Evening journal., 1891-03-16
HIS LIFE WORTH LOSING.
There Was $2I, $50 Insurance
on Carl Ruttinger.
WAS ne OR HIS DOUBLE sLAINl

The Mystery Surrounding the Bound and
Gagged Corpse Found Near Staten ISL
and DeePens PerceptibIy = Suspicion
OF q Graveyard Insurance Plot.
NKw York. March 16--Is Carl Emanuel
Ruttinger alivef And il living is he now
skulking somewhere in this country CT
Europe to escape the consequences Of ono
of the most elaborate crimes Of modern
times' Is wv W. his friend William
Wright, whose handkerchief was found
crammed into the throat Of the corpse
found week ago in the water at out OF
the way Tottenvile, 5 l., also alive, and
not only alive, but safe in hiding across the
Atlantic, whittier he fled in cattle shif
from Boston,
Can MT. Gustaye New, the East Fifty.
eighth street boarding house keeper, have
been deceived when he identified as Rut
fingers the corpse OF the stalwart man
gagged aud with hands tied behind his
back, whose death has been officially pro
nounced by Dr. Walser, Of Staten Island
TO have resulted from strangulationY
Il the Dead Man RuttinRer?
Can Dr. Walser have been mistaken and
the dead man around whom so much mys
terry olinRs have died from an entirely diff.
ferent eauaes Or II he was strangled to
death can il have been done with the de
liberate purpose Of having the corpse pass
as that Of Ruttingery
Facts developed yesterday IN the latest
and most perplexing Of Staten Islands
rapidly growing list OF mysteries strongly
suggested these sensational inquiries
A -Graveyardf Insurance Plot.
As a result Of all came the suggestion
that the whole mystery OF the lonely cor
ner IN the Arthur Kill was a graveyard
Insurance plot conceived and carried out
with amazing ingenuity and thoroughness
Of detail never outdone in fiction.
First OF an, this startling theory was
suggested by the discovery that Ruttin-
gers life was insured in German compa.
mics and through a branch there in the
Equitable Life Of this city for the large
sum Of s2i 600 Then there was the state
ment that Wright. the friend who has been
so mysteriously silent, is probably alive,
and that the officers Of the law are conf.
dent that they can overhaul him
Insured for s2I. 800.
At NNuf&b ~ tMttlN Threw
quite quite q different light upon the mys.
terry. The policy Of sll $50 in the Equitable
is missing. while those Of the Victoria and
Cologne life insurance companies were
still among the effects The Equitable
policy was issued just one month before
Ruttinger took his second class passage
for this country. Altogether this made
life insnrancies policies aggregating sci.
$50
As result Of the autopsy made on the
body On Walser said yesterday his exam
ination showed oonclusiyely that there
was no trace Of alcohol either IN the
stomach OF brain. Tie was of the opinion
that kuttinRer had been druEged The ii.
quest will be continued Wednesday even
ing at Fire Hall, 1ottenviEle
A dispatch from Boston last night said
that Detective Sergeant Adams. Of police
headquarters, was working with the police
Of that city Go get clew TO William
Wright Their work thus far had brought
70 their attention man who answered
Wriaht's description in every way who
was n Boston recently The suspect was
very nervous IN his manner and a month
ago endeavored to get passage as a eat
tleman on an outbound steamer