Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-18

she said to him: II won't have to work
any more. l am tired of business. My
new husband is rich ana owns a large
farm and many houses.
All her former neighbors speak well
of Mrs. Lewis, as they still call her,
None of them were able to tell me
where she lived before she moved to
the fiat house. The ianitor has her
former address and the names OF per-
sons she referred to when she rented
the fiat, but he could not give them to
mo last night, as they are in book
that was then locked in a safe, the
combination OF which he did not have.
MRS. GoEDY IN BOSTON.
Boston, Mass. March 14.-Mrs. Gordy,
the victim. of the Milton murder, once
lived in Boston, but her stay here was
a short one. She came here on April
4th, 1892, with her first husband, Roger
M. Lewis, and they took rooms at Brig
hams Hotel. Mr.. Lewis said he was
from New York and represented an ink
concern in that city. His wife was
very retiring and had few acquaint-
ances and no intimate friends among
her fellow boarders July 26tb, 1892,
they left the Brigham and moved into
an apartment they had furnished on
| the fourth floor of No. Ga Dover street.
One of the occupants of the house to
night said: "Mra. Gordy, then Lewis,
seemed to her neighbors here rather
eccentric. She was very anxious to
| avoid observation. Her blinds were
always closed, and when she went out
she wore such thick veil that no one
could recognize her. She did not care
| to know any one.
"About six weeks after they came
| to Dover street Mr.. Lewis suddenly
dropped out Of sight. The wife waited
distress of mind, and we concluded that
her husband had deserted her. She left
| the house one morning, saying she was
going to New York, and that was the
last seen of her in Roston. A few days
| later the firm who furnished the apart
ment came and took away the effects. ~
1t ia said that Mr.. Lewis was seen
in tho street hero about year and a
half ego.
Georgetown, March 16. The feeling
against James NJ. Gordy the man who
is locked up in the Sussex county jail
here on the charge of numbering Mrs.
Mary Lewis Of New York, is intense.
but there is no Indication that the
people will interfere with the authori-
ties in the ADMINISTRATION Of justice.
Attorney General White, Detective
Witsil and Constable Lynch are receiv-
ing communication on every hand for
the neat manner in which they have
worked up the case and the general
course they are pursuing in their
efforts to ferret out the terrible crime
which was committed last Wednesday
night in the vicinity of Milton. The
attorney general has engineered the
whole affair with coolness which has
elected admiration. His assistants,
the State detectives. and Constable
Lynch have followed the same plan, and
tho result is gratifying.
Gurdy is as silent as an oyster and is
watched constantly by a special guard.
He was morose and sullen yesterday
and ate hut little. During the after.
noon he asked Keeper Benjamin Will
son for razor that he might shave
himself. But the keeper declined to
grant the request. and Gordy will not
get his shave until the authorities see
fit to admit barber.
IL has been learned that soon aftel
Gordy's incarceration two of his broth
ers called and were admitted, and soor
as they saw the prisoner broke down and
cried. The latter is alleged to have
given his brothers words OF encourage
ment and told them not to worry thai
he. would only be locked up day ol
two. As far as is known his relatives
have not been to soc him since.
When the rumor was found to be
untrue, Attorney. General White natur.
| allx fhof hiu talaupapn ff
Janitor Thorndyke of the fiat No. 26l;
Eighth avenue, New York, asking hin
to request Mrs. Lewis sister tu CONT
down would bring the anRwer, and ht
was surprised last night TO receive ths
following letter from Nine. Grunert,
Mrs. Lewis sister:
New York, March l4.-Jon. Robert @
White. Attorney-general Of Delaware: Deal
Sir-My widowed sister, Mrs. Mary Lewis
26l3 Eighth avenue, sent me the following
postal card on March Sth:
Have got married and am going to George
town, Dell to live. You can get some thing;
where lived last flat at 26l3 Eighth avenue
corner Thirty-ninth street. You can senC
letter to the above address, general de
livery"
have never seen the man. don't know
his name. Her furniture was sent there
She was also in possession of diamond rings
gold watch, etc, and had some money, the
amount of which | don't know, | have {
photograph from her, in which she look.
about the same as when last seen. Not being
in q position or being able, on account o
delicate health to come there at present,
would be very much Obliged 10 get particu
lars, and il you will kindly inform me
what disposition is to be made OF her body
or her burial has been made. A newspaper
reporter called last night with your dispatch
and there is no doubt but that it is my pooi
sister, Mary. Very respectfully,
Nine. Grunert,
652 Herkimer street. Brooklyn.
Mr.. White made no immediate reply
to the letter.
Stephen Lewis of near Georgetown,
who had been led to believe that tbt
murdered woman was his daughter,
went to Milton yesterday and saw thu
body, but of course was unable tC
identify it, and when Every Evening
reached town in the evening the whole
report concerning his daughter, who IL
in Wilmington, was exploded.
. Two trunks arrived at Georgetown
from New York by express yesterday.
They were both billed TO "Jsmes II.
Gordy," there being. evidently mis-
/. take in the middle letter, which should
be IN. " One trunk was larger than tbs
other, and it was apparent that one
was intended for Gordy and the Other
for the woman.
In the absence of Attorney General
White, who was in Wilmington, the
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