Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-04
GOTHAM GOSSIP.

What Has Become Of Stewards Bones
Rich Mems Sons and the Disgrace They
Bring on Their Families-The Heroine
of the Diamond Wedding.
New York Letter.
Talking to New York detective officer
to-day I asked him what had become of
the body of A. T. Stewart, STEWARDS
bones.
1.-The best information that I possess"
said he, SIS that it has not only never been
recovered by the family and executors, but
that it is not now in the possession of the
original thieves"
''Well, who got it from them?" said I.
ut is the understanding at police head
quarters said he, shat a second band of
thieves, thinking that the body was a good
thing, stole it from the first. Probably
some of the persons privy to the robbery
took the body away from those who had
been at the pains to dig it up and spirit it
off,"
''Well, how was Mrs. Stewart appeased?"
Why said the officer, Il suppose that
she thinks that the bones have been re-
covered. She either thinks they have been
| recovered, or does not inquire concerning
them. The fact is" said my friend. ''That
after that robbery it became a question
among numerous wealthy persons in New
York what to do to prevent a spoilation of
other tomcs of the same class. You know
that Immediately after the robbery in st.
Marks churchyard the tomb of the Van
derbilts at Staten Island was watched. and
so were several other tombs of conspicu-
Gus persons. They all got tired of pay
ing special watchmen, because it looked as
| if they might Lave to watch tombs for
period of years, and every rich man that
died would require two live ones to look
| after his bones, thing not very palat-
able to heirs. Consequently notice was
sent to Judge Hilton that he ought to pay
any reward for the return of Mr.. Stewards
bones, whether Mrs. Stewart wanted to do
so or not. The understanding is that
Judge Hilton and other gentlemen pacified
Mrs. Stewart in some way. You know the
coffin of Stewart was not carried off by
the thieves at all. They merely took the
plate from the top and piece of the
cloth, and took out the body. Some pre-
sumo that the coffin has been set in the
new cathedral at Garden City without the
real bones, but nobody wanted to look
/ into it,
While talking to this officer we were pas
sing up the New York bay. On the Long
Island shore side is a red brick binding,
He remarked: THAT isthe Kings county
inebriate asylum. Any person sent there
ness habitually, and after that his friends
can pay large sums of money and have
him accommodated with special, often lux
urious rooms. The officer mentioned the
son of very conspicuous man who died
long ago, worth several million of dollars.
man one time mentioned in the newspa.
pers as an available candidate for presi-
dent of the United States. He said
''There, till recently, Mr.. -'s son
served term for habitual drunkenness
His father left him $4,000 per year
which was equivalent to being cut off in
the will. The son was drunk for wears
and salthough he is out of the asylum
abroad has been drunk a greatIdeal ever
| since"
In reference to another rich mans sor
the officer said: HE has not been no me
for four:years. His father, who has very
large income, found THAT he, in fit Of
recklessness, had deliberately married
a prostitute in a public
house, having the ceremony perform ed
there. They had barely got him out OF
that scrape when it was found that he want
ed to marry an upper servant in his
fathers house. Consequently the young
man was sent to Europe and was kept lib.
orally supplied with money, but is not al
lowed to come home.''
"Well,'' said I to the officer, ''do rich
mems sons in New York give them much
trouble of that kinda"
"Yes, in a number of cases-a majority
eertainly-the sons of rich men in New
York turn out worthless or worse. Their
parents have no time to devote to their
children, being engaged in the battle with
their own generation for wealth and
power, and they furnish their sons with
money, preferring to let them have money
rather than be source of annoyance The
sons go out and make another world from
that they have at home. They find their
way to some dive or costly house of lewd
entertainment, where they are fattered,
courted and solicited for money and pres
ents, until they consider it, frequently
smart to play the landlord, the HUSBAND
or the distinguished friend, and the first
thing their parents know there is large
bill for wine, etc.,and suddenly the money
making sire awakens to find his son COM
plete wreck, sapped in principle and self
respect-perhaps in bodily strengthen and
utterly averse to woman under the whole
some restraint of matrimony.'
| In the course of the conversation the
name of Madame Oviedo, the heroine of
the diamond wedding of twenty-five years
ago, and who recently married again, was
mentioned. An authority present re-
marked From what 1 hear, Madame
| Oviedo has no great amount of money.
She has probably the wedding presents
given her by her first husband, but it is the
social talk among ladies who know her