Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-19
STILL THE DARK.

The Shoe BOX Mystery Much of a
 Mystery as Ever-The Authorities
 Still Hard at Work on the Case.
 "Have the authorities got any more cluesa" was the leading question asked by every passer-by of a COURIER reporter as the latter slowly climbed the hill leading from the depot to Constable Austin's office yesterday afternoon. In front of the little one story building in which the constable has his office sat Constable Austin, with 8 tired look en his face, smoking cigar. The reporter sat down beside the constable and crowd Of town idlers gathered around expecting to hear something startling about Wallingford's g mysterious murder case. When Constable Austin was asked what was new in the case, a half smile illuminated his countenance as he replied, Absolutely nothing; and we stand just where we did two days ago, with the exception that Henry Lincoln of North ford, who disappeared about six weeks ago and whom it was thought might be the vic tim of this foul murder, has turned up all right. Now we must find another miss ing man. But" continued the constable, with @ sly wink, ''you just wait for few days until the excitement over the affair has somewhat quieted down and the murO0r6T or muru6T0ES D0COW0 10SS CduUAOuo, and then something big will turn up. Core- ner Mix has the two small locks of hair which I found the other day near the scene of the finding of the box, but what he in tends to do with them l don't know, al though I suppose he will turn them over to Medical Examiner White for a microscopic examination, as they may have an important bearing on the case in question. The coro- ner did not take the piece of scalp with him as he did not consider it of enough impor- tance so to do, but shall have to buy new s1it of clothes soon if I find much more such stuff, on account of the scent it gives my clothing" He, the constable, was called away and the crowd scattered to come together again on their favorite cor ner near the postoffice, and talk over the fall crops for want of something more inter- esting. At the depot the reporter found Ticket Agent Futile busily engaged in stamp
 ing tickets, but not too much so to say few words about the murder case. He still holds to the theory that the box was brought from Cheshire, and not from Wallingford or Yales- vile, andsby parties who knew the lay of the land in that vicinity. His theory may be of some importance. He is the only valuable witness the State is said yet to have secured, and his may not be theory but fact. When asked why he thought the parties did not put the box in the old copper mine near where the box was found, he said: "Why didn't they we'll SuppOSo GHSJ hAo" OOCIoA. l h0 SoP- per mine is opened by parties from three to four times year, and the parties who mur- dered the man probably knew this and so did not put it there. think, , continued the ticket agent, Fthat some one will find another box somewhere in that strip of woods con- taining the missing portions of the corpse and then the mystery will be cleared up. "The fact that both Coroner Mix, Detective Nc Namara and Constable Austin are still hard at work on the case, leads many to believe they have some important clue which they are working up. Coroner Mix was asked last evening about the case, and stated that there were no new developments, but that Dr. White would finish his chemical examination of the dead mans stomach in g few days which may result in something in teresting. The coroner is constantly in re ceipt of letters from all parts of the country from friends of missing men asking for 6 description of the body and other particulars about it.