New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-14
DIFFUSION COMMON no MANY.

ur KNOWS WHERE STEWARDS BODY lS'
q. v,,pr c,.RK,s QUAINT HoME-HOw HE ExPfCie
TO SAVE rT-wHAT 10 BURIED IN HIS CELLAR
AT No. 30 West Thirty secOnd-st. Is t"o-
story brick building old and dilapdated its "inuo"
are broken In many places, and In some INSTANCES w
cases arc entirely gone their places oeihe supp -
boards. The general appearance OF the sfuo'u
something like that of a pedestrian "fter SIX a' ia.
walk The lower story is let to lone wioo"' "nAo ~
Tho nnner mart ives Samuel Clark mechanic ana pat
te,nmaker who firmly believes that be kDowswhe n
r stewards body buried and that he Is entitled 10 '"e
reward offered. a., a
Mr. Clark Il n heavy mon, sixty-one years DID, anu
about five feet Il We inches 10 height, HIS compeAo
swar,by while the general cast Of his features rehus
one of Couldock the actor. His lodgings are
shoo The walls the floor, In some places even tue
cetl,ng are covered with tools. Conspicuous among
these are some machines OF his own lnVenNoh' '"o
merits OF which he will descant on Tor hours tose'"'
In the corner OF the workshop are encioseu TWO sum"
rooms rhich serye as a slttingroom and a bedroom.
On the walls OF the siitngroom are tacNeu so'oia
mars of the North Pole subject in which MI Ciah
,nuch interested, aud the discovery OF WHICH,
he thinks, would be made ne ou,'
had the money necessary TO carry ou' n'
pIans Mr. Clark is apparently kindly old man, WHOM
sixteen years Of bachelor life in this quiet ana oesoo
oId nape dreaming over the fortunes to be MADE ny ns
many patepts have driven little daft He says thal
cantatn Al an early age he learned the trade OF cao
nemokpr and since then he has learned Blk OF seven
other trades For the last sixteen years ne mas occ"
his present quarters For ten years he had leases ou
for he ae ak wears lie Las rented his from year
TO year. The property belongs to the John j. Collins es
tate and vorable chance TO sell having oHered se
Mr. Clark rec ivcd notice to remove, the agent claiming
that tho building was leased rom month TO month. Inc
case came up yesterday before Justice ueorSe w.
Parker and WAS postponod until Thursday morning
Mr. Clark thinks that his opponents are rch ana as
he Is DOOR he would lose his II it were not TOT
secret which he possesses On the night OF Decenipe
G. 1878 he says that drove uD In front OF MS
house and that three men from this what he now
knows to body OF A. r. Stewart, and buried IL III
the cellar Of the building. HIS reasons Tor DsleNbG
This are 900 or 300 IN number. He laid the matter be-
fore Judge Hilton and william Libby, but 1t has never
been satisfactorily investigated aud he has never re-
ceived the award He Is confident that the story he
will have to tell next Thursday VIII paialyIe New
Ynrk win him many thousand dollars and enable him
to keep his beloved chop Among the many peculiar
ideas Of Mr. Clark Que in regard to the sun -,
- The is not solid body Dut noIe nnt hom
he took from shelf small pamphlet ehllt'eu US
moogy; New Theory OF the CONSTITUTION ana ObeIa
ton OF the UNIVERSE" published tns my sell some
years ago" he continued and not paper notced IL
except one, and that ridicued IT," ,,,,,
happened TO gentleman residing uptown IN connection
with he searcf Mr.. stewards remains. lie TOOK
most active his day custom TO read over
and carefully preserve all the apers wGeh had any ny,
matter had died out he took all these papers and wrap
Pig them in bundle, ,nou stowea stex 1T@
Body" They made q bundle Of considerable size one
day in mis- absence a chambermad was csaning MS MS
room whe1 she pulled ont this bundle. Unfortunately
she could read. She looked at the Inscription, ran
shreking down stars, ana refused for some time 10 en-
Ter the % Gsne ont WITH oge Of
ssting that II sInelled badly