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Show SMIQiftl'M have cops m iSTEdrovEs guessenc; -. mm, win, siwmy, chnmwi . - - - ' - .- . 1 Unknown Han Deliberately Hurls Himself Under Train; White 'Woman found . Dead Under Suspicious Circumstances . in Chinese House. i EW YORK, Dec. 5. The police and detectiyes are working to-, day on four mysterious crimes which promise to furnish sensational- 1 developments. , A suicide, murder and two mysterious assault were x committed last night. V . ..... . ' ; , ' NEW TORK. Dec. 6. Three of New Tork's great highways, the river, the underground railway and the street and that dark section known aa Chinatown, each furnished a police mystery today. In two cases, the subway, and China' town, death had come between the victims vic-tims and the investigators! In the first, the police have only the mangled body of .a man, who before he hurled himself before a rapidly moving train, had taken every precaution pre-caution to thwart Hhe efforts of the officers to establish his identity. His clothing, unmistakably new, bore not a single distinguishing mark and not even a trinket was found In any of the pockets. . . ' Description of Suicide. "The man -was about 40 years old. weighing . 170 pounds, was 5 feet 9 Inches in height, dark hair, and blu '. . I eyes, and the scrupulous care w-ith which he was dressed Indicated that he was not a laborer. Beyond these meager mea-ger details, however, nothing is known. The man jumped directly In front of a train as It swung Into the One Hundred ' and Thlrty-sventa street" and Broad- - ' way station of the subway. . His bdjr" -" was literally ground to pieces. The Chinatown , mystery was the . death of a woman, Lottie Lane, a white woman, whose husband, a -Chinaman, , died a short time ago.. ' . j Living in CMneseHouse. . w- Since then she has! been living in I Pell street in the house of Mock Duck, , one of the most notorious- of the Chi- ) nese leaders in New Tork, who Is under . - arrest awaiting trial on a charge of murder. Lottie Lane had three callers , last night, a Chinaman and a whits man and a white woman. During the . . night these callers summoned a phy- ; sician and notified tie police that their hostess had tainted while she was entertaining en-tertaining them. . -. i The, pbyBiclan, - who found her dead '-when '-when he arrived., regarded the death as , - . suspicious. The police ; rui-th three "" callers tinder, arrest and began aa ln- instigation. . " : ' . . t - . Pulled From the Blrer. ' ' ! . The central figure in the mystery ot the river Is William Hallinger. aged 28 years, a market man. who says his home is In Tonkers. He was dragged ' from the East river near the uppr end ' of Hell-Gate early this morning, more dead than alive, by a' tug-bdat captain, who heard his cries for help. ' . . ' . -Hallinger raid he came from Tonkers f yesterday , with a load of produce and f . after disposing of his- wares started out. ' ; to enjoy himself. He told the police that he " remembered " little from last " ', -s night untU he waa found struggling in the water. It was found that the man bad'a fractured skull.- Belle Weber, a 20-year-old girl was 1 the fourth victim. Found lying bound. ? gagged and helpless in the hallway of -; the house in West Forty-first where she resided with two girl companions. ' ' she was taken to a hosnitak -For hours she was unable to give the po- ' r lice any Information which would as- . -slst them in locating her assailant.- . |