NEW YORK’S MYSTERY The Headless Human Trunk Has Not Yet Been Identified. POLICE ARE ON A NEW TACK Evidence Which Tends to Show That the Murdered Man Is Weinecke—Several Male Boarders at His Wife’s Residence—Few New Clews. New York, June 30.——The police have a feeling now that the mysterious mur- der case involved in the discovery of the two mutilated parts of the trunk of a man may not be so far from solution after all. They have been working on the theory of murder, and it is not im- probable that some arrests will be made very soon. “Is the body that of Max Carl Wei— necke '3” This is the question the police are asking now after having almost dropped the Weinecke theory. The in- terest now centers around the house of Mrs. Weinecke at 333 East Twenty- eighth street. . Mrs. W'einecke was seen at her house today, and she denied absolutely that she knew who the man at the morgue is. She said, when asked to look at the body: ‘ “I will not go to the morgue to view the body. I have seen the arms, and they are not those of my husband. “My husband was alive two weeks ago, I know,” she continued. “He dis- appeared on May 17, and I do not know why he did so. I do. not know where he is now.” , Mrs. Weinecke refused to make any further statement about the case. Mrs. VVeinecke keeps a boarding house in the flat at the address given above, and has kept ittfor some time. Four men moved into the house to live with her early this week, it was learned from some of the neighbors. Two of them are named Johnson and Carlos, and they are cigarette makers. It was also learned from some of the neighbors that Mrs. Weinecke had gone out and left her babies alone many times and that they had been exceed- ingly disturbed by their crying. Johnson and Carlos, the two boarders with Mrs. Weinecke, were the two who went to the morgue yesterday and look- ed over the mutilated trunk exposed there. ‘ ' They declared that the body was not .that of Weinecke and for a time this was taken as conclusive. The Statement Doubled. Events within the last few hours, however, have caused the police to doubt this statement. They are now working on a half theory that the corpse is that of VVeinecke. The visit of a mysterious stranger to the morgue early today and his declara- tion that the body is that of Weineckc strengthen this conclusion. _ Sergeant Allen of the Highbridge po- lice station, with-a squad of 18 mounted men, will go out and a thorough search of the woods of the annexed district will be made in the hope of discovering oth- er mysterious bundles. Captain Killilea of the Highbridge sta- tion stated that there is no clew in the bag, the finding of which in the woods was announced yesterday. He said the clothes could not be those of the mur— dered man. Max Kelly of 210 West One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street called at the morgue today in company with four friends. They said they had called to see if the body was that of Chris Johnson, a gro— cer of Eightieth street, near Third ave- nue, who disappeared Thursday after a quarrel with his wife. They did not arrive at a conclusion for a long time, but finally said the grocer-’s arms were larger than those of the corpse. , A man went to the morgue earlier and said he could tell who the butcher- ed man was. He was well dressed and had somewhat the appearance of a Jap- anese. He talked to Night Morgue Keeper Armstrong before he had looked at the mutilated body and described several' peculiarities of it. He then examined the remains and said, “Yes, I think I know the man.” Of the morgue keeper he then asked, “How about the cord?” "What cord?" asked Armstrong. “The window cord.” A piece of the cord which had tied up the second section of the body was shown to him. “That’s it," he exclaim- ed. He then left the morgue. Detective Crouch of the central office spoke to him outside. "Do you know the man?" he asked. “I think I do,” the man answered. "Who is he?” The man made no an- swer. "Is it Weinecke?” the dgtective asked. “Yes, that’s who it is,” said the man, ut he spoke as though he answered at ndom. Then he added, “I don’t want to say any more now, but I will return, and then I will tell all about it.” The detective was urged by those who heard what the man said to detain him as a suspicious person, but he de- clined to do .27 The. man walked rapidly away when there was a suggestion of his being " "tied. An Expert Carved the Body. Coroners’ Physician O’Hanlon, by a second examination of the mutilated body at the morgue, has convinced him— self that the person who cut up the body was an expert, that the lower part of it was either boiled or washed with boiling water, that death came within 24 hours before the finding of the first parcel and that the man was mur- dered. "The person who cut up the body," he said to me today, ”must have known more than the average medical student. The manner in which a perfect circular cut was made shows that no ordinary man separated the body. The flesh of the neck was out throtgh with a. large knife, and then a saw was used to re- move the head. The bone of the right leg was sawed off clean, and