New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-22
on each side of it. If find nothing, that is the
end of it. Of course"
Are there any indications that you are being

each side of it. IL we find nothing, that is the
Are there any indications that you are being
watched y
ON guard saw dark lantern FASH They attempted
TO run the intruder down, but he gave hem the
slip. Two hours later there was another ash, but
TINS intruder also escaped III the darkness. There
has been nothing chez
MIR. Fuller also said that he did not know how the
p0iiee were made aware OF the Information in his
Ros' sson OK his intention dig in The cemeer on
saturday, lie thought tho oil painting might have
oerh sent 10 Inn by a woman who had been Inti-
mate with Que of the gravo-robber8 and who had
b been Waogt4 an some way II tAe painting bad
,"oI a. q nolX, Mr. fauer thought that 1t
who LET the poiice into the secret.
conn l. i'Iucle, nephew O. the controller of the
stmleSet{ Is ne superin enlent of the grounds He
stated that there would have been little difficulty in
Dar} body in the plot OF ground where eXca-
xauon IS being ma lie without danger OF discovery
ihaS part of tn cemetery had been used,
from other parts of the grounds. He
g1eh Drought To thai plot OF ground within few
tayS. lhese hearS presented an appearance similar
70 that winch would he caused by fresh cXcaVa-
tlonS Nh Runcie also said that any one desiring
10 enter ina part OF the cemetery could easily do
would otter only slight resistance.
H. +. Butts the foreman of 'tne cemetery, threw
MS mead back ana laughed yesterday when the
ne said has lived al his life around here in New
boISi EVeri BODY IN this neShbor God knows hun
anu he Is te last man IN the world TO cnga gein the
detective huSineSs.0
HOW 40 You account Cor his conduct when the
party was searching Tor the spot - asaed the re-
porter.
All of the employed hereof whom there
are ABOUT iorty-are mtrusted to keep their eyes
ylS0"s. The party acted little mysteriously, and
ne y turally became all the more vigiiant:'
inns mans name Is James Dagaer, and he lives
ABOUT three blocks from the main entrance to the
cemetery, IN the basement of thTec-storg BRICK
sehoo-house lie at the cemetery yesterday
attirod IN his Sunday clothes ana ssed himself
III DIS blunt way as greatly amused ut the suspi-
cions attached 60 him.
Speaking OF the Supposed position OF the loag-
sought-ior body, Mr. Butts sand Il dou'6 think
heie Is ythlng IN the cieW at all. Why the place
IL hot one To invite surreptitouS burial, as 1t Is
one OF the most exposed spots in the cemetery in
the DAY Tune. The horses are kept In the sta lie.
where they are taken at noon 10 be led, and work
men are al day long passing to and the con-
serVatory, which serves ut OF cool nouS. If the
robbers wore looking for secluded spot they could
nave gone further back into the woods where
DOdy ever goes except 10 shoot Il rabbit. One thing
greatly against the theory OF the boiy being there
Is that the ground at the spot indicated ihe pie
lure was graded OIL last year TO distance OF TWEEN
ty-iive feet from the Lake Road. rna depth of the
sou removed was from two to three feet"
has any person been ObserN ed skctching i'll the
nelgnoolhood OF the barn and observaoryf
" IL is usual thing for some tn stroll in with
sketch,book under his arm, but ~ il is to
make drawing OF some of the tom IS hcatlsones,
Nobody has as yet been able to recall anybody
being the probable author of the OH pa ntng"
Sergeant Meakm was asked last night the
police detectives happened to he at the cemetery ut
the time when the work of digging Tor the body was
begun. We had been working same clew,"
he said, for some time. The Information came TO
actly In what manner. 1t was not from MIR. Fuller
however. lt came In the regular way OF business
ana had men on the case before Mr. Fuller took
hold of it,"
:. Do you think the clew is of much valuean
=, cannot say L do myself think much of ii,
However, / shan watch the case and will be at the
cemetery Tomorrow. l aln certain the body has
not been recovered. and 1 don't think il will b.,
iouhd just where 1T Is being looked for now.