New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-01
HTTMPHREYs'S COMPANION.
THE STORY HE TOLD TO THE CORONER.

800 ...,o>,oYsrFxCIFs BETWEEN 1T AND THE AZ
corxT GIVEN TO INSPECTOR BYRNEs'
1or,es A. Byrnes who is implicated in the supposed
ohhery and the death of Jay Humphreys on i nGs
@ iSbt and who surrendered himself 10 Ihe Polco
"% Thursday was taken from romeo idedu3u"n nnap
,nsterday morning TO the COr0ners once. Coioh0 t
@ lad set an early hour for the inquest, D9t
- hearing Byrnes's testimony he decided W au
;nrn the further hearing until 10 O'Clock tns iYI
ing Byrnes although he gave ms aE1 DO His head il
naTtiy bald and he looks dlsspated re aPPea;u os
be laborng under an intense lne.r hor dha cir
tbongh n was an effort for him to remeinoeI t1o
cnmsfances of the night of humphreys uea aLa
When he began speaking Stang, the caD-9rveI, waS
in the ROOM but the Coroner aGeeG ~ somewbat
d;erent from the story which he told inspector
Ryrnes on Thursday night. Then he sad that ~ ne
calSa H% The roadD without designating any place,
That when the watch fell out of the unconscious us
mans pocket he put it in his own ana tt &c the o
fonn6 Humphreys was dead he took a tram OF the
aa9oHatcd railway and went to Brooklyn The 1oi-
lowing was his testimony yesterday
NV name is James A. Bnes and reside at S0 9sS
No. 1920 Broadway On November ~ az t he
o'clock Rnt tno ssM Jay T mat IL
front the cafe heped him pP inc tda HWmp6Teys
inside Humphreys then said to me- know YOU and b
called me by name. asked him where ne n0 n and
Su 9 requested the bartender to get ea can,
which he did The abdrivcr and my sen Ib him him
nnd d so told the driver % Sd t
and Broadway and Humphreys then st b s W asked
him where he wanted to to and ne nLst san Int T then
nd fS 6neshnndTcd and forty hirdst and
TiSbt6- aye3to Georgis We were tne t eIaeO an
dn"t he %Sy up e said he felt sick and yCmi ed
the cab When we got to GeGtgns go ~ ncked M 6s
watch and chain from the bottom OF the CAP anu Fa
If 10 the driver saying There Is MS Walt t f e
hI cot him ou we sat him up on the mat IN roI 0l we
door OF the house and the driver handed me paGA INC
watch and chain then kRo cae o the the DOOR had in
to meantime asked the driver TO can some men Mlo
wSTE on n Nell hd%se Voice then
house saving Geor is not in tnon 99keu az nun ,
pRTsys face and thought he was dead and cleared
pSg to District Messenger office and asked
y was I'M One-hundred-and thirty second-st was
nervous and excited and tnen we' aOd walked across
Third aTe eTs to my house whch reached between
anS socially having met him four or five times
when Rvrnes was asked where he had met Hum
nbrevs socially he said: "Why, around the Casino
and mt Spencer's clearinghouse, at Fult9n-st' ano
9 9Io S When Byrnes had finished his story
he was taken back to Police headquarters ~,
At Byrnes's boarding house the iandlady toiu Z
TpIRrTE reporter that he had not been there slnct
Tuesday morning; then lie told her that ne had no'
becn feeling well for some time ana thal ne III
tended going home to Strattord, Conn 10 remain :
tIi Jove She was sure that he had not been al
The honse since He had lived at shat address iol
three wears man answering ByTness deScrlptGl
in every particular took the downtown tran at IN
elevated railway station at One-hund1ed-anl
forty-Gfhst: and Eighthaye at LOB WGdnesdal
morning The trains ut that hour run at nterval
Of thirty minutes Mr.. Spencer said that he wa
not ACQUAINTED with Mr.. Humphreys and knew
no perSon resembling HIM. Mr. Lopez Byrnes,
emnIoyer said that he had no fault 10 find witt
him as an employee, but be had heard that ByTne
was q little Wild" Ex-Justice Michael Norton
who has known Byrnes for several years exclaimed
when asked his opinion of Bymes; ON, me-
'rounder' but don't think ne would TOD a man
Rvrnes will be examined by the Coroner at the IN
oHest this morning, and will be confronted VIII
S,onO the driver of the cab
The body of Mr. Humphreys, inclosed in a plail
black-coth covered coffin, was placed IN the iron
parlor of Dr. Frederick humphreys home at No. 2
West Thirty-ninth-st., yesterday. At the, tunGra
services only few persons were present other Ia i
intimate friends; The Rev Dr. Rowland 10, OF p tn
Church of the Heavenly Rest,.asslsted by the Key
n p Morgan the assistant rector read the burla
service. The body was taken to Auburn IN the
Coroner Levy visited the Casino Cafe late las
night and tok the testimony OF the proprietor am
the keeper who were present when humphrey
took his last drink. Their statements were snbstal
tally the same as those which have been published