Barbour County index., 1884-01-25
A MYSTERY SOLVED.
Finding of the Remains OF the Celebrated
New York Restaurateur, Charles Del.
monico-Death from Exposure.


monico-Death from Exposure.
NEWARK. N. j., Jan. H.
The body Of Charles Delmonico, who dis.
appeared several days ago, was found in
the Orange Mountains in the woods near
General McClellan's summer house at ten
O'Clock this morning by two boys. There
were no marks of violence. He died from
exposure. Nothing was missing from the
body. The boys undiscovered the BODY
Immediately went for assistance and re.
turned with several residents of Orange
Valley. Upon their arrival they turned The
body over, for it was lying on the face.
frozen stiff, and Immediately recognized
the remains as those of the missing Charles
Delmonico. Letters found thereon estab
ilshed the fact at once. Nothing had been
removed from the body and no signs of yio
lence were apparent. The ground around
where the man lay was undisturbed. The
i1rst two days after he disappeared were
me most severe OF the season and unless
Delmonico then obtained shelter he must
surely have perished. The announcement
OF the finding of the body produced great
excitement all over town. Northfield
avenue, where the body was found, il about
mile and a half to two miles from Orange
depot. At intervals along the avenue are
isolated dwellings intersI ersed with wood.
land. The avenue is one of the PRINCIPAL
streets OF Orange, extending from the main
street for miles over the mountain to St.
Cloud and by way of the valley between
the first and second mountain thence to
Passaic Valley. Ii is very fine drive and
generally frequented by those who own
carriages and horses in Orange: but Sun.
day, except when the weather is very fine,
The number of travellers by the road is not
many.
As General Mcclellan, John Cropsev
Brown, George b. Hecker and other promi-
nent people-live along this part of North
neld avenue il is thought Delmonico might
have had a dazed idea of reaching one of
their residences, but his strength gave out
before attaining his object.
Delmonlco probably died January 8.
About two O'Clock that morning John def
fenthal, who works for a farmer on Orange
Mountain, while driving from Montclair to
Orange, saw a man leaning wearily against
a fence. 1t was at the junction of the road
leading from Orange 10 Montclair. He is
certain now the man was Delmonico. He
hailed Dieffenthal and begged for shelter.
The farmer said the speech of the wayfarer
was so thick he could scarcely understand
him. Delmonic o's speech has been thick
since his trouble came on. The night was
bitterly cold, but the farmer was afraid of
tramps, and Instead of taking the man into
his wagon drove on, after directing him to
Orange, a mile distant. The wanderings
or the unfortunate man from this point can
only be conjectured. He probably went
aimlessly along the broad road on the
mountain until overcome with cold, and
laid down and was frozen to death.
The body was taken to New York late
his afternoon and taken to the undertak-
sr's, where it was placed in a casket, then
taken to the residence of deceased on West
Fourteenth street. The face of the dead
man looked very natural. No bruises were
visible except a slight wound on the right
side of the head, probably received in the
fall over the bank at the spot at which he
was found. The body was in a perfect
state of preservation, although it must
have been eight or nine days ago that Del
monico met death. The fact of its normal
appearance is explained by the cold which
prevailed The remdins will be inferred in
:he Delmonico vault in old ST. Patrick's
Cathedral. Mott street.