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Show SLAIN BY JEALOUS RIVAL. Victim of Mysterious Murder in New York Has Been Identified. New York. The dismembered body of a murdered man which, wrapped in oilcloth, was left by a stranger In the care of a boy in Catherine street Thursday night, has been identified as that of Samuel Bersin. 22 years old, a painter of East Ninety-eighth street. Subsequently the man's head, which was missing, was found lying on a pile of refuse under the Brooklyn bridge some distance from the point where the body was left. Bersin came from Russia about two years ago. Robbery was at first believed to have been the motive, but the case took on a new phase on Friday when Mrs. Mollie Isaacson, the murdered man's sister, informed the police that Bersin had been greatly depressed for the last month because a young woman, wo-man, with whom he was in love, had forbidden him to call upon her.Mrs. Isaacson said that Bersin had a jealous jeal-ous rival for the girl's affections and stood much in fear of the man. Through this clue the police hope to solve the mystery. |