New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-06
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
AN OLD TRAGEDY REVIVED.

AN OLD TRAGEDY REVIVED
FOUR PERSONS ARRESTED AND TWO HELD in GUS
TOBY FOR THE MURDER OF HANNAH NJ "Ho"hN
FIVE MONTHS AGO
The murder of Miss Hannah Nj Brewer at lappar I,
A. Y. July Is. has been recalled by the arreSl Oh
four persons who were suspected u tne crime
They were Francis Yer Vaien; jaoon yer Va nsy 81"
Rrow.r n brother of the dead woman. on Thursday
last made an af av,t stating that he had circnm-
stantlal evidence which tended to saow that these
nersons were the perpetrators of the deed. An ex-
animation OF the was held before justice
Charles Ii. Meeker, of Nyack in the lecture room
of thu Reformed Church az Tappan, bur httle evi'
dence was produced to show that the Pdrseiis
brothers had anything 10 do with the murder. DIS
tiict-Attorney Alonzo Wheeler of Rockiand County
asked that they be DISCHARGED, and tney were uheh
released from custody. The other two prisoners
We're he'd. and the examination Will be continue"
tomorrow. ;,o
of july IL. Miss Blower was a woman hiN-Vnte
years old and lived with her mother, aunt n.y.
brother DAVID and her sister Sarah, IN an oiu-iasn
ioned farmhouse mile from the village and 1us'
north of Andres monument IL Is one-stoIS n .
with an attic and Miss Brewer slept down stal,
while the other members II the 1ahl,y occupIcu
rooms ON the floor ABOVE. The family was not
aroused in the night by any outcry, out az D a. III.
when Sarah went to her SISTERS room SUI he.
coored a. il from strangulatlon, hut when pny-
scian arrived he d.scove ed other marks OF violence
In was inst supposed TO BE- the work of tramps. An
inquest was held, but little light was thrown on me
mystery. The ends of few matches found on the
wlndow-sill were the only ciew to the HUMANS,
No trace of footprints was discovered The window
curtain was slightly stained by some wet clothes
rubbing against II. as the night was stormy anu
the persons were probably wet from the ram MI.
Brewer said at the inquest that not dollars wotth
OF property was taken. He secuted the ldea tna'
tranps had committed the deed and said that he
teought it was done by persons who were acquainted
with the house. Entrance to the house was Ell
fected by removing pane OF glas from the WINDOW
of the room ID which tn woman sept anu
then, by taking away stick which held the WIN
dow secure. Bogart Parsells was one OF the VII,
nesses at the COroneTs inquest but he SIMPLY statsu
that he saw a tail. suspicious looking man on the
bridge in front of the mil short distance from
Brewers house on that night Two tramrs were
arrested on the Palisades the day after the Gurder
but they were discharged as there was nothing to
crimlnate them. The COroner's jury gave verdict
that the victim came to her death by being stran-
gled uy some person persons unknown, ana iheh
The case dropped
Since that tlmc the brother has been at work try
ing TO find the murdercrs, and detectives have also
been employed IN the case. The blood marks left
on the wo;nan's neck showed that the person had
lost one of his fingers. This Is one OF the clews
which led TO the arrest Of the Yer Naieus; one oil
them has lost finger.