The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-14
Notable Events i'm New York Yes
terday.
Another Story Connected With "A. T.
Stewards Remains The Nego-
tiations Between the Body
Snatchers and Judge
Hilton. 5.=-.zz

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millionaire Stewards grave, which took place
on the seventh OF November last, has never
been discovered, nor the crime itself laid tt
rest by compromise. Our reporter at Sara
toga was yesterday Informed by gentleman
high in the confidence of the firm of Stewart
| & Co that Stewards body bad not been re-
turned. The coffin plate and coffin knobs
were expressed here some time ago by party
dem anding quarter OF q million Of dollars
for the body, but Judge Hilton would not pay
q cent without seeing the remains. Judge
Hilton has been informed by representative
of the body-snatchers that the remains OF
Stewart are In excellent preservation. and the
body ID even to-day easily recognizable by
any one who had been acquainted with the
merchant prince during his lifetime; that
though considerably disfgured about the
eyes and part of the lower extremities. the
fingers and even the feet and toes had, sim
gular to say, been kept remarkably intact.
Judge Hilton has said nothing lately about
the body. Some months ago he said, when
any issue Is reached ! will be the first to give
tho facts to the press"
| A reporter called at the store Of A. T. Stew
art IL Go. to-day in order to ascertain how
much truth there was in the statements pub
| lighed In to-daya Herald regarding the pend
ing of negotiations for the delivery Of the
| body of the late A. T. Stewart. He was met
| by Mr. Ainsley, Judge Hiton's private secre-
tary, who will neither affirm nor deny the
truth of the statements. but requested that
the matter be dropped just where it Is, and
that nothing more be said about It.
ANOTHER ACcoUNT-THE TRUE INWARDEEss
OF THE REPORTED DISCOVERY OF THE
REMAINS.
III "a l. i,,n
Ing paper, which reiterates the assertion fre-
quently made Of late, that the remains OF A.
f. Stewart, which were stolen from 81. Marks
churchyard on the seventh OF November
last, have not been recovered, but that nego-
tiations are making for its return by the
resurrectionists, who demand quarter OF a
million dollars and immunity from punish
ment, the following has been obtained. The
information is based on facts that are
incontrovertible, but as far as many news
papers go it is the most antique
Of ancient history. 1t was peddled In
newspaper offices three months ago and B.
clew to it was afforded by q drunkard who
in his cups, babbled about the case to an in
telIigent citizen who impaired what he had
learned to reporter. AS long as Judge
Hilton encouraged the belief that Stewa1t's
body had been recovered many upheld him In
assertions that he did not only not deny but
amplitied the reports made shortly after the
grave robbery Then on hints that impelled
respect the matter was allowed TO drop.
Some waited content to abide by the action
of the intelligent corps OF detectives that We're
published to-day 50 Influences the case that
Of Of those who are unraveling the
mystery will In future be Impossible, and 1t Is
just as well to strip to.day's article OF its
anonymous character. 1t is now possible to
assert that some time after the robbery Mrs.
Stewards health and mental condition de-
manded heroic treatment, and she was led to
believe that according to her wishes the body
of her husband had been ransoned and there
was an end Of the matter. The price named
was $4,000, and the negotiations secured I'm
munity from punishment. 1t was asserted
at one time that the box containing the re-
mains was secretly placed. in the basement Of
the Fifth Avenue mansion, and that when the
mausoeum at Garden City was finished they
would be deposited there with great pomp
This secret was allowed to leak cut, and a
newspaper reporter, VINO was furnished Tor
the occasion, caught the valuable informa-
ton and published it. Then the affair
was rnystifed and the story so changed
as to allow the body to have been secreted III
many places. At any rate it was presented.
Mrs. Stewards health improved when she was
informed of the recovery Of her husbands
body, and in many newspaper circles the mys-
tery was believed to be solved, Judge Hilt0n's
reluctance to tell about the negotiations being
ascribed to his unwillingness to relate what
part he played in compromising this ghoul OF
felony. Now, as matter OF fact, Judge Hill
ton is as nncomp mpromised to-day In regard to
the robbery OF the man who was the architect
of his fortune as he was on the morning OF
the robbery, when he made the most unguali-
fed assertion as to his determination to have
the robbers with the body. Mrs. Stewart now
knows the truth, and 1t may be asserted that
she is now as uncomproml5ing as her adviser.
In the account published to-day the facts
are that Stewards body has not been recov-
cred; that $780, 600 is the price on It, and that
Judge Hilton is in possession Of the coffin
plate, the handles OF the casket and portion
of the velvet covering, which were taken by
the thieves from the vault III st. Marks
churchyard to serve as tailies In the negotia-
tiOus for the return OF the remains 1t Is also
true that the men who stole the body are
known, but there has never been any oppor-
tunIty to arrest them and secure the body at
one swoop. The hard work OF the case fell
upon Superintendent Walling, who has the full
confidence OF Judge Hilton, and what one
knows the other is cognizant Of. Neither
WaIling nor the officers who are La MS e0nll-
dence are to blame for the present leak. They
knew the commencement OF the negotiations
with the robbers lawyer, and they or their
agents have never lost sight OF MIN Tor a mo-
ment Either of the officers could take PEN
Gil and paper and write down certain names,
put the paper In an envelope, and then offer
To wager any odds that the envelope, II placed
In a safe, would some day give full history
of the crime as made public. and contain the
names OF the robbers and their aecomplices.
SENATOR THURMAN ) MOVEMENTS.
Senator Thurman left the Fifth Avenue
Hotel for his home at Columbus. He will
make several speeches in the State Of Ohio
during the canvass.
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATED PRESS.
At the annual meeting Of the newspaper
proprietors composing the National Aaso-
ciated Press, held at the Astor House to-day,
the following directors were elected for the
ensuing year: J Ell. Goodsell, Of the Daily
frrnnbje Nav YORK. q IT iavtar RnatGn
Globe; Sidney Deane, Providence Star: Geo.
Bartholomew, New York Daily Ne,rs; Ralph
Bageey, Pittsburg Telegraph; L. P. Leonard,
Cincinnati Star: Al. E. Stone, Chicago Ne,cs;
Arthur Jenkins. Syracuse Herald, and G. 1.
Gage, Of New York.
The following were elected officers for the
ensuing year: James FL. Goodseil, president;
L. A. Leonard, vice president; e. I. Gage,