New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-14
THE SEARCH CONTINUED.

CAPTAIN MCULLAGHs THfRI1-hhE bHi'H
FALSE cIEw FROM ELIzABETH-ThEeBIEs OF
DETECTIVES AND OTHERS.
The monotony of the scene about st. Marks
Church was varied yesterday An awning was stretched
from the door the porch and TO the street. anu
under it gayly aitired wedding guests passed INTO
the sacred edihoe to witness marriage ser
vice. IHo and its joys were the topic OF the
hour and the vacant grave and the horrible asso
atons clustering sbour for tho time forgotten
When The last ca rage had driven away the place as
suned the appearance Of former times, few lOitcrsFs
remaining squeeze their faces between Tue iron fA
and gazs into the deserted yard
"To-lporrow O week Will have passed." said Captain
McCulagh yesterday and soon the nine days during
winch wonder lasts viii have passed" "1 WiSh, he
added "that could give you some information. am
irving very hard 10 ind some 10 give" He said
that on Tuesday be drove about Thirty miles
on what he hoped would prove valuable
clew Yesterday he had sent ten Of his men To 1910"
IL up and he expected them back In the evening H.
on their retgrn, there any thing mat II was proper
to make public he would tell all aeoni H. he"as eon-
fdent that his theory was correct as 10
the passage Of the body over the balcony
OF Miss NewtOns house; the evidences were
unmisakable. He not surprised that the BODY had
been removed from the vault without detection By tho
police; bat he dad blame his fer allowing 1t to be
carried through the street without detection
Al Police Headquarters the usual activity was mani
terions manner. the ofciasmore intent on securing
successful issue to tGelr labors than on grati-
flying pUDiio or private MISUNDERSTANDING couf-
teousy, but firmly to state The purpose Of
their visits Early in The day SUPERINTENDENT
Wang drove off With mar, apparently III response 10
hSsty summons. This fact gave rise 10 busy eoi9e'
ture which was wholly set al rest by the assurance
by Inspector Dnks that tue superintendent had gone
snIpe-shOOrng.
DELUSIvE CIEw
little later in the day the following dispatch was re-
celved al The Office Of THg TRIBUNE:
ELIZABETH, n. J., Nov. IA New-York undertaken
yesterday brought 10 Evergreen Cemeiery b22y an
iightly solGeed zinc coda, an1 asked the riNege OF
Placing i IN receiving lauu iof NeeL or iNo ui.i
grave lot was purchased he shld TIE poay was thth
fO4a Trinity Cemetery III NeT-A ok, anu tne name o.
deceased wes Whitehead. sexton L0otcr's suspicious
were aroused because the body was brought Ia very
round about way and the request was 50 uuUsAal lie
nouied the cemetery aUhoTInes, ana tais forenoon t
OF P1ak,rqons Detectives ted loUg conference with
Chief Police X ron the T. salt OF which has not bSen
made known Puphc Suspicion suggests ioSs"'e exc"
tO tno Stewalt ms stery.
BON and the Rector OF Trinity Caurch SAID
that 10 person by The name Of Whitehead lad Yaat
IN uc churchyard. and that body rad bccn buried
there or removed thence Tor long time. Al examine
tion OF the church register from May to October 81
showed that DO person by that had been buried at
Trinity Cemetery Carmansye. The Rector said That
reports received al the church al the end OF tGcA
month aud that body might have been placed in the
receiving vaait at Carmansyile. and removed upon
without the Iacts appearing on the church records.
Chief OF Police John Keron found near the depot
IN Ezabeih last evening and said answer TO inquiries
that nc had heard nothing except tie TumOrs on the
street about the Stewart natter that detective had
called upon him the morning, bat that t had been
about an entirely different case. At the Evergreen
Cemetery j. B. LOCKER the superintendent said that ON
Saturday last, C. A. Benedict Of No. 90 Carmine-s.
New-Yorg, had brought the body OF Isaac r.
Which. ad from Trinity Cemetery and placed II m
the receiving vault in Evergreen Cemetery. There was
nothing unusu this be Lad the regular trans
fer permit the Board o. Heath and the body was
70 be unried as soon as lot sogid DE puiohascd Mr.
Locker further stated that oHly winch eoud
have gwen rise to the was that when asked why
he didp'i have Stewards body has cemetery, ho
plied, IN i0kng wBy, g. won swear thar IL isEt
there" TO show how generally persons were ialkngo
the subject Mr LOCKER said that when the undertaken
drove ny Saturday his vie, Who was LOOKING out OF
the window, said, There's stewErt's body"
The undertaken at No co Carniac-st., Mr. Benedict,
said last evening that the body Of Mr. Whitehead
PLACED IN coin watch was inclCsed IN ziic
lined boz at the time OF tho funeral November u. 1877
and placed in thu receiving tomb in Trinity Cemetery,
ut One uudred andAfty From there he took
it, MT The request OF the trends 10 Elizabeth
Little eonAdeBce is expressed by Captain McCulagh
nhe sensational story oil the mysterious gentleman and
LADY vino reported TO have returned home from Po
lice Headquarters Sunday evening BY very circuit
Gus route II denied positively by Miss Newton
that they entered her house, No. 129 East Terthst
She expressed some indignation yesterday az
the reports that her house had been watched
by the police, and said that there
NO reason why they should not search It, II they
had ANY cause suspicion; she would not have the
slightest objection 70 their doing 60
Captain McCulagh received, yesterday, postal card
from some person who had evidently read one version
of the dog story. On Ii was written:
Gtat hat harmless
sent him of bowling Tbs proves mat you are q very
helpless There Ia little doubt bat that cruel people
after death reanded to the brute state ana suffer the
same wrongs which they have inflicted other AM
mas Certainly, you deserve 30 be alfours and TO
be thoroughly kicked And those Wreichss at Bellevue
viii be yiyseeted themselves
THEORIES OF DETECTIVES AND OTHERS.
Detective Mooney, OF the firm Of Mooney &
Bolapd rdcues the that the robbers may be
traced through persons who perceived the odOr OF Mr.
steyart's body carried either along the
Streets or In the errybosts He also does not believe
that Il was any OF the robbers who applied to the
gist for a disinfectant. From the manner In which
the body was stolen" Mr.. Mooney said. ait
is certain that the thieves 'croeksmen.' and
you may be sure that they took every preeaation
for their safety. 'CracksmeB, like undertakeIs
know how 10 compound dcod0rizers themselves, and
would for them in bunziing manner at any
drug store just before important robbery. / shall
give you instance OF how putrid body be con
yeyed any distance without detection. German OF a
wealthy family. but laborng under q Authorization,
LATELY 10 this country, and all trace OF him
lost His relatives directed And him. After some
search we discovered six weeks ago that he had
drowned himself IN the Niagara aud had been buried IN
neighboring swamp We mad to remove the body which
was In a very advanced state Of decomposition. and
when it was exhumed the workInen compelled to
tic around their faces towels saturated with scents
The undertaken placed the body in oiled rubber
bag packed In box, and sent 1t wagon for twenty
miles, without either the driver any one on Tho way
pereeiyrg the slightest odor. The robbers probably
hacked Mr. Stewards body in a similar manner and per-