Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-03-27
Not Kin 10 the TyIers.

- W slfN VI ltHtIAhaN
evening says:
Dispatches sent from Richmond Civ
ing accounts of discoveries made there
in regard TO the murder Of Miss Madi-
son have stated that young Cluverius,
who is held for the murder, was the
grandson of President Tyler's brother,
Wat Tyler. The daughter Of Wat Ty-
Ter the dispatches referred to, of which
a summary was printed in Tuesdays
Star, made what was regarded as
mtsal}ionce by marrying her fathers
oyerseer, man named Cluyerius, who
was the father of the prisoner now il
the Richmond Jail. Dir. John Tyler,
Jr., the son of the late President Tyler,
writes to the Stdr that this statement is
erroneous in every particular. He calls
attention TO the statement made by Mr..
Madison, the father of the murdered
girl, in the Richmond Police Court.
that " his daughter and Cluyerius were
distantly related. They had been from
childhood on the best OF terms, and were
much attached to each other Mr..
Tyler says the niece Of President Tyler.
who was the daughter of his Oldest
brother, DR.. Wat Henry Tyler, named
for Wat Tyler, the leader of the Com
mons Of England in their uprising
against King Richard the Second. and
fer Patrick Henry, the leader Of the
American revolution for independence.
referred TO rs the mother of the sup
posed murderer. married when he was
boy. and he was present at the mar
riagc, not an Oycrseer of her father, nor
any other oyerSecr. hut gentle
man and citizen Of Gloucester cOun-
ty, Va. possessing large landed
estate. one Of the very finest and
most productive in the county. fronting
upon and lying along the Severn river.
with negro slaves in full proportion to
the thousand acres of land he tiled.
lie was a widower. having about six
children by his first marriaec-boyS and
girls His name was CluyeriuS. " By
his second wife, the daughter OF Or.
Wat Henry Tyler" Mr.. Tyler con
tinues, "he had only one child before
his desth-a boy-namei Wat Tyler
Cluycrius. That boy at an early
age moved TO the city of New
Orleans and engaged in business with
the extensive iirr of r. j. Hart &
bo.. one OF ts,c oldest and wealthlest
arms in that city. still existing. He
reached manhood commended by all
who knew him. He then married into
one of tn best families in New Orleans.
After his marriage, on one Of my visits
10 New Orleans. visited himself ana
wife at her fathers residence, and never
kaye seon in any part Of the world a
more beautiful pair of human beings
more perfect III every outline Of form
and feature. During one of my re-
cent visits to New Orleans | called
at the Offices OF f.. J. Hart 4 Co.. and
learned that be had moved with his
family up to Baton Rouge, and was
there engaged extensively in business.
He has never resided in Virginia since
he was child. and is now not less
than fifty years old. None OF his chill
dren were ever separated from himself
and his wife in their childhood. None,
as children. were ever IN Virginia, ami
! have never heard Of any one of them
being in the state Of Virginia. Il may
be, however, that the supposed mur-
dercr Of Miss Madison is grandson of
the Cluverius have mentioned by one
Of his sons of his first marriage, not in
any. manner OF the slightest Kin to
President Tyler or his family"