Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-10
STEWARDS REMAINS.

They are Traced Outside the Cemetery
Active and Systematic Search INSTITUTED
by the Heavy Reward offered.
New YORK, Nov. "a searching examina-
ton was made to-day of the vaults in st
Marks graveyard, Judge Hilton thinking, per-
haps, the thieves had not removed the remains
of Stewart out of the cemetery The body
not found. The police to-day found
traces of decomposed flesh on the iron fence
which bounds the Tenth street side of the
church yard and marks of bag which had
probably contained the body were found near
the fence. This discovery, it is claimed, proves
that the body taken from the church
yard.
The offer of a reward for the recovery of the
remains stimulating the detectives, as well
as those attached to the police department as
private detectives. The police believe they
have discovered the way taken by the thieves to
get out of the country, and to-day made close
examination of the exterior of the house 1923
East Tenth street, which is occupied by Miss
Newton as boarding house. 1t Immediately
adjoins the churchyard at its southwest corner,
the farthest extremity of the enclosure from
ths Stewart vaults. 1t sets five feet further
from the street than the stone coping in
which is fixed the iron fence of the cemetery and
where this fence reaches the little yard in front
of the house it is made to bend at right angles
and run up to the corner of the residence lust
at the point where the lower brown stone and
the upper brick portions meet. Just in this
angle is g tin leader, or rain spout. The top of
che spikes which constitute the iron fence reach
about two inches above the ed of the balcony.
running under the parlor windows The brown
painted bricks Of the house and fence on the
side next the church, are covered with mud,
while the water-spouts, etc., of the
upright iron castings, and top bar
which constitute the rounded end of the bal
cony, are as completely covered with mud as if
it had been carefully painted on with brush.
The lines are drawn upward and in the direc-
ton OF Tenth street at an angle of forty-fvc
degrees, just as if some heavy body in mud
dy covering had been dragged from the ground
by some one standing on the balcony.
In the examination of the ground to-day Po-
lice Commissioner Nichols was accompanied by
a thoroughbred bloodhound, which became
FESTIVE and baglng and shifting about. AS soon
as the gates We're opened he shifted again and
again about the case of one of the columns
where there were some dark stains. Kneeling
upon handkerchief one after another the gen
tlemen themselves smelt of the spots which gave
| OFF an unpleasant odor. 1t was probably here
! that the robbers had laid the body tenn
porarily in the shadow while on their
way from the vault to the street. Inspector
Murray believed he could see the traces of
muddy foot prints leading across the church
porch, and all were agreed that the men had
escaped to the street by the balcony of Miss
Newton's boarding house. It has been sug-
gested that the body might have been carried
to New Jersey.
Isaac W. England reports he perceived
terrible stencil in the Cortlandt street ferry
boat while crossing to Jersey City
Thursday night, and Eugene Wyatt,
an apothecary in Ridgewood, New Jersey,
makes a similar report concerning the ferry
boat which left Cortlandt street at 2 O. clock
Thursday morning. The agent for a specific
for which it is claimed that it prevents decom-
position, or arrests it even at an advanced
stage, has given the police a description of a
person who desired to purchase a quantity of
the stuff about the time the first attem pt was
made to steal the body. This agent says the
descriLt ton of the man who bought a shovel
and lantern in Chatham street TALES exactly
with that of the person who visited him, and
detectives are now after him.