tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post2459623588364033070..comments2024-03-29T07:19:50.366-07:00Comments on Strange Company: The Corpse Box of Hell Gate: A Mystery of Old New YorkUndinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16214242522330278662noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post-65121088381503433062013-09-09T16:39:56.473-07:002013-09-09T16:39:56.473-07:00I have no idea about the ages--they were just desc...I have no idea about the ages--they were just described as "adults." I've been looking through all the available newspaper databases for any 1859 reports of missing families, but so far I've found nothing.<br /><br />All those questions you mentioned occurred to me as well. I can't believe they didn't also occur to everyone who knew of the story at the time, which is why I'm rather puzzled it didn't get more media attention.Undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16214242522330278662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post-57037375826701812812013-09-09T16:05:10.385-07:002013-09-09T16:05:10.385-07:00Questions, questions....
How much would a box con...Questions, questions....<br /><br />How much would a box containing seven bodies weigh. Since people struggle - or at least in the movies they struggle - to drag one body wrapped in a carpet out of a car, how could seven be moved at once without some kind of crane or hoisting gear?<br /><br />That suggests it must have been swung off the deck of a ship and dropped overboard. But how did it get onto the ship in the first place? Was the empty box perhaps loaded with bodies that were already on board, having been killed during a voyage from...somewhere? But if that was the case, why not dump them overboard out at sea instead of in the middle of a major city? The nightclothes suggest they were killed while they slept. To rob them? <br /><br />Any idea of the ages of the four adults? Could the box have contained all the members of a single household: a couple, their two children, the two grandparents and a servant? But if so, wouldn't there also be a maid and a cook? <br /><br />Questions, questions....Archie_Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04582569974503175543noreply@blogger.com