New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-23
| clergyman who a year ago performed the ceremony
of marriage at the wedding Of Mr.. and Mrs. Dudley
A SEARCH WITH NO RESULT.
FRUITLRssLY DIGGING TRENCHESlkT CYPRESS HILLS

CEMETERY.
The search for A. T. Stewards body at Cypress
was resumed yesterday. Several detectives had
guarded the plot of ground where the excavations
are being made Sunday night as on Saturday night.
Nothing of startling nature occurred. except
the appearance OF man, accompanied by
to be- on his way home from r church ASo"t
8 o'clock yesterday three workmcn appeared upon
the scene with pickaxes and shOvels. One of them
was over SIX feet TALL slender enough to have been
run through tube and wore red flannel shirt. His
feet We're clad i'll alligator boots This picturesque
grave-iicgcr was the mysterious workman who has
figured "a the probable spy in the employ of the rob-
beers. The other two were thck-set men who went
at their work as mechanically as though digging a
According to the decision of the night before the
up from the walk leading from the drive toward the
barn and conservatory. trench three feet deep
and wide enough to admit mans body was dug in
lIne along the margin of the carriagc-way to the
original excavation at the intersection of the
rlase-way and the walk. careful study of the
sion that the place Indicated in it az the position of
the body was in this part of the plot Shortly be;
Otiicc, accompanied by one of his men, joined two of
his men who were already on the ground, and half
work
In the afternoon the work advanced in the sama
monotonous manner as during the forenoon. Jim"
as the giant grave-dgger is familiarly called is dis
%s to ss an at nss there In to
smooth cobbe-stone thrown out serving for Yoricls
skull. once black snake about as long as mans
arm started from the trench and began TO wrggie
its way up the road. The gravc-diggcrs, dropping
their shovcls and picks. started in pursuit hut
the snake succeeded in making its escape Mean
While the detectiveS-of whom there were eight in
albany the newspaper reporters sat idly around
under the trees beating off mosquitoes, the time
dragging heavily. Now and then q man or woman
struggled up the road and joined the groups that
STOOD on the slope watching the workmen. At
times man who went around promiscuOUsly over
the plot, testing the ground with long iron rod
called the workinen away from the trench to dig
down few feet IN some particular spot. About the
middle OF the afternoon short trench was dug at
right angles to the walk leading to the fence Mt n
foreign material found in this pit was a ragged
piece of Massachusetts granite, which at first lad
given out Il sound like that of wooden box.
At half-past o. o'clock the work stopped
O'Clock, when trench will be dug parallel to the
two that have already been made along the Lake
Road.
Detective Fuller who was at the cemetery all the
afternoon SAID that he was not discouraged He
intended TO go over the plot until its surface was
sufficiently explored 10 prove disproyc the clew
with reference to the charge that he was merely
seeking notoncty In the affair he said that he would
clew than had been given to the public He had men
employed In attempting to trace up the woman who
sent the oil painting to his Office by the bow Ser
geant Meaklm declined TO say anything about the
presence of himself and his men at the GENE ery
FUR her than that he working in the affair with
Detective Fullcr's bureau.
Arrangements were made for keeping watch last
night as on the two previous nil hts.
Edward d. Harris, who represents Judge Hilton
In the Investigation, declined yesterday to give at
length either mis- own or Judge IItons views about
the probable success of Detective Fuler's clew
When asked if he thought that Mr.. Stewards bones
were IN Cypress Hill Cemetery he replied briefly
We'll, l don't take any stock in tho investigation
and never did.