New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-08

natural inclination of small pistol in the hands of
man that distance away Tonld account for the
direction which the bullet took in the body"
CORONER FLANAGAN's OPINIONS.
The officials are by no means of the same opinion
In regard to the distance from which the ball was
fired. Authorities are quoted to show that a long
barrelled revolver carrying 22-calibre ball could
kill man at sixty yards, and the distance from the
spot where the body was found to the neghboring
houses is not over fifty. In speaking of this point
and Others yesterday Coroner Flanagan again said,
There is no special reason why the inquest
should be begun tomorrow, although 1 had
so intended. The police ask for little more
time In which TO secure. If possible more facts and
II is not probable that the inquest will be begun be-
fore Thursday or Friday of this week. 1 am in
clined TO think from the position and character of
the wound that Mr.. Seymour was killed either as
the result of an alteration with some intruder
whom he found on the grounds or from ball fired
from a rifle-pstOli in the hands of some one in the
neighboring houses The bit of rubber or
similar preparation that was found with
the bullet in Mr.. SeymOur's back points to
the former of these theories. The rubber resem-
bled wad, aud was I'm front of the bullet 1t was
about as big as small vest button, and was very
hard. When first discovered it thought to he
coagulated blood The question arises whether the
rubber covering, which was intended to tighten the
ball in the BARREL would have gone the distance OF
one OF two hundred feet and through heavy mans
body. l think that the ball was so small that IL
fred from an ordinary pistol at that distance
1t wouldn't have pierced the man. Tho course
which the bullet took shows that 1t couldn't have
been fired from the sidewalk, which is six feet
lower than the level of the Seminary grounds. The
ball was an ordinary pointed one with two groves
at the butt and is III the possession OF Deputy
Coroner Miller.
"The examination of Mr.. Seymour'S nose showed
a slight dscOOTatOn on the right side about as big
as Scent piece, DIR. Miller said that the bruse
must have resulted from fall after death. For the
blow was sufficiently hard separating as it did the
cartilage from the bone, to have caused the nose
to bleed if it had been received while
the man was alive. There also would Spve been
swelling, he said, ana as the nose showed signs
neither that blood had flowed nor that swelling
had taken place. the conclusion was inevitable that
the blow was received after death, and probably
from fall. On receiving the shot tho internal
hemorrhage began and the blood was drawn immedi-
ately from the head, so that if the blow was re-
ceived when he then fell, the appearance of the
nose would be just it was on Sunday"
A PHYSICIANS VIEWS.
physician who is much interested in the case
and who from his position has kept well informed IN
the details, said There are only two theories left
either that the shot by tramp or some ill.,
truder or that he killed by stray bullet. There
is TO possible for entertaining the theory of
suicide. The man was happy. had saved money,
and was in the prime Of life. The course Of the bull
let toe, precludes the possibility of the correctness
of that theory. The hole in the body was cut very
clean for O stray shot. Another point that
puzzles the police is the position of the rubber that
was taken from Mr. Seymour's back with the bullet.
To of IN wod
could have followed or preceded the bullet the dis
lance which they think It did. The rlan ~as evil
IDENTIFY killed IN ciose HEuS wirn o reckless man,
or he was struck by shot from n cheap breech-
loader OF a rife-pistOl that was fired from some
where in the vicinity. The police say, too, that
these rubber wads used in the manufacture of
cartridges for small pistols. and are intended to
tighten the ball in the barrel as 1t is fired.
The affair is a very curious mystery, so far"
THE WOMAN IN WHITE
CAPTAIN Ryan was unwilling TO give for pubIica-
ton the name Of the so-called woman In white"
who explained to him on Sunday that she and her
son were in the Seminary grounds on Thursday
evening. The theory that her companion was in
any way the cause of the murder seems to have
been given up upon her voluntarily offering the in
formation gwen above. and which was printed sub
stantially in Yesterdays TRIBUNE. Captain Ryan
saws that she Is respectable lady living III the
peighborhood of the Seminary and that AT the In
quest she will probably be produced. The police
are puzzled TO fix the time when she was seen to
leave the grounds, and in fact the question of
when the shots were heard in the neighbOrbOOd is
another difficult point to settle. The woman says
she and her son left the grounds. where they had
been sitting and where they had been seen by sew
eral persons, between 10 and IL p. M, and it was
about this time that Nh Seymour went out for
walk.
Detective Dorsey was busy all day IN listening to
reports aud in trying to find some facts that would
point to some reasonable solution of the mystery.
To TRIBUNE reporter he said: 60 have no theories
as to the cause of Mr.. Seymours death. We have
learned that about midnight shots were heard in
the vicinity, and the difficulty is to discover who
fired then and to fix definitely the time when they
were fired. We are taking every fact that comes to
our know ledge aud that We can hear of by careful
inquiry, and are trying to connect them"
The difficulty is" added another of the detec-
tives that the facts all seem to clash, aud that
definite explanation of the mystery is yet impo5
sible"
WHAT THE FAMILY THINK.
An intimate member of Bishop seymour's family
said yesterday: "The whole affair is out of our
hands and s being conducted by the detectives from
Police Headquarters. We III the house have no
theories of how Mr. Seymour came to his death. but
of course we are very anxious for speedy solution
of the matter. There appears TO have been no
motive for a murder except on the SUPPOSE
ton that Mr. Seymour going ont found an
intruder who for some reason other became
suddenly angry and fired the fatal shot. Certainly
robbery was not the motive, for nothing was MISS
ing from the body. 1t is true MIR. seymour had left
his vest in the house, and was without hi6 watch
Int aside from this there is little satisfaction in
such n theory. As regards the reported contradc-