The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-15

| THE L0CUST-yALLEY CORPSE-AN 1NNESTlGA-
| TON WHICH WAS ATTENDED BY SINGULAR
DEveL oPNEYTs-wHAT THE HAT AND CANE
| REVEALED.
| New York Herald. yesierday.l
| The remains OF Signor George lwho was
once resident OF Richmond were taken
from their temporary grave at O'Clock yes
terday morning by Undertaken Ludlam and
placed in a neat coffin. A few hours later
Just before the break OF morDiEg--theY left
Oyster By in a wagon for the Flalbusll
! Cemetery. The Investigations OF yester-
day have strengthened the suspicion o.!
foul play. As stated in the Herald,
Mr. Mathews. foreman of the cOroner's
Jury, had made an investigation regarding
the pieces of woman's dress found
near the corpse. 1t Will be remembered
that a few days ago il was said that the wife
of prominent resident had seen the de-
ceased walking with a woman whose name
she knew. This information, il seems, was
correct. Mrs. Burgess was the lady's name.
and she told the story first to her husband.
| He Immediately went TO Senator Townsend
ID. Cox, who deemed The story OF so much
| importance that he at once gave II To the
coroner. 1t is substantially as follows:
When Mr.. Mathews began his iuve>ti-
cation on Thursday he discovered so
much that at an cally hour yester-
day morning he sought out the coroner and
| Mr.. Robert Townsend, who represents the
prosecuting attorney. These gentlemen
proceeded TO the house OF the witnesses
who were mentioned, consuming the entire
| day in their investigation. IL was learned,
among other things. that certain woman
| had been seen near Sheep lane with man
| fully answering the description OF Slgnor
| George Just about the time the latter was
supposed to have finally disappeared.
THE WOMAN OF SHEEP LANE.
visit 10 the woman's house, which is
situated in a most lonely spot overlooking
the Sound, was rewarded. The honse is on
an island. and there are no neighbors within
considerable distance. Directly behind
the house, across the marshes. which, when
flooded by tide water, cuts of the beach
from the mainland, Sheep lane terminates.
| II is easily reached by a boat which Is Kept
| by the inmates OF the house. Sheep lane,
near which, it will be remembered, the body
was found. is the most direct road 10 the
village OF Locust Valley. When questioned
| the woman told a sOmeWba, incoherent story
about a man whom she had known under an
other name. and who bad stopped for about
week with her. She did not deny that she
| had been out walking with Il man answer
| ing Georges de- cription. but she positively
insisted that it was not George himself. In
answer to queries rs 10 who he was or
where he could be found she could return
no specifc answer. But stranger dis
covery was in store. II was stated in yester-
davis Herald that Signor Georges nat and
cane had been returned and Identified. II
appears from yesterday Is investigations that
| the person who returned them was no other
than the son Of the woman upon whom the
suspicious of the authorities rest.
FINDING THE HAT AND CANE.
1 According to his own statement he found
4 the hat and cane in the woods about quar-
4 ter OF mile from the spot where the body
was found, and took them both home to his
llnother's house. This WAS some time before
the body was discovered. The cane was
laid on one side, and one Of hi brothers
wore the hat. This they do not pretend to
deny. The young man, who Is about
twenty-five years Of age. was actually pres
cut when the body was discovered, and
could not have helped hearing the repeat
ed arguments over the very strange dis
appearance of both hat and cane. One
of the brothers was also present
at the Inquest, Coroner Bayles says. but
neither Of them have ever opened their
I mouths aoout the missing property OF the
LGead maH. The authorities state that they
lbelieye tl,e. extreme publicity given to the
lease and tie threat made TO search the house
,of any one suspected were the only reasons
for the retaign OF the articles. THat~they
wens not destroyed, it is Thought, II due 10
the iSnoraIeeof the people gho had them.
Special ofiiceNi.Iaye been instructed tonight
20 keep an exc ,On such as are suspected,
sad Coroner Bayles says that the slightest
ssfAmId TO escape will be followed by imme-
dllle arrest.