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Show WOMAN AT NIGHT 'illS BODY IN MYSTERY GRYPT Corpse of Man, Dead Two Months, Found Under Sidevalk CHICAGO. March 2S The midnight mid-night visit of a well dressed woman to i a sidewalk crypt resulted In the dls- fpvery early toda of tho body of an uiiKK'iiuiii'u man ii" nan i ,-, ii ui'.i'i about two months. In his hand he Clasped a rosary. While Walter Jonas, a watchman at la factory on the northwest side was making his round.-) at midnight, he saw a woman approach the sidewalk adjoining ad-joining a vacant lot and which Is elevated ele-vated about ten feet above the lot. The woman stooped, scraped away cinders and stones from the embankment embank-ment and crawled under the sidewalk. When she disappeared Jonas sought u policeman who entered the hole. There he found the man's body but the woman had departed. Police are searching for her. Tho head of the body rested upon a parcel of mens apparel wrapped In J the paper of a fashionable store. Dr. Edward Hartigan, said he had been dead about two months, was 35 years Of age, five feet, eight inches in height, ami weighed about 200 OUnda The police expressed the belief that he had been murdered, but Dr. Hartigan Harti-gan said marks on his skull might have been caused by contact with cinders Ho said that If death was not nutmal the man must have taken olson. |