that of the left leg was sawed nearly through and then broken off. There 'were two wounds in the liver, but in my opinion they were made in cutting up the body and not before death. "The man was not a drinkingr man, and he had not been drinking when killed. There was no food in the stom- ach. showing that he had not eaten within four hours of the time he was killed. The chest and shoulders taken from 1“ .""er had not been af- ‘00:" A... -man could not do that. fected by water, showing that they had been in the river but a short time. ,“The man had not been dead more than 24 hours at the time I first saw the body. Thatwasat 11 o'clock Sun- day forenoon. , “The lower part of the body'had the appearance of having been slightly scalded, as though it were washed with scalding hot water. " “There were marks on the ball of the thumb as though the man had used a needle and had been a tailor or shoe- maker perhaps. The cutting up of the body must have been done by more than one person, fOr the reason that the arms would have to be held above the head during the operation, and one It would take half to three-quarters of an hour to cut up a body in the way that one was cut. It could not have been a prank of stu- dents. It was a cold blooded murder.” A covered wagon containing two men and two mysterious bundles was driven through the gates of the ferry at the foot of Greenpoint avenue, Brooklyn, according to The World this morning, shortly after 2 o’clock last Saturday aft- ernoon. . It arrived just in time to board the ferryboat Greenpoint, which reached her slip at the foot of Tenth street, New York, about 15 minutps later. Just after the ferryboat had made the landing a group of small boys on the pier at, Eleventh street saw a bundle drifting in diagonally toward them on the tide. It rode high and buoyant in .the water, they say, and was not more than one-quarter submerged The portion of the bundle above water was perfectly dry, although the cover- ing was of paper. When it was brought to shore and the outer covering remov- ed, it was found that the portion of it which had been beneath water was scarcely soaked through and that the underwrappings were dry. The First Find. It was eVident that the bundle had been in the water but a few minutes. It had not drifted from any of the ad— jacent piers, for the tide was close ap- proaching high water and ‘was setting in toward them. There was no boat in the immediate vicinity but the Green- point, which had just come into her slip. The bundle contained the upper por- tion of the human trunk, which is now awaiting identification at the morgue. The story told by the boys and the testimony of the ferry master in Green— point indicate that the murdered man met his fate on Long Island and that the mangled remains or portions of them were brought here in a wagon for dis- posal. _ Captain Thurber and his crew on the Greenpoint agreed that if a bundle had been dropped from the rear of the boat at the time in question it would have floated over toward the Eleventh street pier, just where the boys found it. Policeman Mohr of the Union Market station, who was the first officer notl- fied of the ghastly find, corroborates the boys as to the dryness of the bun- dle and its contents. The ferry master at Greenpoint, who was too modest to give the reporters his name, has been in the employ of the company for many years and has learn- ed to be observing. “I remember a. wagon going through here," he said, “at about 2 o’clock, or a little after, Saturday afternoon. There were two men on the seat, and there were two big. bundles inside, with a blanket or some gunny sacking thrown over them. “The bundles would be just about the size required to contain the portions of the man’s body as described in the newspapers. One was larger than the other. “The reason I noticed the bundles particularly was because they were in a covered wagon, with a covering thrown over them. We always look into covered wagons to make sure that nobody is concealed in them in order\ to beat us out of a fare. A good many try it. “As the wagon drove up I said to the two men on the seat, “Have you got anybody inside there?” and as I spoke I looked in between the dashboard and the bottom of the seat. The men looked at one another in a way that struck me as peculiar and made me think for the moment that they had some one hidden. They did not say anything in reply, and as soon as I saw that there were two bundles only I permitted them to pass on. “Of the two men one wore a straw hat and had a blond mustache, to the best of my recollection. I think he was either in his shirt sleeves or that he wore a very light coat. The second man wore dark clothes and had a black derby hat. This Is all I can remember about them. “The wagon was like the ordinary grocer’s covered wagon, and was in color a sort of faded maroon red. The upper part was more faded than the box to the wagon. The horse, as I re- call him, was a bay. There was only one horse. I do not remember ever having ‘seen the rig before." Indian Ghost Dancing In Idaho. Boise City, June 30.