The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-11

years. aud Ia familiar to us all. The chain was
links together with a piece Of coston, Mrs.
| Wilette mad herself worn the hook and cross
bar 81 the chain for four years and given II to
| ed to her before the real one was shown, and
she promptly rejected ", at once. however, REQ
| oRniznR the chain found In the pantaloons. A
| horrible outrage had been committed on Kelsey
| before he was thrown into the water. This fact
was proven by the evidence Of the physici ns at
the Inquest: Drs: II. C. Van Zsndt, David NJ.
| Crary, and Vim. =. Overton. DIR. Crary after
ward explicitly testified that In his opinion the
mutilatiOn caused death. Drs. Overton and
Van Zandt gave evidence to the same effect.
| Peter faein who lives at Point Lat, near Loy DIS
Neck, testified:
Lloyd's beach. three and four O'Clock
@ heard s s1s fq no Esc ssroIe 90 e
voice o. man 10 disress. The noise sounded like
| man In agony.
| The witness illustrated the sound by wild,
unearthly shrek, which was so graphically rem
dered that the auditors were startled. lie con-
tinued:
LSca the voice and Il, rafting ceased for about
ss Hs re from s i Inc u pa'f Si
lh.gsnt, some ono Of the crew rad nuIt hns:if The
ord time ! heard tn voice Tes Tow md weak, aud
Ss wa ssg D Sssra ap no 0s ns
ltwesa.tlll morning. but DARK. There was hardly a
breath OF air. Thought IL wasa struggle else that
some one had been caught by block or IN tackle.
from wSeS seventy sssDa 's west
t. the Lioyd,. beach road The noise seemed 70 come
voice have never heard such shriel before, nor
Of as and the s'sSsS soSn ss, nf
heard Il from the tune heard the nrst NOISE and I'M
ing, out could hear of no vessel being there.
| Warren & Howard, Of West Neck, who lived
| quarter Of mile from Lloyd's beach. testified
TO having heard wagon pass at an unusual
hour on the night OF the murder. The second
time he heard the wagon IL was fifteen minutes
to four. He looked out and saw II going up
hill toward Huntington. but not very fast
the - na
about quarter OF milo south OF Lloyd's
dock as though made by DRAGGING. a person
out OF the road. The marks extended hve or
| six feet into the salt grass on the east side of
the road. He also described the blood-stained
shirt, the lemons. one OF them also with clot
OF blood on It, the green-striped neck tie and
boot. beloneIng to Kelsey, which we're found 10
driven very last toward Lioyd's beach, about
| three o'clock on the morning OF the murder
Edward X. Bryan. VINO lives near Mr. Scudder,
heard the wagon pass and repass about the same
| time.
CLEAR TESTIMONY
The tarring and feathering OF Kelsey were de-
| ecriDed by several reluctant witnesses. one Of
| them, Arthur r. Hurd, asserting that the stun
used was contained IN quart pail, that II was
| u was only painted in stripes on Kelsey's body.
| AGAINST this statement, given with trepidation
| and signed with hand tnat trembled like
leaf. WAS the clear evidence VI Constable Train
or and Others OF footprint thick with tar and
feathers being seen on the ground where the
| deed was done, to which he callei the attention
OF several men, and the discovery OF an iron
hoop, keg SIZE. and some Ree stavrs covered
WITH tar and patches OF tar on the grass. The
| feathers ON the remains taken FROM the Dav re-
sembled In size those taken from the tarry foot
| print near Mrs. Oakleys house. Frederick
| Titus. negro boy OF dull intellect. In the en-
| gloy OF the Sammises. told how he saw Royal
ing a cudgel. Royal out II into one seated
box wagon, and told TITUS to 20 to Mrs
Oakieys sf'er him that night Titus drove
10 Powell's Hotel, and stayed there until be-
tween eleven and twelve O'clock. when Sainmis
came back. with him we're James Conkhn aud
Kelsey that night that he had jumped over the
fence, ana they couldn't get him. The witness
added that when ROYAL Stminls left him under
Powell shed at ten O'Clock on sunday evening.
sammis put his hat, coat, neck tie, collar. and
CUTS under the shed. and hitcned the club TO
his arm, put on long gown or an overooat, and
slouch nat aud had something olacK over mia
face. Charlotte j. Kelsey. sister OF the muir
found her bro.her's watch and cuns in his
room, his worsted Jacket with tar and feathers
on II. his collar covered with tar and feathers,
ana his outer shirt. the ick torn open and not
much tar on 1t; On the night (ruesday follow
ing the tragedy she went 20 Royal sammis's
house, hut the family were lotn To open The
door, were talking aud whispering among them
selves and seemed afraid. Sue told Royal no
ought to be uanged. she had never expected to
near from Charlie since the bloody shirt wss
salumis formerly Miss Julia smith, the hand
some brunette for whom Kelsey naG conceived
such an infatuation. spoke OF MIN merely "a
queer looking object that she had seen ia
tue YARD. Mrs. SaInnis was able 10 recollect
very little.
