Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-04
THAT CULVER MYSTERY
Evidence That the Missing Man
 Killed Himself.
WROTE THE STRANGER" LETTERS.
He Is Said to Have Been Disappointed In Love and to Have Planned Suicide, So That It Would Appear That He Had Been Murdered.

NEW YORK, June 4.-The World today publishes tho result of an investigation which it has been making into the death of Roy NJ. Culver, who left his home in Newark, N. Y, on March 2S and whose body was found some weeks later in the Clyde river. The World says:
 The two most significant facts estab- lishod are that Culver wrote tho letters signed stranger, which told that he had been put out of the way, and that he planned in advance the trip to Clyde, where his body was found in the river. Everything points to suicide. There is a little girl in blue" in the case of whom Roy had become very fond. It is known that she looked coldly on Roys suit and that her people did not approve it.
 The Stranger" letters were written by Culver to convince his friends that he had been murdered. Thero is possibility that he did not contemplate suicide when he went to Clyde, and that ho met with foul play. but in view of all the circumstances this possibility seems remote in the ex- trome.
 The Tall Stranger.
 The story told by the second hand store keeper of Lyons that tho day the body was found a tall stranger came into his place and tried to borrow money on articles of personal apparel was CarCcully investigat- ed. This man upon whom suspicion rested for time proved to be Peter Claneath whose father was at one time a Syracuse alderman.
 Ho claimed he was serving a term of 60 | days for vagrancy in the Erie county peni- tontiary, Buffalo, at the time Culver dis l appeared, and a telegram to the warden | established the truth of this statement. It l clothing was identical with that at the bottom of the Clyde river and entirely diff | foreut from that found at CanandaiGua Outlet. contrary to the general theory. The evidence in regard to the Stran- l gor' letters being writton by Culver him | sclt was secured through a close compari- l son of these with the writing on a num- Der of shells and stones picked mp by him 1 at Sodus Point last year. On them Gull vcr had writton various inscriptions, and the characters arc identical with those in 1 the lettUrs It was also discovered that | one of the Stranger letters was written l on leaves cut from one of Culver $ books. But, above all, Culver left behind the | two railroad time tables on which he had as clearly indicated the course of his wan derings as though he had made a writton statement. Instead of going to Syracuse on the day ho left homo ho wont to Lyons l by tho West shore road He Is registered at n second rate hotel there under his right name lIo was soon to leave Newark by the West shore baggage master.
 TelItale Time Tables.
 On tho West Shore time tab.e ho h aG drawn a ring around the figures which represent tho time the train left Newark l 10 .:Io a m, and the time at which it ar rived in LyoRs, l0:47 n. m He remained over night in Lyons and had breakfast there. He told the hotel proprietor ht wanted to catch train for Clyde, but in stead ho took a train to Syracuse
 On his New York Central time table h. had computed the distance in miles be twoon Syracuse and Lyons, clearly indi eating he had tho trip in mind He mus have been there just before 80 p. m. or the 29th to have mailed tho letters, anl the postal card received in Newark thu next day. The only other marks on tn, time table suggest the trip from Syracus' back to Clyde,
 Frank Bills of Clyde says he saw stranger standing on the bridge acros the river in Clyde about a quarter of | mile above the depot. where tho body wa found. between and P. m. Hc crossed the bridge into town. and returning al hour and half later saw the same persoi standing there gazing into the water. II
 is sure 1t was Roy Culver.