The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-26
LILLE, Low BURIED
The Pretty Suicide Laid in
WoodlaWn Cemetery
Without Religious
Rites.
MORE QUEER POLICE WORK
Two Men Who Knew Father aud
Daughter to Be Arrested
Without Excuse.
MORE QUEER POLICE WORK

NEW YORK, July rs, 1S95.-Followlng
the remarkable line of procedure thus far
carried in the case Of Lillian Low, the
girl who shot herself on Washington
Heights ON Monday morning. in arrest
ing all the friends of the unfortunate
girl, the police are now looking Tor
Robert Inman of No. 80 West Thirtieth
street, and a friend of his named Trow-
bridge, a clerk at No. II Broadway. They
desire to ask them what they know OF
the girls life after she left the home OF
her father, James Low,Jr in last March.
Thus far they ave not succeeded in find
ing either of them. Mr.. Inman is an
enthusiastic yachtsman and is at present
cruising down the Sound in his sloop the
Dogmar. AIT his apartment it was learned
today that he went away on Monday
morning.
Mr.. Trowbridge, it was ascertained,
does not live with Mr.. Inman, but is
simply a friend. He used to call there
frequently.
Just what the Coroner expects to learn
from these two men it is difficult to say.
The girl committed suicide beyond doubt.
The mysterious case against Miss Han
son, Mr.. Champney and DR.. Biggs must
of necessity end in a fiasco.
Mr.. Inman has for some months taken
his meals at a restaurant at No. "a west
Thirtieth street, kept by S. g. Smith.
Smith said today that Mr.. Low and his
daughter used to take their meals there
They always behaved most affectionately
toward one another. The old man treated
his daughter with marked courtesy. Mr..
Trowbridge went to the restaurant fire.
quently, and one day last winter Smith
introduced him to Mr.. Low.
WE'RE AN AFFECTIONATE COUPLE.
After that Mr.. T~rowbridge used fire.
quently to sit at Mr.. Lows table and
converse with him and his ~aughter.
Mr.. Smith said that he never saw Mr..
Inman speak to the Lows and thai for
over three months he had never seen
him with his friend, Mr.. Trowbridge.
Mr.. Low says that his daughter met
Mr.. Inman and Mr.. Trowbridge at the
Hanson house. and that once she took
a drive with the two men.
Mr.. Low says that about three months
ago he met Mr.. Trowbridge ana told him
that his daughter deserted him, and
asked him to tell Lillian, if he saw her.
tina her father would like her to return
to him.
him that he had met his daughter a few
days before and walked with her for
some time. The girl refused to talk
about her trouble with nsr father.
Thus far there has been found not the
slightest evidence Of my kind which
persons in connection with Lillian Lows
death. Just what Coroner gallagher,
who is conducting the investigation, is
has been found that the girl bought
the pistol that was found by her body
at Stearn's paWnbroker shop; on Thirty
along Amsterdam avenue at one O'Clock
whom she told that she was going to
Wholesale ARRESTS.
But as the result OF her father's al'e-
cations that the girl was lured away
had anything to do with the girl since
she left her father has been treated as
DR.. Biggs,. it has been learned, is the
son of a wholesale grocer, in Glendale,
Ohio. It was from this place that he
and signed "Tommie,' which was found
on the girls body.
He graduated in medicine in Cincinnati
was here a year and then went into
the army as a urgeon. He was in the
| army but a short time and returned
to Glendale. A year ago he came back
THE GIRLS FUNERAL.
Lillian Low will be buried In Wood
lawn Cemetery this afternoon. There will
be no funeral services. AS her father
said this morning.
my daughter was, like myself, a
free thinker, and do not see any neces-
sity of having a minister for the flu
neral. In fact. I think it would be
somewhat out Of place"
2:40 O'Clock train over the Harlem Road,
and will be Inferred immediately upon
| tention to lave it buried in the plot
of his brother, Joseph 7. Low.
The brothers, however, it was, stated
this morning, would not consent to that,
and so the. body will have to rest in a
grave in the public ground.
The body was prepared for burial at
Maloney's undertaking shop at No. 400
East Twenty-sixth street his morning.
At the request of Mr.. Low it was
wrapped only in shrouds.
IN A PLAIN COFFIN.
1t was then placed in a simple coffin
stained outside to look like rosewood,
| and lined inside with white silk. On the
lid was a small silver plate bearing this
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