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Show I "BLACK HAND" Oil A JEALOUS RIVAL Victim of Most Mysterious Murder Mur-der of Late Years in New York Identified. SEVERED HEAD FOUND UNDER BROOKLYN BRIDGE Sister of Slain Man Declares He Feared His Rival for Girl's Love. NI3W YORK, June 31. Tlie d ism cm? Lorcd body ol: : murdcMcd man which, wrapped in oilcloth, was left 'by- a stranger in the enre of a bov in Catherine Cath-erine street iaht nirln . was identified today os that, of ftnimicl Bersin. 22 ye:irs old. a painter of I'Jast "incty-eifjbjlr street.. Subsequently ihe, man's ;he"ad. wliieh whs misf.injr Inst nijrht.'was found lyhipr on a.fuleT'or rc'fue uiiile'r the Brooklyn bridge sonic distance from the point where the body was left. Berlin (tame from Kussua about two years ago. Hobbcvy v.-as at first, believed to have beeu the liioth'e. but -the' case-took on a new itia;e Joday -when rr?. lollic .Isaacson, the "murdered man 's sister, informed the police "that Bcrsin "haa been, wreat h depreisod for tho Inst nioitj.h. Iecau."!' a. yume: woman, Avitli whiSnT he was in low, had forbidden hiuir tt rail upon her. iMr.e. lsanccon kyid that Hersin hud a jealous rival for - "Vlin girl's affclioiis and stood much in fear,, of the man. Through this clue the police hope to solve tho niysten. .Meantime, they hold as witnesses sev-.Mnl sev-.Mnl homeless men who spent the the iii g.Ir under Ihe Brooklyn bridge and irpQg-j .J- fyViThd the missing head today. $' i i DoS Smelled the Blood, .vjjtjf Xr since the Guldensuppe caie of '0Bi "' a decade ago has a murder so mystified ivejj) " the poiice as that which was brought rcitfi to light last night when the headless vi fc' body was found. Karlicr in the even-ihem even-ihem 3k ing : man had given a 1 1-year-old boy ji'tfi five cents to guard the two bundles, fli ' raying he would return for them in a oiH ' ' icw minutes. For two hours the lad stood in front of a public school build-ing build-ing in Monroe street, in the lower part jPafe of the East; side and near to Chat ham 'IsflE sfjuarc. waiting for the return of the lr f man. A fo: terrier smelled the blood VrSa nr PafkaJ?cs. ami barked at them Imjjlw so viciously and persistently that his .Ht owner called a policeman and the. dis-Mk dis-Mk coveiy resulted. (&B The ictim had been slabbed to deaili. aiparenliy. before his bony was JllK' dismembered, and doctors said that life iffif had not been extinct more than twelve hour-, thus placing tho time of the muyrlcr. Ji.t . some, hour durhjg yesterday fgtwis?3iyUg' Otif h"c-wr:i pper uf each pa f-HST"' f-HST"' oc'- r,nf f which contained the torso, olllf :ud the other the legs ami arms, was jtggjk . boldlv written lhc words. "Black l0gS Jlnnd." Some of the detectives cou- lilfSr l''11' "''s "i1" rc(?nl activity of the ,515 secret sen'ice men among .P.Jae'k Hand ,S operators in the middle west and de- &jpt elare lhaf the murdered man was the victim of nn Italian llackinailing so- |