Show They Cant Can't Cover Their Tracks Boston Torso Mystery Recalls Similar Cases hoe pt I. I of Bryant 1896 1696 PearL in y WI I i i's s 1 I we he suitcase S S v 7 of Susan e in 1905 X-v X r s b it l V V s if 74 11 V j IW 1 F I i S V-t V ti tiki ki News 7 a con con con- s h oF S from Hans Edith toms Louise Greene Gleene a Schmidt a. a priest I that he Anne 1 lead t to t solution I of of- c. c tear stat r murd murder r 1926 g her boly i S S By NIA NEA Service How Ho difficult it Is for the murderer murderer murderer mur mur- derer to cover all his tra tracks ks The rhe dismembered bod body of a ayoung ayoung ayoung young woman recently was found near B Boston ston In a few days the poll polite police e cleared up this mystery re revealing revealing re- re that Miss Edith Louise Greene had died after an Illegal megal operation which her sweetheart had arranged The work of the he police pollee in this cais cas is In striking contrast to the detective work that has led to the solution of similar crimes that have shocked the nation during the last thirty years In the Boston case reconstructed newspaper sketches I and photographs of the young woman's womans wornall's wom worn I alls ails head led to her hei prompt identification I and gave the police pollee clues BITS OF EVIDENCE But in other cases clues that have seemed utterly worthless have jed to the arrest of the murderers mur mUI after months of oJ ceaseless and brilliant detective work In five fl outstanding cases the murderers sought to cover their tracks by dismembering or otherwIse otherwise otherwise other other- wise disposing of the body They felt that if the body could be hidden hidden hidden hid hid- den no one would ever accuse them of the crime But in all the c cases ses some tiny bit bitof bitof bitof of evidence dropped by the murderers murderers murderers mur mur- in the efforts to conceal the body of the victim have led to a solution UL of the U crimes I UL U I SHOES REVEAL SLAYERS Consider for Instance the case of Pearl Bryant murdered in Newport New New- port Ky in a 1896 a crime that first page headlines for weeks all aU over the country One morning her headless body was found in a yard on the edge oC ot town It Ii was partly clad apparently apparently apparently there were no possible means of oJ identifying it Detectives round one slim cue a a trademark label and serial number on one of her jut hut that clue was enough After a 11 months month's work the shoe snoe was traced aced to a store at Dayton O. O Through the the store the detectives managed to Identify the girl She came from froni Indiana They rhey went to her home home- hometown town made extended In- In and and finally arrested two youil students who con con- leased lessed after an extended question question- ing lug It was was that damned shoe did It one of or the t e men cried out after he had been lodged in jail I And then tl there re i-e was the thc famous Susan Gfa Geary y c case e in Boston in I 1905 Two diamond rings solved it I was vas fo found nd floating on the the- sur surface surface- ace of Bo Boston ton harbor one i morning In it was the torso of a ay ayoung I I y young ung woman head arms and I I legs pg g were missing I Police investigated fo for foe a a. month mouth but jut learned learned absolutely nothing Then rhen another suitcase came floating float float- ing log ashore In it were the the arms and legs of the victim On one o of the fingers w were two diamond rings These the police kept as as their I solo Bole cl clue e. e The Boston Post lost about th that t time was informed that an actress had quit a road show road show that was appealIng appearing appear appeal ing log in Boston shortly b before fore the first sut suitcase ase was found The com company company com copi- pany was was then then playing in Pittsburgh The Post learned that the he girls girl's family amily lived In Cambridge Mass Photographs of the rings were shown yn members of th the family who positively Identified them as be bc belonging be- be longing ing t to the missing girl Susan girl Susan Geary GealY Thus the name nam of the victim victim vic vie tim ini was known Quizzing of the girls girl's friends led Jed to the arrest of two men who confEssed confessed con- con conI I teased that they had performed an j i illegal operation on the girl that I she ohe had died as a result and that they had tried to dispose of her body If It these men bad had removed the rings from the the- girls girl's fingers they might have escaped detection forever I less Even v L less tangible was the he clue by means of which New Xe York palice po police police po- po lice in 1913 solved a startling torso mystery TRACE PILLOW SLIP A womans woman's body ody cut into frag frag- ments wrapped up up and well weighted l ted was found in io the Hudson river rIvel Ap AI Apparently parenti there was no possible way of 01 identifying the victim The rhe only thing police had to work on was the fact that one of ot the fragments had hat been wrapped In a pillow tick to which the manufacturers manufacturer's ta lay still adhered Two detectives went o the Ule factory fac fac- tory where the thc pillow pUlow tick had 1 made Since toe tag contained a serial number tho the company was able abie to tell telI them to what store the tick had originally been sent To 10 this store In Manhattan went the detectives The storekeeper had received twelve ticks licks from the comS comI com- com S I in Ri I 1 u it-u en II wore were still attIc in stock aLck il ck One of ot the two that had been sold was waso II I o- o dY eliminated from tion lion The other It developed had gone to a man who had just moved Into a new nev apartment At the apartment It was said that the man had rented it fur for his daughter laughter who had g gone ne away leaving leav ing her suite locked Accordingly the police broke in at night and searched the place The pillow tick was vas missing from the bed The rhe oc occupant of ot the apartment had been a girl named Anna Aumuller Au- Au muller The detectives learned where she hart hal been employed taked her former employer anti and from him learned the name of her hem cousin The cousin told them of a clergyman Hans Schmidt who ho had known Anna for many years ears I Ithe Then the detectives sought out the clergyman When they Introduced introduced intro intro- I themselves to him as police I officers and mentioned Annas Anna's I name he turned pale hale and nearly collapsed Within three hours he be had made a Q detailed confession to the murder I The famous Loeb Leopold-Loeb mur murder er erIn in Chicago was solved from a clue tully fully fully as insignificant looking Inc lne youthful murderers of Bobby Bobb Franks had planned their crime with extreme care care but but one of them had accidentally dropped a pair of spectacles near the place where they hid the body The spectacles wel wele e traced traced and and Leopold and Loeb went to prison for life Efe So it was in the recent Boston case There seemed no duo clu whatever whatever what what- ever evel to the identity of the dIsmembered dismembered victim But newspaper photographers photographers pho pho- cleverly reconstructed photographs o of at her these were printed in newspapers relatives identified her as its s Edith Louise Greene Greene and and her slayers were brought to book bool When a holdup man shoots down his victim and runs he stands a good chance of f getting va a away clear But when a man carefully pots a murder and goes to painstaking lengths to hl hide e the body and conceal nil n trace of his handiwork he handiwork he is almost certain to leave some clue that t will vilt lead to his undoing Copyright ht NEA Service Inc |