—‘Governor Steu— nenberg is advised that 300 Indians, mostly Bannocks from the Lemhi agency and some from the Nevada, are ghost dancing on the prairie near Haley, Ida. The settlers are greatly alarmed, and have appealed to have .them removed. The gOVernor has tele- graphed to the Bannock agent at Ross Fork and to the interior department. To Examine “Would Be Lawyers. Saratoga Springs, N. Y., June 30.—The state board of law examiners, consist- ing of Austen G. Fox of New York city, F. M. Danaher of Albany and W. G. Goodale of Syracuse, which has been in session here since June 16, adjourned today to meet at Syracuse Oct. 12. A list of successful applicants for admis- sion to the bar was handed down today. Robert J. Powley Put to Death. Auburn, N. Y., June 30.—Robert J. Powley was put to death in the electric chair today. The execution was suc- cessful. -His crime was the murder of his wife on March,8, 1897, at Niagara Falls. His case was peculiar in that no appeal was made to the higher courts. He did. however, appeal to the governor, but without effect. Big Electrical Contract. Boston, June 30.—The contract for furnishing the new Southern Union station with an electrical plant has been awarded to the Westinghouse Electric company? It is one of the lar— gest electrical contracts ever awarded and calls for the expenditure of $500,000 or more. THE EVENING GAZETTE THEY'GOT 'I‘H'ERE. Carried Out Their Purpose-tn Become - Congressmen. attendance at the Columbia Law School at New York two young stu- dents, one from Ohio, J. J. Lentz, and the other from Pennsylvania, E. E. Robbins. The fellow-students were room-mates at college and cultivated each other’s acquaintance to the point of fast friendship. In discussing their plans at school one day young Rob- bins asked Lcn-tz: “What do you pro- pose doing when you graduate?” “I am going back to Ohio and run for Congress,” was the reply. “What are your 13.}. 21s?” - “I propose returning to Pennsylva- nia and trying the same idea,” re- sponded Itc-bbins. “\Ve will meet some day in. the House.” The eff-- -‘ day, for the first time dur- ing the session, Robbins, a Represent- ative Greensburg, 'Pa., met Lentz, a Representative from Colum- bus, O‘oic. _ . Ciasping hands, they simply re- marked, but in the same breath. “Well, here we are.”—Washington Post. ,- .. IE'OELL ——r—--. . . _ . . A Place for Dress \Vaists. In these days, when space is a mat-- ter of deep importance in one’s home and bedrooms the young housekeeper has to devise all kinds of makeshifts to replace the wardrobe and drawer space to which she has .been ac- customed. Couches are to be had made so that the top turns back easily and discloses an air—tight storage space where nice dress skirts may be spread out at length and still be as accessible as if hung in a wardrobe. And now some one has' solved the problem of where to put the betrimmed dress waists so that they shall not be crushed and still may be quickly gotten out, thus giving further relief to over- crowded closets. Brass bedsteads are now made with two dust-proof drawers underneath. The length of the drawers is the same as the width of the bed. One drawer opens at the upper end of the bed, and on the opposite side the drawer is at the lower end. The pleated valance to match the draperies of the bed is fastened separately to the front of the drawers, 'and when they are closed they are not noticeable, as the folds hang together, and the lace-trimmed bed-cover falls over the top of the val- ance. The drawers are so, made-as to clear away any doubts of those who may object to the idea on the score that they may become close and stuffy. There is a space between the closed top of the drawer and the bed, thus allowing ample circulation of air all around—New York Sun. F .____‘_._..._.__. Tiniest Shears Ever Made. A clever workman in a cutlery fac- tory in Sheffield, England, has recent- ly made a dozen» pairs of shears each so minute that they all together weigh less than half a grain. That is about the weight of a postage stamp. Each pair was perfect, and would cut if s-uf~ flciently delicate material could - be found. Lying on a piece of white pa- per, they seemed no larger than fleas. Pleasure for warm, thirsty peOple,— it’s so delightfully cooling and refreshing—— invigorates the whole sys- ”,1, tern —soothes the nerves-— '— . ‘ promotesrestfulslumberand it .. a hearty appetite for food. . I! Ask Your Druggist HERE’S YOUR GIIAIIIIE. A ~fine building lot on Wilton ave- nue. If you intend to build, look at this before purchasing. Water, gas and sewer on the avenue. WIII be sold at a Bargain. W. H. BYINGTON, Room I. Gazette B’l’d. About fifteen years ago there was in - Real Estate and Insurance THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE L'u. RICHAagznggggfrresum. Statement. or me Year Endint December 3lsl, us. According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York. INCOME, Ileceivcdluior. Premiums - - From all Other Sources - - - . - ,3 39,593,414 20 _lll,_|_09,2lll 01 , .. s 49.10%‘6571 DISBURSEM ENTS, To Policy-holders for Claims by Death - ' -, . . To Policy-holders for Endowments, Dividends, etc. .- - - For all Other Accounts .