New-York tribune., 1884-12-08
IS 1T MES. GRdYf
THEORY ABOUT THE CARLETON HOUSE MYSTERY
PERHAPS SUICIDE.

A THEORY ABOUT THE CARLETON HOUSE MYSTERY
PERHAPS SUICIDE.
When Samuel s. Gray. the printer who at
tempted on October -. 1893, to kill his wife in the
Jersey woods arrested taken to McIdcn and thence
transferred to Morrisown prison. he said TO the officer
who had him in charge:
People may talk "a they please hut would never
have attempted to kill Mary If had not been provoked
This was regarded at the time full confession Mrs
GRAY was ut that time sufficiently recovered to be handed
over to justice the witness in the case and being
unable to gvo bonds shc detained in Jail
TRIBIfNL reporter who went 10 Mira. Gray at the
time found her in an excited condition weeping and
sobbing historically. my husband" she cried. " was
Jealous o mo; not of other but jealous that did
not love him "a he loved me. lie quarrccd with me
because dit not pet HIM aud fonde him"
About January 90 Mrs Gray came TO ths city 10 hnd
emnu, nont ahc gave her baggage. consisting of ono
trunk In charge Of Phcleus r. kcrna Of M. 3'2 Third
ave. told him the story of her trouble with
her husband ~ hc ac tO have told to every one
who would acn to hcn ond aAkci him whcfe shn could
get work. ir directed her 10 Mira Margaret strwhita
rnny innnt agency Eho stayed ihcir iill The middle Il"
February, growing frail aud delicate every day anu
,nhIng of nothing but her troubles Hnt hcf hushanda
oltl treatment ao much dd she speak ~ II that II be
oa,no an uunoln Ia all IN the house aud kept Mia
stewart anch state OF nervous excitement mat si"
told her She must 40 away ior mind wa, evidently
wandering from the Terrible strain placed upon IT, She
and mother Dublin. whom sho hnd OF,
Tended AZ leaving ZONE yrnrs before sho MAJ nna
aud IL to come 10 him thai she left her parents
mutual acquaintance arranged the mattor ana she
If Nil goes we'll" she was accustomed to say. !
shall go to Dublin. otherwise, don't know what shall
do" -, .
She got one letter from Gray In February. day or
two before leaving Mrs Stcwarts another came itW
day after and kept by the andlady for MONTH
when one dark might about o'clock the =" little wonan
as they called her in the house suddenly made her a'
pcarancc her letter. and without word Disappeared
Mrs Stewart has never heard Of her since Her trhnk
during the time she was ~ tho eiInoynlent
reporter yesterday that he had sent IT, at her orders to
Trenton. and he thinks she must have followed
Tho search for Mrs. Gray has been prosecuted with
ygur brcausc ia thought that she is the person most
likely clear up the mystery of tho Carleton House
cellar
theory beftting this strange case was advanced yes
"I believe" he said that the body found in the
cellar that of Mrs. cray herself She has not been
heard in several months. True she was married
to ray in June SS3. and he left the Carleton House
over months before that time but from the descrp
tion OF the women who visited him there this Mary
Downey of them. She was evidently familiar
with the trapd0or secret. and knew how
the collar could he entered. II to bo generally
conceded that the printer murdered some one ana threw
was aware IT, aud Gray, unable longer 10 put her of
with promises, married her TO keep her mouth smut ihey
moved away. and he still feeling unsafe. attempted 10
kin her in In the morbid state OF her mind.
half erazcd hor suerngs. what moro natural than
that she should 20 to the Carleton iionse enter the ce
lar and poison herself She knew the cellar held already
one mystery; why should it not hold another
Mrs Gray. when last ut the Carleton House, &C
cOrlng to Tailor HciS Contractor Hayes and Others
carried In her arms baby What became OF the baby Is
"A mystery which the picks and sbOvels may yet uncover
IN the cellar From the a ~ 1i b s o hr
slender hands long taper nails and her har All corre
spond." ..,, a., -
from the fact that the corses worn by the dead woman
show her TO have measured twenty nine Inches around
the waist, while Mrs Gray Is described as exceedingly
slight.