloped.

Had Eloped.
DR.. George w. King, County Physician
OF Hudson County, y. j., said last night
that the finding OF the right thigh of the
young woman who was murdered about
the first or second Of September proves
beyond a doubt that power or sail boat
was used by the murderer to distribute
the body after it was cut up.
The thigh. which was washed ashore
at Keansburg Wednesday afternoon, was
not sufficiently buoyant to float" said Or
King. ut was thrown into the water
near by, and the waves finally washed il
up on the beach.
"Keansburg is at least thirty piles
from Shadyside. where the first portion
Of the woman's body-the upper part OF
the torso-was found last Friday. il
would have been impossible for it to have
floated from Shadyside or any other dis
lance. This fact leads to the inevitable
conclusion that boat was used by the
murderer to distribute the dismembered
body"
the thigh belonged to the torso now in
Volk's morgue. The bones were OF the
same contour and showed the same marks
Of a fne-toothed saw.
Doubt Jianan's Story.
The police place little faith in the iden-
LITIGATION Of the torso made yesterday by
Caspar Jianen. who said he believed the
body was that of his wife, who left him
year and a half ago He gave 10 the
police the name OF a man VINO. he SAID
ought to know where she is.
Jianen, who is a waiter, living in West
ed street. said he saw this man about
two weeks ago. and that the man told
him then that Jianen's wife had left
town.
A reporter for The Tribune visited the
house in West lOsth street where the man
lived and saw his brother and his sister
in-law Both said that the man Jianen
mentioned to the police had gone to iia-
vana Saturday. They asserted they did
not know Jianen's wife
MY brother" said this man. referring
10 the man Jianen mentioned. introduced
woman 10 us as his wife a year ago.
She spoke Spanish, as did this woman
this man Jianen mentions. But | have
no reason to suspect my brother lied to
me. This woman is now In Havana. She
sent a registered letter from there TO my
brother two or three DAYS ago. but be
cause he was then on his way 10 Havana
to reioin her the postman returned H.
He gave the address in Havana where
his brother and the woman could be
found.
The story Of the registered letter was
corroborated BY the postman who han
died the letter.
The slstcr-ln-law Of the man whose
name Jiancn gave 20 the police asserted
that the woman did not have birth
mark on either Of her shoulder. Jian"n.
Al the morguc. said his wife had a birth
mark similar 20 that OF the murdered
woman. and that the same mark. ap-
peared on his childs shoulder and on MS
mother-in-laW's shoulder.
Another Glow that looked promising for
a time yesterday. bgt which was shat
tered completely by Or. King s. statement
that the murderer had employed boat
in distributing the remains Of bis victim.
was tie story told by Louis Odom". a
conductor on a CoytesviIlc. y. j. trolley
car. He told Detective Sergeant Lyons,
Of the Wcchawkcn police, that on the
night Of September T. two days before
tho first part OF the torso was found. An
Italian boarded his car with two SUIT
cases. The odor from the suitcase WAS
so offensive. he said. that he asked the
Italian 10 leave the car. This the pass'n-
ger did when the car reached EdGc"aicr
Heights.
Edgewatcr Heights is two miles from
where one part Of the torso was found.
and FIVE miles from the place where the
lower part Of the torso was discovered.
The New York police point out that
this Italian could not have any bearing
on the case whatever. as when the first
part of the torso was found IT had been
in the water at least three days
BaIoian Clew Worthless.
II. Balolan, the Armenian carpenter
who caused the police concern by going
to his farm on Staten Island after lcaN-
ing his shirt. stained with blood, a. a
laundry near George Sachs secondhand
store. where the murderer is supposed TO
have purchased the pillow in which one
part OF the torso was wrapped up, was as
much surprised to know the police were
looking for him as the latter were 10 ind
him Yesterday. The blood, ii was dis
covered. came from a wound on Baloidn B
dog.
Grace cure, seventeen years old. daugh-
fer of Frank cure, Of No. 2j2 Prospect
avenue. Bayonnc. saw what Is believed
TO be tho head of the murdered woman
last TUESDAY She was out In a roWbOdt
about two hundred feet off shore and
close to Constable Hook when she saw IT.
She says she was so frightened that she
rowed ashore. She went home. and said
nothing about the head until Wednesday
night, when she told her father. lie later
went TO Chief Yore of the Bayonuc police.
Miss cure says the hair on the head
was about foot long. The head was
floating face upward. with the neck end
tilted down somewhat so az to throw the
forehead up. The features were sharp
and clear cut, Miss Cure says.