New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-28
POSTWAR SAW KINGSLEY.
TWO MEN WERE WITH HIM
Name of Woman Who Gaze Infor-
nation to Police Puzzle.


ley case presents mystery within a mystery.
The woman who identified Frank L. Steward
on Sunday as one Of two she had seen at
her home with Kingsley just before his disap-
pearance gave in court the name of Mrs. Hail.
Her address was given No. 36S Ellison-st..
Paterson, n J. Inspector McClusky, in telling
OF the woman who had told him of Kingsley s
appearance at her home with two men. of whom
Steward was one. described her as Mrs Hall.
\ Tribune reporter on Sunday night FOUND
Mrs Harriet Hall at her home, No. 30 Ellison
St She declared that she knew nothing of the
Kingsley case, had never seen a man answering
his description. and had never seen or heard Of
Steward. The reporter learned that Mrs Harry
Lupton. Of No. 3GS ErIson-st., had told the story
ascribed to Mrs. Hall by Inspector McClusky.
She has been absent from her home since Satur-
day Mrs Hall says that Mrs. Lupton has of
late been receiving kilograms and letters relat-
ing to Kingsleys disappearance from law firm
OF this city.
Mrs Hall went before Recorder Noonberg, at
Paterson yesterday, and asked for warrant
for a woman who she said had been using her
name in the Kingsley case. The Recorder
referred her TO the Prosecutor.
Steward taken from the Tombs prison
yesterday to the Office of Assistant District At
torney Rand, where he subjected TO a
thorough examination. The Paterson woman,
her daughter and Alexander T. Mason, one OF
The lawyers for the Kingsley family, were
present.
Mr.. Rand said that Steward declared he had
never been in Paterson. Steward declared that
he was entitled TO the advice Of a lawyer. and
requested that Henry J. Goldsmith be called.
This was done, and Steward was taken back TO
the Tombs to await the lawyers arrival.
Mr.. Rand said that the prisoners right name
is Charles Coleman. and his aliases Curley.
Frank Steward and Frank Smith. Under the
name Of Steward he was tried and acquitted
within a month q charge Of grand l@rceny.
The man is known to the police as a hanger on
around billiard and pool rooms.
Mr.. Rand said that the Paterson woman said
that the man she thought was Kingsley pre-
scented card bearing the name Henry Baxter.
Police officers of Paterson also were in the Dis
trict Attorneys Office TO confer about the cage.
They could throw little light on it.
IN the afternoon Steward was rearraigned
before Magistrate Pool IN the Tombs court on the
Affidavit on which he was held on Sunday in
$1,000 bail, charging him with being a suspi-
cious person, and that he was the last person
known 10 have been seen with Kingsley. Cold
smith appeared for Steward and opposed a
lurther adjournment 70 next "Wednesday, re-
questeG by Mr.. Rand. In undertOne MI
Rand told the court that the reason he sought
the adjournment was 10 permit NeW-JeTsey
prisoner and 10 have him arraigDed in that
STATE. Magistrate Pool finally granted adjourn-
menu 10 Wednesday. on the acquiescence Of
Goldsmith. and Steward was held in the original
bail
Nr. Mason, who the courtroom. said
that after Kingsey's disappearance on Novem-
Der il. he was seen on the 18th in a hat store at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and that on the DIST
he is known to have been in Paterson, where he
was seen with two strangers by a postman
This postman Informed counsel for the family
and the Central Office detectives that the men
asked him where they could rent rooms. He
referred them to the woman who figures in the
case. Since that time the postman has identified
the photograph Of Kingsley that OF the man
he saw with the strangers.
This woman remained in the Criminal Courts
Building during the rearraignment Of Steward
with her daughter, who also identified Steward
one of the men who had been at her mothers
house. The woman was clad in mourning
When she left the building she accompanied
by an attache Of Mr.. Masons office, her daugh-
ter. and Central Office detective. She said she
had nothing further to say the subject, hav-
ing given all her Information to Inspector Nc
Clusky and the lawyers for the Kingsley family