The Red Cloud chief., 1884-01-25
MYSTERY SOLVED,

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Finding Of the Remains q The CelsbrsaA
New York R~estaurateur, Charles Del.
nsnico-Death from Exposure.
NEWARK, N. J., Jan. IA.
Tho body of Charles Delmonico, who dis.
appeared several days 60. was found in
the Orange Mountains in the woods near
General McClellan1 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 who discovered 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-
lished the fact at once. Nothing had been
tence were apparent. The ground around
where the man lay was undisturbed. The
first two days after he disappeared were
the most severe Of the season and unless
Delmonico then obtained shelter he must
surely ave persisted. The announcement
Of the finding Of the body produced great
excitement all over town. Mortified
"a VAC OV0y was Az u
. mile and q half to two miles fiom Orange
depot. At intervals along the venue are
isolated dwellings interspersed 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 " way Of the valley between
the first and second mountain thence to
Passaic Valley. 1t is a very fine drive and
generally frequented by those who own
carriages and horses in Orange; but Sun.
lav, except when the weather is very fine,
the number Of travellers by the road is not
many.
As General Mcclellan, John Cropsey
Brown, George b. Hecker and other promi.
nent people live along this part of North.
field avenue 1t is thought Delmonico might
have had Q dazed idea of reaching one of
their residences, but his strength gave out
before attaining his object.
Delmonico probably died January 6.
About two O'Clock that morning John DIET
fenthal, who works for a farmer on Orange
Mountain, while driving from Montclair to
Orange, saw a man leaning YEARLY against
Q fence 1t was at the junction of the road
leading from Orange to Montclair. He is
certain now the man wa Delmonico. He
hailed D%ieffenthal and begged for shelter.
The farmer said the speech of the wayfarer
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 he man into
his wagon Grove on, after direcsing him to
Orange, q mile distant. The wanderings
Of the unfortunate man from this point can
only be c~onjectured. He probably went
aimlessly along the broad road on the
mountain until overcome with cold, and
laid Town and was frozen to death.
d The body was taken to New York late
this 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
nan looked very natural. No bruises were
visible except a slight wound on the right
ride of the head, probably received in the
TALL over the bank at the spot at which he
va found. The body was in Q perfect
tat 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 remains will be inferred In
the Delmonico vault in old st. Patrick's
Cathedral. Mott street.