Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-05
The stratfOrd Tragedy.

Further Details of the Dark Crime-No
 One Yet Unde erArrest-SuspieiOn Point
 ing to two PersOns-The Authorities to
 Employ a Deteetfve-BOstOn Whites
 Story.
 STAMFORD, Sept. 4.
 The full account of the sad and untimely death of Rose Clark Ambler, as given in the COURIER of Tuesday, embraced all the facts that could be gathered to the time of going to press Since that time there have been no new developments that should be made pub lic The inquest was resumed this morning at the residence of Dr. E. D. Mooney at 8
 terday. Constable Abijah McEwen was sta
 tioned at the entrance of the doctors office guarding the several witnesses that were summoned in the case as well as the door
 which led into. the jury room with an air Of the greatest importance. The witnesses
 heard this morning were MT. Preston H.
 Hodges Charles Mason, Ttomas Judson,
 AnsoneW. Dart and W. N. M. Merrill. Their
 testimony was unimportant, being principally
 as to the finding of the body, the position in
 which it lay and the removal to tho house of
 the parents of the deceased. Boston White,
 the young colored man whom the people of
 the town suspected yesterday as being in
 some manner connected with the case, was one of the witnesses examined this morning. He was subject ed to. very rigid cross-examina- | tion. What he told at the secret hearing is
 not developed. Before going inside, how | i, S,o ka ka11 Hn l claims his innocence and bore no external signs of having encountered desperate 1 struggle, as he must have done to overpower
 the murdered girl. His story as told to g COURIER reporter this evening is as follows: Sunday evening went to the residence oi | Edward Freeman about o'clock, where he remained about an hour, when in company with Mir. Freeman and MT. Freeman's moth l CT they started of down street to attend the Methodist church prayer meeting. After | staying there awhile. he went back to Free | mans house, where he remained about an hour, then came down to the village and stopped at PhiIo Osborn's livery stable and | got into 8 hack and went to sleep,
 as it began to rain; After he woke up he started TOT ! o'clock Monday morning. He said he was not drunk as had been stated and had noi drank anything that day. He had not seer | the deceased that day. He was cool and per fectly self-possessed and evidently cannot be made to tell any more than he wishes to Other witnesses examined were members oi | the Lewis and Clark families and Perry BeardsIey, who testified as to the whereabouts ! of "Boston White" Sunday night. This | afternoon the testimony of the physicianf | who made the autopsy was taken, after which the coroner, jury and physicians tool carriages and drove to the scene where | the murder was committed. It il l on Main street, about one and half n,ilel | from the depot. The body was found upon ! the land of Mr. Preston H. Hodges, about one thousand feet south of his residence. Tht road is lined with low hanging naples, naak | ing the place unusually dark at night. The | deceaseds residence was only 8 short dis l tance beyond. She was clad in brown siiE dress with white cuffs and 8 linen standing collar. On her head was blue plush ha with feathers. She wore also kid buttor | shoes and colored hose She left Lewi ! about half-past nine and being 8 country girl had no fear of the long dark walk before her. As she left her betrCthed at the gat'
 it was with merry hear | adieu. When next seen she was lying deaG | by the roadside. At o'clock this evening i the jury again came into secret session anc examined MT. William Lewis, the murdered | girls intended husband. His examination | was continued to 9:3O, when they again ad ! iourned to S:3O 8. m. Wednesday morning \ It is thought by those who made the exam.
 ination that death resulted from exhaustion l in connection with severe strangulation, and l that the guilty parties did not really mean tc | kill the unfortunate woman. The excitement
 is still unabated and runs high. Little | groups of people may be seen on 1 the corners and near the scene ot the crime earnestly talking of the event | which has so recently occurred in their ] midst. Expressions of sympathy for the \ family were heard from all sides Friends and Aeighborsswere numerous in their calls ! on the bereaved family and in their offers o1 | assistance Could the murderer be caught
 there are men here who would lynch him | quickly. Mrs. Philip Lewis, mother ot | young Lewis, was among the callers last
 evening, and spoke most earnestly of the terrible nature of the crime. Tomorrow | would have been Rose Clark Ambler's twen- l ty-sixth birthday, and Mrs. Clark | had been to Bridgeport Saturday selecting a present for her daughter ! Mrs. Clark is prepossessing woman highly
 esteemed by her neighbors and dearly be. loved by her eight remaining children, three of whom are sons. Rose was 8 jolly, good
 natured girl, always full of fun and good spirits. A letter came some time ago to
 Rose from her divorced husband, Am bier. MrS. Clarks Wno read the Iet- ter, said that it contained no threats, but on the contrary the letter was very kindly one. ''I asked her" said the broken 1 hearted mother, ':what she intended to do.
 Rose said to me very quickly, Mother, | think have had all I want to do with the
 Amblsrs'" When asked if they had ever l heard of any threats being made by Ambler,
 Miss Jennie Clark said that yesterday she was told by Mrs. Annie Wetzell, sister of young
 Lewis, that Amber had told ''Will" they should never get married, that either Rose or Will should die first. No one seems to know where Norman Ambler, Rose Clark's former interest to learn this at once. Not that he is
 suspected of the crime, but to satisfy certain
 rumors that are in circulation. The town
 authorities have offered no reward as yet, but
 have employed detective. The father of
 the deceased girl, who is away on his vessel,
 has not yet been communicated with, his 10nati0O haino n0knouD