The sun., 1884-12-07
THE WOMAN GRAY MARRIED
OLDER THAN HE AND room, AND HE
MAS a CRIPPLE


On Friday morning Capt. Webb received a
telegram In relation to the murdered woman
found in tho ashes in the sub-ccllar OF the
Carleton House. He sont messengers out for
his detectives, and when they appeared they
received instructions that sent them out In n
hurry About the middle of the afternoon the
detectives returned with woman who they
said lived In Cherry strcot. Tho woman was
shown into the Captains private room. whore
she and the detectives remained noarly an
hour Thep she was turned over to police
man. who saw her safe distance from tho sta
ton house before he left her.
1t Is supposed that the new clue which the
detectives say they are working up camc from
this woman. In addition to this Capt Webb
has received Information that tho day following
the discovery OF the remains Mrs. Gray called
upon her husband. Printer Samuel 4 Gray
who once had tho Office with tho trap door In
the floor over the Carleton House sub-coi!ar.
and who lie now In the Trenton State prison.
and said to him:
You murdered that woman"
1t was said at the prison on Friday. however.
that Mrs. Gray had not boon there for several
months. The theory the police are working
upon Is that the reason Gray attempted to
murder his wife was because of her knowledge
Of tho Carleton House murder.
Only ono record of Printer Gray's marriage
record hc afflrms that 1t is his first marriage.
1t was performed on Junc t. 1888. two months
after he had given up the oillco in the Carleton
House. winch had trap door in the floor. The
Rev. Aonzo G. Morehouso married him to Mary
A. Downey ut the cleiGyman's residence. %
East broadway. A SuN reporter saw the mar
rriaee record last evening II the study of tho
Morehouse Is now pastor. The minister does
not remember m n performing m the ceremony ,0r or
persons since the wedding in East broadway
and cannot distinguish one from another.
Mrs. Anna Dickinson and Manic AitcReson. q
girl of 10. The record reads:
,s s'%'3 G,s f,s SSS y9's sy g;
Gray mS,hss, H%'a, fIHa J"yne; na",.er Of nus
DS%nsy ss s!as NV Ssw @ Hatk f? Ss af
sr's name, bridget Lyman number of wfe's marriage
A Dlckiuson, June /. 1883
Il conclude" Mr.. Morehouse said. -" that tho
couple did not bring anybody with them when
they we're married. from the fact that people in
the house was living in were brought in as
lns pSsqsSn g Fss Hpd Mss
time ever signed my name as witness. though
formed f By MT Morehouse $ 9 d"n howoSer Hsr
and i' wsEsS w,S Tas man aoS. WAS eay
Gsnos GSa sure asked s1 M aG sfSnop,e f%Ga II the
he had Just come out Of the hospital; lie, was a
s@liGht @ M man and eoHd not hay. haye weighed more %
what his features we're The 20 sir H
cotsd on her efs orsRead She Wa an sh
girl. and was smaller than her husband re;
ober he snr sasr aNr Of p s
Chambers street, said that Gray came out OF
4S sAaEy aGdys so2s & ana sf .Ss aa
vanced him a little money to start wth After
working about month, Gray went away again
did not see him again. but heard in June that
he was married to Mary Downey, a
mop: Gray sa,f he , had & mot TIE & Ho' a:
across the strost from his store, showed him a
Mr. Rigsby said that he did not believe Gray
was over strong enough to kill anybody, He
taken him an hour to walk a few blocks.
movements in this city wero learned yesterday.
In January last she went to Expresssman Kern
II he could not take caro- of her trunk for a
while: She said that she was dress maker,
Mrs stswari Who kert an cmroy@ent lag agency n y
on on the first ho1r % Of 5i6 second avenue, Mrs
SsTo ani N she found '" some;Sns Si SSoa to 'S dH
Mrs G5y ya the bs 99s aay Tth
time Kern got Mrs. Gray's trunk and kept it IN
i In ep aas Mrs ma shs
lady in Fourteenth street for wnom sho used to
rn work fan she used TO 60 cut every dny and re-
neighbors that man ho wore Grape Upon
his hat uaod To come with her TO tho door and
Mrs Stewards hiusS Mis- Gray b.san talking
of hor acquaintance with Jorry NIcAmey and
prison This displeasrd Mrs. stewart and she
tod her she would Lave TO eavo;
Mrs. St"waitWa, louni yesterday in Twenty
speaking; o! Mr.. Ggayshe said: Il hover saw
everybody. While ahc- was in my house she
game from, She liyed with me about ten days.
know n2tilns oi her present whereabouts."
minded yss'oriay tia, Gay .;ays up his Office
IN the 'arleton lionse in March, 1883, and that
rensa M ~ B oser wifi Wam a S was %fs sssd Esi
who hal The kny OF tho place IN tue mean timo.
Gray lot sndicn'y. owing ne n months
rett. ! saiIosc | or Superintendent Wuyes
seSe seS, GS SSx q 'nf do Ens2 dc Tst 9,
iurn isard references OF. not when hc applied
TOR ~. iaco If he did Icy Icy must must have been
OF = man arlnnrn,,so t. rent him apartments
Miles said, fui,hcr, that Grays bed stood
right over tie trap door. He docs not think
tha, Gray Knows anything Of tho murder, ard
borhond arc thoroughly famiiiarwith the hotel.
and that tho water pinos in the cellar have
been cut and pounds Oi lead pipe stoien
Mr.. Charles SrrenEer snd last might that he
has received positive Information that his sis
tor, johanna schmidt. is alive When asked
where she Was he would not tel. but ho loft The
reporter 10 hc.lcNe that she is somewhere III
New Jersey.
~ expected = % in hero Tonight" he said.
with come further information concernin.
her. but have been Disappointed l know Just
where -h" is. however. and intend visiting hor
have given mo any information concornin., her
whorOnl outs il she had not thought | would
have buried tho remains of the woman found
IN tho, Carleton House b., the sdo OF
my iathor and mother; Even now she
vas reluctant about sending her address.
think she is afraid because Of her
husband. Sha knows nothing about Ludwig
Hart tho harhor, and Gm certain that she has
not soon i'm since she went away. Hart was
awtully frightened NJ tho turn affairs had
taken, nnA only wan ed to got nway, ] sh houldn't
wonder II lie Is now in Europe"
the woikmcn engaged Ia removing tho ashes
from the Carleton House cellar having cleared