LISTENING TO A MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 288, 2 December 1905, Page 13

LISTENING TO A MURDER.

TRAGIC ENB TO GAME OF CARDS. ■MUTILATED BODY IN HAMPER. Early in the morning of October 12 iGco. Lanolc, a circus performer, living In a cheap lodging house at 149, Third avenue, N'.ew Yorfc, rushed into a neighbouring lice station and gave information of a ghastly murder. Lanole f>.»id he had. been awakened by o men in an adjoining room, apparently quarrelling over a pame of cards. Sutl d«nly a pistol F.hot was heard, followed by of sawing and cHoppinz as If a 'lo'dy were being ent up. Fearing that he mljht also be muWlered, Lanol* .waited until daylight before venturing out to 4rtve the alarm. The poUo to the, hoTi?e 4u, tltn* to cntch Frederick Ba»'pr. one of th- , lofl--I n *s. lenvlnc with his .clothing stained wiih blood,. They arr?stcd him and went tr> his ropm, In which -blood wns s<*en rverywhere. In a hamper Iα a cupboard wnfonnd the trunk of a .nmrclevMi mnti. ;tTi" Irys nnd arms bnvinj? been .sevcrod nnd pnefefrd Iβ a ieathPT bn?. The body hac , evidently been dismembered with a ,ra*OT The head was finnd wiapp-d in a new> pnpei in : a lumber ynrd lr Baet Ifth!=treet. In the foi-ehead was a •boll, * WOlMld. The murflered man was ideTrtJfiPtl >" Thomas Corcoran, an Irishman, employed ns a ticket-received on the elevated ..railway. 'He came to New York about a year ago, and lived with a marri-'d sister. His clothing bore a label with the name "GahiU, Googin, and -Co., 47, Patrickstreet, Cork." -In 'the coat pocket wae a .receipt for a registered letter sent to Mrs Julia Corcoran, Ireland. Bauer is a .German employed at tfce Union-square Hotel. He has hitherto borne a .good character. Questioned by the police, he declared that the niurder was committed by two unknown 'men. w.aom he bad invited to his room with Corcoran,