The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-14
The Stewart Robbery.

NEW 1ORk, NOV. S.-One Oh tne I1fSt
of Judge Hilton's acts this morning
was to offer a reward of $25, 600 for the
return of Alexander II. Stewards body
and information that will convict the
parties who committed the outrage. A
liberal reward was also promised for
information that will lead to these re-
suits. This stimulated the detectives,
and scores of them, both public and
private, made visit to the st. Marks
churchyard for clues. Judge Hilton
had long interview with the police
officials in the morning, and revealed
to them the suspicion that the body
had not been removed from the church
yard, but was hidden somewhere there.
Accordingly force of detectives was
sent for a fresh search. First the
church itself was secured from steeple
to cellar, with no results. Then the
work of going through the other pri-
vate vaults was begun. Burial vaults
that had not been entered for thirty
years were searched through and
through, but without the discovery of
clue. Indeed, the result of the entire
days work may be summed up in the
same expression If the police are to
be believed, they have not the faintest
trace of the dead millionaire's body or
of the men who took it from its resting
place. Two or three persons have had
stories to tell which have commanded
attention. A young man who works
at night was going home at o'clock
on Thursday morning. Two blocks
from the churchyard he overlook six
men. who were bearing ON their shOul-
ders box six feet long and narrow,
like coffin. Two wagons were being
driven alongside of them in the street.
One of the men ac"osted him cheerily
with: "Give us a lift, will you ?" but
he passed on. The men, he says, wore
tall hats and ulster overcoats. The
police place no credit in this story.
Another man, crossing the Cortlandt
street ferry at 3 o'clock on the same
morning, says his attention, as well as
that of other passengers, was attracted
to an overpowering smell, as of putrid
flesh, that pervaded the cabin of the fer
ry boat. 1t was so unpleasant that they
talked and growled about it. After
hearing Of the stealing of Mr.. Stewards
body this man was convinced that he
had clue in the odOr. Nobody seems
to have followed it, however. Indeed,
the police of Newark and Jersey City
say they have not been communicated
with by the New York authorities con-
cerning the body stealing. The next
story heard by the police was that of
an undertaken, who sells some sort of
liquid that he advertises will arrest
decomposition. On the fifth of Octo-
ber young man called upon him and
made the most minute inquiries as to
whether the preparation would dispel
the odor of body that had been dead
for a year or more. The undertaken
suspected him and questioned him
closely. but the man would not divulge
to what use he intended to put it. Two
days after the interview was the date
of the first attempt upon the Stewart
grave. And thus all day stories were
received by the police, but nothing has
as yet resulted from them. The rob
berry remains as much a mystery as
when it was first discovered
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