The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-26
LEVI L. BRIGHAM D ROWNED.
UNION LEAGUE CLUB MA r. WHO HAD
BEEN MISSING THREE DAYS

-FohHd In Gravesend Bay mis- Young
wire Left without Resou snes.
Capt. Jim .Stillwe'ls club house o \ tGravesend
Beach is tia, headquarters OF Il . brooklyn
Yacht Club in tho yachting sea con. Capt.
Stillwcll also kAeps boats for hire. On Friday
evening two mon came to tho club house and
hired boat for al all-night fishing trip out on
Gravesend Bay. They returned % the club
house about o'clock yesterday m srning with
tho corpse Of a man In tow OF their BOAT they
had seen IL floating In the water ABOUT loo
yards from the beach
When the CORPSE was ,akon from he water IL
was seen to DO that OF a man nbon so years
old and six feet tall. 1t was dressed In black
diagonal cutaway coat. white duck vest. and
dark striped trousers. On the feet ore pair
OF heavy English walking shoes Tho mans
hair was iron gray, and no wore short,
stubbiy iro n. gray moustache. Steven B.Green,
q painter Of 35l De Kalb avenue. q nd W. II.
Green Of 2..6 Skillman street. Breo klyn, are
The mon who found the body.
Cant. Stilrwen notified Chot OF + ollce Mo-
Kane OF Con,y Island. and word wal sent to
Coroner Rooney Of Brooklyn. Depu ty Coroner
Dsegan went down to Gravseend Beach ana
gave a permit Aor tho removal OF the body to
6tillwels more ue ut Graveseu nd. There the
clothing was searched and pap,srs were found
which identity tho body az th't OF Levi l.
Brigham OF the Union League ClL.n. New York.
formerly paymaster's clerk in tLe navy. Be-
sides the kpapers thero was IN old open
faced silver watch. made by the American
Watch Company The water had stopped the
watch at 80 o'clock. which may leave been
aeon or midnight There was also IN old
knife. 80 cents in money. bunch OF seven
keys. u pair OF tortoise shell rimpsed eye
glasses. part OF an upper plate contai aing five
false teeth aud one natural tooth. single key:
and gold pSne Ihers was Amen Ss 40 nm neo oa
carry for luck. or to keep Off rheumatisia.
The papers consisted p ila o! fss!ets.
Richmond. second grade at Newport h. l..
Oct. "a, 1890. and read
"Pdnmds:>r's tl,rk L.. H. brigham. Z. s n
SIR: You will proceed to yonr home In New
York city for the purpose OF assisting n,e in
fho Of me fe OF s FTP
.id s I SoaiseIi dsshsrssd from the naval SER
WV "iAMEs Hoy, Pay Inspector. .. $. NJ,
This lot ter is STAN ped: Approved Jan. 81.
Navy" and endorsed:
Renmona Sewpors L. os. a. 1 as'c nrn noy
ment Pay CLERK j. l. Brigham. '''0''
Other letters seem to chow that BriGhamh had
friends WHO we're rf sndeayoring to ha Tso him
Of rsps e ssEns
MT kenny reeommenaed Coopsr the assistsni
By careful ni nesens
ance Of duty. and yesterday the appointment
the commandment As to hard work. no one
an sure, enjoys 1t moro than you do. -, have
ihnn than. YOU did In the Lancaster. or more rap
idly. and feel sure that wherever you may
U s%PieYod your services will always prove
There was also the rst sheet 2, Letter. the
vwritf ~ mn N n n n
e ae .na A Assl, 1891
should think Would make about Hos SO pages
limo. The story was written by party who
ness hsrs IN ME street, lie has Wrsen
good deal for the magazines. and has been
sood WAYS his ns
has Civ en- me this story right out l have bis
Go xn aa{ IS & Row. SspSsnH az it
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, Brigham bIothers James y. and A: 1.
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ssods to
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remain. yery IF nly yours STREET d SMITH"
ApF to Meth ass
place The MS. with Street L Smith: This also
"1' '' Minnesota. NEW York, June 49, 1891,
DEAR BRIGnAM: Yours OF the sth is at hand.
1S viii Fs ssd Rsy In psS know in Gu s
s %ish GOOD cd wishss truly seAs0'nS SNIP
Besides these letters there We're r'ns several
cards enc q Van n, M N!ntsr 420 Eleventh
s n. and one oi. Iam.,s L. yaIluton. 232 Vest
Newton street, New hsdford. There, was also
sss Su s
advertisement and time table OF the Iron
be IA as
sanaron on Thnrsdsy night With the Tsss
ss!sS ls 81 s IL. 5 showed G 2Sss
occupied. and there we're numerous restau.
nahsr f of .so 1a aRo them Of The Eli
was for two weeks land amounts to s91.l5.
s Mse 81 the
lead pencil. was cabinet plotograDh OF :
Shs Back 81
fashioned chair. in which she was seated. She
nn Of apa da1 hap s
,Eere WAS writ. n on the side Il. I. Brig
young woman In the tntype sh0 wore largo
checked skirt and whito waist with light
had evidently been only little time In the
wnter; The inquest will be held on Monday
morning.
Brigham lived In good fiat on the first floor
OF the tall apartment house 5l5 Lexington aye
lie left bone on "Wednesday soon aiteE, noon.
louse TO SOC his old friend. A. l.. Ashmnp. and
20 100 Broadway. Whsro he was TO meet Pay In
spector James j. Toliree. I. $. ~. from whom.
as no told his wife. he was to get n $500 Unitei
stnt"s registered bond. A. he went ont shs
III i'm good in an afTectionate way, but
Ia -,.nl:
80, don't do that. Il is ASH were going
II a. WAS the las. his wife saw Of him. Whom
he did not come homo Wednesday night she
was much alarmed pnd mex, morning sti!
more SO. because as she says, she had dreamed
that he had come back to her bleeding from y
wound.
She went to tho Union League Club. but he
had not been there. She did not expect very
much to find him there however. Tor ne had
received a notice. sho said that he had been
su,spondcd for non fragment OF bills:
:, Then he vent to the Sinclair House. He
town and he had not seen him. That WAS the