New-York tribune., 1919-10-23
Sody, Pierced by Bullet
Wounds, Discovered bv
Boys in Desolate Sand
pit Waste in BROOKLYN
Victim Wore Many Gems
Believe She Was Murdered
Elsewhere; Was of Either
Irish or Scotch Type

Two boys playing in the weed
lungles of a sand pit at Winthrop
Street and East Ninety-second Street,
Brooklyn. discovered the body of a
murdered woman yesterday. She was
about fifty years old, wore clothing of
expensive and rather snowy material
and profusion of jewelry and, so far
as the police could discover, was a
stranger in the neighborhood. There
were bullet wounds in her right tenn
pie. jaw and back.
The sand pit is beyond the thickly
settled section around Utica Avenue,
and the body was found at the bottom
of the 15-foot bank at its further side,
beyond which lie the desoate fats
of Jamaica Bay. There is no house
within 500 yards and no thoroughfarc
within 100. Fitted by craters and
caves, which are half concealed by
weed clumps, the place is a favorite
resort for the boys of the neighbor-
hood.
Body Is Found by Boys
Thomas Creary, eleven years old, of
1899 st. Johns Place, and Edward King,
thirteen, of 1878 st. Johns Place, had
been exploring the recesses of the sand
pit all the afternoon. Two or three
times they noticed the figure of the
they paid no attention to it. 1t was
just at dusk that Edward, leading the
way through the rank growths, emerged
into an open space and stumbled.
1t was on one of the extended feet of
the woman that he had stubbed his
toe, and the weight and rigidity of the
obstacle alarmed him. One glance at
the mangled face sent him racing home
ward, with Thomas close behind
d.
Captain Arthur Carey. of the Homicide
Bureau, and Captain John Coughln, of
the Brooklyn Detective Bureau, were
summoned as soon as the police con
vinced themselves that it was a mur-
der and not suicide with which they
had to deal
Was Bedecked With Gems
The woman wore black fur trimmed
suit, lavender waist of georgette, tan
shoes and a black velvet hat trimmed
with feathers and lined with pink silk
She wore earrings and two bar pins set
with chip diamonds, and four rings, one
with eight stones in it, one with twelve
and one with three. The fourth ring
Her brown hair was gray at the roots,
as though it had been dyed.
Although her clothing showed slight
signs of wear. there was no mark of
identification on any of it. The name
of the manufacturer was not even to
be found in her shoes. Her footwear
was size 51a. and, as her weight was
estimated at nearly 40 pounds, the po-
lice believe she would have found the
long walk from the nearest trolley to
the sand pit most arduous, if not i'm
possible.
At first they were inclined to think
that she had been killed where her
body was found, and placed the time as
probably before dawn yesterday morn
ing.
Body Carried to Sand Pit
Dr. Charles W. Wuest, medical ex-
aminer, who examined the body last
night at the Kings County Morgue de-
clared that the woman was killed about
5 p. m. Tuesday, and expressed the be-
lief that the murder took place else
where than at the sand pit.
He thought the body had been car
ried to the edge of the pit and thrown
over the bank. The weapon used, he
said, was of .3S or As calibre The
first shot he believes, was fired into
her back Powder marks about the
wound indicate that it was fired at
close range. The wound in the right
temple, DR.. Wuest thinks, resulted
from the second shot and the bullet
which tore away part Of the woman's S
jaw was fred last
The woman was of either Irish or
Scotch extraction, he said.