Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-28
Nexs by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE STEWART REMAINS. A Detective on the Right
 Trail. PROBABLE RECOVERY OF THE BODY. The Chief Grave Robber Under
 Surveillance. THE SENATORIAL FIGHT AT ALBANY. COnkling and Platt Return
 to the Scene.
THE SENATORIAL FIGHT AT ALBANY
COnkling and Platt Return
 to the Scene.
NEW YORK.

Stewards Remains-A Detective the 1 Track of the Robbers-The Leader Kel- l ly Under SurveilIanee-His Flight to l Arizona-Judge Hilton Hopeful of Re- | covering the Body.
 NEW YORK, June 28, 3 a. m.-The rev citations regarding the Stewart grave robbery ! continued this morning. Detective Story in an 1 additional chapter states that Mike Kelly, the alleged principal of the gang which robbed the grave was traced to Arizona, thence to California that the story that he was shot l in Arizona in a miners quarrel was subse- sequently proven false; that in the West he was known as Gleason; that he is now a watchman in Arizona in a mining camp. The detective assisted by Mike's brother Ed. as- certained that when Mike fled in terror from New York that he went to Washington and from thence to Springfield, Ohio, where he remained ten days before leaving for San
 Francisco. He had plenty of money
 and received large amount while in Wash ington from some one in New York. Mike
 said he was going to San Francisco to go into the butcher business with one of the Glea- sons, and through detective working with
 those in New York he was traced few
 weeks ago to Arizona. Parties having the
 case in hand in New York after locating Mike
 Kelly had an interview by appointment with Judge Hilton. Hilton said he had often
 thought he had the body within his grasp and
 expected ultimately to recover it. When he was told by the interviewer that the person
 whom It was believed could surrender the
 body was Mike Kelly, the hackman, Judge
 Hilton responded that he agreed with the suggestion and would like to know where
 Kelly was, that the detective was on the right
 track Hilton asked on what terms the men
 would return the body and was told they held
 in their possession paper the judge had giv-
 en to Dr. Carney, his former agent, stating
 that he would pay $25,OOo for the body.
 Judge Hilton inquired particularly after the
 details of the robbery and how it was man.
 aged, and was told that the gang secured
 diagrams of the graveyard which they pro-
 cured by some means from the belfrey of St.
 Marks church. These diagrams were pho-
 tographed and the Stewart vault located;
 that thus the robbers selected the identical
 spot in the graveyard directly over the slab
 in straight line with the casket containing
 Stewards body. There were three caskets in
 the tomb, but so accurate was the robbers
 information that with rope belonging to
 the sexton they lifted the particular casket
 from it's place, removed the body, enclosed it in 8 rubber sack, taking with them pieces of the cloth, screws and plate with the inten- ton of using them as means of identi6ca- ton in the negotiations for the return of the remains. The body was placed in Kelly's hack, driven to Weehawken and buried, and Kelly returned by another ferry. Judge Hill ton said he had been informed that in crowd ing the body into valise the knee-pan had been broken. In describing the body he said that he would tell something never made known before and continued: ''Mr. Stewart when he was buried had full double set of teeth. The mouth was sunken very much and we put sponge in to fill out the features and present a natural appearance. The whis- kers were red about the chin and side of the mouth and rather short beneath. He had slight imperial The head was bald with the hair at the sides thrown back behind the ears. He had on pair of patent leather pumps of broidered French bosom and three plain white linen studs on the front. The tag of the shirt had the letters "A. T. S. worked uron it. The shirt was purchased in Paris either upon the Boulevard du Capucius or the Boulevard Strasburg. The coat was dress coat, made by Devlin, with the makers name upon the collar. He had on also white cra- vat, stand up collar, cuffs of the shape of an elongated square, with bloodstone sleeve but tons set in gold. The edging of the gold was a sort of flagree work. These points, ) con- tinued the judge, 1T have never disclosed to a living person, but have reserved them my self for the purpose of identification D Judge Hilton added that he was confident the right clue had at last been struck and that the body would be recovered in the near future.