The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-25
MILFORD WOMAN
 MURDER VICTIM? ?
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a
 life. thought better of him at
 one time. Its too bad how all is
 changed.
 I was talking to Tom the oth-
 CT evening. He is bothered with
 rheumatism and it looks kind of
 bad for him now. I meet Annie
 once in a. while she always asks
 for you She wants to know if
 ever you make a call to Lowell
 again. I tell her I don't know
 but hope it may be possible
 that you could come and I hope
 you will. have no more news
 at this time. Mrs. Rourke and
 Winnie and all the family send
 their best. love to you. to Josie
 and Jack and family. So goodbye.
 From your nephew,
 MICHAEL O'LOUGHLIN,
 1s North Franklin St.,
 Lowell, Mass
 P. s.[ hope the Germans
 will win.
 Inquiry by Detective Sergeant Hall into the family and recent where ahouts of Mrs. John Weidenheimer shows that she has 0 mother living at the corner of Ogden and Pembroke streets. Mrs. Margaret GILL. She had not seen her daughter in some time, though she believed that it was more recently than February When last heard from she was supposed to be- living in Milford
 A sister in law. Mrs. Thomas Mur- phy, living on Stratford avenue, in Stratford, reported that she had not seen anything of Mrs Weidenheimer for several months. She was last known to be living in Milford but is known to have spent much time in Bridgeport
 The police are of the belief that there has recently been little in con4I mon between MT. and Mrs. Weiden- heimer and other members of their family. Mrs Murphy told officers that she had not spoken to her broth CT in months, and friends of the fam fly had called to relate family ex-| periences that are now being fully investigated by the officers.
 Special orders have been issued by The police to observe all sections of earth taken from the vicinity of the chestnut tree which today acts as d marker for the possible grave of other parts of the body When the exca- vating work approaches this section late today a special force of men will be detailed to carefully go over every load of dirt taken from the spot in an effort to secure further evidence of the crime.
 The torso of the woman was buried
  Home Gby Rourlze & Boucher, but the filling will not be completed until final orders shall be issued by the cor oner
 eeThis murder, in my opinion, was done in Bridgeport and by Bridgeport people was the expression of Super intendent Eugene Birmingham today. While 1t is possible that the body was brought from another city, con- tinued the chief of the Bridgeport >po- lice, sI am of the opinion that it was done by somebody living in the neigh .borhood or well familiar with the spot. Outsiders would not be likely to select the place for the hiding spot of crime, as the main highway for Ve- hicles passing out of this city is some distance away and unless person had occasion to know the spot in which the body was found they would be unlikely to visit it's
 Speaking of the possibility that the work was that of persons living on shipboard, the detectives were in c1ined to scout the theory in view of the medical examiners statement that the body was wrapped in a nightgoWn and cheHnise, as well as the clear de- mareation of the saw marks on the neck and neither limbs, This would indicate that the woman had been killed while asleep or in a bed and immediately severed by a, person well acquainted with edged tools, yet not of the medical profession, for such a person would rather have dissected the body at the joints by the use of knife-
 Search today is being made in all surrounding towns and cities in the hope that some person may be found who came to this city with some man and failed to return
 The record of all those persons known to have worked at any time on h avenue to Yellow Mill pond, which was completed about two years ago by the Pierce Manufacturing Company under the supervision of Howard Clark, will be closely looked into with in the next few days, for it is prob able that the body was buried in the soft earth thrown into the trench. Efforts to establish the fact that an automobile might have driven to the spot from another city with portions of tht victim are today also being made It could not be ascertained l from any in the vicinity that during the summer or early fall anyone had l attempted to borrow either a pick or shovel, and the automobile theory is l fast losing ground.
 1 Comparison of the case with the 1 tEStuttering Jack case cleared up by Superintendent Birmingham and Cap tain Arnold many years ago, where similar putrid piece of flesh was found | SICef De1nS aDandOned In the WOODS 1 for many months, leads the authorities 1 to hope that they will eventually land those responsible behind the bars 1 The fact that the torso proved by autopsy under Medical Examiner Gar i lick to be that of a woman, probably not married, well nurtured and of cleanIy habits, and upon which no at= l tempt had been made towards illegal medical practice, tends to show that the crime was committed for Q more | potent reason than the usual sordid motives.
 said: T shall put every available man on this case. It is most mysterious i and as I am now of the opinion that it l was committed in some Bridgeport