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NEW York, March 24.-rhe inquiry into
/ the murder of Carl Emanuel Ruttinger has
broadened out and is now involving the
postoiliee department. Of this country, the
4 police of two continents and the corOners
Of two counties. Gable dispatches from
London state that letters were sent 20
| Wright by his sister, Mrs Evans, on Feb
q They were addressed General Postof-
fee" Allowing nine days for the impor-
tation Of the mails, these letters arrived
here on Feb. II. There are no letters IN
the general postoflice for William Wright.
Did he call for them? If he did the identi-
fications of the Astor House suicide as
Wright go for naught, as it was on Feb. 3
that Evans" killed himself
Thepostuflice authorities started a search
for Wrights missing letters yesterday.
Think Wright Is Alive.
The Staten Island police are following
in the footsteps of Inspector Byrnes One
Of Captain Blake's men called at Hamil-
tons hotel yesterday for description Of
| Wright's personal baggage, As Hamilton
was at the time before Coroner Levy he
| failed to obtain it. In addition to Wright's
valises obtained from some woman whose
name he refuses TO disclose, Inspector
| Byrnes has a steamer rug that belonged to
Wright. The rug and the valses he had
with him when he left Neu's house, osten-
sibly for Boston.
Detective Sergeants Won Gerichten and
Titus are still at work on the New York
city end of the case while Detective Grow
ley, in a blue shirt and torn trousers Is
loafng about the Perth Amboy coal docks.
These facts, with the inspectors admission
that he has letters referring to Wright
which have an important bearing on the
case, prove that he is working diligently
in the matter. He is also known to have
been in communication with the chief Of
police Of london.
The Fred Evans" Inquest.
The second inquest on the body Of Erred
Evans was began by Coroner Levy YES
terday. Mrs. Annie Gertrude Neil, who
had identified the body as that of George
II. Edgar was sworn. All the identified
tions as Wright would not satisfy her
that she was wrong, she said. The last
time she had seen Edgar was few days
prior to Jan. ~, and he appeared very
respondent
Edward Morse, elevator boy; M. p. Chi
chester and William L. Davids. night and
day clerks respectively of the Astor House.
told how Evans had come there. Eustace
+. Grove, Hamilton's ex-clerk, swore that
he was certain the Astor House suicide was
Wright. He, however, had only seen him
half dozen times. Gustave Neu said the
same thing. and added: "When looked at
him in the morgue last Wednesday made
the remark that the hair was somewhat
darker than Wright's. Some one at once
told me that hair always deepened in shade
after death. Otherwise | am certain ii was
Wright" Hamilton also swore the body
was Wright's
Not Wright's Body.
f. Blumenstein, a cane manufacturer on
Fourth avenue, said that Wright had
boarded with him for two years in Plauen-
Vogtland, Saxony. The body in the morgue
he had no5 recognized as Wright. Honors
for the Identification were thus even, two
witnesses having sworn the suicide was
WRIGHT and two that he was not Thein-