New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-17
! CALLS PINKERTONS IN.
TO INVESTIGATE DRC WING
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
MR.. LAWRENCE BELIEVES IN MURDER
THEORY-MORE EVIDENCE
OF A FIGHT.

| The Shinnecock Bay tragedy, which cost the
! lives OF Miss Sarah Lawrence and Clarence
! Foster and caused Louis Disbrow to become
! fugitive enters into its second week a greater
mystery than ever. "Dimples" Lawrence had
simple pathetic burial to-day in that part of
the Riverhead Cemetery that is given over TO
poor strangers, and her relatives departed
The seemingly Indifferent lethargy of the Suf-
folk County authorities was broken tonight by
the arrival of William H. Fields assistant su-
perntendent of the Pinkertons New-York Of
flee He will make an investigation for Liv-
ingston Smith. the District Attorney Charles
F Foster father of the dead boy, who has been
demanding an investigation ever since the bodies
were found. saw DR.. Nugent, the coroner when
he here to-day expecting to meet the
prosecuting officer. Foster asked that his sons
body be exhumed and autopsy held The
coroner promised the father that he would do
this as soon as District Attorney Smith reached
Good Ground
Mrs Foster. mother of the dead man. is very
bitter against the Lawrences and Disbrow- My
son was murdered" she kept repeating to-day,
after that man had hypnotized him and the
girl. Don't speak to OF her. She instigated
the whole thing. He must be revenged, and the
county officers must do it.
The only new evidence to-day given by
John Carter who was sleeping in a shed few
yards away from the new wharf where the
young people secured their boat. He was not
awakened. but found many traces of struggle
the beach when he went to look for the boat.
He reported this his employer before he knew
that any one missing.
The Lawrence funeral party left the Ocean
View Hotel at 8 o'clock this morning for the
long drive to Riverhead where the girls oody
had been taken. In a large yellow carryan were
Mr.. and Mrs Lawrence. their three surviving
children two of Mrs. Lawrence's sisters. Mr..
and Mrs. Jacobs, of Mount Vernon. and their
daughter Edith. who had been classmate of
the dead girl al the Convent of the Sisters Of
St Mary After leaving the little girls at
the Merritt House in Riverhead. in the care of
| the son. who is twenty years old and naval
apprentice. they drove to Hill Brothers under
| taking place The Rev Robert Weeks. pastor
Of the Riverhead Episcopal Church, read the
! service of the Church amid the tears of the
| mother and aunts. He made reference to
| "DimpIes" or her untimely end.
! FLOWERS BROUGHT BY STRANGER.
| The yellow carryall followed the hearse up the
| dusty road to the cemetery, and under an arch
on which was painted Here Rest His Beloved.
A little way from the gate was the plot which
| the father had purchased on Sunday. and after
| short prayer Miss Lawrence was buried
There was n1t flower on me cof+in nor were
! any put on the grave. This fact struck home to
|
who had come to the cemetery to gather twigs
| and to put honeysuckle blossoms on the
| grave of a comrade of Vincent's in the Civil
| War who died recently Mrs. Vincent put some
| of her flowers In Miss LawrenCes grave.
| We sa them standing there by the grave"
| said the gray haired old woman. and we knew
| they were city folk by their fine clothes. Then
| | remembered about the poor girl and her terrible
drowning. just couldn't keep from putting the
| honeysuckles on her grave. 1t seemed like de-
sertng her TO leave the grave so bare. and even
| if she bad she didn't deserve that"
Two village girls. with armful of white
! roses passed the cemetery and learned of the
| burial. They spread their flowers beside the
| honeysuckle and sprinkled them with a few
! tears
| Mrs Lawrence took the New York train at
| Riverhead She will visit for a time her sister,
| who lives near Boston. Mr.. Lawrence came
! back to Good Ground but later in the day went
! TO Freeport, where he will rest for few days
| Il believe that my daughter met with foul
| play" he said to Warren H. Corwn. the pro-
prietor of the Ocean View Hotel, at which his
family had been staying But 1t will do
| good to stir up the matter. for she is gone from
us forever. l want the thing to die out and be
| forgotten"
To the reporters Mr.. Lawrence said that he
would remain in Freeport for several days after
which he could be found at his office, No 149
| Broadway New-York. He denied that his
daughter had ever received threatening letters
from Dsbrow. and said that his son had given
no interviews that effect.
MR. LAWRENCE CRITICISED
| Mr. Lawrence has come in for good deal of
| criticism from the natives of this conservative
| farming settlement since he the
| of the tragedy. First, they heard that he had
| refused To look at the face of his dead daugh-
| ter. Then the word from Riverhead that
| he had bought grave for So in the poorest part
! of the cemetery Next to it was the grave of
| Riverhead scavenger They did not know that
the Riverhead burial only temporary. and
| that the body was to he removed later to the
| family plot in New-York.
A constant camor from the Fosters and their
many friends here has at last started the of
| fetal machinery of Suffolk County.
Il realize that this case of the utmost
| Importance, and demands most searching in
| vestigation.' said Livingston Smith, the Dis
trict Attorney. this morning Il shall give it my
| personal attention, and have county
detective force l shall call on the Pnkertons.
| In fact l the >ray to New-York TO
| put the case in their hands
! The result was the arrival of Mr. Fields who
| came out on one OF the late trains and began
work by visiting the shore. He may be able
| to let something definite of Edward Ter
| nell who has given several versions of his
| knowledge of the case. He seems to be more
interested in keeping his hotel the Pineview. out
Of the papers i'm this connection than in anything
! else He said to-day that he sat up all Mon
| dav night watching his chickens and that he
! had heard no fighting in Disbrow's room. He
saws that he did not see ''Dimples" Lawrence,
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