Year: 1871

stentOrlan shout from every uccent
journal. which shall arouse the commu-
nity so that ere its echoes shall have
died away the malefactors and murder
ers implicated in its horrible commission
shall be held in the awful vice OF the
law. occurred yesterday.


About 3 o'clock p M, a woman, slat-
ternly dressed, so as to avoid attention,
and aged about 35 years, was driven in
a one horse coupe to the Hudson River
railroad depot in West Thirtet nth
street. Almost at the same moment
furniture truck, on which was trunk,
was halted in front of the baggage de-
partment The female descended, paid
for her ride, and then, addressing
youth who was lettering around the
depot asked him to wait a minute and
help her with the trunk. The boy, glad
at the prospect of earning quarter,
followed her into the building and to
the ticket office, where the person who
had hired him bought a ticket for Chi
cago, numbered 500, for which she
paid $22. She then requested him to
follow her, and, going outside, went to
the wagon, and asking the boy to be
careful, as there was glass in the trunk,
which caution was reiterated by the
driver of the wagon, aided him in get
ting the trunk, which was very heavy,
into the baggage-room and placing 1T
upon the counter. There she exhibited
her ticket, which was duly punched by
Mr.. +. Dunning, the trunk was checked
and duplicate given TO the woman,
and the affair was supposed to be over.
The woman left the boy was richer by
so cents and went again to loaf around
the corner, and the trunk was bundled
in corner About half an hour after
ward Mr. Vandervoort, the entering
clerk, began to collect baggage for the
Western train. A porter took out the
packages one by one and finally came
to the trunk, which he wheeled out on
to the baggage platform. While thus
engaged foul, awful odor assailed his
nostrils. The man was puzzled. be
knew of bone burners and fat-melters
in the neighborhood, The fumes from
whose factories occasionally waited dis
ease and pestilence over the West Side,
but could not trace any resemblance in
the smell he experienced to these
milder perfumes. A gust OF air waited
away the infection for a moment and,



gage, he turned on his heel to continue
his work. Meanwhile the sun shone on
the trunk in question with fearful
ardor, and the close, grimy air again
became impregnated with the disgusting
odor noticed by the porter. Several
persons perceived it, and began to be
uneasy, and at last Mr.. Vandervoort
was summoned and the porter. An in
vestigation was begun, but the emana-
tions had impregnated almost every
package, and some search was neces-
sary At last they came to the trunk,
which was speedily pronounced the
source of the infection.


A universal search for keys was com.
menced, and as each one was tried in
the lock Of the trunk, the person using
it trembled with anticipation, fearing
some hidden crime, but never daring to
anticipate the hidden truth.


At last the lock was turned. The lid
sprang with an elastic jerk about an
inch and then wavered hesitatingly, as
if conscious of the heartrending sight
it would reveal when lifted. Peering
into the edges of the receptacle, the
bystanders only saw dirty bed-cover





blanket, and took courage. Raising the
lid, nothing further was noticed what
was underneath was hidden; but the
awful stencil from something crouching
from human view was so awful that an
other pause ensued. At last desperate
man tugged off the bedtick and the
bystanders recoiled. A delicate human
leg was visible, but the rest of the body
was entirely hidden by the blanket.
Another tug and many strong man
paled and felt sick and ashamed of hui
manity at what shone grim and CHASTITY
yet beautiful in the full glare Of the
sun.


A lovely girl yet in her teens, with a
protusion OF fair, golden hair, and SUI
pernaturally engaging, lay doubled up
a cor; ;.se at the bottom Of the trunk ell.
tirely nude, but not long. To the credit
OF every one present be 1t said that
hands tender as mothers replaced,
with manly respect, the rude coverings,
and deep roar for justice rang out
from the throats of men choked with
tears. An examination of the body
made by physician, as far as it could
be done under the circumstances, re-
vealed the fact that a deadly crime had
been perpetrated on the person of the
beautiful being now slowly decaying in
her rude coffin, and that to hide it she
had been thrust by inhuman, tiendish
hands, cramped and distorted body
into it. The mamme and genital or.
gans indicated recent and premature
accouchment. The decease of the
young girl could not have occurred
more than "a hours previously, and the
circumstances of the case point unfal.
teringly to an abortion.


The body was bent ruthlessly almost
double, and rammed into the trunk.
The deceased, however, who could not
have been but graceful in life, was, in
spite of the manner her corpse had been
treated, graceful in death. The head
curved in corner of the trunk, re-
vealed graceful head and snowy
bosom, while the arms reposed languid-
ly over the right bosom and waist. The
back was against the back of the trunk,
and the knees were drawn up against
the front of it, the feet, small and ex.