The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-09-18
THE HUNTINGTON HuRRAH.

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Meeting OF the Town Council-The E1-
element subsiding, Though Public
Interest II Unalla yed-The Inquiry to
be Resumed To-day.
HUNTINGTON, L. L. Sept II, 1873.
The town appears to breathe q little freer this
morning In the sublime consciousness that 1t has
.rn town meeting assembled" given to the world
an expression OF its condemnation OF the crime
which has given the place more notOriety than ir
had before achieved IN It's 200 years Of history. AS
q rule, the people would have preferred the offer-
ing
DIRECT REWARD
for the arrest and conviction Of the persons guilty
of the Kelsey outrage but there appeared to be no
law under which it could be done, as 1t does not
seem that town meetings have power to]evy taxes
except Tor specific purposes.
Prior to the town meeting, meeting OF the
Board OF Town 0fcers, which consisted OF the three
Justices OF tho Peace and the Supervisor, was held,
and the power OF the people to take the most direct
then adced report ON h
now appears, governed the action OF the Commit
90 aT tine aS me
been SO thoroughly examined. In their report the
Board OF Town Onicers express themselves as hav.
ing been guided by the following clause OF X. g.,
title 2, art. l. sec. u
Special town meetings shall be held to supply vacancies
also be held whenever twelve or more persons eligible to
ne s Of SS % the saS ~
fSs meeting eth 70 b Sas
shall hays acted gpoa
institution defence Of suits Or ihe raising Of
subjects other than such specified in
It Is expected that the requisite amount OF funds
will be subscribed within week or ten days.
THE KELSEY AFFAIR.
Tomorrow morning the inquest will be resumed
PRIME ADMITTED TO BAIL.
At midnight Of Tuesday, at which time the Court
enable the Grand Jury to conclude their business
Arthur M. Prime was brought up to plead on the
he saasd MIN not sns ana v was
manded for trial. motion was then made
Smith tS to admit 1T ses Is tho e
prisoners father and uncle; Claudius B. and Henry
X. Prime, justified as sureties.
Huntington to-day. 1t 10 said that the Assessors
books do not show the property Of Olaudius B. and
Henry Prime to be worth more than 0ne-fourth Of
the amount which they swore it was worth when
they justified on their bonds.
The man IAN smith who s mentioned e above inter,
evening, to induce them to reconsider the indict
ment against Prime, but they saw no reason for
One OF the Witnesses who is to be called at the
inquest at Oyster Bay tomorrow Is young man
the evening after the tarrtng and featherng Of
Kelsey he was in Rogers drug store, the head
Of the s1 tar thss yoan oN MCKAY
Kelsey the night before from his feet to the top Of
his head, and that they had put so much tar and
feathers on him that he looked as though he was
three or iour ieet across. Johnson didn't know
nor ask who Mckay meant when he said they had
tarred and feathered Kelsey.
A witness, named Pat Pagan, who resides near
Loyd's beach, will be put the stand also to tes
tify In regard to hearing cries as OF person In
pain, which he heard from the direction OF the
beach about three or four O'Clock on the morning
of November 5. A q nearly as can judge the
SOUND must have reached Pagan from the precise
been put into the boat to he taken out and sunk
in the harbor. 1t Is just possible, II nything
definite results from Fagan's testimony, that the
jurisdiction OF the criminal legal proceedings will
be transferred to Queens county.