Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-21
The stratFOrd Mystery.
The Hearing POstpOned-The Search


 The Hearing PostpOned-The Search for
 Clues.
 The jury of inquest's hearing which was set down for yesterday was postponed to await the recovery of the stenographer, Mir. Fowler, who is ill, and also in hopes that the detectives may have something more tangible in the way of clue to report later on. Peo- pie will talk and claim that young Lewis had a motive in wishing the girl out of the way because he had new love. They theorize that if he killed her he did it unintentionally, that Rose might have threatened Lewis with breach of promise suit and he in fit of anger throttled her longer than he meant toto stifie her cries. The story of Frank Curtis of East Bridgeport that when out driving with Q friend the night of the murder he passed carriage near the scene of the trag. edy in which he saw Lewis and Rose Ambler is not credited, as 1t was dark night and Curtis' own relation of the tale threw doubt upon it. The next session of the jury will be on Saturday at 10 8. n The detectives are very busy and Coroner Holt says he is hopeful of 8 solution of the mystery being resched. NEW ARRIVAL.
 On Wednesday there arrived from Bald win, a hamlet in the town of Hampstead, \ Queens county, L. l., one Stephen Payne, a detective. Payne unravelled two murder mysteries as follows: First, that of Samuel Jones, a white man residing in South Oyster Bay, l.. T., who was murdered by two col ored men, Lewis Jarvis and Ebert Jackson. They attacked their victim with clubs and \ thinking him dead concealed the body by \ throwing it into 8 we'll. Jones revived by contact with the cool water and seizing the well rope raised himself to the surface, and would have walked away had not the rufians discovered his act and renewed their assault. The pool man Ioosed his hold, fell, and was found dead in the water next day. The county of fered reward of $1, ,000 and $1,OO0 was of fered by the family of deceased. A jury o1 inquest sat five months investigating, an6 finally rendered verdict of f'Death at tht hands of persons unknown" MT. Payne \ took hold of the matter unsolicited, worked at it one year, and by simple perseverance
 flight. They were both tried ant
 hanged, and he had the satisfaction
 of witnessing the spectacle. Ths
 murder took place in 1873, and thu
 hanging followed in January, 1875. Tht
 second was that of little girl, Maggie Bauer of Foster Meadow, l.. l., who was attacked by an unknown party and choked to death
 motives. Her body was concealed in tht
 woods, and found there next day. An in ' q1est of over two months duration was heli \ with results like those in the case just men \ toned. Payne went to work on his own re \ sponsibility, and after about two months steady search, found the murderer, Frank Mo Connichie, aged twenty-seven years. Ht | was tried and sentenced to State prison fol life. MT. Payne, who is very plain noan
 looking like anything else than a detective says the Rose Clark case is good deal easier
 one than either of those cited, and that he il willing to assert if he takes hand in thu Stratford affair, the perpetrator will be ap prehended. He was free to say the stricturei on the detectives because they had failed tc disclose anything, were unreasonable in con sideration of the short time they have had tC plan and ac5, and points with satisfaction tC his steady labor of twelve months in one in \ stance and five in the other, before the end sought was attained.
 \ Payne will take hand in the Rose Amblel case. ....-. ..- FROM THE ESPRIT WORLD"
 Coroner Holt received within day or two
 8 letter from out of the State which contains | the most direct communication on the Strat ford mystery yet secured and furnishes clue { which should be followed up. The writer states that he has within a short time re ceiVed spiritual communication from a per son signing herself Rose Amber Clark, whC ' says she was murdered in Stratford, Conn,
 s'BY LEWIS, A NEGRo!" The detectives art dissatisfied with this clue
 Police Notes
 Yesterday afternoon John c. Park was ar
 rested on charge that he had induced
 George E. Vaughan, proprietor of ciga, I store, to cash Q worthless check for $20
 The check, which bears date of August 25
 was upon the North River bank of New York
 a blank of the New Haven National bank be- ing used in drawing it. He was afterward
 released on his own recogni izance by City At
 torney Cable, who did not think there wal