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Show ENM MYS11Y- PUZZLES POLICE Of ffWYiffi CITY v -----HaM----M--a-s-- Parts of Dismembered Body round at ' Different Points; Work of Surgeon or Butcher; Suggestion of Gulden- " suppe Tragedy of Nine Years Ago. NEW YOKK. Sept. 21. Auothcr portion of tho ilia-' membeml body, the ioi&o of winch was fouud in a pit ;it Eleventh avenue atirt Thirfv-sixth street, was discovered by the police today.- One of the thigh which was missing, miss-ing, was found two blocks away. The police are engaged iu searching' for the head of the missing man, and until that is found there is little hope- of identification. Tbe police were busy today also in trying to trace live men who were seen Saturday night beating a man in. West Fifty-sixth street, not far from the spot where the torso was afterwards foiiml. NEW YOKK, Sept. 21. I'p to an. early hour today the police made practically prac-tically uo progress in unraveling tbe mystery tuirouuiing tli'j finding of portions por-tions of the body, of a murdered man in a pit at Weft Thirty-sixth street and Eleventh avenue. Tbe truuk of th man was mutilated much as tbnt of (ruldensuppe, the victim of the notorious noto-rious murder of niue ars sgo. The forearms and lower parts of the 'legs were recovered, but diligent search ef the ueigbborhood failed to reveal th? head or the thighs. The place where portions of the body were found is near the river, and the police think the head -was thrown o'r-board. o'r-board. . r Clue in a Gnnnysack. The only clue whjcli furnished any re suits yesterday was the gunnysaeW.up- i on Tvh'ich was"pri;Hed the name Z. K. ! Mano." It was found that Mano, who j died wrversl weeks ago, had been an importer of nut? at No. i7 Washing- ' ton street, in tbe henrt of Syrian and j Armenia u colony. He left a widow, who a few dny sigo sold out. his entire en-tire stock preparatory to giving up the businers. May Have Been Brother. It wan larncd last night that Mann had a brother. Jack, who Lad trouble with his Syrian neighbors because of some business during the settlement of the estate. It was s-aid that Jack had gone into hiding a few drns afro, because be-cause of threats made, against his life. Some of the Syrians declared that the description of the body at the morgue tallied with tLat of the missing ui;tu. The dead man wm of foreign ex;rac- V. j tion. either u Italian, an Armenian or j a Svjian. ' I Coroner's Physician Weon.. who viewed the body. adanccd a. theory-that theory-that impressed 'rhe police. "From tb condition of the torso.' he said, "1 mi sure ihat the murder was committed after midnight, and I also believe thflt three men disposed of the remains. Aery probably the three p.eh carried a portion and meant- to throw them all iu the rh rr, which is only a few hundred yards away. Thy pot frigbte"iied probably and one of them chucked the body into this hole. Auother rau iutw the freight ; yards, aud seeing the ear door open, j flung load iju-ide. Tbe third kept I on t tin- river and hurled the heel far -i out into tlie water. t ', Surgeon or Butcher. I "As to the cutting up of the lody, X a;u inciiucd to thiuk that whoever attended at-tended to this part of the crime must have had some knowledge of anatomy. -The work is not tha of a bungler. They i ar ueatly aud cleanly cut st th .ioints. being so disarticulated that not a si'igle bone was even scraped by tbe kuife. I do not mean that the murderer mur-derer was necessarily a surgeon. A butcher might have done the work.1' Jealocsy cr Revenge. Detective Pcrosino, ouc of the many police ofiicers assigned to the case, after af-ter an investigation. s:id: "I do not think tho murder was prearranged, pre-arranged, for in disposing of the body the murderer picked up as wrappioc whatever came to his hand a table cover and a mautel coer. The-brutality of the crime indicates that them was "strong mo'-ive, such as je-jlouy or revenge rather t l:Tn robbery. '' |