Ing that he remains found were those of Charles
e. Kelsey, and that he came to his death by rea-
son 81 cru al treatment received at the hands Of
certain persons, to the jury unknown, on the
nigut OF Nov. I. ls12 and the jury also found
mat Royal samms, George Ii. banks, Arthur T.
Hurd, william j. Wood, John Mckay, aud Henry
Il. Prime. aided. aOetted, ana countenanosd by
thelr presoncs the commit Of the gross out
rage and inhuman violence upon the per.On Of
Kelsey, and tuat Arthur NJ. Prime, Cldudiua B
prme, :. II. Burgess, Rudolph sammis, aud Jas
Mckay, were accessories before the fact he
persons implicated by the verdict were ar
rested and held to ball. Gov Dix offered re-
w.rd Of 5000 Tor Information leading to the de-
lection Of the murderers And the Grand Jury
OF SUFFOLK county, after a protracted investig
ton, found indictments AGAINST Royal AMI Ru-
dolpn Sammis for murder In the second degree.
those Indictments b We never been tired. he
case IL set down for the October term.
round tower at Kiyerhead, were liberated on
tlUOOo Daii each. Dr. George b. Banks pre-
viousiy indieted for RIOT renewed nis Dali 10 nds
BEFORE A JURY.
District Attorney Tuthill showed no anxiety
to press the case, and IL WAS not until nearly
three years after the indictment Of Royal sam
mis- ana Banks for riot and assault that they
were brought face to face with Jury. Attor-
ney-Cieneral Barlow prosecutsd. Dr. banks
testified Ia nis own defence that he only went
Into Mrs. Oakieys yard on the night OF the
murder To demonstrate with Kelsey, and Sam
mis- gave very vague account Of the outrage.
The jury showed All inclination TO convict one
aud acquit the other but after several hours de-
nberiJlOn they returD cd verdict Of Not euilt, "
Thus ended the only attempt to bring any OF
tha persons who aided 10 or countenanced the
attack on Kelsey to Justice. Iuthiii has heen
succeeded IN Onice by District Attorney WICK
ham, relative OF the Mayor Of this city. A
movement has been on foot To induce Gov. IL
den to take earnest nea- ures Tor tue discovery
Of the murderers, and "a petition Ii being signed,
out has not yet been forwarded.
OF those known To nave been present when
Kelsey wan snlvering in his coat Of tr ON the
cold November night that he met his death, DR..
George Ii. banks seems To nave suffered most
mentally. His hair h ~ turned gray. ms Sam
mis- and the kelseJs stili occupy tue same
houses, and the former are a. earnest IA ever IN
the assertion tuat Charles u. KELSEY IL dlive but
the number Of their supporters Ia diminishing.
IL ls ~ VA the Village That one Of the men who
was named 10y the Cor0ueT's jury as iuplic ted
In keisey's death IA ready To confess should no
receive O, promise u pardon la ad Vance. The
C,Ae has never been properly lDvestlgatD d ny
shrewd detectives, aud tue authOritie,, witn the
excep ion Of Justice Aontfort, nave thrown
obstructl us in the way whenever an effort
Il btun made to elicit the truth.
mat Charles q. Kelsey W brutally outraged,
mutilAted. and thrown INTO the ssa OH the uignt
OF November 4, 1872, Is clearly established, but
VINO committed me mutation and the murder
hi- not been AS clearly proved. he facts known
ludirat" tutt alter Tue taTring and fcathrr1ng III
Nj p. Oahloi ydTd, Lo was followed by men " nom
he uad provoked ~ his resistance. and whom ne
hAd PROBABLY recognized that those men mutt
Lated nm, ana nndinI That no was beyond rco1v-
cry, "nd notlng on tho principal that dead med
u no tales they threw him INFO the waters of
the IA weighing the body 80 that IL would not
rise, ana so mat tney might he able To spread a
storS nat Kelsey ha4i gone away alive. Tnat