The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-28
BODY FOUND Tn
SUITCASE HERE
Cleaners at Mills Hotel Dis
cover Victim of 1916
Murder.
IN PARTS, PACKED IN LIME
Segments Well Preserved and
Virtually Mummified; Dem
tistry a Clue.
IN PARTS, PACKED IN LIME

Cleaners at Mills Hotel No. 3, Sew
enth avenue and Thirty sixth street,
yesterday in rummaging through q
pile Of unclaimed baggage In the base
ment came upon a large brown travel
ling bag initialled "I. n. A." and tied
with a rope about one end. In which
were found the enthusiastically
mummined, but sawed into sections
Of a man about rs years old. The
head and arms were complete. but the
legs had been cut of at the knee and
the lower bones and feet were missing
as was the torso.
DR.. George Hohmann. a medical ex-
aminer said 1t was plainly case of
homicide. and that the murderer had
taken great pains to avoid leaving any
discriminating traces. A fine powder
believed to be lime had been shaken
over the severed body and had pre-
served the parts unusually we'll. DR..
Hohmann believed that the murder
had been committed three and a half
years ago.
Wrapped in Paper.
Wrapped about the head and parts Of
the body were copies of newspapers
bearing the dates OF September IL
and 81. 1915. but from other evil
dences 1t was believed that the
exact time of the killing was De-
cember 81. 1915. The manager OF the
hotel. in explaining why the suit case
had lain SO long without the discovery
being made, said that 1t has been the
practice to go over the unclaimed bag
gage once a year. but owing to the war
| conditions the procedure had been
! omitted. Many of the tenants. he said,
were soldiers and sailors and the uncer-
| tain period OF their foreign service made
It inadvsable to make the check UP Of
the baggage before this time.
DIR. Holman said:
Employees of Mills Hotel No. 3
were cleaning out the baggage room
when they came upon a brown leather
bag. The bag was locked. but upon
forcing 1t open human bones were found.
The Medical Examiners Office was
! notified by detectives after they had
seen the find and upon arrival at the
| hotel l examined the bag finding in
| addition to the bones u human skull,
on which was still left part OF the face.
Quicklime had been used not only on
the skull but on all the bones, evidently
those OF a man.
The bones included two arms, both
upper and forearm: two upper bones In
legs which were sawed in half, part of
| spinal column. which had been hacked
| in half below the small Of the back and
at the base OF the skull. which was done
| in severing the head from the rest of
| the body-chest structure bones. hands
| and their bones and some smaller bones
| all OF which were badly burned by lime
but which the lime had aided in pre-
| serving.
In Brown Leether bag.
THE small amount OF skin left on the
face was like parchment. The skull had
| short brown hair on IT, Traces OF a
| small black mustache. had not been OBJ
| liberated by the lime.
THE way some of the bones are
hacked and mutilated could not possibly
be the work of medical men. The fact
that the muscles are stripped away from
| the bones in spots and the way the bone
In one of the hands has been compressed
clearly indicate voilence"
As soon as the discovery was made
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