The sun., 1890-11-03
mGAR'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH
.,x BoDY BURIED At LAST WITHOUT
An AUTOPSX.

| .-,, m. 9uuaer she Only Mournsr as che
Ts..s~si-Ths Nephew whe Gave Mr.
s.unerths News OF she Death Not There
~. body OF James H. Edgar. the wealthy
,..,lsb druggist whose death at the Getty
a. a. in Yonkers last Monday IL puzzling the
,.,.otirss, was buried yesterday. There was
~, enc mousner at the funeral. He was Per-
=, " sumIher. the real estate spcculator.
na mad identified the bodv, and who
lad agreed TO pay the expenses OF
~ ,rnsrsl because he had once been
.no ssad mans friend. Tho funeral ser
aas. ~. mas held IN Dewitt Il Eddy's undertaking
v. IN yonkers atI o'clock. The body Of the
s.sn s,s :, An Una laid In On Imitation rosewood
~ sNnn and was exposed to view for two hours.
-. ~ o,cioct MIR. sumner. James Doyle. law
rho had nm Office in tho same building
~. ~ h,Y, and who had seen Edgar many
.,.s.s william Carter, and q man named
s Su..', residsnts OF Yonkors Of Eng
W. birth. who took interest
- I'u ra,sr because OF his English birth gath
- in tho undertakers shop. The Rev.
cs..s, +. Allison. pastor Of the Daysprin.
S...hytsrian Church OF Yonksrs, volunteered
:. .o,duct the funeral services. He delivered
NM address, and Summer. Kennedy Un-
s....ier De witt. and Doyle lifted the Shin
80 ths hesrse. There Wero two CARR 9es
n Tho first were the four pail bearers and the
.,.j,tsr and In the second Carter. Mrs. Brown
.,d ,hree reporters The body was taken to
~. n. Johns Cemetery. on the outsEirts OF
he city.
,.sday before It had been identified and whom
tvas to have been buried at the expense OF
a. town as the body OF plain George Smith,
~ name Edgar had rsRistered under at the
10 kAe - IA
sho had heard that tho body was to be buried
.s.,s Rad gathered close beside the grave. Tho
ali hearers lifted tho comm from the hsarss and
Ev.red II into the grave. The minister said
s,mnlv: I've now deliver the body OF this
s,r,nesr to the EARTH" Then hs offered
.,.rsr. and two colored mon filed mp the
sr.,s and packed down the earth. The ser
sed Mr. ana hs 4. 'fsss
services .b' Rsrsy returned ,cat 70 the
IS = vsI ~ s s:ss & ss ssi
SSsss Sssss y X: ss:h|sS Msass ~
Ss Hoif qnr,SSslli1s 1a.;S n tho dm1y'ssss Or,
them up The .von bundle snd o. svera raeeee ees
va TS declared they aid not believe that they hsd
1 ,ssns msS. came N IL While lie clothes
s asli q II: Getty House ioi sS%%issIPSs 3 lSss
Ssn apsdas deeIared that Il was not IN tho hand
..s Of ss ssar xhss nss ESasss
o.. q Sd%t IN The once, snd sii dselsIea thss .6s
1Sss question ION would be Interesting They
hve not been compared BY experts yet.
poSa 6apsn Th Msnsn Is
sgnSss q II %ha,sSssy ,ss I'M MI ;,s sqRHsr sI3sSE
s.by ss hs &. nePs in
sDd End 5s b.s,sa b. %sSi ID.
g. snus Ths i9s e edsr %r sumner ala not
press pny opinion yesterday whom bic con dis.
when the others 10 the office declared that they
thought tho handwriting wa was different:
died oi morphine poisoning. as the Coroner's
jury decided he did. or in some other way By
iery. and viii probably. never be cleared up
Coroner Mitchell said that An autopsy would
.s IS. s nat H. e h asS he
:son as i sissas,sd d through 4 a ,hs BODY woSd
TSs clothing In which Edgar died and was
buried vas say ,n day. Sna
s1Si Ssrs any ~ s1tsrnsi Wounds. This was the arss
sIamInstion that had been made No wounds
iscsme out yesterdsy that when Edesr wss
Int found S,nE 9 s ,ssf sn MSpa:, p:
tsnce that he was not suffering from morphine
Ioisonine. Morphine puts man to sleep. i is
Ia sS .ee T. sem Il simply
Eos one particle Of the mystery connected
might have contained 5000: ana which dis; ;;
sns he ded hs s
saoesedsd in nndln9 any traee q them: They
have been looking Tor them now three days.
MI Unlikely 'fss tSst Tfss shsy Would not nave Seen
found. No one says they are accused OF any
crime: As tar as is known . they h are wanted
shop brokers who were once under dictment.
ssnt ' themselves Il I'M from the city. Druggist
when he had said that Robert Rowe. one Of the
bis books. he. said and found that Rove had
tsd s h Uo heard ca @ snce
Who I rushed iHto spsSnIsstOE Summers Oiiiss
81 aeas HasaFiSay
ssn though rthe the ..,,.. ssr.h had .av sTslloMed
not sos seen M about Tie Gsspd csp.yai aopos Thurs:
day evening 1t was then that he agreed to
meet Sumner and go TO YonKers with him to
especially that OF George Edgar, is suspicious.
There Is no evidence that Rowe knows Of his
land Or America Or Canada there Is
ever. Tho story OF the death and the
suspicious circumstances connected with 1t
hare been published In the papers IN all three
countries II there is any reason why hs does
,,ssGraphsdt His uncle was once engaged f.
death. Why has the nephew not inter-
ested himself enough et least to make
some provision for his burial. II had
not been for the kindness OF Mr.. Sumner. the
dead men. who Is known to have had $4,000
within the past year md who ~ known to haye
bad 5000 in cash within q week OF his death.
would have been buried IN q pau per's grave.
NephoE George Edgar's SILENCE 10 still more
suspicionA II he had not called on Mr. Sum:
1 !s:s buried as I Gsasse spitf No s one xoaid
ever have known what had become Of the
msls m:ashy drngsi,, hls faRily wopId have
Deen found, and his name would have been