New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-30
JAY HUMPHREYS DEATH.
HIS COMPANION GIVES HIMSELF UP.

Ohe-huhdred-a and-forty-siXth-st Inspector Byrnes
on Wednesday detailed Central Office Detectives
| Rogers and Doyle, with Detective Price of the
Twenty-ninth Precinct and Detective Thayer of
| the Thrty-secOnd Precinct, to look for the man.
They got no trace of him. but shortly after 10
O'Clock last night q medum-sized man, about thirty
years old, dressed in dark clothes and'with small
| black mustache walked up the steps of Police
| headquarters and asked for Inspector Byrnes.
| When shown into the detectives room he told Ser
geant Kellcher that he wanted to give himself up
| Ills name he said was James Burns, of No. 5S4
| Seycnth-aye, and he surrendered himself because
| he understood that Mr.. Bymes's men were looking
! for him. He was the mysterious stranger who was
in the cab with Jay Humphreys on Tuesday night
! Burns is n travelling salesman for the tobacco
house of Lopez & Co., of No. 800 Broadway. He
gave the following account of the events of Tues
day night aud why he disappeared so suddenly
after discovering that Humphreys was dead:
=" was standing at o'clock on Tuesday night in
front of the entrance to the Casino when Hum
phreys came outside. lie was drunk, and fell down
III the entrance. / went to him and lifted him up
on his feet He called me by my name and said he
knew me, though | was unacquainted with him.
asked him where he lived and he said in the Albany
Flats. He said he wished TO 20 home, and called
a cab which was passing | put him into the We
hicle, when he said he would like to have me re-
hi'lh WIN HlIn' pDJ INTO lllc can ana tOIu tine
driver to start for the Albany Flats. Then
Humphreys said: DON'T do that Let's take a ride
mp the road instead As he had been drinking
thought drive would be benefit to him. and ac-
cordng'y got in and went up the road. While in
the cab he leaned over in front with his
head on tho front cushion, and his
watch and chain fell on the floor
Of the cab. IpicSeI them mp ard put them in my
own pocket became alarmed at his condition
after that and concluded to leave him at the Cliff
House. On the stoop Of the hotel saw he was
dead and | became still more frightened, and
drcldiug trouble | cut across lots aud went TO
BROOKLYN To-day concluded to come and give
myself mp
Burns handed over the watch and chain Of the
dead man. The watch is worth about 800. He
had also the cah-iIckct Of F. Stang. the driver
with the number Of hs cab CNo. los on it. He
wa, locked up at Police Headquarters and will bc
taken before the Coroner this morning Burns ad-
mits having been on "srree" Tuesday night
Mr.. HrMpRUYs'- CONDUCT AT TIE CASINO.
II was asccrlin"d yesterday that when Mr.. !
Humphreys left his home on Tuesday afternoon he |
had not been drinking. Ills father had gwen him
a check for 80, which he had ca.hed early in the
day. lie was in the habit Of visiting the Casino
often. AMI 10 is said that hc foaul many attractions
there other than those in the piv itself He went
auditorium until the close Of The second act when |
he went into the Casino cafe, adjoining the theatre
lie was well known to the barkccpcr, and c called
fG awhi-k Your. He drank Il ina sir"e drsnght !
and then IL WAS noticed that he was mtoXlcJtcd. !
lie leaned against the wall, aud half slid to the F,
&" % ont INTO the open air. MI. Humphreys did So |
and there he met Burns.
The Clit House stands at some distance back |
drah color with dark rcd TRIMMINGS. it, proprietor
j. John Mowatt, who Is w"ll-knOwn among a GER |
tain class of " "sporting-ncn" IN the city. The |
house IL OstcuSihly q rOad-hOuse With the eXccp-
ton Of being arrested twice Tor violation of the
excise law, M0watt has been considered a quiet /
man." 10 Il TTBUNC reporter MOwatt sad ycSteT- |
day that he was away from home when the cab |
came to hi- door He returned ut l2:lO o'clock and
then saw the body of man lying on his piazza |
with three men about t. He asked them what tine /
matter was, aud they answered him that their |
friend was sick. H. kn"lt beside HIM and, placing /.
his hand on the mans forehead, exclaimed, Why, /
mes sdeid.' Then lac told one OF the men, man /
with back muStache, that he had better takc his
friend tn the police-sati"n WHERE it should nap
pen that he WAS not dead he couId be attended ny
called " Cabbie" and then disappeared. Mowatt /.
then helped the cah-driycr to put tie dead man in
his cab. In Mowatrs house there are two girls, |
who, when the cab arrived aud call for assistance
was made, were in bed. OneG them, named Jessie |
opened the window aud asked what was wanted. |
4 voice inquired, " Where's GeOrgeT (the name !
that Mowatt is known byl The glrl answered that |
M@wait was ont aud thcn the same V1ico 2 9Shcn
why she didn't come down and let them III, AZ |
" there was little fellow ont III the cab VINO was |
awful drunk but who had lots of money" Tho |
girl replied that she could not do 80. men seeing !
the man and thinking that she recognized him, sho |
cried, l. that you, 'Nill ~ The answer was, !
" No, but know little girl in your house" The /
man then started for shed about hundred |
yaId4 from the house He m1dna cTcut of the shed,
went bohind the main building and gong to the |
station of the elevated railway AT Ohe-nulufedahd-
torty-ifth h-St., took scat in the ladies' waiting,
room aud. waiting for a downtown tram boarded |
1t. This wasat 1903 O'clock Wednesday morning
WHAT HIS FATHER SAYS or Hs HABITS.
In conversation with DIR. Frederick Humphreys, |
of No. 22 West Thirty-nnth-st, the dead mans |
father, the reporter informed that. in addition
10 the b3J which his father hid given him, Mr. |
Humphreys had % considerable sum of money. a val
uablo gold watch aud chain which had |
been given him on his twenty-hrSU |
birthday, aud some papers Of private !
nature. DR.. Humphreys added that ms son was NOT
drinking man, but when he did drink u TOOK only |
little to make him intoXlcaled lie lEel III ,Iu
rented Hat at FIity-secOnd-st. aud broadway. re
had never known his son 10 hire cab, Tor although
he cXtravagant in many things ne was reason
able and would not take acab when the broadway
directly in front of the do0rot MS mousse.
He thought that when his son left the caic rogue
had addressed him and In his intOXlcathd con-
dltion had persuaded him to get INTO the caO'
There ho had chlorolormcd him, and the an
Tsihetic, combined with the liquor cause4 f'sh ms
death. Tho funeral will take place ut his fathers
house this morning. The burial will be at Auburn
n. y, Mr. iiumpnrcyss birthplace; ,..,,
The body remained all day at tho undertaken
shop. No 1863 Bowery, where il was taken by tne
police 1t was visited during the day by 0hly lhe
widow and her two children. In the altcfhooh
Deputy Coroner Dunlin made an autopsy ana l%0uhu %
that Mr. Humphreys's death had rcsnltcd rom
heart failure duo to Gdeua OF tho lungs ana coii
grstIon of the kidneys" The direct cause OF ueat4
was alcoholism. Dr. Donlin SAID that he was not
able to tell whether not any ahiesthetl lcs ndH
been usod to stupcfy Mr.. Humphreys. An lrrllaht
poison was necessary to Kill the man, and aIcohol
served that end.
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