New-York tribune., 1884-01-12
SEARCH FOR MR.. UELNONICO.
PURSUING VARIOUS CLEWS.
CONTINUED INVESTIGATION At NEWARK - UN-
FOUNDED REPORTS

CONTINUED INVESTIGATION At NEWARK - UN-
FOUNDED REPORTS.
The search for Mr.. DelmOnco was prosecuted with
vigOr at Newark yesterday. Between 10 and IL
o'clock Detective J. c. Julian, with three dredgers
andthTee boatmen, began an examination OF the
bed of the canal sewer leading from the foot Of Ped
die-st. to Newark Bay. man walked on
either bank Of the canal holding the
end of a rope attached to which was
an iron bar that dragged the bottom of the canal
Fastened to the bar were graphing irons eighteen
inches apart to seize upon any object that might be
encountered. The boatmen followed the dredgers
armed with oyster tOngs, and whenever an obstruc-
tion was met with they reached down their tOngs
and drew it to the surface. The dredgers went
over about mile Of the canal before they ceased
operations at that point. The flushing ditch which
feeds water into the canal at its head also fol-
lowed up in the same way for quarter of a mile
witnout finding anything. In the afternoon Bound
Brook, which is some distance below the canal in
thedirection of Wavery, was dredged from Frellng-
heysen-ave. to the Pennsylvania Railroad. When
darkness came on the drdegers quit work. they will
resume it to-day, following up the line of the canal
as far as the bay and over the flushing ditch asfaras
heice will permit all day yesterday pete" Langstaf
anoted meadow gunner Of Newark, who owns dog
remarkably keen of scent tramped with his dog
over lLe DleduOWS, hlt'h
as far as the bog on one side and Waverly on the
other; but he saw nothing to indicate that Mr.
Delmonco had been on the meadows.
John Hoey and Joaquin Mora returned from their
trip to Pennsylvania about six O'clock yesterday
morning, worn ont and empty handed. In the
Homesburg Asylum, some fifteen miles outside
Philadelphia, they found man who bore some re-
sembance TO the portraits of the lost man published
in two city papers As the portrait however, bore
only little resemblance to Charles DelpOnioO, the
person brought ont for their inspection had not
even look of the they hoped to see. Mr..
Hocy went down to Long Branch in the afternoon
with the intention of getting little rest. AlT.
Mora remained in town and was busily occupied
throughout the day in denying the various rldlc-
uOus reports about which he was questioned by all
his friends and acquatntanceS.
PURSUING VARIOUS CLEWs.
Freight Agent Murray, of the New-Jer5ey Central
Railroad in making up his weekly report. stated
that on Sunday night a man was wandering about
the depot IN an apparently dazed condition. Muir
ray told the watchman TO put him on board the
COmmunipaw ferry boat and send him to New YORK.
Muir q, thought nothing more abont 1t until the hue
and cry raised over the mysterious disappeara nee
of Ar. DelmOnicO caused him to think over
tLe circumstances He finally persuaded himself
that the man was Mr.. DelmOnicO, and the fact was
reported yesterday to Captain BerghOld OF the
Twenty-seven Precinct Police Station. An officer
was promptly sent to " investigate the matter
bnt as promptly returned TO state that he could not
find out ANYTHING at all ar the New Orh emu OF
the ferry. Mr.. Bangs, of PinkertOn's Agency, was
shown on slip of paper the report which had been
telephOned from Police Headquarters, and after
readng it carefully through two or three times
SAID that he had heard of it and was InYestlga-
ting 1t; but at the present stage OF affairs ne pre-
fcrrad to keep silent as to the results. Mr.. Bangs
was more inclined to be talkative about the pub
hshed charge that the detectives and relatives had
shown much apathy. 1--WE have followed up every
clew that has been sont u.s." said be- " and If any
thing have erred on the other side"
CaVtaln Williams also active yesterday ana
set oil himself to make inquiries in addition TO de
failing several OF his men. He is OF the opinion that
Mr.. DehnOncO is dead, but thinks that II this
is not the case he is probably in New-YOrk City
lie insists that MIR. DeImOnicO is not at all
well-knOwn to the public and states that there are
not above dozen policemen in the city who know
HIM by sight Thus he urgesin in order to render those
who are looking for him more careful and paTtlcu-
lar in their inquiries.
REPORTS WITHOUT FOUNDATION.
A rumor which was printed in all the evening
papers came TO be accepted by many people as
fact and by p. m. it was stated everywhere that
" Charlie DelmOnico had been found III the HaCken-
sack River" How he had got there, or by whom or
when he was found, seemed matter of no conse-
ouence Later in the evening Mr.. DelmOnico's
nephew Lorenzo Crist, who was sitting IN the cafe
of the Twenty-siXth Street Restaurant, said:
1T is, suppose, only one of the hundred reports
which we have received through the day. l can
only say that we know nothing of it and imagine
We should be the first to hear there anything
definite The body is said TO have been found at
half dozen different places within as many
hours"