The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-10-23
NEW UTRECHT'S MYSTERY.
4 SUICIDES DECLARATION TINT mrs
WIFE VAS MURDERED.


The Police Looking for Three Women.
| A suicide and n supposed murder agitato
the inhabitants of the town Of New Utrecht.
| Long Island. Tho suicide was committed on
| Saturday morning last, the murder. II murder
| there was. on the nineteenth OF July. Now
| Utrecht is aGtated but very uncommunicnivc.
| The authorities. who are Interested in tho ease
are equally non-committil. and the following
are all the facts that ii is possible TO make pub
/ lie now. Two years ago. William b. Cooper his
| wife Eliza, Eugene Tyrrell. her son by n former
marriage. and three younger children. moved
| from Jersey City Heights to Bath. ono Of the
| hamlcts In the town Of New Utrecht Mr. Cooper
was then about thirty zone years old hne look
| ing, well educated IIo was said TO be n nephew
| Of the novelist. J. Fcnimoro Cooper. He was an
employee OF tho Metropolitan Steamship Com
pany. Mrs. Cooper was his senior by several
years She looked TO be forty-fve years OF age.
| The two lived happily to all appearances. and
| among the few who knew them for they were
retiring. they were respected.
On the 10Th OF July Mrs Cooper died sud
! denly. She hal boon with friends In the At
lantic Garden. unpopular Bath resort. on the
! 18th. and there she drank ono or more glasses
| of beer. Suddenly she became very III. She
complained Of severe pains in her stomach. and
vomited or tried to- II was with difficulty that
she reached her home which was near the
garden DR. De Mund was summoned, aud he
prescribed for her. but his Efforts were frutloss
Mrs Cooper suffered intensely and died IN
great agony. No one could account for her
sudden and strange illness. but subsequent
events have led her family to remember that
once in her Illness she said:
1t must have been the beer that drank"
After Mrs. Coopcr's death there was n marked
change in William y. Cooper. Hc became de-
Jectcd and very melancholy. and seemed to
mourn deeply for hls dead wife. This dcvc-
oprd into decided mrluncholiu md about six
wrrka AK resulted in mn att"mit hy Mr.. Cooper
tn commit suirid". With u razor hc cut the
veins IN his wrist hut the attempt WIS disrov-
cred. and his lifc wills saved. He still attended
10 his dutlc- hut rrrw worse steadily Again
he ATTEMPTED Ia Kill himself borrowing u pistol
discovered and he was saved lie was closely
watched. and guardrd.as we'll IL possible He
limited NOR" thnn one. ~ his desire to die 10y
lis own hnud Once ho said that y" would fol-
low o. VIZ" on n same day ~ III" month in
winch she died. He kept his word. On Friday.
tn" iN'n ne rbok,' l" ms chiHrrn OF ne new
clothr: they would soon have 90 w"ar lie gave
one money. and said that. ~ Tor him. he would
Not need any moro money Ihat night lie was
h'nrl 70 sronn nS he ly IN hrd: His son vii
". and his st"i~on Eugene Tyrr'll. wont to
hun. TIA; discovered nothing wrong. Again
my heard ErnnnS, nnd again went to- MIN.
Iu's YIN" tu.y saw i.,9i D." WAS diving. pr. De
Muud "ae seat IYr lie wis too lat" William
d. Cooper was dead. \ -tnni vial. containing
morphine. stood hy his h"'lsr. 1t told the
waoie story. Justice Alexander q. Cropsey
held '.n iuqu -. and u verdi was rendered in
Uccoriuu.'' with f'" facts nhoN" narrated.
Alter the inquest u number of letters ana pa
ycrs were founl when are sud To throw much
! HIGHT nu tlI" sudden death OF Mrs. Cooper and
H. show "A good reason why her husband should
! hnN" become in~au" niter her drutn. Justice
tr"p-"y holds an thcsc unp'rs. and rs yet re-
fuses 20 max" them publ. One paper. how
ever. ms been partially published. II WIS
found ia Cooper, pocket, and was as follows.
with the exception that whore there are blanks
h"r" TIER" are the names Of three women in
tn" original.
