The sun., 1888-06-13
uURRIED INTO THE GROUND.
No Effort Made to Identify Drowned
Nomnn-suspicious Circumstances.

The body OF handsomely dressed woman,
about 81 years old, was found in the Hudson
River at Pleasant Valley Grove by Mr. A. p
Hallock last Friday morning. Two hours later
Morris Fitzgerald Justice of the Peace OF
Pleasant Valley. l. ld the remains buried in tho
Potter's Field of the Pleasant Valley Cemetery.
Mrs Southard, q resident Of Pleasant Valley.
who saw the body soon after it was found, said
yesterday:
1t was that Of a handsome woman, and her
clothes, especially her underclothes were OF
the finest. She wore black alpaca dress n
black jersey, and a cape with long silk fringe.
She had ON expensive gloves and shoes. In ner
pecket were two unmarked handkerchiefs. but
no money She had long auburn hair When
| smoke to Mr. Fitzgerald about notifying
some one he promised to send word to the New
him tho gold jewclry that found on the body"
Mrs. Southland thinks she discovered indica..
tions that there was q cause f0r suicide Il not
the drowned girls neck was badly swollen and
disg olcrcd, and dark mark oyer the right ego
looked as If 1t had been caused by u blow.
The speediness Of tho burial, without inquest
or medical eXaminAti3ni has caused much in;
dhs1a1. mS Na saia b% at
cases OF the Jenny Cramcr kind might easily
be ESCAPING notice every year on account OF
tnnsd Mr. fMSksnna: Fit5eSrald said: Oh, Oh
j III Coroner ana everything
The case was very SUSPICIOUS said Mr. A.
p HalIock, but MIR. Fitzgerald ignored all my
offers Of assistance in getting at the truth Of
the natter
Morris Fitzgerald protests that while he is
not n Coroner he can exercise the functions OF
Bergen county $50 expenses for an inquest. He
denied that there was anything about the body
which seemed to call for an inquest.
1T is only one Of q hundred cases" he con-
tinued. II have lad a hundred or more OF
thcm, and will have as many more probably if
on the average five or six Il month-and Of
course We cant get a Coroner down here for
them. We bury them at once. The County Of
Bergen Is poor and can't afford to have a
for tho bodies that tloat In here. II | hold an
inquest hara to get permission OF the Judge
Of The Supreme Court. got s. extra for every
Wien Mr G. D. Shore OF ;Leonia. who retired
from tho Coroncrs Office last year. heard the
Fltzserali had no right to bury the body as
he did He gets So for viewing a body 50 for
getting out the papers and Sl5 for burying it.
Where there is the slightest cause Tor sus:
picion IA Coroner's jury, must sit and a me,lic
examination must be held. Coroner Diedrich
of Hackcnsack should be notified of this case
at once. and if he does not eHhume the body
and hold an Inquest Prosecutor Abraham
Campbell should be called upon TO compel him.
Efforts will be made to day to have the body
nor Dediich. A grove OF trees under the bluff
at Fort Lee shades many graves Ot men and
women whose bodies have been washed ashore
between Fort Lee and Pleasant Valley. No
one knows how many lie there. some say fifty.
others sixty. or more. Almost all of them, per
sons In that ncighborhood, say; have been
buried before proper efforts had been made to
establish theii identity.