New-York tribune., 1884-01-09
SEARCH FOR MR.. DELMONICO.
REWARD OFFERED BY HIS RELATIVES
TIE MISSING MAN SAID TO HAVE BEEN SEEN N
oRANGE-ISoUIRIEs AT NEWARK.

| Tho relatives of Charles Delmonico, who disap-
peared mysteriously on Saturday, have offered q
reward Of $500 for any information which will
lead TO the finding of the missing man. They de-
| scribe HIM follows:
Mt pemonco is fortyfour years OF age, about feet
sa ne&sS op Of N head height Sar Rae cSmPe1On dark gray
and about 2 inches long at chin looks unkempt and il
right temple His eyes Sometimes nave % sezapd pde apeesr
ance Was dressed In blue Oxford overcoa dark reddish
| watch chain. "1N e''N ''"N
| POSSIBLE cLEw IN ORANGE.
Late yesterday afternoon a farmer from the vicin.
| ity of Orange came to New-York and reported that
about two o'clock Sunday morning he saw man
answering TO the description of Mr.. Delmonico
leaning up againt lamp-post between Orange and
Montclair. The night was dark. but the light of
the lamp made his face clearly visible. He seemed
to be dazed or stupefed and the farmer to the
conclusion that it was suffering from the
effects of liquor. He left him there and went home
thinking no about the matter
until he saw the story in tho
papers Detectives were at once sent with him
and thorough search is being made in the neigh
borhood of Orange. Late last night no tidings had
been received.
" 1t seems" said Mr.. Crist. Mr. Delmonico's
nephew, to TRIBUNE reporter, " as IL we wera
getting on the right track. My own ideas are quito
clear on the subject think my uncle crossed the
Cortlandt Street Ferry, and wandered On foot
through the desolate country until he either sank
trom exhaustion or found restng-plaCe in some
house whose occupants don't read the New-York
papers, but who took him in and cared for him.
Anyhow | think it will not be long before we hear
some definite news. We have offered a re-
ward OF $780, which may further the
ends we desire, though | imagine that
If any one is conscious of his whereabouts he or
she would have come forward before this How
ever, we would willingly pay handsome sum to
have him with us again"
1t was stated yesterday by more than one of Mr.
DelmonicOs personal friends that the real cause Of
his flight was the fact that he had discovered an
intention on the part of his relatives to put him in
an asylum as soon possible The idea being re-
pugnant to him. for he had frequent lucid inter-
walls, it was SAID he had made up his mind to escape
at the first opportunity, Though hear his mind
was hopelessy impaired" said one who knows him
well, " he had sense enough to know how to hide
himself should he so desire. / believe that will be
found to be the case.' Mr. Crist was asked if any
such intention was present in the minds of his
family. He replied at once: 81 can deny that at
once and positively. IL is only one of the many
reports which are being industriously circulated on
the smallest possible basis Of truth. / was even
asked if it were not true that we had already
locked him up in an asylum, and if the present
story of his disappearance were not a fabrication
intended to meet our evil designs. The fact of the
matter IS this: Some members Of the family did,
some time ago, express themselves of the opinion
that my uncle would be better off in an asylum.
There was not the slightest necessity for pursuing
such a course, for he was as sane as you and the
greater part of the time thcu~h * .rtc-vclc ,Er-
ing the last six months his mind has occasionally
wandered. However, this opinion was
given. My aunt, his sister, then said that
she would never under any circumstances
allow such proceeding, and that she would
keep him here in her house if it were necessary to
empty dozen men to guard him."
Uptown last night the affair continued to be tho
general topic of conversation. The Twenty sixth
Street restaurant fuller than usual despite the
driving rain and icy sush and at nearly every
table in the crowded cafe the occupants were dis
cussing the probable fate of the proprietor.
tall, rather good-loOking man went into tha
Broad Street House about three o'clock the after
noon. lie pretended to some clairvoyant power,
and, after invoking the name of the Lord,
be began to say that he knew where
Mr.. Delmonico might bo found. Before he
had revealed the secret he was placed in the GUS
tOdy of some of PinkertOns detectives After
examination at the head office he was dismissed as
a harmless "crank." None Of the employees of the
house remembered ever having seen him before.
SEARCHING IN NEWARK.
The case has been put into the hands of Pinker-
toms Agency, and orders given that trouble.
time or expense must be spared. Robert Pnkerton
went to Newark yesterday to help in the search. It
was in that direction that all inquiries being
pushed. A careful examination was made of the
neghbOrhOod of the public dumping-grounds, on
the Newark meadows, by two of Pinkertons de-
tectives. They were accompanied by the boy Geb-
ford, who was in the company of young Schneider
when he found the telegraph pass-boOk, and who
picked up pair of gloves near the place where it
was found. Just south of tho dumping grounds is
the mouth OF a large canal sewer and flushing
ditch which run from this point TO Newark Bay,
carrying of the sewerage from the southwestern
part of the city, The canal is about an eighth of
mile distant from the dumping grounds. The
bows were going home when they found the articles
lhey walked northward along roadway made by
carts through the dumping grounds, and they fosnd
the passbook first, although they passed the gloves
which lay on the SNOW directly in their path In
conversation with The rgIBUNE reporter Gebford
could not explain how it was that they first picked
up the pass-bOok and were led to go back for the
gloves, which were some two hundred yards of in
the path they had gone over. The mouth OF the
canal ditch is open and unprotected 1t has shelly
ing banks and the water Is SIX feet deep Ihe hush.
ing ditch brings the water from the bay to the level
of the canal where il flows into the canal and car
ries the sewage down to the bay again. A body
thrown into the canal would reach the bay in
twelve hours. If person got off way train at
the Broad Street Station of the Pennsylyania Rail-
road he could walk sOuthwaTd on the track to q
foot-og crossing the dry ditch alongside the rail-
road. A path would lead across the dumping
grounds into new ayenuein process Of construction
across them. 1t was close to the, junction of the
path and the avenue that the book was found, on
the avenue south of the path. Two hundred yards
further south on the avenue the gloves were
found. A few hundred yards further south;
ward the avenue ends at Peddc-st. Westward
is Frelinghuysen-aye., and eastward Is the fenn-
sylvania Railroad track, on the otherside Of which
is the head of the canal sewer where the flushing
ditch empties into it, The canal Is tWelty-lOur
feet wide and has n strong current which IL regu-
lated by flushing gates worked automatically by
the tide The distance TO th2 bay Is ABOUT three
the other but nothing was seen TO justify the be-
L - L. ,issinn nnan he'd fallen into IL.