.''.. pay .aa''s
a is % @ e ' az" 5 .Is ''f xs. fS e"i
,nl' . ~ i, .. n. ,i., n',H ~, my VIE
(. ti'n .'' - d. 49,, n'f "a h7ii q, ar'.-.or' To
G, 1.i,c c u, ,,.t ,,ns It WA hes .
Women w. e'tran-,o me from true and LOVING vile
On the back of the paper was written tho
following:
Cd. o "a my heart j: irr,n; with srisf ard re-
ht-Ot i.r another. and Mat on. = --
canS h,r acaih 'Nrpt n"st.t AM u"im ei'c charge
,n'n rt" 10 80 named in ny, ~ VII some Aind
W.. S'1 WA c.,, ianw .se Viii WI ,h IN %ser,
The Justice. wl.o was busy all day yesterday
ch',"uNHt.u- Co. secure in" tlro" women named
ia the patnr reached the Now Utrecht Court
u IT'S" lu-t evening thoroughly out # humor.
n" hat been trying o. liui DISTRICT Attorney
lives Ia Bath. aud !iai iail"t in thn toe. H.
q warrant into a." hands %! tnnstahi" Pdtrick
lrGtY. ana ordered him o. eo 20 Bath
and arrest the woman named. Neither the
Justlt' nor te cuus.ri.p.e would @iNr her name.
hai " report nr for IhE SvN a'r"mpanled the
officer. .ni t-''ore long III. two st1picl IN front
vu"r" Cooper hud lved. There were no lights
'rr', II wns rusy o. ascertain that Mr., Kate
JHAu-on liuI there. She was one Of the
Vnu"n charged hy the dead man a. being
lmp."'"icd ~ the death OF Mrs Cooper.
S.lr WIS vs. dow and livcd in this house with
.'r mntH"r. Mrs. Nuulaud. she has brother
Edward In Now Utrecht. hut neither Of them
H. L b q "A. ff o. le.4
OF aW;A,r r.thcr John iiaNihnd. the Bath
hla'.,miih ~ b" approach the HOUSE. a
, buggy WIS driven rdldy up. ana John Huv-
IAN jumped cut AMI ran mo the house. He
had hoard ul tnc proposed rest of his sister.
affirmed JENNY that Mrs. johnson or " XII
u b called irr. was not there,
won't br to-uigtt hat she will bc home to-
morrow n.t"ruoor. and then you can yet her.
TIL, ~ 'ir uaIuE ~ the work OF u crazy man.
for Jud-" ttoi~ey II crazy To- arrest my sister
. on tho churEc Of a crazy man"
t"nsWo'r Drnry was not satisfied. and ne .n-
trr" tho house aud looked Ia vain tor Mrs.
Tho people - Bath wcrc. or scomed t. be.
SON. Shr is said Ia be- iho widow Of one. Of the
. A~-o'ini" Ju l.,,- ot Brooklyn. and bears an cN-
u er.lo ~ reputation Ia Bath and wherever she Is
Meantime it was reported publicly that
W ary SmMG oi a9 aLn.on sT vi" Eroo k NM
and n sister Of Mrs. johnson. These two 5 -
tors and third woman are said % have lcen
, seen " nh Mrs Coup"r ON III" l7th ii july
= when th" four went to the Atlantic Garden aud
:. HTank ns,r. anu there are hos who say ihai
D. of beer. Justice Cropsoy would tier affirm
u nor t,uy th"iruil oftH,s" run"gs. lie merely
: smiled knowingly and said;
u I'll hHt' il' Ii-I parties TOMORROW surc
T. and when - tI"u Will rHhr public lot oi
+, l",rr- have. which viii lmplicate them with
d rnrsc letters arc said to Lave boon written tC
. MIR. tuop"r uy Soui" woman or women.
' Mr.. c. p"rr body W. buried lu Newark
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