New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-01
THE MONTCLAIR HOMICIDE.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE INQUEsT-ARMsTRoNG TIC
RE pJrRtFD TOMORROW.


RE BURIED TOMORROW.
The killing of the coachman, John Armstrong, by
his employer Joseph A. Blair, continued to be the
subject of discussion yesterday in Montclair and
Newark and the neighboring towns. The
body of Armstrong was viewed at Briant
& Woodruf's Morgue, in Broad-st., New
ark, by many persons, among whom were Charles
Wigley the keeper of a restaurant in Market-st'
Mr. Wigley recognized Armstrong as person once
employed by him when he kept n restaurant III
New-YorE He spoke of the dead man as an INDUS
trIous, good-natured person, and not drunkard.
James Cough, keeper of n boarding-house ut
Chatham and Roosevelt-sts., recognized Armstrong
as having been lodgcr in his house for time last
Winter Two women from West Thirtieth-st, OF
this city, visited the Morgue to learn what DISPOSE
ton was to be made of the body, and offered to
assist in providing fund for it outside of
the Potters field. A dispatch from M Mont (,
Yesterday. in which he requested to retain the
body in his charge until evening. when committee
would call and make arrangements for MS burial
In the evening John Gallagher and Rich
ard Sheridan came from Montclar and
stated that money enough had been secured
TO remove the body to that place for
burial The funeral will occur at the Church OF the
Immaculate ConceptiOn, in Montclair, the Rev
Father Mendel officiating tomorrow at . q. m'
and the nterment will be i'll the cemetery belong
ing 10 the church.
The inquest will DO begun this afternoon at
o'clock in Montclar. Coroner Woodruff said that
there were some eight ten witnesses 10 be exam
ined. He also said that yesterday morning Judge
Ellsworth, one of Mr.. Bair's lawyers. came to his
office and gave him the address IN Brook
lvn, at which the missing cook, OpheIa
Over, had been employed On gong TO that
address the Coroner learned that Miss Dyer
was probably at the house of her sister in Atlantic
ave There it was ascertained that she had gone 10
the house on the previous evening but that
the family removed from the house next
day, and where it went was unknown.
The search was then Telinqnshed. 1t was
stated to the Coroner by an inmate OF
the house, that Miss Dyer had been heard 10 say
that she would not appear witness. The Core
ner said that she not material witness aud her
disappearance was not of especial Importance. ,
Il is thought that the evidence elected by the
autopsy will carry the most weight AT the inquest,
the course of the bullets in the body being upward.
Ii is within the pOwerOf a New-Jersey Cor0ners
Jury to find, in addition to the manner OF
the victims death, the person who caused 1t,
and the character of the offence, whether murder,
manslaughter or iustifable homicide. There Is n
feeling prevalent in Newark that the verdict OF the
Jury will be that Mr.. Blair was guilty of murder.
Mr.. Blair remained yesterday at the County Jail
in the room formerly occupied by the convicted
insurance president, b. F. Moves. lie received few
visitors through the day. The coroner intended
visiting him in the morning, but was asked by his
lawyers not to do so,