Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1884-01-15

Perishes on the Road to Orange-Hfs Per
senaI Effects Safe-Belief That He Wa
| Insane.
NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 14.-Delmonico'I
body was found in the Orange mountain.
iu the woods near General McClelland':
summer house at 10 O'Clock this morning
by two boys. There we're no marks of vio-
lence and he died from exposure. Moth
ing was missing from his body.
Delmonico probably died January
about O'Clock that morning. John DEF
fenthal, who works for farmer ON Orange
mountain, while driving from MonoIair to
Orange, saw man leaning YEARLY against
a fence. He was at the junction of q road
leading from Orange to Montclair. He is
certain now the man was Delmomco. He
hailed Dieffenthal and begged shelter. The
farmer said the speech of the wayfarer
was so thick he could scarcely understaud d
him. Delmonico'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 in
to the wagon drove on after directing him
to Orange, & mile distant. The wander
ings of the unfortunate man from this
point can only be conjectured. He prob
ably went aim essly along the broad road
on the mountain until overcome by the
cold and laid down and was frozen to
| death. The Orange police took charge
| of the body, and notified friends in New
York, and the county physician, Hewett,
Immediately visited the place. Two boys
hunting rabbits found the body under a
tree on the mountain near Gen. McClel-
lands residence. His papers, jewelry and
clothing were undisturbed. 1t is sup
posed he insanely wandered there and
perished.
The boys who discovered the body i'm
mediately went for assistance, and re-
turned with .ysral residents o. Orange
Valley. Upon their arrival they turned
the body over-for it was lying on
its face, frozen stiff, and Immediately
recognized the remains az those of the
missing Charles Delmonico. Letters found
thereon established the fact Mt once.
Nothing had been removed from the body,
and nc signs of violsnce were apparent.
The grass around where the dead man lay
was undisturbed. The frat two days after
he had disappeared were the most severe
OF the season, and unless DelmOnico then
obtained shelter he must have perished
The announcement of the finding of the
body produced great excitement all over
town. Northfeld avenue, where the body
was found, is about mile and halt to
two miles from Orange depot. at inter
v&ls along the avenue are isolated dwell
ing5 interspersed with woodland. This
avenue is orc of the principal streets Of
Orange, extending from Main street for
miles over the mountain to st. Cloud, and
by way Of the valley between the first and
second mountains 10 the Passaic valley.
It is very fine drive and generally fre-
quented by those who own carriages and
horses in Orange, but Sunday,
except when the weather Is very fine, the
number of travellers by the road is not
many. It is therefore not regarded as
strange that the unfortunate man might,
after falling, have lain undiscovered until
this morning. AS General McOlellend,
John Cropsey Brown, Geo. B. Hecker and
other prominent people live along this
part of Northfeld avenue, it is thought
Delmopico might have had dazed idea
of reaching one of their residences, but
his strength gave out before attaining his
object.
When the dispatch announcing the find
ing of Delmonico's body was received at
Adams Express Office, A. G. Babcock, TO
whom it was addressed, was already on
his wey to Orange. Mr.. Hoey aud Mr..
Mora were discussing the latest clues to
gethe" in Hoey's private room, when
Bangs, the manager of Pinkerton's detec-
tive agency, rushed in with the announce
ment, "we have found the body" After
moments consultation the four ,ueu
jumped into one of Adams express w4g-
ons, and the driver lashed the
horses into run. The party arrived at
the station OF the Morris q Essex railroad
jnst in time to catch the train for Orange.
It is probable that Delmonico, after leay-
ing the elevated railroad train went at
once TO the Pennsylvania railroad ferry,
where he boarded the first train for New
ark. After wandering about in the neigh
borhood where his gloves and letters aad
other memoranda were found, he walked
back to Broad street and boarded one of
the horse cars running between Newark
and Orange. It is probable hedid not know
in what direction he was going, and that
when the car arrived as the terminus Of
tha road, he walked in q dazed condition
along the Northfield road, and wandered of
INTO the woods. The night was intensely
cold, the temperature descending nearly 10
zero, and benumbed by the cold he probably
lay down to sleep and was frozen 10 death.
The discovery of the body was made by
two thirteen year-old boys, Frank Hollum
and Edward Peer, who we're wandering on
the Orange mountain side between 10 and
Ii o'clock to-day.
Delmonico's body was found IN q deep
gully, alongside the Northfeld road, Or
ange Mountain, near Davis Collamore's
oiace, and about mile below General
MrClellan's. He probably walked off the
read into the gully during the darkness
and storm The bod was brought to the
In5rgue, which was insta ntly surrounded
he an immense crowd. He apparently
had been dead for several days. When
f3uod he was partly covered with sand.
and water flowing over him. His watch
stopped at seventeen minutes to 6.
E,s face was slightly bloated, but other
Z 20 unchanged. Messrs. Crist, John
Il ,ey, Mora and Isaiah C.Babcock have ar
rived by special train 10 convey the re-
III aims to New York,
The body was brought here
late this afternoon and taken to an unoer-
taker'a, where it will be placed in casket,
and then taken to the residence of the de-
ceased on West Fourteenth street. The
face of the man looked very natural, and
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