- - - - ~ - . ASSETS. IIniled Slates Bonds and other Securities - First lien Loans on Bond and Mortgage - - - Loans on Stocks and Bonds ' - - - - . Real Estate S l2,’595,l | 3 39 |2,842,456 ‘ll 3 WAYNE—II S l | (”25,082, I4 'Il,543,929 ll,09l,525 00 22,161,666 60 (lash in Banks and Trust companies - - - - - l2,680,390 00 Accrued Interest, IIeI Deferred Premiums, elc- - _ ' 6,535,555 06 . ., . s NAT—MIKE Reserve for Policies and other Liabilities - - - - - 205,0“).633 12 Surplus, - - - t - - - - SEES—SSWH Insurance and Annuities in force - . . . .—_——.__.__—_ S 9|8.598.338 45 I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct liabilities calculated by the Insurance Department CHARLES A. ,PRELLER, Auditor.» From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual Report of the Examining Cummittce Office of the Mutual Life Insurance Company Of New York . To THE HONORABLE, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE MUTUAL LIFE IIISIIIIAIIGE GOMPAIIY 0F IIEVI YDIIK The undersigned, a Committee apppointed by your honorable body on the twenty. third day of December, l89'6, to examine the Annual Statement of the Company, and REPORT ursuant to the power and authority thereby conferred, the Committee have at various dates betweent - ate of the cc and the date cf this Report attended at the office of the Company, and have been waited on by the freasurer the Auditor and and the Cashier, together with the the respective assistants of such officers, and have care: 11 the items contained in the said Statement, and have "found the same to be correct. They have examined tificate of stock, bond and other obligation held by the Company, and compared the price at which the (1 Statement with the market quotations and find the same not exceeding such quotations—in fact, in many cases below them. They have examined and counted the bonds and mortgages on real property held by the Company, and find the same to be as stated. They have also verified the valuations of the Company’s holdings of real estate and have verified the deposits of money in the various banks and trust companies, and have counted the cash on hand held by the C bier. _ ,. ' as hat all the books, papers. documents and eVIdences of title of every description necessary in And the Committee certify t _ . ‘ . . s'uch examination have been freely submitted to the Committee by the said officers and their assxstants, and that the,same are accurate, in good order and well kept. . 0 And the Committee further certify that the Investments of the Company are of a high order, and that the system and methods adopted by the Company in recording its transactions and caring for the assets are entitled to commendation u f h- him, ectfullysubmitted ROBERT OLYPHANT J. HOBART HERRIO A o w 1c , 9 JAMES N. JARVIE CHARLESD. DIOREIII. J3. JAMES C. HOLDEN CHARLES R. HEND.‘ ‘.RSON verify the same, respectfully That, 1) said referen the Comptroller, fully gone over a and 'counted every cer same are carried in 531 NEW YORK. JANUARY 25, 1897. The company has issued an order whereby women can be insured withOut the extra charge heretofore required. More definite information on the subject Will be furnished .by the local agent, Mr. A H. Camp. 6 . ' Board. of Trustees ’ GEORGE G. HAvEN ADRIAN ISELIN JR: GEORGE S. BOWDOIN THEo. A. HAVEMEYER WILLIAM C. WHITNEY WILLIAM ROCKEEELLER JAMES N. JARYIE CHAS D. DICKEY JR. ELBRIDGE T. GERRY HENRY H. ROGERS Jim. W AUCHINCLOSS THEODORE MOBFORD WILLIAM BABCOCK STUYVESANT FISH AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIARD CHARLES E. MILLER r. WALTER R. GILLETTE H. WALTER WEBB FREDERIC CROMWILL J ULIEN T. DAVIES ROBERT SEWELL S, V. R. CRUGER CHARLES R. HENDERSON RUFUS W. PECKHAM J. HOBART :HERRICK WM P DIXON ROBERT A. GRANNISS RoBERT A. GRANNISS Vice-President. ‘ WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. . , ISAAC F. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President. HENRY E. DUNCAN, JR, Corresponding Secretary WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary. » ALBERT KLAMROTH, ASSIStant Secretary. .. « FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. JAMES TIMPSON. 2d Assistant Treasurer. JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. ‘ WILLIAM P, SANDS, Cashier. EDWARD P. HOLDEN, ASSIstant Cashier. SAMUEL D, BABCOCK RICHARD A. MCCURDY JAMES C. HOLDEN HERMANN C. VON POST LEWIS MAY OLIVER HARRIMAN ROBERT OLYPHAN'I GEORGE F. BAKER DUDLEY OLCOTT . EMORY MCCLINTOOK, Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, JR , Assistant Actuary. . CHARLES A,-PRELLER, Auditor. , WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. C. CLIFFORD GRETSIN GER, ASsistant Auditor. HENRY 8. BROWN, Assistant Comptroller JOHN C. ELLIOT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies. _ EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, General Solicitor. MEDICAL DIRECTORS: ' ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D' GRANVILLE.M.|WHITE, M L'. GUSTAVUS S. WINSTON, M. D. JOHN w. NIGEL-01.51 F'";::.'.‘.t'::::.':...... A!» H. GAMES f. . Local Agent. ,4;
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