New-York tribune., 1878-11-22
ALL OLD CLEwS ABANDONED.

-ur MANY SENSATIONAL STORIES BASED ON RE-
noprs oF pETECTlvEs-UTTER FAILURE TO DE-
Trcr Any OF THE ROBBERS OR ESTABLISH ANY
OF TIE CLEws.
eft was to be expected said Police Comms-
s,oper Yesterday, that the offer OF reward 1or
the return Of Mr.. Stewards body would put every
notrolman. detective and captain the alert. I'm
fortunately it happens that some of these are more
cnnninp than discreet and ward detectives have
been turning up'-that is, arresting on suspicion
Of this crime-every professional thief and known
criminal they could lay hands on. In nineteen cases
ont of twenty they have no evidence whatever. But
Il "a safe to arrest professionals there is no liza
blity for damages to them. You will notice that all
the absurd clews point to wel-known rogues; not
arespectable man, except S. f. Kneelaud, has been
named in connection with the matter by any OF the
sensation writer's The detechves-private and
ward detectives alike-do this in the hope that
Judge Hilton, when the search is over, may remem-
Der their activity and pay at least their claims Tor
expenses never incurred. 1t is these fellows who
have furnished all the worthless clews which have
now been abandoned. They don't deserve anything,
and don't think they will get anything"
1t may be set down as an indisputable fact that at
The time the second offer of reward was published
ali the old clews had been abandoned. In fact the
police have no Glew worth considering. They know
Dnly that five at least were engaged IN lne ToD
berry, and that the body was taken on the morning
Of November z. Their main reliance is in the Gre
ating of dissensons among the thieves and when
lhey understand that reward will be paid for the
return of the remains it is confidently believed that
they will quarrel and that one of them Will betray
the Others 1t is upon this that reliance Is now
chiefly placed. No one III authority pretends for
moment TO maintain the truth of the absurd stories
that the body has been found the robbers arrested
Judge Hilton is hardly the man to offer reward for
that which he already has and the terms of the
offer of reward plainly show that no persons actually
connected with the crime are or have been
m CUSTODY How soon the robbers will hasten to
betrav each other remains to be seen, but future
DEVELOPMENTS only can be of longer interest to the
public; those of the past were false clews without
value and long SINCE have been exploded. Burke
and Vreeland were fOTgeTs and burglars, and con-
federates OF Clare of Orange who has disappeared;
the objects buried by themnear Chatham were burg
lars tools, which Clare dug up and used to commit
the burglary at the mill near Chatham; and tho
confession" of Burke of the robbery of Mr.. Stew
arts body has been proved to be untrue The
Weebawken cemetery story had no basis of fact.
The body buried at Passaic was that OF dog. The
mysterious doctor in FOurteenth-st. was not
" Christian. the resurrectionist." The three men
arrested on Tuesday night were suspected OF petty
larceny and were discharged; and finally the five
Uvsteriols but respectable men with prominent
attorney at their head are myths. Al these absurd
c.ews have been abandoned by all-eXcePt few
newspapers.