Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-07-04
MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY,
A New York Merchant Conveyed in a
Carriage to a Lonely Spot and Left
Dead on the Sidewalk.


The story of New Yorks latest mystery
reads for all the world like a chapter from
one of Gaboriau's novels. AT 4:45 Sunday
morning George Weight, Germanwho lives
in Sixty-ifth street, west of Tenth Avenue
started with his push cart for grocery store
on Ninth Avenue, TO procure green feed for
his COW. AS he turned Into Sixty.fourth
street coach was driven into the street
from Ninth Avenue, and approached him at
a rapid pace. There are no houses in Sixty
fourth street, between Ninth and Tenth
Avenue, and Weight was the only person stir
ring at the further end of the block. Continu
ing his tramp, he saw the coach suddenly
stop at lamp post on the south side of
the street, near the middle of the block
A man, whose features at that distance he
could not see, sprang out, leaned in through
the open door and dragged something out
after him As he laid it down upon the
sidewalk, Weight saw that it was another
man, dead or senseless. AS soon as he was
rid of his burden, the stranger slammed the
door of the coach, sprang upon the seat by
the driver, and, whipping up the horse,
drove rapidly away, disappearing around the
corner of Ninth Avenue, the way they had
come, bound down town. The German
pushed his cart warily toward the man lying
face downward on the sidewalk, but, being
joined by lamplghter, took courage and
went up and looked at him.
1t was a stout. middle-aged man, we'll
dressed, aud with iron gray beard. He
breathed heavily once or twice but did moi
move. The lamplghter proposed to turn him
over and try to help him up, hut Voight ran
for policeman as fast as his legs could car
ry him. A block further on he found two
with whom he returned to Sixty fourth
Street. The man was the.. dead.
Procuring wagon, the officer took the
body to the police station in One Hundrcdth
Street. There thorough search was made
| of it, which revealed mass Of papers and
| property deeds, frem which it was found
that the dead man was Abraham X. Warner
an iron merchant, of No % West Street. No
money, watch OF iewelry was found upon
him neither did the closest scrutiny reveal
bcui3e or mark that might suggest violence.
The cause of his death seemed a mystery.
| A despatch was at once sent to No. %
| West StIeet, where the dead mans father
subsequently was found. 1t was explained
| that Abraham r.. Warner was the manager
and treasurer of the A. II. Warner s. Son
company, dealers In iron of American manu-
lacturc. lie was single man and lived in a
flat at No. 933 Eighth Avenue with his uncle
and bis sibters maid, the sister, Miss Mary
1aue Warner, being at Brighton Beach Mr..
Warner drank occasionally, and this fact
( may be the key to the apparent mystery of
! his DEATH He had been warned that he might
fall victim to Bright's disease Saturday
he left the Office in West Street between {
and o'clock in the afternoon IN his usua
health, He did not then, as far as known
carry much money, though his brother
thought that he might have had number Of
checks for large amounts neither did h,
have watch. He did not 90 home at nigh
and so far no one has been found to eXpair
where he spent the evening. The police o
the Thirty-first precinct are actively look
ing into the matter, but so far without any
clue to the strange coach or It's occupant
which Weight tiW ia SIXTY fourth Street.