The Washington times., 1919-07-20
Where Is the Other Suitcase
with the Rest Of the Body
and What Is the Story Of
This Most Unusual Murder
Problem of New Yorks
Famous Mills Hotel

Here were all the marks of a cold
blooded, an unusual and an imagination
stirring crime!
And where was the missing part Of the
body? In what suit case did it hide?
The work of looking through the fiotsam
in the baggage cell now went on swiftly,
spurred by the grimmest interest. But in
none of the opened receptacles was the
missing half of the murdered man!
Nor was there one who remembered
who had left the case. It bore a brass
oval checkroom tag marked No. 1895. The
records showed that it had been deposited
some time in November, 1915. It had lain
for q month in the checkroom and then
had been sent to the cellar, where it had
rested with its grisly contents for more
than three and a half years. On one end
were the initials 81 N. A." and on the
other "A. w" An attempt had been made
to obliterate both.
At once the police were confronted with
a series of mysteries. Why had the MUIR
disposing of the fragments? There we're
at least half dozen other ways of getting
rid of them. There were the rivers. The
case, weighted little, could have been
thrown there to disappear forever in the
bottom mud Within easy reach of New
York are scores of out-ofthe-way places
where it could have been hidden or buried.
Why had the slayer taken this one extra
ordinary method? Why had he checked
the suitcase, so running an obvious risk OF
discovery through the accidental opening
OF the bag and subsequent Identification
BY the clerk who had taken it? And why
had he picked out the Mills Hotel?
There could be but one answer-he had
expected to return for It. But, again, why?
What possible incentive could there be for
the preservation of the gruesome contents
of the case?
Had it been, after all, no murder, but
simply that a poor medical student had
taken this means of disposing Of his
anatomical specimens for time? Analy-
sis of the manner in which the bones had
been cut soon set this doubt at rest Emil
nent surgical experts unhesitatingly gave
the verdict that severance had been done
by hands ignorant of the faintest surgical
knowledge. They had been sawed and
broken for one purpose only-to fit in the
suit case common hack saw had been
used The police were back exactly to
where they were before!
But stop-there was an hypothesis which
would fit the facts. Suppose the murdered
man had been put out of the way by COM
mand of some organization, some govern
ment, even, some executive counsel per-
haps of body engaged in secret, sinister
activities. Suppose it had been necessary
for the eZecutioner to bring proof that the
killing had been done-carry in true an
cient fashion the BODY of the victim before
those Who had cond mned him. Suppose
there had been not one, but two in the muir
der. and that each had taken part Of the
body to deliver! And suppose that hard
pressed by what mysterious emergency,
one Of these had found it necessary for a
time to free himself from his burden.
That would explain why he would check
i! like any ordinary piece of luggage, hid
ing until the time came when he could
safely reclaim It; would explain, too, the
selection of the Mills Hotel. for it was
known that place was the only one in the
city where such baggage would remain I'M