Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-13
A NEW THEORY

ANEW THEORY
 cooley at ~aybroOk and Not a Pen- siOi CT Is Ihe Body That of Missing Charles ManvtIic, she Important
 Witness in the MOrAe 3rsOis Case7- Other SO-s ailsd Clues.
 The parties directly interested in Waliirg- foTd's mysterious murder case seemed yester- Jay to be more in the dark about the matter than ever. Whose vas the body found in the box, is the qu stion a.ked on every side This seems to be puzzler to every body, al though theories are very plenty and adv anced on all sides. Coroner Mix went up to Wal ingford on noon train and returned at 4:15 p. m, but he had disc ,vered not shirg new, so he informed the COURIER reporter who asked him about the matter. He said, however, that he thought he should see or hear from Cooley last night or to day, as he had been informed that he was on his way to Walling- ford. He also stated that Albert J. Cooley's name does not appear on the roll of pension CTS in the Boston agency, so that he could not have received 8 pension from here. Cooley simply left his usual haunts in Dur ham, where he has 8 wife and child with whom he does not live, and drifted down to Whitney Halls place on Say brook Point, as he had often done be- fore. People in Durham did not know where he was and didn't care much, but some enterprising country newspaper correspondent started the yarn about his dis appearance and since then he has posed as the possible victim of two or three tragedies. While the papers were talking about him, Albert was working for MT. Hall at Say brook Point at butchering and very often varying matters by getting drunk. Cooley heard that he was murdered, according to MT. Halls statement, but would not take the trouble at first to deny it as he had been on a l drunk. Cooley, so the story goes, has been in Say brook working for MT. Hall for over two months. MT. Hall said Cooley was en- deavoring 10 get pension granted, and had H. O. Platt of Meriden working for him, but he had not succeeded yet. He is man of about forty eight years of age, and for merly did large meat business in New York, but drink got the better of him. He came from New York to live with an uncle in Durham and that's how he came to be To- cated in this section of the country. He started once or twice to telegraph Coroner Mix that he was not the man, but gave up the idea before doing so.
 At the Wallingford Hotel was a postal card from w. H. Coles, travelling salesman for Sperry & Barnes, which read as follows:
 NEW HAVEN, August 12.
 DEAR SRI wish you would tell those detectives up there that know what am talking about when say that have seen Cooley I mean what I say.
 W. H. COLES.
 This with the other story appears to dis pose of the story that the body is that of Cooley, although it is barely possible it may yet turn out to be so. The idea that the body was not that of Cooley worried the peo- pie of Wallingford for few moments, but they were soon ready with another theory to advance and presented it with good natured alacrity. Shortly after o'clock yesterday afternoon Constable Rod. Austin was called across the street by stranger who mysteri- ously pulled him to one side and whispered something in his ear. A broad smile came over the constable's face and it was plainly to be observed that he had another clue. The stranger, who was resident of Roxbury. had told the constable that Charles Manville, 30 years of age, of Roxbury, and the most im- nortant witness in the Hall and Morse arson -:ases, he'd beep missing for two weeks or more, and it was thought that the body in the box might be that of Manville, as if siead he could tell no tales. Manville vas night watchman at Frank H. Morse's ;lass works, which were burned down last winter and for which fire Morse was arrested ha-gei with having set the premises fire obtain the insurance, and gave important vide, ce at tie time. This theory is talked # by the people in tue borough as being the most probable one yet advanced, and they are low a> firm 10 believe that the body is that f Manville they weie Wednesday that ii Tns -iti-er Cnoley or Charlie Hail.
 Dr Davi-, wh" assisted at the examination # the body, advances the startling th-. ry that ill his itlea the body was embalmed be fore it was cut up at all, and that we will soon hear If some grave robbing scheme; but this he states cannot be proven until the analysis of Ih- stomach hns b en made t.y Medical Examiner hite, which will not be completed for day two. Dr. Davis has seen great many dead bodies, and thinks this was peculiar one and it looked to him as if it was embalmed. If the body had not been embalmed and had been there two weeks," continued the doctor, Gas Masch- meyer said it had, and I believe his story, it would .have been more. decayed than it was in this hot season and must have emitted a more powerful stencil" This theory, however, is not very favora- bly, held by the borough citizens, as they think it is a foul murder, and they are bound to have it such. That the coroner and Constable Austin found an important clue in their search Wednesday is admitted by the constable. but both he and the coro- ner refuse to state what it is. Detective McNamara, who is working up the case, has been out of town all day in search of some clues, and some startling developments in the way of an arrest may be expected at any moment