Milford chronicle., 1885-01-09

of Mr.. Stewards death, ws-s gwen as au.
thority for the statement appearing in
! the article. In brief, it was positively
asserted that the body, Of the great dry
goods merchant had been returned by
/ the ghouls who stole it. They had
been induced to surrender it by means
of an offer OF 100000 in cash and no
! questions asked, made by Mrs. Stewart.
/ It was further said that about a year
after the body was missed from the
tomb it was recovered and, having been
concealed in a large rubber sack, was
placed in the money vault Of the retail
store. There it was permitted to re-
main for one year. Then it was re-
moved to the vault in the new cathedral
at Garden City, u. /. A man by the
name of Dwyer was said to have acted as
mediator between certain parties, who
claimed to know where the body was to
be found, and Mrs. Stewart. Dwyer
was paid $4,000 for his services and
the remaining S90,0 was divided be-
tween six others. Mr. Keller was said
to have expressed the opinion that the
remains now rest in the Garden City
Cathedral.
Inspector Murray was extrem'
active in the search for Mr.. o.
body from the time of its .5ss ulN gal.
hope of recove. ID 5een abandoned.
He was shown the article referred to
above, and said that he knew Of no fur
ther developments other than he had
hnrakofora iv,r,or&oT ~ q 8ar,-orb,,t H.
of the World
An official of high standing in the
Police Department ridiculed the story.
He said further: ''Mr. Stewards s body
has never been recovered. The last ef-
fort made in this direction was when 60
betweens, who represented the grave
robbers, or the custodlans Of the body.
made a proposition to Judge Hilton to
restore the remains for S25, 900. This
sum Judge Hilton originally agreed to
pay when the body was placed In his
From the very hour that
the loss OF the Corpse was discovered un-
til the final decision was given in regard
to it three years later, Judge Hilton
made Inspectors Byrnes and Murray his |
cOnfdants and referred all applications |
iOr restoration to them. Inspector Muir |
ray probably had more to do with these
offers than any other man, although |
Judge Hilton, in his anxiety to recover
ihe body, employed a number of private
These officers secured the /
country from one end to the other. On /
me occasion they traced Mike Kelly (the
who drove the body across the
North River the morning after the rob-
)ery) to San Francisco. There it was
chat he had been employed
u the Sutter market, but had gone to
l-izona, where he became the manager
f a mine. Before he could be reached
nd Information obtained from him as to
he Whe,eabouts cf the body, Kelly be-
anne involved IN o fracas in which he
7as shot and killed. Judge Hilton,
1hen lie last rec lived proposition for
he return Of the remains, referred the
natter to Inspectors PyEnes and Muir
ay. Negotiations were entered IN with
o. betWeens, who claimed to represent
he eustodians Of what little was left of
ne remains. They we're offered S25, 900.
10 questions were to be esked and no |
rosecution was to follow, at least dntil
go weeks later, so that ample time
light be given to put themselves be
ond arrest. This lease Of two weeks
as to be given after fhs body had /
lssed into the possession Of Judge Hill
N or his agents and identified as that J
Mr.. Stewart. To this proposition :
lswer was made, 'This might put us in ;
hole. If we attempt to deliver this \
1dy we might be arrested Immediately :
= detectives. 4
Judge Hilton was made a final prop 4
.tion. It was that he should send the 7
IS. 600 to a certain place in Jersey City, /,
ust to the honor of the eustOdiGns and /,
q body would be Immediately shipped
him. Acting under the advice Of the
lice and bis own judgment Judge Hill
u refused to entertain such G proposal, q
airing that should the money be sent 4
indicated a bogus body might be q
lined of, and neither Judge Hilton :,
r the police would be able to discover 4
10 had duped them. From that time
til the present day no further propo-
ion has been made to restore the re- b
lins. No further search has been ia =,
tuted on the part Of Judge Hilton OF n
Y other member of the Stewart FAM I,
The statement, whether made by
=. K. Ter or any one else, that the body
S wrapped in a rubber bag. was re- T.,
ned to Mrs. Stewart, secreted for a
II and finally deposited beneath the 4,
pit at Garden City, is a piece Of sen
ionalism, bunglingly contrived, and nj
h ut the slightest foundation of fact
stand upon. Set il down as a fact re
{ the body of Mr.. Stewart, wherever
nay be, has but little of what is hui
q remaining. I believe it has been
N by chemicals. 1t is not now, and '
badly never will be, in the possession g6.
of the Stewart family, be,
ess one Of the custodians should be- JAY
le cons science-stricken and return the ves
eton of his own accord. Judge Hill bv
would not pay one dollar for the re- he
/ OF the corpse, if proposition to VIII
effect must be accompanied by a PIE
land for immunity to the ghouls who F.
acrated the graveyard of st. Marks. fac
1t is safe to say that in the effort Cyl
eh has been made by Judge Hilton, s24
he representative Of Mrs. Stewart, to RoI
over the remains, over 500, 600 OOO
Q been spent From time to time silk
police, and even so shrewd a detec- on,
as Inspector Byrnes, were carried Yol
y upon ialse scents by the lies Of an Ua
onylcs Two days were wasted IN 600
ching for an imaginary mound be- Fl
h an imaginary tree near mill in a
ain portion of New Jersey, where
body was supposed to have been
ed. Not until after six feet of earth N
been removed did the informant ad- an /
that he was lying and that he had beei
wn the officers on a false scent in ahol
r to secure a reward from certain roal
Dns who had hired him for this pur- ont
has
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