The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-01-22

are not suffering nom hunger and exposure nt this
very moment ~ AT which she shrugged her shOul-
ders, and rerled:
81 guess can't do anything more than these men
have done. II they can't find them can't"
" hut a mothers eyes" vcnturcd our reporter
again, at is sal, are stronger than any strangers
"Um," she mutiercd; 81 don't know"
JAKE's NEW YEARS AFTERNOON.
Presently Jake came in and sat down near hi.
step mother. his eyes on the floor. Our reporter
questioned him, as ne had questioned the mother,
aud TIE story tney gave him Is tn this :.,,, AZ
and went down to his Uncle Georges house,
about mile and half distant At ten minutes
past O'Clock Van Houten was on the mountain,
aud saw the eldest OF the missing children. lie re-
turned to the village, and ut about o'clock Joe
Wyble took trip down TO Pompton, where he
children started for their hickory nus, and at about
quarter past four, says Mrs. Wyble, she became
but received no answcr When Joe wypie returned,
II then bcitg dusk, she told him Of the disappear
anee of the children, and he started through tie
woods with his lantern. by O'Clock he
had found no trace OF them, aud called some
of the neighbors to assist him. THIS is Mrs
wybe's story. Jake to all our reporters questions
replied that he had spent the Gay at his uncle
Georges house from three In the afternoon, Mt
which time he arrived there, until o'clock the next
morning, at which time he was called TO assist In
the search This Is his story, but at O'Clock, or
hereabouts that afternoon, Peter Blauvelt, Of wy.
mile aud Il half nom the wyblc cabin, aud mile
from his unclo's house He had two hatchets in he
hand thcn, and ON his back to mis- uncle ler
Of them at the house OF Tom Steele to have It ground
there, a. he said. That night he went to a Metho-
dist prayer meeting, and spent the evening at his
was there also as he said but he could have lcit
the house say a half hour later, been on
Blanven saw him, spent an hour over
the matter OF the children, snd been back in Wy
nrockie IN time for tho prayer meeting, at which
there arc many who can swear tbey saw him.
Had he arranged the nlair with Mrs. Wyblc be-
foreland, go that she would have sent the children
out far enough to meet him, he could have disposed
OF them without much trouble or DELAY Nor would
IL lave been necessary to bury them, for there
are pools and bogs enough on that mountain
to hold their bodies In secrcsy forever. Around the
cabin itself there arc piles Of stones; son earth
which might have been dug no and rcpfced the
srperfuous earth beug taken away and leaves
strewed over the rest; piles OF brushwood.
and dozen other ike opportunities
of cOnceaing what may not turn to advantage II
seen. On leaving She place reporter thrust ms
stick into pile Of brushwood that lay short dis
tance away, took the hberty ot turning over some
low enough to be touched with a Iolc, and prowled
about generally; but he hal only tO turn his head TO
see the woman aud Jake watching his every move
monL
ruR CABIN SEARCHED.
NV, tits, Of course. possible that the wyblcs are
innocent. hut the question then nrisos, what ha- BE-
come OF the CHI ldreni The people of the neighbor-
iood, too, Who Haye been around the wsb since
thc children disappeared, have been led
to think them. the mother and the
saturday amer New Years dav at the suggestion of
some OF these neighbot~,a clairvoyant named Mills
was called II m Paterson, and alter looking INTO his
globe, gave some OF his orscuer responses, but OF
couse, amer obeyilg his mandates repeated.
ly, and finding no result, the people
voted him down humbu; AMI sent ain
OF Knowing tia; the time Of Nybles return,
his going oct en- the search and forth had only
tho oman's statement to make them reliable, the
neighbors after several days unsuccessful search
no longer disguised their feelings but expressed
them openly In front OF Wyble's cabin aud there
are rouLh men among them, 1t WAS feared
that they might bring the case before
judge Lynch. wyble, sctnstcd by his ,cars, on
Tuesday invited some Of tho villagers TO search
his cabin. and small number accordingly visited
the place and looked through II after which they
signed statement to that effect, and hung IL up III
front OF the hut where IL Is Mt this moment.
Their search, however. was not very
thorough one. They moved tho bed, glanced
over tue floor, took up one board, and dus IN little,
They then suspended their abOrs But IL Il not pro-
baOle tDat II buried anywhere, II would be under
the floor or the house, when there 50 many places
In the OF the mountains that 1t Is nearly i'm,
possible TO find, Tho first step undoubtedly that
should now be taken is the arrest OF the Wybes-
father, mother, and son. ii they are guilty, so much
the better; ifnnoceni, they have opportunity to
clear their uames.
Juig- SANFORD, OF Paterson, we hear, has offered
his SiIs ~ the matter lratis; purse of SlO re
| ward has been offered by ct'Z-ns VI the ne glhor
hood for discovery Of the chi lren Their muf der
ers and any assistance VIII he given by the ueopl,
Of the neighborAoOd, all OF whom aux gu
| to arrive ut the truIh regarding the unfortunate
| children.