Evening journal., 1891-08-05
A MYSTERY AFTER ALL.
No Trace of Matilda Huber at
-. North Haven. .l..f
UNCLE WEBER HAS Disappeared


His Identification Is Now Believed TO
Have Been a Bogus one-Detectives
Dlsoover That He Was Not Known in
Connecticut.
NEW YORK, Aug. 5.--The Glendale muir.
der mystery promises to vie with that OF
Railway The Identification Of the girls
body by Charles II. Weber, Of New Haven,
is not accepted as trustworthy and Coroner
Homeyer Is perfectly at sea. Yesterday
the coroner went of 10 Rockaway post
haste with a strange young man in search
| Of the murderer, instead Of leaving that
work for detectives. This young man, who
| gave his name as Charles Read, OF Darien,
| Conn, and his age as twenty was not Of
an appearance calculated to inspire con-
| fdence. The coroner took him away from
| the reporters into an upper room, and
when he came out gave the impression
that he had an important clew to the mys-
terry.
No Weber at North Haven.
The body Of the murdered girl was en-
balmed Monday night by Leonard RuoR,
the undertaken. Yesterday no one was
allowed to see it, aud the authorities even
asserted that, had no description of il been
sent out in the first place, they would not
have been so likely to be imposed upon by
l fraudulent identifiers. The two detectives
| whom Coroner Homeyer sent to North
Haven, Conn, to investigate Weber'H
. story were unable TO find anything about
him. They secured the place in vain, and
had the assistance Of local officials. They
+ / teegraphed the coroner TO hold Weber un-
a. a.. .saat.,t httt had
g allowed Weber to depart and he could not
5 be found.
y Matilda Huber "a Myth Also.
e Neither Is the name Matilda Huber
a known in the town. The nearest is Ma
Z tilda zuber, a comely German girl, who
7 lives near Morse's Crossing, settlement
y a few miles north of North Haven. She in
y | employed in the suspender shop at Center
q Vile. She is alive and we'll
n There is one Adolph Teller, the proprie-
tor of a roadhouse on the Wallingford
"a road who has been missing since Friday
ne II is known that he had q niece visiting
him who was unknown to the neighbors-
She, too, is missing.
n story from North Haven.
b- An incident which adds flavor of truth
III to Weber's story that the girl came from
ne North Haven il told by Station Agent
he Morse and is corroborated by Maltby
1e Fowler, a farmer. Both men say that they
On saw couple walking on the track and
to hanging about the depot on Saturday
ne morning The woman was dressed in dark
Az clothes and had light hair, They over
see | heard them talking about the purchase q
property and remember hearing the wo
q man say that she had 800 which could bl
ias- used They station agent says they tool
the 7:41 train for New Haven.
The Sarond TIontff7ar.
the Wehers escape SO nettled the corone
his that he declared that the proper thing 9,
All do hereafter would be to hold every ont
err who should appear 10 examine the body
lgs until the mystery has been fully cleares
or up. Reed, the second Connecticut identi
fer, claims that he laew the murdered
vs: girl well. He remembers dancing with he
ny, at Savin Rock, near New Haven, two year
ire ano. He said he had seen her subsequently,
en- He believed he knew her slayer who's
name no gave as John Haav, and that h
ion saw this man in company with the girl OF
list the Brooklyn bridge Sunday, and later q
Rockaway beach, 81
Coroner Homeyer was at Rockaway Will
Reed all day yesterday and nothing what
,iIy ever was heard from him. Reed elaine,
that Haav was in hiding at Rockaway
on ~ Killed the Girl" lie said.
ok Another sensational part in the identi
the flying came Monday night. A strangl
my man. rather dilapidated in appearance, en-
emit tered Grauer's hotel at Ridgewood, wher
the a crowd OF men and boys were discussing
ey- the murder. He was about 5 feet lOinchei
.els tall, of stout build, smooth shaven, dressed
nth in a dark suit OF clothes, Come up boys
He and have drink, said he, and the crowt
gar readily responded, and the stranger paid
vas exhibiting large roll of bills as he did SO
as When the murder was brought up, TIN
re- half drunken man said gnrrulously; =.
ing know all about that murder killed th
led girl, and I am sorry for it-Im sorry"
was the OLD Man weber,"
he shout OF laughter went up from th
for crowd, which made the unknown man an
nth CRY. He said that an old man was L
els. blame for the murder and that he ough
six to be hanged. "He got me 80 put the cir
The out OF the way said the stranger, "be
nu- cause there was money in it for him ant
Ind money for me, pulling the roll out OF hi
al pocket II tell you,n he went on, ''tonigh
3.92 a man will come here to identify the girl
rice body How could tell you this If l didn'
nts knowfn Deputy Sheriff Frank Spedel
the refused to arrest the man, and the stran
q. ger went away. When a short time aite
Weber put in an appearance the crowd i
the barroom suddenly came to the conclu
!, OF sion that there might be a great deal NOR
iust truth than fiction in what the fellow ha
M. said This circumstance was, however
yer, not sufficient TO induce Coroner Homeye
the TO examine Weber thoroughly or to detail
by him.
2 AZ The Rarr VIII Contestants Succeed