The Washington times., 1920-08-20
MAD JEALOUSY
SEEN IN CRIME
Hudson River Victim Killed by
Husband Over Love Affair,
Police Believe. g
Continued from First PsgeJ


the autopsy IL indicated that the au-
thor OF the crime had started TO cut
the body in halves and had given up
that procedure in favor OF disme
ment. limb from limb.
A report that the body had been in
the water from three to six weeks
was amended after examination OF
the vital organs. They were in a
state of almost perfect preservation
The torso itself was bloated and dis
colored by long immersion, but the
organs led physicians to believe the
crime may have been committed two
months or ten weeks ago.
Estimates OF the woman's age va
ried among physicians who gave
opinions, but few OF them held that
she was more than thirty, while many
thought she was in the twenties. Ap
parently she was of robust health and
plump.
Presupposing that her arms and
legs were proportionate to the torso,
DR.. Hasking believed her to have
weighed not less than 135 pounds
possibly 145, and to have been be-
tween Ave feet two inches and nVc
feet four inches tall
She was probably light complex
icned. as her skin seemed fair ana
youthful. Her normal waist meas
urement would have been abou;
thirty-one inches. She was thirty
nine inches about the hips. Her chest
measurement was thirty-eight ana
one-half inches.
DIR. Haskins believes that the WON
an had been married, although the
autopsy indicated she was not a
mother. 1t is held probable by the
authorities that she was the victim
80 81 iaa n,
possibly her husband. The police be-
lieve that some love affair culmi-
mated in the gruesome tragedy OF
this Hudson river mystery, New
York's newest criminal sensation.
UP AGAINST STONE WALL.
With such slender evidence as the
cord found tied tightly about the
waist of the torso and knotted once
at the back, and the ,wo small bits
of cloth that clung to the cord, the
police say they will have to rely
largely on outside help
They depend first On reports OF
missing persons who have been asked
of bureaus in New York city and in
every town within radius or
hundred miles. Yesterday no one re-
garded as other than a curiosity
seeker called to view the torso.
The case was described by Lieuten-
ant Alexander Ross. or the Bergen
county prosecutors office, as one OF
those rare, complex puzzles where
the good, old-time detective sees an
opportunity to do some sleuthing.
He added. But this seems to be; 60
ing up against a stone wall
That every clue. however, TRIVIAL II
may seem is important, was.empha-
sized by DR.. Hasking, who added:
thin air, apparently. We are con-
WINGED this is not a local crime. 1t
NAV have been committed in the
METROPOLITAN district. and, again, the
torso may have been carried by
motor car to some lonely spot up the
Hudson and hurled into the water
1T is highly probable that the torso
was weighted. The presence OF the
cord about the waist indicated 1t was
wrapped in a sack or some old cloth-
ing with stones OF other weights, and
was washed free when the cords rot
ted and broke under the buoyancy OF
the torso. Legs and arms, theoretical
ly. do not float. Probably the murder
er did not@ drop the legs, arms and
head together with the torso, but
chose widely different spots for his
secret disposal of the remains.
MAY HAVE COME FROM AFAR.
"The appearance of the body off
Communipaw is not indicative that
the crime was committed near there
or that the body was thrown there.
n may have Travelled many miles. In
our wears here we have grown to re-
card certain places along the river
coast as gathering points for noatins
bodies.
"one of these is at Sixteenth street,
West New York. The second is at the
West Shore ferry. The next is at
Baldwin avenue, Weehawken, and the
next at the Baldwin dry dock. Here
the river takes a bend and it's channel
shifts. coming toward the Jersey
shore.
still further down we recover many
bodies annually at the Delaware,
I.ackawanna and Western ferry. Less
frequently we find them at Second
gtreet, Jersey City. But when we
come to Communipaw, especially near
pier {, where this torso was found
there are many recoveries, for it is
here that the swirl of>the East river
eddies into that of the North. and the
bodies are washed UP to the shallow
places off that part of the river front
ITO indicate the eccentricities OF