New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-09
NO FRESH DISCOVERY.

ever. The police devoted Monday to the inyestiga-
ton of the theory that the man was struck
by stray bullet fired by q student
from one of the seminary buildings. The
youth who was thought to have fired
the shot, the detectives learned had left for Wash
inton Sunday evening with his tutor, W. d. Flsby.
Yesterday morning the two arrived In NewYork,
and during the forenoon Captain Ryan questioned
them closely as to the shots which tho young man,
Paul Stucke, was reported to have fired the night
before the Fourth. Stucke is nice looking young
fellow sixteen years old who is preparing for col
lege under the direction Of Mr.. Frsby a
deacon in Trinity Church. He hopes to enter
Harvard In year or two and is said to
be a clever boy in his studies. For several
years he has been the leading soprano singer
In the boy choir of Trinity Church. He lives on
jersey City Heights with his mother, but while pre-
pairing for college for the last year he has spent
much of the time with his tutor who had a room in
the Theological Seminary Building. The room is on
the north side Of the westernmOst building of the
two that stand the grounds, and is in the second
story above the Easements The room is to the east
OF the centre of the building and looks obliquey
the spot where Mr.. SeymouTs body was found.
The distance from the room to that spot
is about thirty forty yards Frsby and his pupil
occupied this room together
YOUNG sTUCKE's STORY.
The story which Stucke told Captain Ryan about
his pistol firing on Thursday night, when he was
seen in the window by Mr.. and Mrs. ID. II. Putnam
and Mrs. Harris, who live opposite the grounds,
and which he subsequently told to a TRIBUNE re-
porter was as follows: "On July l, bought on
Broadway, a small 22-calibre nckel-plated Colts
revolver with seven chambers. l also got two
boxes of cartridges, one box of loaded ones
h.
tridges were the only ones that I fred off
from the seminary building On the evening be-
fore the Fourth was sitting in Mr.. Frsbys room,
and Mr.. Frisby was there with me. 1t was about
$50 or q little before o'clock when took the
pistol and put in it four blank cartridges. Mr..
Frisby was careful to examine the cartridges as
they were being placed in the chambers. AT 8
o'clock fred one of the charges into the stone but
tress which is few feet to the right of the window
as OLE looks out of it. and is In the opposite drec-
ton from where tho body of Mr.. Seymour was
found. am left-handed, and faced the eastern
end of the ward at the time the shot was fired. A
few minutes after went down stairs. and called
Dr. Gorgas of Bellevue Hospital, who was guest of
one of the students. He was In room the door Of
which was near the window at the North end of the
entry on the first floor | had carried the pistol
down stairs in my hand having iokingly told Mr..
being fired across the street. When Dr. Gorgas
came into the entry, leaned from the north entry
and with the pistol in my left hand
fired three shots in rapid succession
the revolver is self-cOck KERN the direction of
fine pump. which is few feet in the rear of the
building, 1t was at this time that was seen by
tbe ladies opposite. | had on q straw hat. The
time when this was done was Just at 915 for as
DR. Gorgas left the room in which he was he looked
at the clock and observed the time of the evening
Moreover am positive that the gas in the hall was
lighted for some time after and the lights are
always turned off at 10 o'clock. l am positive
that the cartridges were blank, for we ex-
amined them as they were put In, and Mr..
Frisby had examined all that were In the box
so as TO avoid the possibility of an accident. We
then went up stairs and naturally l cleaned the
pistol, there being nothing IN IT."
THE CLEw ABANDONED.
"The afternoon of the next day. continued the
vonth. the Fourth of July, | went to Manhattan
Reach taking the revolver and the box of ball cart
tridpes. went to the extreme eastern end of the
leland and fired for some time. There were several
otbers down there firing revOlycrs On Saturday
ofternoon went home to jersey City, and left the
revoIycr there with my brother. 1t was then clean
end unloaded | returned to the seminary
Saturday evening, and on Sunday evening Mr..
Frisby and left for Baltimore. where we intended
to sion over Monday and then go to Washington
in the evening. We had planned the trip several
weeks ago. and the possibility of there being any
connection between the blank cartridges that fired
an Thursday evening and the death OF Alr. Seymour
an hour or two later never occurred TO us. While
in Baltimore Monday afternoon, Mr.. frisby re-
ceived telegram from j. b. Draper which read as
follows: Bishop Seymour says return with Faui
Immediately. Necessary for investigation OF shoot
ma Thursday night. No blame attached Last
night we started home. and arrived here SHORTY
before n. m. On the evening OF Thursday we
hoard firing nj intervals all around the vicinity OF
the grounds"
III. storv told with frankncss and without hest
totiop and corroberated in every particular by Mr..
Er;sh, comneled CAPTAIN Ryan TO admit that there
wos no reason TO suspect that Mr.. Seymour was ac-
cdcutly shot by Paul Stucke. The question OF
time was an important one, and 1t was regarded as
fortprate that the hour of the evening at which the
four shots were fired was observed 1t Is generally
agreed that Mr. Seymour did not leave
the house until 10 y. III. or perhaps III
tle later and this, the officers think, pre-
cludes the possibility that he was shot by ball
that might possibly have been accidentally placed
m sucke,s revolver The revolver itself was In Jer-
sev CITY Yesterday morning, and Stucke was obliged
q On home after it. When given to Captain Ryan
Y was found TO contain four ball cartridges which
stucke said his brother must have put IN the cham
bers because the pistol when he returned from
Manhattan Beach, was empty, and was left at home
in the same condition.
Contain RYAN took the pistol to several OF the
oldest houses that deal in firearms down town, and
made inquiries in regard to the distance
which such pistol would carry. and
aso in regard to the bit of rubber that was found
with the bullet In Mr. Seymour's back. Said Cap
tain RYAN Yesterday afternoons 81 have been to