New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-02
THE SEGUIN TRAGEDY.
FINDING OF THE coRoNER,s JURY.


Groups of people stood in front of DR.. E.
Seguin's house, No. Al West Twentieth-st.. all day
yesterday. They blocked the sidewalk and stared
curousy at the closed shutters of the room in the
top story. where the tragedy of the preceding day
had been enacted. The bodies of Mrs. Seguin and
her three murdered children had been packed In
lce-boxes by an undertaken. and were ranged side
by side in the guest chamber where the fatal deed
had been committed For several hou rs after the
awful news OF his bereavement had been broken to
DR.. Seguin. he sat stupidity in a chair in
his Office too much Frustrated to realize or believe
what had happened. his pulse became low, and
its iuttering action alarmed his friends so that
they persuaded him to to the Fifth Avenue HOTEL
where he was put to bed and stimulants were ad-
ministered He renamed in bed yesterday and
seemed gradually to recover from his first sate of
prostration. Drs. H. B. Wilbur and John Van
DUyn, of Syracuse two of his most intimate
friends, were constantly with hlm.
At 2 o'clock Coroner Brady assembled his jury In
the library of DR.. Seguin's home and took the tes-
timony of the members of the household and OF
those who could throw light upon the act. The
Jury consisted OF Drs. R. w. Taylor, of No, AZ West
Twenty -frst-st; II. n. Henemau, Of No. 80 West
Twenty -6rst-st.; T. f. Robinson, of No. 2s East
Twenteth-st.; j. G.. Perry, of No. 113 Madison
ave-; II. L. Oppenheimer, of No. 1S9 Secopd-ave
A. A. Smith, of No. So Madson-ave.i T. R. Pooley
of No. 107 Madison-ave; T. A. Mcbride, OF No. ~
East Twenty y-ffth-st.; and f. P. Kinnicutt, of No.
AZ West Thirty-seventh-sJ Resting on
writing-desk facing the Coroner and his
jury were three large photographs OF the
dead children. DR.. Amidon carefully spread
cleth over the pictures to prevent
them from being seen The examinations were very
brief The first witness was called was Dr. X. OS-
fl-zf ElA
titled as follows:
was summoned after o'clock and went at once
TO the large on the top hOor Inc door was open
Tue police already been there and while the bodies
Mrs. and the girl and oldest ooy were SUN ~
I'm On tne floor tine bOiy OF the second boy had been
placed upon the bed. IRE face had llIe-Hke appeal
ance and tney supposed ohat II might still be alive Inc
M ct casual Inspection my part, however, c0nVlnced
M. tnat he was dead The Ddn had entered the brain
and had passed through and was picked out Oh the s5
Ierng of tue wall The eldest boy quite dead, ball
havlng also passed through his headj IL was ing on n
floor under MS head saw at once that meuloaL sAAA
useless.
John Fitzgibbon, the hall-boy, was the next wit
ness. He said:
have been employed by Dr. seguin nearly three
years never noticed any popularity about Mrs 5eguln
more that at times sne seemed low-splrited anu
would slgn rne servants mad said that they believed
sue wasn't night noticed no change IN her manner
and returned soon afterward. She and Dr
seguin took Mnea a. Isgsner sacn bnt he went away
directly. After uncn sue made me open ootte Oh wine
she ASKED where waa DE- Amdon. Ihe LAD. saw % oI
her was about O'Clock; she called me up into he nIs
ry tnlrd floor, and told me 10 go OUT anu set no
81 worth flowers. Tne children were playing arouhu
her at mat / out, and returned IN haIf an
hOur with tAe upstairs 10 snow het lne
awers ana ask her II they suited. could not hnd her,
and tnUughl SUE mad taken chdren out for walk
Dr. AmidOn called ana asked for ner ana toIu nin sue
had PROBABLY gone to MS house DE went away d Sd
while he was gone looked all over he house Itned
the the spare room, and iound IL locked anu o
KEY inside. Went downstairs, and wnen DE- AlIOn h
called again | told him about the spare room oethg
locked. She was always kind and anecuohate u 'ne
chudren.
