New-York tribune., 1878-11-20
sEARCH FOR THE ROBBERS.
,,nrC AND POLICE AT WORK.


Co,rpTs AND POLICE AT WORK.
,'.,, ARRESTED on SUSPICION AND DIS
'h"hE ncvn-RuRKE AND vREELAND HELD IN
az 600 BAII-A NEW CLEw'
-, o,.o,ts of Yesterday in the Stewart grave
IT, case. so far as made public were 'ne
80 of three undertakers on Suspicion, IheI
m hilO1S 80 and the commitment OF burke
W.oo,ond nv Justice Morgan. There was
""U ahnndonce of the usual exciting rumors'
hTt none of them could be traced 10 q 'fue'-
,rortbv source. A new clew Is salu 10 n"'o
w., Sorrd no,nting to the neighborhood OF
W"nl,onsocl as the hiding-place OF the body;
- iii nrobably be followed up to-day
THREE ARRESTS YESTERDAY.
,,,,nvpr.vrRs EXAMINED BY INSPECTOR MURRAY
Ix TuE EIGHTEENTH PRECINCT AND DISCHARGED
"A NOVEL CLEw.
Prmors were abundant yesterday IN regard
a.. the pro0rsss made by the police and detectives IN
.ao,ne the robbers Of A T. Stewards tomb to their
hiding place but when night came there was nOthnR
t tangible character to show that they were nearer
h end of their search than the previous day. AT an
carly hour Of morning, three men were arrested on
nsnciou in the Eighteenth Precinct and were taken be-
fore Inspector Murray, at the Police Station In twenty
secondst aud rgdly examined No hing found 10 I'M
nlic
they were discharged The men were Patrick H. ONell,
george G, De Graf and Thomas Davis. The
arst ia q brother OF Charles S. ONein' OF
the firm Of Murphy o'Neii, undertakers' OF
No. 400 East Twenty-sixth-st. De Graf is an
Inspector OF stone under the Department OF Public
Works and was formerly an undertaken DAVIS
q se1ton's assistant The immediate cause
Of the arrests was statement made by O'Neln
1t the Eighteenth Precinct Station that
man had approached him at Twenty-sixth-st
md Avenue-A and had told him that he could put MN
In the way Of making $4,000 or $4,000. He said he
Gid not the man. but thought he had reference IN
some way 10 the Stewart grave robbery
OrNein was somewhat under the influence or
liquor, but sufficient Importance was attached to what
he had said TO induce Captain Clinchy to send an
officer In uniform with him TO see whether the man
could be found Information of O'NeilPs statement
reached Inspector Murray who at home and IN bed
He at once went to the Eighteenth Precinct
Station aud caused the three men, who were
associates, 20 be brought TO him. They
we're examined separately, and nothing was found to
warrant their detention they were released. In the
afternoon O'Nen was found at his brothers place OF
business DeGraf was at his hOme at No 462 Thirdave
md Davis by the body of his dead brother.
ciew is said TO have been given to Judge Hilton
yesterday which will probably be investigated Henry
Stewart the editors of The A0ric"Itis lives at
HackeDsack, N j. and has farm outside the town. The
country in the vicinity is sparsey settled On Thurs
day morning. Nov. Stewart saw two men drive by in
wagon in which was long box or bundle covered
with oeOth. They turned into the woods and dis
appeared. about hour they returned and he saw
that the box was not in the wagon. He thought
little of the matter at the time, aud even az
ter hearing of the grave robbery, he ala not
connect the two things at but recently he had
seen the same lettering about the vicinity. lie
thought the matter Of sufficient Importance 10 be re-
ported to Judge Hilton.
\ rum that Hilton been
urged by Mrs Stewart to increase offer of reward
to 100000 and to make it unconditional Mr. Hton's
distinctly pronounced opinions the subject make 1t
mrOOSs st tss Pey' Russell ssd last
night that he was willing TO be reported as SAYING tat
he knew nothing Of the finding Of Mr. Stewarts body,
and he did not believe 1t had been found.
The result of the examination or Burke ana Nree-
land was discussed very freely yesterday, and many
theories advanced to explain lrks strange con-
duct. One was that he really believed that ne
knew where he could find the body, having heard
some of the robbers speak OF its place Of conceal
men 1t was that he had lost caste among his old
comp'nions and was anxious TO ne, become ON a - SsOoI @
pgco- for the police since he conld no longer sue
caslOn assisted the police n the capture OI cIluhas
sDd would not hesitate 90 betray any one Tor reward
IL said That he may have been deceived pnr-
pOsey by some Of his associates aud put on an entirely
false scent, i'll the belief that he would INFORM inc po-
second theory that the prisoners planned the
burglary which was commit ed at Chatham last sunday,
which they drove their horses so hard, de
scrbsd by the Orange stable-keeper TO CAPTAIN
the burglars TOOLS with which bOlder and ADLER men
were to do the work This theory, however does not
explain the attempts made by the men TO deceive Cap
tain Byrncs-a deception which they must have known
could last only q few hours.
Those who believe that Burke and Vreeland were en-
gagged in the grave robbery and carried tie BODY into
NewJersey and buried It, say hat their confederaIes
may have removed the body TO another hiding
the first could be found Detectives IN several
OF the precincts where Burke is well known,
say that his character is well known bY all the
thieves that none OF them will trust him. though they
might have got him TO do the drudgey OF aOD ana then
have rendered it impossible for him TO betray them