Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-17
HUMAN FLESH.

One Near Where the Body Was
 Found and Another Near an Unused
 WeIl-COnstabie Austin Finds Some
 Hair With Portions of Scalp Cling
 ing to It-Other Facts.
 Wallingford had another surprise yester- day in connection with the shoe-box mys- tery, which caused considerable excitement for the time in that quiet town. Early yes terday afternoon the story began to circulate about the town that human skull had been found in a we'll, short distance north of the place where the shoe box was found, and
 on the property of a colored man named
 Sampson, whose house had been burned down a few weeks ago. This story started Con
 stable Rod. Austin and several other inter ested parties to visit the well, but they were unable to find any signs of skull, and the
 constable returned about ? o'clock last even- | ing, but not without another important clue. After the constable had visited the well and found no skull or signs of one, he returned | to the place where the shoe box
 was first found. and began another investigation of the surroundings. This time he met with better success than in either of his former visits to the scene of the | finding of the body. About ten feet from the place where the box was found in the direction of the fence over which the box is supposed to have been dragged the constable found in the grass two small punches of coarse black hair clotted with blood. The pieces of hair were curly and to. one piece was attached a part of the scalp, showing that the hair found had evidently been pulled out by the roots from scalp. The same odor
 came from the hair as did from the body ,and the constable is now of the opinion that the
 hair is from the head of the victim of this one of Connecticut's most mysterious mur ders. The finding of this hair leads the constable to think that the murder was committed near where the box was found, and that the hair was pulled out of the murdered mans head while he was struggling with his murderers. Others interested in the case think, however, that although the hair might have been pulled
 from the mans head during struggle, that the murder was not committed near where the box was found, and that the hair had
 in some way caught on the murdersr's clothes
 and had dropped therefrom while he was pulling the box along the ground near where
 it was found. The finding of the hair, how
 ever, is but one more clew and will be work
 ed up for all it is worth. Another story was
 that white shirt all covered with blood
 had been found in some bushes on the road between Wallingford and broad swamp, about quarter of mile this side of where the murder was commit ted. This story originated from boy named
 Myers, who said that he overheard some men say that a Yalesville boy while out hunting yesterday morning saw some birds fly from near some bushes. The boy fired at them and one fell into bush near the roadside and when he went to search for it he discov- cred white shirt near saturated with blood, which had since dried. The boy was so frightened that he left the shirt where it was and returned home. This was the story, but whether it was true or not could not be certained. Sunday Patrick H. Lynch, of I. Az- the scene of where the body was found which he turned over to Constable Austin and which the latter has sent to Medical Examiner White for examination. The bit of fesh which has very bad odor, IS about four inches long by two inches wide and has piece of black curly hair hanging to it. Near where Lynch found this flesh he found piece of tarred paper, and the opinion is that they were dropped by the murderer on his way to or from where the box was hidden. The cause for the story about the finding of the skull originated from the following facts: Last Saturday two young men living in Cheshire thought they would visit the scene of the murder and accordingly drove over there When they had examined the vicinity to their satisfaction they started to drive back, but stopped at the old well in Samp- sons place to get drink. While there the idea originated in their minds that perhaps the other parts of the body
  very seldom used. They obtained long pole and began feeling in the well, which was about twelve feet deep and contained about six feet of water. They had not been polling long when they struck what seemed to them to be 8 bag containing some soft substance, but they were unable to bring it to the surface, so they gave it up. On their way home they stopped and told Deputy Sheriff Beadle what they had discovered, l and he said he would investigate the matter I at once. That night, however, the sheriff was called on some other business and he-did not visit the place until yesterday. He took with him some graphing irons of the well, but all he brought to light was two wooden pieces of board, which looks as if they might have been sawed from the shoe l box in which the body was found. Near the | we'll, however, Sheriff Beadle found piece | of human flesh about two inches square, and l covered with black hair about one half an | inch long. The flesh was badly decayed and | smelled so badly that the sheriff, instead of | taking it with him, stuck it up stick | near the place and left it, 8 very strange pro cseding for sheriff who was naturally inter ested in the case. The sheriff also saw nu merous tracks leading to the well, and he is of the opinion that the object the boys strug l gled so hard to bring to light was bag con- taining the remains of the murdered man, and that the murderer must have kept a | close watch on the well when he found that | the trunk had been discovered, to prevent | anyone finding the parts of the body, and | when he saw that the lads had made 8 dis | covery he came and moved the bag as soon as l possible.
 Ticket Agent Futile stated to COURIER | reporter that he was not the man whom | it is stated saw the box in a wagon on the | Yalesville road, and that until the other day | he had not been in Yalesville for years. He | If tbara fat1 hat ha fho inf | tion he had to give to the coroner would not | be of as much value as he first supposed. | but that he should not at present state what | it was. That Constable Austin considers as important what Futile knows is made evil lent by the fact that he has repeatedly warned the ticket agent not to tell it to any one.
 A story from Cheshire states that about eight weeks ago a man named Warner, who 8 a son-in law of George Richardson of the alter place, disappeared and has not since been seen heard from. Two weeks ago MT. Richardson and his son mysteriously disappeared and they have not been heard rom either, and the story goes that the son. n-law was put out of the way and that the eaving of the father and son afterwards gave color to several ugly rumors concerning hem. Mrs. Richardson, when seen by re- porter, however, stated that Warner is l n Middlebury, but where her husband and son are she will not state or else does not znow. The mysterious man who is working ID the case and who is supposed to be a 2inkerton detective stays in the vicinity of he finding of the body hunting for clues. Constable Austin says that when things get Iuieted down little he thinks the mystery will be solved.
 Peaches-Peaches.
 The first carload of the season will be re- eived this afternoon and for sale at A. J. Beers, Nos. 259 and 261 State street.
 To Mystic Island To-MOrrow.
 The New Haven Steamboat company make mother excursion to Mystic Island to nor