New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-09

rifles, two three feet long. sold and that they
throw bullet of the same size that which killed
Mr.. Seymour distance of 300 yards with sufficient
force to kill man. They are sold in all OF
the gun stores of the city, and are chiefly
used TO kill cats and squirrels The label on the box
in which Stucke's cartridges were bought bears the
phrase For long short cartridges"
NOT FULLY EXPLAINED.
$50 far as the woman in white is concerned" said
the Captain in answer to another question, " 90
not know her name. She saw Bishop Seymour, who
is unwilling to give me her name. so that cannot
find out about the report that she saw Mr.. Seymour
coming ont Of the house just as she and her son
were leaving the grounds. This was at about 10 p.
M, she says. | am anxious to know more about
this son, and l expect this will be
brought ont at the inquest when we
shall learn all about the mysterious woman.
have learned another fact to-day in regard to
Mrs. Berr who lives at No. 44S West Twentieth-st.
the same house in which Stucke boarded. She
says that at about II p. m, Thursday evening she
heard three sharp reports in the direction OF the
Seminary. apparently near where the body was
found few hours later. She saw one fash of
pistol on the same spot She had been sitting on
her stoop for about two hours, from 10 to
~ that evening. IL turns out that there
were many shots fired in the, vicinity
of the Seminary that night-shots that
seem to have been fired around and even into the
grounds ,
Two OF tho theological students who room in the
same building with Stucke and Frisbv. and who are
intimate with them, supplemented the story winch
Stucke told Captain RYAN with some facts or inter
est. One of them, J. W. Elliott, who boards in the
same house with Stucke, on lwentleth-st, sara
81 lSed with sucke about the danger OF having
pistol around, and of firing it out of the window,
aud he replied that he never shot bullets
with it, Stucle offered to lend the re-
yolyer to, little boy In the house where
wo board, but he was always regarded
as a very careful boy At 10 o'clock / heard three
shots fired in rapid succession by some one appar-
A. w. Pierce. another student, said: "As under
stood the matter, stgcke wanted to tire the three
shots from Frisbys room bEJ the latter dN was
stairs to call Dr. GOrgas up TO have some
lunch, he fired the shots out OF the entry
window directly into the ground. The people
who were on Twenty-frst-st were right IN
thinking they saw some one at the window VINO
was firing revolver About 10 O'Clock, after had
gone to bed, heard another shot that seemed TO
be very near-so near, IN fact, that thought Paul
had fred another shot from his window, which Is
next to mine."
POLICE THEORIES.
Detectives Dorsey Cairns and others, were around
the grounds in the afternoon talking with the
students and with everyone who would be likely to
have any information bearing any Of the possi-
bic theories. The police still maintain that the
probabilities point toward the stray shot theory,
and they yesterday spent much time in talking with
EXPERTS in firearms in order to learn the distance
that a 22-calibre revolver would carry and produce
death and in regard TO the rubber that was found
with the bullet. Said Detective Dorsey yesterday
Il have talked with an expert In smith * WesIon
manufacturing, and he says that pistol OF that
SIZE would carry 100 OF 200 feet and Kill man
without doubt. OF course everything would de-
pend on the finish Of the bore and the length OF the
barrel can't find any 22-caibre cartridges with
any rubber around them, and the experts say that
| no such cartridges are made nowadays for that
| 4 n.,Yt fha ul nov uSAH N
| hut they are not now manufactured, 1t Is SAID.
! The Winchester rifle people said they wouldn't
| like TO take chance from q stray
% -cabre bullet from pistol carrying such ball.
even at distance of 900 feet. If man were struck
in vital spot it is said that shot at that distance
would probably prove fatal"
| POSITION OF HE BODY WHEN FOUND.
There seems to be some difference of opinion
among those who were first the scene, as to the
position in which the body was found. Bishop and
Mrs Seymour, it is stated on good authority agree
that the body lay with the face up
ward when it was found. One of the officers
who was attracted to the spot by Mrs. Seymour's
cries says that the man lay on his back, but that
he did not seem to have fallen in that position. l..
Harris of No. 40 West Iwenty-iirst-st.; who was
one of the first TO reach the fence and view the
body. which was directly opposite his house, saws
that the body lying on the left side OF the face.
DR.. Cushman, who examined the body at the SIX
teenth Precinct, says that If anyone bad turned
the body its back it would have been necessary
TO put the hands under the chest, as the
man was heavy, and the marks of blood
would in all probability have been left on the
hands In speaking of other phases of the case,
DR. Cushman sad "When | arrived at the
grounds asked the Bishop what the trouble was.
and he said his brother had been murdered or killed
I'm some way. then went to find the body, and 1t
had been removed. | think that the man was
killed by tramp OF by some one as he was sitting
on the grass as he was rising from
sitting position. The only other theory is
that he was shot by some long range pistol
in the hands of some of the ueighbOrs. Ii is not i'm
possible that he was fced by the blow on the nose
that seems to have crushed his hat and then was
shot as he attempted 10 rise IL the blow had been
struck an hour before death there would have been
a swelling and more dlscOOratlOn. But death
might have followed few moments after the blow.
i'm which case the internal bleeding would have
lett the just as 1t Is nOw The wound
was a Clearly cut one and, as L remem-
her it, the wad looked like q bit of some
soaked woocn texture. There Is no basis for
the suicide theory. The wound seems to have
been made at short range, and by some one whowas
above Mr.. Seymour"
There are not few who have followed the case
who he heye that the only remaining clew that is
worth investigating is that OF the two unknown
men who are said to have been seen IN tue grounds
late Thursday evening The theological students
will appear at the inquest
Coroner Flanagan said last night, In reiutdtlon
of the rumOrs that the inquest would be fastened
that 1t certainly would not be held to-day and very
likely not even tomorrow.
NIVAL OFFICER MISSING.