New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-09
MOUNT VERNON'S MYSTERY
TRYING TO FIND HOW ELLA NEWTON DIED
,,.xv CONTRADICTORY OPINIONS EXPRESSED
CORONER DREwS CONFIDENT THAT
HE HAS THE MURDERER

HE HAS THE MURDERER
Mount Vernon was a city Of theories YESTERDAY
Almost every person i'll the city had theory a"'u'
,be manner in which unfortunate Ella Ne"'o"
met her death last Monday in East ohPS'er
Creek. and each theory seemed to DE di'Icle""
The arrests of James Meyers, white OF NOUN.
Vernon, on suspicion of numbering the GIN anu
Walter b. Landrine and Joseph Aaron fugsleS'
both colored, OF New Rochelle, serve" 10 Ne''
public interest at high pitch.
Mrs Meyers the mother Of The suspected man.
,.oons an emplovmcnt agency opposite the dcpo'
and WAS almost crazed with grief at the "rr'S' VI
hor con She said to Tribune reporter yes'ef
L.. .Jomcs is inst as innocent OF this crime as
am lie retired at a late hour on 0""u"s
;h. and did not get up again untll haIi-paS.
,cIocl, On Monday afternoon lie never Sd" Ina
Nrton who came here shortly at'er "A o''."
A. a o'clock Girl came IN 10 pay tne io' ~
H -, hor q Mace Nv fee was so cents, ana
.ho Dir, handed me dollar BILL askeu 'ain.s
~ I, changed for me, and he did so at heigh-
hor,s This was the first time lie was o"' y"
~ Altar no returned he remained IN lhe
honse and engaged in a game Oh caiuS WIN e.
inquiry 1,o,ors had changed the bill there
''o ,;oo Rnt the statement thar Meyers
aV ,"'s taro Going 10 White Plains yesterday
~, tror, that of his mother. lie SAID that
-. an t,.1j D. M and remained aoouo inc
80 dnrir, the afternoon. lie SAID tnat he
w :, ,ho roar room when Ella Newton came
:, ond although he did not see her, he hearo her
,aIl,ing with MS mother and remarked a''H' sne
had rome that she was not rght meh'anS' i"i'
,o,lieS with what he told the Tribune reporter on
Tuesday. H. ..,o.oa
urs Iandrine. the wife of one of the coiored
mon arrested. came to Mount Vernon yesterday
afternoon TO see her husband, but Chiei foiey
told her that he had been taken 10 'he "h''c
Plains iail She said that her husband went 10
the coalyard of MoneauX q Guest, on Echo-".o',
Ncw-Rochee, on Monday morning, ana dpPn'u
Gov work He did not secure it, and IN the
afternoon went 10 East Chester to help MI
Flynn move some furniture up to New-Rochelle
She said that Pugsley, the other negro, was at
home during the day. Landrinc protests mat ne
is innocent. and saws that he was in New-Rochelle
all dav. and said before leaving Mount Vernon
that he was engaged during the afternoon deliver
ing produce in New-Rochce, apd did not go 10
East Chester.
Pugsey. the other coored man. says that he
was in Flynn's liquor shop in Ncw-Rochelle dur
ing the greater part of the day.
The prisoners were taken to the White Plains
Jail Yesterday afternoon, and locked up on an
order from the Coroner to await the action OF
the coroner's jury.
Coroner Drews said yesterday that he was con-
fdent that the evidence in his possession was
sufficient to hold the prisoners and would I'M
doubtedly secure their indictment by the drano
Jury. He said that the inquest would he held
next Tuesday at p. m, in the undertaking es-
adjustment Of Burr Davis. on Fourth-ave.. Mount
Vernon. Until then it would be unwise TO re-
veal his information lie said that he would
probably make another arrest during the night.
lilo did not think il possible that Meyer could
prove an abb.
James Rafferty,, man who hangs around the
"Sportsmen's Retreat has been Boosting that
he knew the dead girl and had accompanied
her to the Mott House. at Tarrytown. The
story reached the of the detectives. and
they called on Rafferty,. AS soon as he saw
the detectives he weakened. ana ackn0Wlenged
that lie had lied.
Detective Clark, in speaking Of the arrest Of
the two colored men at Ncw-Rochelle yester
day. said: "Puesley Hollow is tOugh place.
and il is as much as mans life is worth TO
90 there after dark. When we entered flynn's
place late Wednesday night there were nine
coorcd men there. We invited them to drink,
and in the conversation that followed | ques-
toned Pursey and Landrine about their ac-
tons on Monday They both denied that they
had been near Mount Vernon for Il month Their
actions were suspicious and We were salts
fled that they were in the neighborhoOd when the
Girl was murdered Monday we arrested them.
4 rumor was current yesterday that Ella New
ton had called at the house of Mrs. Brundage,
which is on the road 10 East Chester Creek ana
made inquiries about how 10 reach the hotel
l'pon Investigation the young woman was lonhd
~ be a Miss Eneel whose father lives in Mount
Vernon and who I ad business at the hotel
Chief Foley, of the Mount Vernon police, is
not working with the coroner, and thinks That
file case is one of suicide, and this opinion is
shared by the members of the force Much in
tcrcst expressed in the result OF the inquest ana
there il some surprise expressed that tn" coroner
should have deferred il until Tuesday If the evil
lence in his possession is as strong as he asserts
il TO lie.