The Sun

The Mysterious Murder—A Third Part Containing the Lower Part of the Body Found in Gravesend Bay.—Another and third portion of the remains belonging to the body found in the dock at the foot of Little street, Brooklyn, on the 3d inst., were discovered on Monday, the 10th inst., in Gravesend Bay. As in the other two cases, the attention of a boatman was attracted to a bundle floating in the water, and, on examining it, found it to contain the two legs of a human being. They were bound around with thick brown paper, and the whole enveloped in an oilcloth table cover, which was firmly sewed together. Justice Stilwell, who resides in the town of Gravesend, took charge of the remains, and sent a letter to Coroner Norris, of Brooklyn, in regard thereto, as follows:

GRAVESEND, L. I., Oct. 11, 1864.

Dr. Norris—Dear Sir: Yesterday a pair of legs, sewed up in an oilcloth, with a piece of old iron kettle to serve as weight, was picked up in the Bay. It probably belongs to the body picked up at the foot of Little street, Brooklyn, one day last week. Do you want the legs to help identify the trunk? If not, I will have them interred.

Yours truly,

Wm. H. Stilwell, Justice of the Peace.

Coroner Norris immediately dispatched a messenger to Justice Stilwell's residence, and procured the remains, which were taken to Brooklyn last evening, together with the iron and wrappings, and placed in the deadhouse, where the main trunk is still preserved. It is somewhat singular that the remains found at the foot of Little street, the parts found at the foot of Corlears street in this city, and the limbs just discovered in Gravesend Bay, should have been tied up with similar material, and in precisely the same manner, with a piece of iron so small in each bundle as not to be of sufficient weight to cause it to sink. The head and arms are still missing, but it is confidently believed that they will yet be found.