The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-28

Englewood, where the body lay. After
viewing 1t he said he thought the hair,
which was a rich brown suffused with a
trace of auburn, was like that OF the
woman he had seen, but could not be
certain as to her face because OF the
darkness when he was on Terrace road.
Another story told to the police yes
terday was that of Harry Elias. another
chauffeur of Englewood. He said ne had
been hailed one night about a week ago
by man who came out of the woods
near the Terrace oad-Palisades avenue
cross roads, hatless and apparently ex-
cited. This man, Elias said. demanded
nervously 10 be taken TO the Fort Lee
ferry, but Elias proceeding toward
Englewood with carload OF soldiers,
refused. Later Elias said he learned
this man had been taken by another taxi
to the ferry to New York.
The police were considering this as an
indication that the man. If the possible
murderer -at-the girl. had shown the Gus
tomary criminal tendency to revisit the
scene of mis- crime. However, they were
inclined to discard all other theories ex-
cept that of suicide, prompted by an I'M
fortunate love AFFAIR.
side current OF this nature eddied
up from Allentown. Pa, In the afternoon
when word reached Prosecutor Huckln
that members Of the family OF Helen
Bartos, who disappeared there three
weeks ago, believed that the body OF the
Girl found on the Palisades might be
hers. They based their belief on the
description Of the dead girls hair, which
dtted that Of the missing young woman.
Mrs. Bartos, her mother, sent tele-
gram 10. Prosecutor Huck,n that she was
leaving Immediately for Englewood with
the girls father to view the body.
When they arrived they said the body
was not that of their daughter.
During the day more than hun
dred persons many OF them women
OF wealthy appearance who Grove up in
automobiles. came to the undertaking
establishment, but all failed to find that
the girl in the coffin there was the
one they sought.
Hunts Missing Woman.
One attempt at Identification was
made by a woman worker in the Y. NJ.
c. A hostess house at Camp Merritt.
who said that n fellow worker. Mrs.
Eleanor Popoff. had vanished shortly
after she had left that place two weeks
ago. Mrs. Popoff, her friend said. had
a husband. Samuel. who was an In
fantrylnan in the Forty-second Division,
now on the other side. She dropped
out OF sight after going to stay with
acQuaintances in Peekskill. and was last
seen about a week ago.
Most of the day was spent by Prose-
cutor Huckin In securing the ground
around the narrow cleft in the rocks
in which the dead girl was discovered.
This little embrasure ia perched like
an eagles nest in the cliffs that drop
straight down to the Hendrick Hudson
drive below. which is rarely freQuented
at this time of year. \ person standing
on this drive or on the Terrace road
above would have his view OF any OBJ
ject in the tiny cuplke pit, which seems
hardly large enough to hold child,
shut off by the trees and rocks Chat
project around II.
The fact that the path to the cleft is
slippery and sloping. and that the open
ing itself Is on the very edge OF the
precipice. led Prosecutor Huckin to
believe that one man alone could not
have carried the body TO this hiding
place. On the other hand, his survey
convinced him that woman with her
mind set on Its owns purpose could
easily make her way TO this spot though
1t was only person familiar with the
neighborhood that would be likely to
seek 1t out. 1t Is in the Borough of Ten
ahy and about five miles north OF the
Fort Lee ferry.
Tried to Get slip OF Paper.
The prosecutor made an effort TO
reach slip of blue wrapping paper like
that used to enclose absorbent cotton,
which was observable from below about
thirty feet beneath the cleft. from which
1t had evidently futtered when the wad
OF cotton soaked with anssthet+c had
been placed about the woman's nose
After fruitless struggles up the sheer
face OF the cliff the prosecutor was COM
PEELED TO give up.
Detective Nestle found a womans
right hand glove. similar TO that on the
left hand OF the girl, in a Granny of
the rocks n few feet from where her
body had been. But there was nothing
on II which would lead to her identif-
cation or supplement the meagre details
furnished by her expensive clothing,
from which every tag which might
| identify her had been carefully removed.
The experiences with which the band
age and the anRsthetic had been applied,
and the deft Insertion Of the pins, con-
WINGED Or. Ogden that the woman must
have had some training as a nurse. IL
she managed these final details herself
This fact, taken in conjunction with the
report that a woman like her had been
seen In company with an army officer,
led the police last night to turn their
eyes in the direction Of Camp Merritt.