Tho ueNt Witness vas the nurse, Thekla Kugel,
Young woman abous twenty years old, who said
she had been employed by Dr. Seguin as nurse tor
one month She testified as touOws
Betveen . and 3 o'clock Mrs. segun brought me a
pele of ribbon and told me to go 10 stewart @ ser u
inatcued with tue cmIdren III lue Ru % a ~, ne
time look rUDOn and starred ~ go Oh VIII lIcl
nad gone Iew steps IRON tDe door 4 % " anS snS
mouse all umbrella went up " " .a ano nat mara
-aw that Mrs oeguin and the cnuren were not tnee'
had not been absent from the room over I've ~ out
tnen went sUewarts. When returned ~ % aoVuS
an nour that the nursery as sun vacant, az a.
could not tina Mrs. ceguln or the eullu III ~, av
hrsI that sac had taAen Iueh ~. ~ ty in me nurserv
the mats clothes OF tue children y lng ~ Oe
Then nuuted ner went uR 20 Lhe oP P,t noot % t
,d he door OF the spare found IL locked anu
the Key the IusIde. sheOA ne ~, bad
no sound wltnin. cOucudeu 1lla. ata,nad
tsksn Ihe children To a negnbOTs house anu strPPeu
hunting Tor thought sue was ratner @ Josi -
dispostOn aud not ike Olher WOMEN ono s' ~ nar
ndo"ly ana went about as II nad something on ner
mind she seemed FOND of her ohlIuIeh' to t ,o, did
ris L lAL
think 80.
I,r Amidon. the brother of Mrs Segun was next
ovomined His testimony did not differ from MS
storv nublisbed in Yesterdays TRIBUNE. de SAID
that he had Deen visited by his sister In the morn
ING that he had seen her last alive when ne e"heu
at the house at lunch-tlme, when She was eS'ANe
luncheon with the en- .ldren. ,,. ,, mat
{" Wny dld you ask the hal-ooy When you yt Iiet
him at tue door the last time, II sue mao uIO"HoN
herself IN Centra PARK = the Coroner asked mat
Because could not think OF anything eiSe Ju''
at that time" the witness replied. ..o.d
Then you never noticed any lninB tn"I P Po" " a.;
70 men, al arrangement on the part VI ~ hiI
NothIug Whatever beyond hts OK meiahcnora
Denuf ", orouer Raehe testified tnat lie eAaullued
th. bodies aud found that MIS- oeguih nsd utee o
rom the effects OF a shot WOUND, IniVukn S on
right temple tnat Edward D., JONI % ht ,Do1nds IN
JeauneCte lad eacn dleu Irom pA''OA ~
~" Toroner Brady then gave the case to the Jury
| They retired 10 the front parlor anu ~ q " W
| MES returned with The following VeruIcI'
ua nna tnat Edward Draper 5eguin came 70 ms aeath
'1 snut wound at the hands OF Margaret Scsnn,
Sis moner during nt Of mental aOerra'i'n' 0n
| 81, 1857. o., ,,, soc,In came TO his death by q
ti shot wound AT the uands or Margaret Sesun. ~ as
inotner, during a ht OF mental aOeif"-OA -
| 1882. IL, anna 20 her death by a pistol
ho1 wound Al the nands OF Margaret Segun, a ISI
dniins rearsr So lin came 70 her ueath oy Pstei
| shot wounu her own hands uuiAns Z" nv
| erratOn on Octooer d. Ao0-' -, g liz o,1
| The Jury signed their names 10 tne hnuins anu
| Coruner Brady dismissed tnenl Lo, Gxod ysa
LIE date for the funeral mad nOg Deeu nAou yoo.
terday as Dr. Amidon said tnat nc % ui9 Io ,i1 he
| have us sister ana the cnluEen puiioO ,t.saonn
,,,ar n",, al the dead woman. VINO ives III Mdesa0ru
Ihtnoi tn, % a. sistrr who had been teegrapbed IOr'
SCI srrIved The funeral WILL De heu ~ tne nyH5e, S
d Will be strictly private. Inc hIermen' ia '0
! tu WOodlawn Cemetery