New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-10-08
THE ARREST AND THE EVIDENCE.


THE ARREST AND THE EVIDENCE.
Late on Sunday night man called on Coroner
Dempsey, at New-Bughton s. l., and said be had some
Information 10 impart about the Silver Lake mystery
The coroner hearing the mans statement concluded
that 1t OF sufficient importance TO reduce it TO an
affidavit, which is as follows:
Charles Herborn, OF said county being duly sworn,
says know Edward Rcinhart re was tenant In my
house In Gore-st stapeton in sa county from about
the 18th OF June July until the LIST OF September lie
had woman living with him IN house whom he called
his wife was sick The next day. when he moved.
wife not She had not been seen since o'clock
the night before He moved about O'clock the next
morning The woman was about eight months In the
family way, and from the mode OF Reinharts move
men!s and she not being seem the deponet suspects
aud believes that said Renhart did away with her
Sworn before me this 9th CHARLES Heirloom
day OF October 1878.
JAMES DEMPSEY.
Coroner Dempsey thereupOn issued a warrant for the
of Remnant the charge OF homicide The mat
ter was put into the hands OF Detective
Dorsey. of the Police Headquarters at New
York, vino arrested Reinhart and locked him
up AZ the Central Office. Yesterday morning
Renhart taken 20 the Tombs Police Court when he
remanded to the Richmond County onicers-Ser-
geant Roe and Officer Drummond-who took him TO the
village han 10 New-Bnghton, and he was locked up in
the station-house.
The news OF the arrest spread rapidly over New
Brighton and the neighborhood, and large numbers OF
people assembled near Library Hall, whsre Coroner
Dempsey's office u.s. making eager Inquiries OF
every official and newcomer that arrived.
When 10 becam. known that Coroner Dempsey had
summoned witnesses the neghbOrs in the quarter
where Reinhart lived in rNewYOrk and the owners oil
his former home Staten Island the interest aud excite
nlent were increased ard the evening approached
largo aud impatient rushed into the hall where
the inquest was to be continued The jury and the
reporters were crowded into the smallest possible space
around tue corner The noise made by the trampng OF
40 many feet and the pressure OF people against one
another, ali pushing their heads forward to catch
every word. created much confusion and tumuIt
that Obliged repeatedly to call the as
semblagc 10 order and once threatened to clear the
court The few officers who In tue court did their
best TO preserve order and had 10 keep pushing back
the people during the entire examination.
The prisoner was brought In by Sheriff b. Brown, and
when he seated there silence for Few seconds
as the crowd scanned his features He Is Of medium
stature about twenty five years old Of rather dark com
plexion end wearing small mOustacho. He has sui
len expression. He said:
have lived for the last three mouths at No. l32
New-York aud went there the 20tb Of July
iaei %Gen len my nome on staten Island. While in
staten Island lived Nj. Herbons house In Gorc-st
and tobacco business In July, shortly before Loft
married Paullna Dttmar midwife 10y trade and Of Ger
man drscent We mairied by the Rev Mr. SneideF,
a lutheran pastor Of No. 1873 Aeu-st Paulna Gid not
i've with inc IA Staten Island, but Mary Ann
Keegan did, and can produce her Miss keeRan hIed
with me for three months; Paulina came to sec me
once about a week before left Miss kregan was az
months advanced IN pregnancy nIst het s .t w n
evening during The Winter, IN the BOwerI on the morse
cara She followed NE to staten Island Inc aay DeIry
eft staten Island, Miss keegan lett ne anu went Nv
the O'Clock boat. married Panlna on the l3tn o.
Jnly hut NY wife did not know that had lived with
H., Kssca2 Miss KeeguD never told me she was sick.
ard did not ask me for physician ! nave rseh heI
once since. Grandst near kidley's store ana can
on further examination Roinhart said: l left
staten Island In the afternoon. I waited for
J,cnh Ketner who took me In wagon dld not
have any barrel packed up before moved. carried
away my e5S9eIe ,bS, thew would send O on the
eroekery In n barrel. did not move away any
Thing after THE dl borrow vince On W " carry
Brooms-si., New-York. No one as Led me 20 paek up
cry which carried out oithe ON abd put INTO the
wagon DID not that the GRO Gery was going 10 ny
s,s - MR. Det@ar, wife oi l. renee Dctmar once
lad a WheeIbarrow at silver Lake, which | used
IN carrying had siu an axe IN the waoei1srrOw,
NO spade. did not TO my KNOWLEDGE, nave any con-
80 ans speak.ng 10 me. did not say that was going
TO- 5uy dog fron CiSco's place do not know where
CiscO's property Is.
u.re Kevmer who had testified that he saw Remnant
d,pe hole was called up and the Coroner asked the
r souer n he recognized him. He replied, g. saw bm
a., SeUYork only and only learned MS name from the
papers"
Keinhart testified further as follows:
Low Miss Keegan four weckH ago on Grand-st.
n,sseJ her and looked as 81 she mad been confined
Ne did not speak each Other ! gave her ~ when
TOOK me to visit any OF her acquaintances She
was English, about eighteen or nineteen years oa,
comnle.ion, She had three teeth In her iOwer Jaw
aIied ana wore hair to about her shoulders Her
nhasI hnnes were pot very high. have been working
IN mo marbeshOp at No. 10 AttOrney-st' Nsw-hVrA
CONTRADICTIONS or REINHARTs STORY.
Mrs. Iosephine Herborn next sworn. She testt-
fed
live in Gore-s village OF Edgewater knew KEN,
hart only when he moved into my house on the 10Th OF
Apn last. He alone when he rented room. He
came alone sS ~hs sam sne With her brother and
| his wife became friends she tou me mat
sse TSn ~" bSse on the 10Th july following sac told
n,a that they had lived together SINCE they came TO
my house housed she she .S Mn to me aud said Look
our OF the window he is going with another woman
a,u"ra child bI ought me card with the name or
Paaiina Dlttmar on e and said 2 young ;o lady
| and by her dress recognized her as inc same
woman who walking win ,o Reinaa tds s Sse
it WSs not buspess that he en-, was as, married ana
ns wife about 20 be eonsd sHS eis soon wa s en-
Friday evening she looked yepy sad aud
not Osrre Sa said ner S' wa. china
he wanted 70 take T. to his ' SoS w "saSf t s
leave the sr O Sn ba IN he rGSa
but my children ss be e%sn ss. i ala
oeny nsy ReInhardt 70 Take the china will
breas" He replied Never mind there are Only ~, iiV
H. and II 0S Dr %hsebaPToW and vent the
stT,et 10 the Richmond road heard that the barrow
maj ana that lie got another one. 49,, ,,,..
in an express wagon When Remnant retained ne was
'y sna IN MD do but do not know that any ply
stefan called her she s0"p n sye 1l ssont
,,.n day. before she left 1 heard her call my
name also heard her tel him he was BAD man. nG
s door and asked her she called me, but sue dd not
reply. 49,, -... s,,.
Mrs. Heirloom then returning to her statement Win
reference TO the day Reinhart went AWAY cohlnnea
80 , -, 49, h.rrsi nm the wheelbarrow on Saturday
nc M ret veen and O'Clock and returned ABOUT
IL Ws com pianed that his wlle had taken only Jew
ihings and that abe had gone TO her m9ther
- N,,,vark Mira Renhart said she was lfish'