The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-09-09

street and Eighth avenue.
1t is n practical certainty that the pil-
low ticking in which the torso was found
last Friday was sold by George Sachs. \
dealer In second hand furniture and bed.
room furnishings at o762 Eighth aveiiie,
near the corner of 146th street. Ir.
Sachs told a reporter for THE Sun las,
night that he has sold but two pillow
ticks OF this type and one to a woman
who came into his store on April 20 last.
Describes the Buyer.
This woman. said Mr. Sachs. WAS hat
less and was otherwise dressed in n man
ner suggesting that she was resident Of
the neighborhood.
"She told me that she didn't have quite
enough money with her" said Sachs, but
she paid a 25 cent deposit on the pillow
and returned with the remainder of the
price In very short time.
The storekeeper said that he charged
the transient customer so cents for the
pillow reducing the price from SO cents.
This acco.ds with the description given
by the Jersey police Of the tag found on
the pillow tick shrouding the grewsome
find The barely legibie price recorded on
the bit Of limp cardboard was 5? cents
Sachs described his woman purchaser
as about i5 years OF age. bit over
medium height and stout. Armed with this
description the police are securing the
nelghborhood in an effort to trace Sachs's
customer who thew are convinced will
be able to shed light on the murder
An investigation conducted by news
paper men was really responsible for the
development of the clue. which was ater
turned over to the police. The efforts of
the newspaper men, however. were based
on information given 10y e. II. Young
of the firm of Robinson Roders, manu-
facturers of the pillow ticks. II is
Newark firm
MIR. Young said last night that the
pattern of the tick was gaudy that it
proved to be unpopular with retailers.
II was styled the "M3 Chicago" brand
Of tick and only one lot was turned out
By the Robinson Roders Company.
OF this lot. said Mr.. Young, only twelve
twenty by twenty-seven inches
the size of the tick that held the torso
were disposed OF and those Ia George
Sachs. The latter still had ten lef; when
the newspaper men called ON him last
night.
In one point, however, Mr.. Young df.
'ered from the retailer. The former said
hat judging by the condition of the tick
md card attached. the sale must haN;
been made about two weeks ago or else
he article was not used by the pui-
chaser. Sachs cannot recall just now IN"
person to whom he sold the other ties,
but he is positive that the sale Was not
" such recent date.
Alive when DIsmcmbermcnt BcSas.
The doctors are now confident. tucy
Jay. that the young woman Was cut to
pieces while alive.
An autopsy at Nolks morgue. Hobokcr,
'esterday afternoon showed that she bicd
o death. She may have been conscious
When the first wound WAS Inflicted she
nay have been asleep and not have seen
he approach of death.
She was not stranged. shot or puisoned.
30 anesthetic was used. Possibly blow
n the head had made her senseless hut IT
snt likely. The fact that she was soon
o become a mother appears TO have had
70 relation of motive to this crime.
The North Bergen police noted that the
over part of the body. found near Wee
awken. had stranded at a point where
he Spuyten Duyvil current vanishcs IN
he Hudson's flow.
An object dropped in the water at Spuv-
sn Duyvil is subjected to what the
hysics teachers call "the resultant Of two
)rces,' The current from the Harlem
liver tends to sweep across to the New
ersey side. The more powerful Hudson
ears an object straight south. Between
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