The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-07-15
HANFORD CORBY's SISTER.
What his wife Says About her Disappear
nnce and the sanity of the Family.


Mrs. Hanford Corby of 800 Rivington
Itreet. whose husbands sister. Mrs. Abbie A.
Burial. OF Washington and Dey streets was
supposed 10 have been drowned in April last.
and the dead body found at the foot Of Delaney
street on the 80 inst. but who was subsequently
found alive and well. says that when she and
her husband examined the dead body they
were not convinced that the recognition was
complete. Neither hand remained on the body,
and only by seeing scar on one hand could
the identification have been unmistakabe. Mrs.
Corby also says that she and her husband were
not driven by a lack of means for burial ex-
penses to pretend they were not satisfied with
the Identification and to allow the body TO be
buried in the Potter's Field rs unrecognized.
The true reasons for denying the recognition
were that they were really undecided ms to its
Renulneness, and also because the positive an
nouncement that the body was that of Mrs.
Burial would Kill her aged mother, Mrs. Corby.
hr. More emphatically. Mrs. Corby. Jr.. says
that because Mrs Burial has been disgrace
TO the family she. Mrs. Corby, Jr., would not
help 70 bury her body to Keep it oui Of the Pot
rail- were to please Mrs. Burralls aged mother.
Mrs. BURIAL. she says. was not married TO Chas,
BURIAL when the couple sailed in the Red
Jacket to England, and thence to Australia.
They were married in Australia. For this mar
riage the husband was bequeathed by his
wealthy father. in Hoboken. only the interest
OF 100000 his large estate being mostly willed
10 charitable Institutions. Burial deserted his
wife in Australia.
Mrs Burial, Mrs. Corby SAYS was assisted to
return. not by her brother Eanford. but by her
mother. Mrs. Corby Sr.. who mortgagcd her
house in Hampstead. l.. l.. to raise money TO
pay her daughters passage home. Aiterward
Mrsi Burial secured q divorce from her hus-
pand, with SlO.OOO aimony. This and other
large sums Mrs Corby says, have been spent
recklessly and dlsgracetully. Mrs. Burial now
lives IN a lodging house.
As, 70 Mr.. Corhy's hunting. up his sisters
chlln; Charloite l.. BURIAL. after the affair Of
the Morgue. 1t was not done. Mrs. Corby says.
because there were papers among the girls
mothers Effects that might prove OF value to
her rs an heir, The mother has no valuable
papers. except the deed OF a plot Of ground for
her grave The search was like others that Mr.
Corby has instituted Tor three years past to
persuade the girl to lead II prudent life. For
nearly four years she frequentcd the ferryboAts
and handed the passengersa slip OF paper bear
ing the words
"Please assist child who has a widowed
mother and deaf and dumb sister, also an aged
grandmother"
She preferred the life she was leading. Mrs.
Corby says. and cannot be induced 10 change il.
After being hunted up. the girl said that her
mother had purpOsey concealed herself from
her brother TO escape annoyance from him.
MIS-. Corhy says TINT the annoyance that Mrs.
Burrall received was simply reproof because
the sister pers silently reported that the brother
MIR. Corby, had been arrested for theft This,
the wife says, is not true.
Mrs. Burial, the wife adds. said on Friday
last. in the Police headquarters and in the Cor
oners Office. that Mr.. COrby is insane and is a
ways interfering with her affairs. and that she
could care for her own daughter about whose
welfare the Corbys seemed 50 soctous. 1t is
true that Mr.. Corby is at times highty in his
mind. his wife concludes. owing to Il fall from "A
Mrs, Burial can care for her daughter She
can't care for herself.