A HORRIBLE AMERICAN MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 618, 4 January 1872, Page 2

A HORRIBLE AMERICAN MURDER.

The American papers to hand report a peculiarly shocking affair, which has made a great noise ia New York, accustomed as that city is fematters of the kind. In the afternoon of August 28 a woman alighted at the depot if the Hudson River Bailway, in Thirtenth-street, from a cart with a box, which Sic got a boy who was known to his companbns as " Paddy " to carry for her, at the^ame time telling him to be very careful bf it as it contained glass. The boy told ler he could not pass the box until shehad taken her ticket (she wanted, she sad, to go a short distance beyond Chica;o). Accordingly, at her request, he shwed her the way to the booking-officeimd saw her take a ticket for Chicago. Ls no train was due for five hours, she askd the lad where she could get some refreiment, and was directed to a restaurant. fhe does not appear to have gone there, bwever, and was not seen again. In themean time the box came unfastened, aria horrible discovery was made. The fete York Times says :— " There was qthing to be seen at first but an ordinary qjlt; removing this there was an old army tanket. Doubled up in the bottom of thj small flimsy trunk was the body of a fuf grown woman, full five feet in height, wfch had been crammed into a trunk two fee six inches long and eighteeen inches deep. She had been put in upon the right M, the legs doubled up, and the head bed forward, so that the face and knees ahost met- Seen even in this position adj rigid in death, the young girl, for sheWld not have been more than eighteen, haa face of singular loveliness." It was ascerSned on medical examination that the decA e d had been the victim of criminal treEtpent.

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