MURDER MYSTERY.
HAN'S BODY FOUND IN A TRAVELING TRUNK.
y e w York was startled on January IB _ y a murder mystery of an unusual character. : At noon a policeman discovered a large travelling box or trunk of green zinc lying on one of tho East. River piers, v had apparently dropped from a goods van-
On opening the trunk, he found the body of a man tied up with a rope. The head was nearly severed from the body, which was identified during tho afternoon ■ tha t of Michael Veisberger, a salesman in the employment of a New YorK jewellery Arm. The coroner is of opinion that death had not taken place many hours. Weisberger's firm sold jewellery on the instalment plan, and had a large number 0 f customers among the low quarters on t he east side of New York. The police sa y'that he was engaged in making collections When he disappeared. The tneor v is that he carried a large sum of mone y and was attacked by "Thugs," who killed and robbed him. No clue to the murderers has been found.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 52, 2 March 1901, Page 5 (Supplement)
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