Show mystery murders puzzle the he f police two women victims of similar crime a year apart in new jersey new york no two crimes in recent years offer so many grounds for comparison os as the murder and attempted burning by gasoline of margaret brown on the night of february 20 1028 on bernardsville Bernards ville road between somerville and morristown N J and the murder and attempted burning by gasoline of an unknown woman found recently nearby the murders have some marks of similarity but there are striking dis jf similarities outstanding among the differences between the two murders and gasoline burn burnings lings inthis Is this miss brown was not dead when found slie she was alive and ancl moaning when found near midnight behind what in summer sommer was used as a refreshment fresti ment stand at a picnic ground or small resort site she died the next day the great difference the unknown woman found a year later was shot through the top of the head bead here Is the great difference between two murders in respect to the burning whoever killed miss brown poured gasoline 0 ver over the lower part of tier her body and lighted the gasoline from the feet she was found so quickly that her fuce and bust were as yet not disfigured by the flames and her face ace was recognizable whoever killed the unknown woman c covered berwith her with gasoline and fired the gasoline from the upper part of the body with the result that the face was so badly disfigured that at ai this writing her identity has not been established the fact that miss bliss brown had been burned from the feet seemed to establish incontestably that the murd murderer er was an amateur who had bad probably attacked in anger or of as the result of sex passion and either acted with extreme haste in firing the still alvin living 9 woman after he had dragged tier her from the motor car afir and poured gasoline from the tank over the victim or that he was horrified at the thought of being an actual witness of the flames destroying her features that the murderer was an amateur was proved when the papers of fob feb auary 23 1128 reported that the police of Bernards bernardsville ville had received a letter containing a BOO note and a package of bonds worth 2500 along with what purported to be a confession ion of miss bliss browns kilter killer ue he said ho he had met tier her in buffalo and later inter while she was acting as governess in new york that he had taken tier her riding on february 20 when she had drawn her money and bonds preparatory to going out west to join relatives that tie he had tried to take advantage of her and when she resisted he had killed tier her by knocking her in the head in the motor car the question naturally arises was the killer of the unknown woman near cranford a year later the man who killed miss hilss brown was he the killer of miss brown more hardened by crime or hardened by the progress of a mental disease problems for the mancho roan who killed the unidentified woman a year later inter shot tier her tyer ver the left ear ho he took her body from the car at a lonely spot covered the b ody body with gasoline and set it ollre presumably near the head whether he pained gained by adding robbery to io murder cannot he established until the name of the victim Is learned here fler la Is the problem for those who attempt to solve mysterious crimes by analyzing the mental processes of the criminals were the two murders committed by the same man who applied expert ence gained from his mistakes in the farst murder or were the murders in no wise related or did the murderer of the unidentified woman know about the 1028 case and benefit by the mistakes of the first murderer by making sure of disfiguring the womans comans face by applying the match to the upper purt part of the body or was the second murderer just naturally more intelligent or cunning and sufficiently more callous than the first murderer to be a witness to the disfigurement of the face of the he woman who had been alive in his corn coat pany a few minutes before |