The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-08-05
THE NATHAN MURDER
Committee Formed to
Aid the Detectives.
Rumors Of Clues to the Murderer
Having Been Discovered.

Rumors Of Clues to the Murderer
Having Been Discovered.
Facts About the Nathan Family.
Statement Of Mr.. Hart, BrOther.in'
Law OF the Murdered Man.
Tor. Of Cincinnati Commercial. ....
New YoRK, Aug. g.
In MD Of the authorities in finding tho
murderer of the late and lNInented Ben
jamin Nathan, a Vigilance Committee has
been formed, with George, the Count
JoGnncs, Ms chairman. The detectives are
clOse.mOulhed, but It is known that they
agree that tho murderer was either an in
mats Of the house, OrsOmcbOdy possessing
an intimate knowledge Of the habits and
movements Of Mr.. Nathan, us well rs the
house Itself, which ii is impossible my,
other would possess. We may also give,
as the logical conclusion TO which u nia'
iority of those who have thought upon
the subject have arrived, tllaL the mur.
derer was personally known to Mr.. Ma
than, else the murder would not have
been necessity; that the murderer knew
the contents Of the safe, how to open 1t,
and that Nathan carried the key; that he
was moi II professional burglar, and that if
he LETT the house NJ all, he did not do so
by the front d9Or.
Various rlmOrB Of Il supposed clue
were nile Yesterday, one being tho story
Of B0wery jewolcr, which run as fol.
lows: W. W. Shuttle, OF 3G5 BOwCry,
says that on Inst Friday evening, u man
called ut his store and offered to sell fine
gold watch ut price iAr below its actual
value. Moreover, the man was rough.
looking character, and the active imagin-
alton of the officer 10 whom MIR. Shuttle
told the circumstance saw in him the
murderer Of Nathan Tt was subsequently
,1scertGined TINT Mr.. Nathan, 8 watch was
n gold hunting case, made by Edward
Parrcgaux, No. 5,G57, while that offered
to Shuttle wAs IL JurgGnScn watch. This
Of course, disposed Of that case. ,l
A dispatch from Philadelphia, pretend
ins that the murderer had been arrcstedor
was about to be arrested III thNt city, was
published by the afternoon pNpers, but it
met with no CrGdenCu IN the street, or at
police headquarters.
Mr.. Williams, the builder of Mr.. Ma
than'S house, who was said to have vOlun-
tcered sOulc important information about
tho iron " dog" was visited by detectives
yesterday.
He informed them that hC had uttered
nothing like the language which had been
imputed to lin. Tic movements Of the
Nathan family during the day were nOtctl
with the greatest interest At II o'clock
Washington Nathan visited the Police
Central Office in carriage, and had an
interview OF about an hours duration with
Superintendent Jourtlnn. The main object
of the visit was 10 furnish correct dCs'
cripti0n OF the missing watch. No one
was witness Of the interview between
Superintendent JOurllIn and young Ma
than; and what the result Of the c0nsulta-
ton was is not known. Herman Nathan,
another Ol the sons, visited the Stock Ex'
change on private business.
It IS added TINT during the day Wash.
ington Nathan, accompanied by detec:
tive, went TO ibis fathers office, Broad
street, and opened the safe, taking an in
vcntOry Of its contents.
The rtlnlurcd finding Of jimmy in
Madison Park proved 10 be untrue. The
story arose from the TACT that jimmy
and slCdge however were found in Univcr-
sity Square, but they could have no con-
nrction with the Twcnty.third street
tragedy. Emanuel 3. Hart, q well-known
politician and brother.in.lGw Of
thc murdered man, furnishes sthc
following facts: Washington Nathan is
not the Oldest son Of the family at home,
us has been enormously stated by many
newspapers, and is generally believed.
Frederick Nathan, who Is populArly
supposed 10 he Washington's younger
brother, is in iact two years his senior, be-
ing in his twenty.sixtl, while Washington
is only in his twenty.fourth year. Wash
inrtoii Is member of the firm Of Wright,
Nathan & Co., produce dealers, at %
Water street, andis entitled to draw, and
docs draw, enough for his support from
that firm. Neither Washington nor
Frederick have been to their fathers
downtown safe at all, and consequently
neither have mCddlcd with Mr.. Nathan's
will, as reported in tho World Of Sunday.
On Friday, after the murder became
known, Harmon Nathan, the elder son Of
the family, accompanied by Julius J. Ly-
ons, ESQ, tho son Of the Rabbi Lyons,
went down to Mr.. Nathan's safe, which Is
under the Brokers Exchange, and exnn-
inetl the contents 10 see whether the papCrs
were all intact. They found Mr.. NathNn's
will in the safe and lett II there, and there
itstill remains.
In one respect the murdered mans fam
ily is exceedingly peculiar. Two distinct
and not homogeneous streams OF blood flow
IN the childrCn's veins, tO-wit: The Ma
than blood and the Hendricks blood, Mrs.
Nathan having been Hendricks. The
Hendricks blood is stoiCal 10 the last dc.
gree, and all in whom It prCdominNtcs are
StOics. Tho Nathan blood Is warm, inn
pulsivc and emotional and oil in whom 1t
predOminates exhibit these characteristics
In manner. Some Of the children take
after their emotional father, and the others
afler their stoiCal mother, and hence there
Is exhibited in that house Of death and
woe the singular phenomenon Of frantic
grief by some Of the nourners, alongside
OL icy stOicism on the part OF others. One
Of the daughters, plunged in the very
depth of woe, exclaimed to her stern and
silent mother: "Oh, mother, do cry with
me! Oh, mother, do cry withme But
the mother, though doubtless feeling the
deepest pangs Of grief, gave no sign
thereof. Another ofLle emotional daugh-
tiers, while sobbing and wringing her
hands, exclaimed TO Il stotcNl sister: "Oh,
why don't you weep! oh, why don't you
weep for poor papaw 1t seems almost
sacrilegious thus to draw aside the vail
which nDnrOpriatelV shields this afflicted