New-York daily tribune., 1859-06-06

QucAi.ne lad not cply been ireel. applied 70 the
fralure-, bat il had s.o beea placed ias,je Of the
voner caus and tie sleeves ot the under garments
Of al IN mcisteIsd state with the e-ident ictention
@. facilitating 6seonpos.,i-n, and thereby destroying
az possibility cf identification of the bodies, which
object i i, believed h,s beer most efectual! accom-.
plished.
The lArce man referred 10 hal wound on The len
breast in the reg on Of the heart, If he had been
stabbed; and several spots. resembling blood, were
found on the shirt OF shroud where il covered the
wound. The hair and Nhiskers of one man were
quite perfect; and some portions Of the body where
the lime had not come in con;sot. were so fresh and
firm. tha, It was the opinion Of DR.. Freeman tha,
life had not been extinct more than one week. The
LEG of one woman was also separated from the body
The severance WAS however supposed to have been
effected by the action Of the hme. AL the flesh
peeled from the skulls owing 20 the sc,ion of the
lime. except in the case OF one woman. whose
hair was of n light brown, and whose fingers were
quito delicate.
The p;,l WAS a,tiyed in \ linen ohemse, with
pre,ty ruffie arpund the neck. This undorgsrment
was marked with the letters c. VI. in Turkey red
cetton. She had on pair of linen stockings, clicked
in front ard at the top. She had also ne lsce cap
or. The undergamerts Of the women. as well as
those Of the girl were of stout hnen aud strong a.
new. From the texture of the underssrments, aud
the manner il which they were marked, IN. +. pre-
sumed that the deceased persons except the negro
were Of German extraction but as their garments
were not marked with the German text letter, it il
more probable that they were emgrants from one of
the British Isles As no evidence could be obtained
as to who they were, where they came from, or how
they got into the water-nothipg beyond the mere
fact of their discovery and the state 10 which they
were fourd-the Corou.r's jury rendered the usual
verdict returned in such cases, viz: That the de-
ceased came TO their deaths BY some means I'M
known TO the jury
The Coroner in hopes of discovering some traces
As to where the bodies came from, plsced them in
charge Of Mr. Petit undertaken, of West Farms, and
then proceeded to visit all the public institutions of
New.York fer the purpose of sscertaning, ii posi-
be. whether any bodies intended for intermeut had
been lost overheard while on their way to the Pot
ters Field; but thus far we understand that his in
grires have led to satisfactory solution OF the mys-
terv
From the fact that the sides of the box were not
wet through nor the nails much eouoded, it Is be-
Eeved that the box had not been in the water twenty
four hours. but most probably cast into the wstor
and was then floating up with the tide. Some sug-
gesed the idea that the bodies were packed mp with
m, desrp Of being sent off TO some institution for
anatomical purposes, but DIR. +. repudIates the dea'
ON the ground that the lime destroyed their value for
any such use. 1t was also intimated by some that
the bodies were being removed from the Old
Pot,er's Field on Fourth avenue, to the new
city lurying ground, on one Of the Islands :
but this view if possible, is s more absurd than the
other one inasmuch "a no nterments have taken
place at the old Potter Field for many years, while
the bodies found boxed up had evidently been alive
within as many days. Another idea that seemed to
prevail was that the bodies some shat had been
collected by the authorities Of New-fork for inter
ment; that they had been packed up together tor
burial and had been lost from the boat employed TO
convey them TO the Island. This theory, however Is
slso cor,radcted, not only by the custom ot placing
each body in separate coffin but also By the TACT
that the body Of the large man alluded to could not
have been placed in the box after had become stii
Again, tie public authorities could have no motive
for taking such special pains to place quickme under
the clothing ofhe deceased, OF otherwise to facilitate
their decomposition, or for making box Of unusual
form, and thereby rendering il necessary to cat a
head off and bend the limbs of others in unnatural
position, in order to admit of packing them up.
Another view taken Of the affair is that the entire
party were murdered in this city, and ia order to
avoid the suspicion which might attend the csrng of
box of the ordinary length of cofns from any house
or tavern the bodies mutilaed, and forced into
box. the form Of which would not be likely to lead
to the contents being suspected.
The more the affair is considered, the more deeply
il appears to be involved 10 mystery.
Ii any person impart Information calculated to
throw any light on the subject, he ia requested to
communicate the same to Coroner b. Is. yaleutne,
West Farms, Westehestor County, =. York.