The sun., 1893-12-30
ECCENTRIC MISS PETTY.
LITTLE ADVANCE IN THE SOLUTION
or 1HE NEWARK MYSTERY
Ths strsns. Little o,d N.'s'. closest Er,.rs

or 1HE NEWARK MYSTERY
| The Strange Little Old Mates Closest Frisrs,
Mrs. Strube,. Feels that she Knows
the YounE Mea who Did the Murder.
Nothing has yet been discovered to indicate
| how or by whom Miss Eliza beth Petty Of New
ark was murdered. After midnight on Thurs
| day the Newark police caused the arrest OF
Robert Hammond. William Ward. and Ellen
Taylor, all colored. and two young white men
named Samuel Gaunt and Edward Moore. All
were discharged yesterday after being closely
questioned without eiciting anything relating
| to the crime.
Miss Potty's body was to have been buried
yesterday. but County Physician Elliott
stopped the arrangements for the funeral.
| saying he had not yet decided whether to or
| der an inquest or not A handsome black
| cloth coffln. bearing a silver plate inscribed
| with her name. had been provided by her rela-
| tives. More relatives have announced their
| existence The nearest of all appears to be
Mrs. SaIton Of Brooklyn. who has written to
Chief OF Police Hopper asking about the date
| OF the funeral She SAYS Miss Petty was her
niece. The Chief received another letter from
Mrs Grafton OF Philadelphia. who an nounces
that sho is a cousin. It seems likely that there
will be a contest for the dead woman's money.
Yesterday Edward Miller. an 1S-year-old
boy who drives milk wagon and lives four
doors below Miss Petty's houFe in Commerce
street. told the police that he saw n man come
out Of the gate at the side Of Miss Petty's
house at 2:35 o'clock on Tuesday morning, as
he left hls home to 60 to his work. He vas
Pettys property. and he took q good look ut
him. The man turned his head away. Miller
says. and turned up the collar OF his coat. He
allowed Miller to pass him. and then turned
north on Mulberry street and crossed the
canal bridge. while the boy stood and watched
hin. Miller says the man was unusually
broad across the shop deN. tall. and had on Z
pealacket with wide collar anil wore a black
Derby hat with a high rolling rim
Chief Hopper does not belleve that woman
done by some Of, the young toughs who have
repeatedly plundered the house. The miserly
Little old maids houss where she Lived Al
out he! reporting the. thefts to the police. 1t
is said that only few weeks ago thieves
then she bought hasps and padioeks and
II tho ''T}S%Ss 'S sSo GHSs; ss
money lying around loose on tables and 9theT,
she took to ing enious methods OF hiding 1t, as
is shown by the finding Of SlI0 buried in
S Sn the 6ay the nnn
on Thursday. $40, was hidden under dirt and
rubbish in corners and on the floor Of closet.
whole amount spent when she broke bill
she seldom or never spent change but made
mnined. Then the number Of the bill was en-
tered In her notebook or on the wall. with the
That she bought picture books and toys for
her unaporeciative pets. the cats; there can be
and e 10
Mss Petty every very 0,psr year to ths
charities, sending the money 10y mail. She
had 81. $40 in the Newark Savings Institution
when |, collapsed. but she aiterward received
yestpen,s in bank stock and railroad stock
eSseG G'SA Sayment 1S % $500 "n from the SAVINGS
bank one day and laid it In a basket in tho
% WOKE " up the BASKET s and money % we're 9one Se
She Gid not report the matter to the police,
Her only Intimate friend was Mrs. Mary
stTu6e who now DOW lives II Hack HocsettstSwn but
sitc Miss Petty's house. She says that Miss
Petty used to go with her to the theatres and
knew, Mrs ,srnbel Gays that Miss Petty
and that she nsysf. looked her house at ali an:
81 after accounts 81 her ~ wealth and peculiar
thas she PoSbsd Often BY
lums of the neighborhood that she locked all
shf 1nce the Ss assa sRd
read by and did her cooking over, two oil
stoves, although there was coal in the cellar
woman picked uD MIN in the ssr0ss street or
she urged Miss Petty to get a revolver. and
that the old woman refused. saying that she
would not know how to use IL, and that sho |
could only be kill ed once. anyhow. She says
she knows that Miss Petty was q sort OF a |
tsxiiermist, and that she embalmod the cats |
which died in the house.
Mrs. Strubel also says that she feels that she !
knows who the young mon were who muir
dered Miss Petty, but she will not mention |
their names, because she might be wrong af- |
ter all. and she does not want to be mixed up |
in the case.
Samuel A. Gould OF st. James I. l.. wrote to |
the Newark police yesterday that his mother |
in-aw. Mrs. Caroline l.. Jewell OF that place, |
was the only living cousin OF Misc Petty and |
asked whether he had better come to Newark |
to see about her effects |