The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-06
ILLEGAL SURGERY
 THEORY CERTAIN
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Island Light.
 'The. slip was peach-colored and bore stains which might be blood, '' Mulcahy said. "The sheet had been torn and had one strain which apparently had come from an iron burn, but it also bore several sus- picious stains that will be analyzed. The surgical glove had the thumb cut off"
 Meanwhile Dr. Brickley examined the voman's vital organs, contained in a parcel taken from the harbor yesterday afternoon contained the w1man's legs which had been tn- expertly am lated at the hips.
 At first authorities believed the mans death might have some con- nection with the case, but later abandoned this theory. The dead man was identified as E. J. Dempster B, of Royal street, Plymouth, crew member of the Boston tug John Cashman.
 Fellow crew members said he had fallen into the sea from the tugs deck and drowned accidentally.
 All three bundles were found be- tween Boston airport and Governors Island, comparatively small area which was being searched intensive ly by police today for the victims head and torso, without which cor- pus delicti could not be established.
 In favoring theory of illegal surgery, police were influenced by three precedents. There was the celebrated Susan Gerry Case of 1905, whose setting was this same harbor; the Alice Wolr "hendorf case of 1923, known as the "Tyngsboro Suitcase Mystery" and the Edith Green case of 1926. In each instance the woman's body was dismembered | after she had died from an unlaw- full operation. And in each case the offending doctor was jailed for sev- eral years. In Massachusetts, dis membering of dead body is merely misdemeanor, punishable by a fine.
 Medical Examiner William J. Brickley, who examined the various parts, reconstructed the victim as a woman:
 Perhaps 25 years old. 5 feet inches tall.
 Weighing 135.
 Dark complexioned and perhaps with black hair.
 Small featured.
 Wearing 8 size shoe.
 Even as sleuths and medicos col- laborated in the duel search for the woman'S name and the identity of the person responsible for her death, young husband, whose name was withheld temporarily, reported to police headquarters that this de- scription fitted that of his missing wife.
 He said the mother of his two children left ther west end home Sept. q and had not been heard from since. He added that she had relatives in East Boston, one of sev- eral points from which authorities said the bundles conceivably might have been carried by currents to where they were found.
 But this woman was only one of 200 women and girls listed as missing in police records, and scores of de- tectives were assigned to the tedious task of checking their descriptions individually against that pieced to- gether by the medical examiner. Lieutenant Lawrence J. Dunn, di- recting the inquiry, theorized that the body was dissected somewhere in Boston and dropped piece by piece from 8 point in Chelsea, Charlestown or East Boston.
 Though the victims right leg, contained in the first bundl, found, had been wrapped in Boston news paper dated July 12, 1886, authorj- ties estimated that the parts had been in the water only about IS days.
 There were no bloodstairas o, any of the wrappings, but investigs tors said the parts had been submerged long enough to account for this. The crew of the police boat Curtis hoped that this mornings change of tide might turn up the head or torso or both.