The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-08-11
THE STATEN ISLAND MYSTERY.
No satisfact DRY solution Of the TRAGEDY. but
Possible Theory of suicide Afforded.

The Staten Island tragedy is still shroud-
ed in mystery. The body which was found float
ing In the water of Tompkinsville, S. l., yester-
day morning, has been fully identified Us that Of
Mrs Adeline Anderson, an English woman,
forty-seven years OF age, resident OF New
York. For nearly twenty-five years both she
and her husband were employed In Msssrs. Pitt
& Porters hair factory, in Forty hth street, she
being a forewoman, and having ch arge OF some
seventy girls. In May last she lost her husband,
and after that event was very melancholy and
Respondent, her actions on several occasions,
aud her general manner leading her associates
to believe that she had Lrooded over her afliic-
ton until her mind had became affected. The
engineer Of the Staten Isand ferry boat
Mlddletown SAYS he remembers distinctly. when
makine the last trip on tuesday evening, a
woman being on board alone, who fully answers
Mrs. Anderson's description, and whose move
ments attracted his attention. she sat close by
the rail- looking over into the water, seldom SO
much "a moving her head md seeming COM
piet absorbed within herself. He passed her
several ttmes. but she did not notice MIN. he
determined when the boat reached Iompkins-
vile to speak To her and ask II ANYTHING was
wrong: but when he had Finished his duties in
the engine room she had Disappeared. aud thdt
was the / st he saw Of her, The Captain Of the
: O'Clock boat from New York on Wednesday
morning saws he unavoidably ran over a body,
anu ne feels sure this IL the same one. The pad
die wheel probably struck her on the back Of
the mead. and tn I would account for the terri
bile wound. About hiif past the same morn
Ing some bows discovered the body, and 1t was
draw ashore.
Yesterday morning light was found burning
In her room IN hhty-second street. IL Is be-
lived that while laDoring under some Illusion,
she Ou Tuesday evening left her room without q
definite purpose which would account for the
burning light and the ulsarrangeuient OF her
dress-that she went down to tie south ferry.
took the boat. and 1T Iompkinsyille, acting on
the Impulse OF the moment. threw herself over
board. his she might easily nave done I'M
noticed but that she never went to the bottom
Is proven oy the fact that when found her cloth
ing, though wet was perfectly clean and un-
soiled.
GA the other side, an employee OF the National
Storage Company whose yard IL situated at
Communipaw, says that about four o'clock on
Tuesday afternoon he anu hts associates saw,
on Black Tom Island which Is Immediately OPP
pusitc their ward. woman energetcallv resist
Ing two men, aud that, as near rs they could
make out, she answered the description OF Mrs.
Anderson. lie says the three came in a small
boat seemingly from New ork. and that after
the disagreement they agaIn entered the boat,
AID rowed on in the direction OF staten Island.
after which nothing was seen OF them. he
feels quite satisfied that q IL woman was in
duced to take sail, and that she was TAX II -
the island; that there lndigultes were oheI ed
her, which she reese nted; that sne was gam
taken in the boat, rowCd out IN the stream, hit
on the head, ana thrown overheard.
IL il believed that MI Anderson had no rela-
tions in tins country, and oniv one sister livlnZ
who Is III En.and. lhe remains Will be take
10 Evergreen Cemetery tomorrow, and there in
tered with those OF her husUand.