New-York tribune., 1881-08-30
MR. FULLERs LATEST AND Widest SToRT

HOW HE SAID HE WAS LED TO DIG TRENCHES AT
CYPRESS HILLS.
Detective Fuller yesterday told tho story of the
woman who he says sent him the oil pai nting os the
part OF Cypress Hills Cemetery where he was dig
ging week ago with the hope as he asserted of
finding tho body of A. T. Stewart Mr. Fuller says
that on Friday afternoon last he was standing AT
the foot of the stairway leading to has office when
a large woman, about fifty years of age approached
him and asked for private interview Mr. Fuller
invited her into his Office. When seated she re-
,nhp nrAea sant o ou dSt S Ill know me. AN the woman
planned hat about two years ago she had employed
Mr.. Fuller to invest gate a case of a plivate nature
in Nashville, Tenn and said that as he had then
performed his work to ner entire satisfaction, she
had determined tc place IN hs hands the ,nvesti,a
ton of certain clews which she believed would
res,lt ia the finding of the holy of Mr. Stewart
She sad that the reason she had acted SO myste-
opposed To her having anything to do with IT, Her
home is III Williamsburg, and the night of The
grave robbery she was passenger the ferry
boat from New York 10 that place She observed
an undetakers wagon on TIE boat and noticed
that ~ contained trunk. The name OF the under
taker was Oh the wagon. aud II was driven by a
young man whoni she believed to be his SON The
next day when she read OF the robbery she remem-
bered tue undeitnkers wagon aud the trunk which
1t contained. and became convinced thar il had
some association with the robbery A short time
aIttrward she was IN the neIghborhood of cypress
HIS Cemetery and In passing along an unfre-
qnented road she was sickened by "a horrible stencil
arising from portion ~ the cemetery She found
tile spot from which the stencil cane aud at once
came to the conclusion hat the mysterious tr,Ius
which she had seen in the undertaken wagon had
been buried there. She made trequeut visits To
the place, and soon discovered that she was
watched. She then made up her mind that the
grave-robbers were her track and that thr,
wond do everything IN their power To prevent tho
nndllg or the trunk Her suspicious became irm
conviction few uays later when she saw worE
man hling in the ground. Then she made n renru
sh"tcn ~ the vicinity, and subsequently, made lhe
OH painting which she sent To Mir. Fuller
Mr.. Fuller yesterday declined 10 give tho
Woman's name because he SAID she did not desire
hotoIIety, ana further because she had agreed to
ray i,im for the trouble he had taken lie adde1
bhat ne hTst met the woman about two years u0o
ana that she had been sent to hIm by the InIted
states secre5 service on GERS. tO whom She had been
directed by Superintendent WallIng. Her slorv
oneh was tilat Young woman friend of hers VIZ,
engaged TO be married to man IN Nashville who
she believed. was cohntereiier couuterCeit,ng,
being an offence for the unted States deectivcs t
iook aiter. Superintendent Walng sent her TO Tho
fedcfal authorities. hut rs the story told bv her
was OF character which required much pry ate
lnVestlsaUon, SHE was sent to Mr. Fuller n, ore
tlat she was known to the police authorities HAVING
represented TO them that she Lad become possrssed
OF Information relative to The stealing OF Charlie
noss. ficr clews, however, led TO nothing othouph
u Is sad that she had several interviews viii
mosher. the burglar, who was killed near Fort
hamilton and " no. it !ssgenerally believed was one
OF the men implicated in that affair In fact y said
hr ruler Yesterday, she has al " avs been woman
rinysterous affairs and her information nsu,Iiv.
Is without value" IL he had known that sLc waa
the painter OF the oil picture, he would nat have
investigated the story. ''' ''Fe