New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-17
CALLS PINKERTONS IN.
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oner He was asked a number Of question:
Yesterday about the condition of Fosters body
and the wounds He said that the cut over
Fosters eye was nothing but an abrasion. and
that the flow of blood from il was not unusual
He explained the flow of blood from the eyes
ears. mouth and nose by the decomposition OF
the tissues which caused the fermented blood
to break more vessels. 1t was rather
vague and complicated this explanation, but
the coroner seemed TO think il plain enough
Il did not like 10 touch the BODY" Coroner
Nugent is said TO have replied this morning
when Mr.. Foster demanded his reason for not
making a thorough examination IT
seemed to me a clear case of accident. and did
not know there would he so much fuss made
about it or 1 would have gone into it more thor
oughIy."
Foster insisted that an autopsy be performed.
and DR. Nusent at last promised to do it. Eos
ter is sure, from what he heard from those who
saw the body that this will show positive evil
dence OF foul play.
You could not drown my boy unless he was
badly injured 10 help himself" said the
father. and the girl expert swimmer.
Her mother told my mother 50. They may have
been drinking. but not enough so that Clarence
was unable for himself
The new witness discovered by the reporters
to-day is John Carter. eighteen years old. who
saving crew. He has been working on a dock
for Nelson p. Squires. and last Monday night
was sleeping in an clubhouse fifteen yards from
the mooring place of the boat from which Foster
and .DfmpIes' Lawrence are supposed to have
drowned. He was not awakened in the night.
but he is so used 70 sleeping with the roar OF
the surf in his that he would not be likely
to hear anything. He arose at > O'Clock and
discovered that the boat was gone 1t was
a,-J 1arcr boat yv1
is anchored a short distance i'll the bay. He
saw many footprints running up and down the
beach woman's among them. At the boat
post the sand kicked up as though there
had been a fight There is no Sherlock Holmes
in young Carter, and he was content with
superficial examination II told him that there
had been a fight and nothing more Soon after
he showed the signs to his employer, who did
not pay much attention % them The tide came
in and obIiterated them.
BOAT WOULD HAVE SOON FILLED.
Carter SAYS that if Foster and the girl went
off in the boat they could have gone far
before it would have filed with water 1t
leaked under his weight in the 5O-yard trip TO
the other boat. Yet Roger Squires says that
Foster knew the condition of the boat, and that
he would not venture to cross the bay in 1t, no
matter how drunk he was. The boat was well
filed with water when found floating IN the
bay.
Louis Disbrow is the man who can unravel
the tangle. Even those who believe that the
pair lost their lives in a boating accident, or
whom there are few would like hear his
story Those who suspect foul play. the ma
iority of Good Ground folks, ask: What did
he run away foT?' And they keep asking IT,
They will not be satisfied with the explanation
that he feared the exposure of his forged check
transactions. 9IT. Fields will not admit that
the PinkertorS have been asked to ind him. and
so far as known, warrant for his arrest has
been issued by the District Attorney Few De-
eved that ne was Sundays bridge jumper, and
flight rather than suicide is the popular ex-
pIanation Of his disappearance.
The citizens of Good Ground are beginning 70
I.sr incidents of the few weeks previous
to the tragedy which seemed of little import at
the time but which have bearing On the case
They told to-day of trouble on the street De-
tween Clarence Foster and his bride OF three
months She found him walking. II IS said,
with TWO village bellies, Neta Raymond and
Lottie Sauires cousins. who live with their
grandmother. she scoldsd him roundly for go
ing around with young girls and told him thar
he must stop IL. Fosters mother denies tner ne
ever had words with his wife