The New York herald., 1921-10-24
.CAPTAMOF MARINES
GIVES IDENTITY CLUE.
IN SLAIN GIRLS CASE.
-Four Men Say They Saw
Stranger Near Vicinity
of Swamp Murder.
TWO QUILTS FOUND.
Police Trace Maker of Oil
cloth in Which Torso
Was Wrapped.
DEATH CAUSE IN DOUBT
Large Crowds Visit Scene Of
Crime in Long Island
City.
DEATH CAUSE IN DOUBT

Capt b. A. Moeller OF the United
States Marine Corps, attached to the
corps barracks in Brooklyn, gave to
the police last night an identified :
ton of the woman the upper part
of whose body was found Saturday
morning in a pond at Queens Boule-
ward and Rawson street, Long Island
City.
Capt Moeller, after visiting the
morgue and looking at the body. said
that the girls features rescmbled very
strongly those of young woman who
called at the Marine Corps barracks
three weeks ago. This man is an
officer. Is married and has children.
The girl, the police say. told Capt.
Moeller that she had been intimate
with the officer. and was about TO
become mother.
The Captain told the police that
the officer was not in, and that after
questioning the woman he referred
her TO the Court of Domestic Rela-
tions and to the District Attorney Of
Queens county. He understood her
10 say that she lived in the Green
point district of Brooklyn. The police
said that Capt. Moeller did not know
the name of the young woman who
called at the barracks, but that the
resemblance between her and tho body
OF t.le Murdered woman Was perfect
except for slight details of hair and
facial expression. From other sources,
however il was learned the police
are in possession of the girls name and
the name of her relatives. Detectives
will question the man asked for by the
woman who called at the barracks.
stranger with Heavy bundle.
-Four men have told the police that
they saw stranger carrying a heavy
bundle on Tuesday night in the vicinity
OF the pond where the half body of the
girl was found. The stranger appeared
to be either chauffeur or railroad
worker, they said.
Coupled with this Information. in which
an automobile figured, was tho finding
yesterday, a half mile from the pond,
Of two quilts, one of which was believed
to be blood stained. a woman who
called the attention of detectives TO the
quilts said she noticed them fret the
early part OF the week. but did not at
tach any significance to them. although
they were In an open lot hundreds OF
yards from the nearest dwelling. Then
she read about tho finding OF the girls
body. and told the police about thc. quilts.
As nearly as the woman can remember. II
might have been Wednesday morning
the frat time she saw them. which
would be the morning after the girl ~
believed TO have beer Nilied.
Finding of the quiits, the stories or
tho four men whose names are being
withheld by the police and locating OF
the manufacturer OF the oilcloth In
which the body was wrapped were the
outstanding Developments yesterday IN
the investigation into the crime. De-
spite this Capt. Arthur Carey, head or
the Homicide Squad. who Is in charge
of the Investigation. admitted last night
that he was up against a stone wall
The murder victim remained unidenu-
fled and until Identification is made.
Capt. Carey said. the police can hope
to make but little headUay in solving
the mystery.
No Clue to Manner of Death.
One OF the most perplexing problems
facing the authorities is the manner IN
which the girl met her death. II was
al first thought she had been hit on
the head with a blunt instrument and
then strangled with the olive green
serge belt round tied around her neck.
But tho autopsy. performed Saturday
night by DIR. Charles Norris. chief medi-
49,. slne l.
theory. Dr. Norris said there was no
depressed fractures OF the skull, as had
been reported previously. and that the
belt had not been tied sufficiently tight
10 cause stranguation.
While the medical examiner and
police were in this duandary, along
came the four men who told or having
seen the stranger with a bundle. Thre.
of them, said to be business men OF
Long Island city. frat went to tho police
late saturday night and said they were
walking along Queens Boulevard Tues
day evening just after sundown when
they passed the stranger. He appeared
10 them to be railroad worker from
his clothing. and his bundle seemed TO
be unusually bulky and heavy The men
admitted that they could not Identify
the stranger II they confronted him.
Late yesterday afternoon the fourth
man appeared and said he had seen
q man he believed TO he a chauffeur
drag a heavy bundle out OF an auto
mobile standing at the entrance to the
Rawson street station Of the INTERIOR
ough station. He said the man ap-
peared TO have lifted the bundle out OF
the rear seat OF the machine and started
to drag Il along the ground In tho
general direction OF the pond. which was
at the northern intersection OF Queens
Boulevard and Rawson street.
These stories. coupled with the finding
of the quilts are thought to be signlh-
cant. although the detectives are not
jumping TO conclusions. II was Mrs.
Della Burns. wife of the caretaker OF
tho yards of the Commonwealth Coal
Company. at Maddox street and Jackson