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

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 asked him what had become of
the body of A. T. Stewart, -Stewart's
bones.
s'The best information that I possess"
said he, ''1s 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.
sit is the understanding at police head
quarters" said he, ''that second band of
thieves, thinking that the body was 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,"
swell, how was Mrs. Stewart appeased?"
"Why," said the officer, 81 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 ISL said my friend, ssThat
after that robbery it became question
among numerous wealthy persons in New
York what to do to prevent spoilation of
other tombs 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 have to watch tombs for a
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 red brick bnilding.
He remarked: "That is the Kings county
inebriate asylum. Any person sent there
has to be committed by law for drunken
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 years,
| and Ialthough he is out of the asylum
abroad has been drunk greatldeal ever
since"
In reference to another rich mans son
| the officer said: "He has not been no me
for four!years. His father, who has very
largo income, found THAT he, in fit OF
ffecklessnoss, had deliberately married
10 prostitute in a public
house. having the ceremony performed
There. They had barely got him out OF
that scrape when il vas found that he want
| Cd to marry an upper servant in his
1 fathers house. Consequently the young
| man was sent 10 Europe and was kept lib
| orally suIplis1 With nsney, but is not al
loved 10 como home"
I "Wsll," said I TO the officer, ssdo rich
| men's sens in Few York give them much
I trouble Of that kinds"
! "Iss, in . Aunbsr of sases-a majority
esrtainly-ths sens 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
Il oVAOAoUAOA
power, and they furnish their sons with
money, prsferring to lot them have money
rather than be source Of annoyance. The
SONS go out and make another world from
that they have at homo. They find their
way to some dive or costly house of lewd
entertainment, where they are hattered,
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 a 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 strengthened
utterly averse to woman under the whole.
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