Show STRA GLEn AND A r mum I Most Mysterious Murder Discovered Dis-covered in the Streets of Nev York BODY BRUTALLY HACKED The Victim a Colored Woman of the Town Specimen of Jack the Ripper Work i Found in the Business Heart of j the Metropolis Tlie Woman Vu I First Stswnrled and Then Her Body Dismembered With an Axe A Ilmlly Written Xote Left Evidently Evi-dently For n Blind As Usual the S Police Are at Sea New York March 31ne of the most mysterious murders committed in this city since the mutilated body of Old Shakespeare was found in a II ow resort near the East river front for hose butchery the Algerian Frenchy is now serving a life sentence sen-tence was discovered today shortly after af-ter 6 oclock a m The victim in this case was a young colored woman whose dismembered body was found wrapped In pieces of carpeting part I ally hidden from view in the rear of the building of the New York company com-pany on the southwest corner of Sixth avenue and Waverly place How long i tne remains had been lying there is I not known As yet the police have no I clue to the person or persons who deposited de-posited the buy there Immediately upon the discovery of the crime the i police were notified and half a dozen I j of the best detectives were detaed to fathom the mystery The body was fatnd almost aJt the same time by two rric n One of them was Joseph Phillips i j a young electrician and Patrolman Kasmire of the Mercer street station i The bundle in which the remains were found was bound at each end i with pieces of cloth and leaving the middle portion somewhat loose Around i her neck was tied in double knot a Icing piece of cheese cloth This had I been tied so lightly that It had caured strangulation and had forced the tongue to protrude from the mouth This had been tied across her breast with a strong piece of cord by means of a slipknot Her legs had been cutoff cut-off Just below the knee and one of them laid on the body with the foot toward the head while the other was found underneath the body Both member had been hacked off with a sharp axe or butchers cleaver Pieces of ragged skin and flesh were hanging hang-ing on the dismembered legs The only clothing the woman had on was a chemise and chemisette of white material ma-terial When these were removed a gaping wound nine inches long and which penetrated to the bone was disclosed just above the right thigh In a bundle there was found a piece of note paper on which was a clot of blood and written in pencil these words so far a they could be made I out outMarch March 23 Raw Wanj James Jane I E Surlndell Raw Way N J Beneath was the word Solomon I jind also the word brother while i the word ditto was written between them Deputy Coroner Dr Donlin removed I the pieces of cheesecloth with which jm e had been strangled to death He I robnd that this had been tied in a double knot and that it had been the direct cajse of death The other mutilations mu-tilations he sad hal been made after death probably with a sharp axe or a butchers cleaver a ceaver There was nowhere to be found any evidence of a struggle on the part of the woman The deputy coroner was positive that the woman had been dead more than twentyfour hours He said also that the woman had been a mother The woman wore on the third finger of her right hand a plain old ring and on her left breast a fcorous plaster I I is the opinion of the police that the woman is a member of that class of colored women who live on the strcets running out of Sixth avenue and gain their livelihood as women of the town They make no attempt to explain the motive for the crime No one of the name of Surindell could be found in Banway N J |