New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-15
TO CLAIM $4,000 REV ARD
Youth H1ho Found Kingsley May
Not Get It-Nurder hypothesis.

Peter Meehan the young boatman VINO DISCO 1Feo
Wednesday the body Of Henry Baxter hlns9ley
will claim the $1,000 reward offered by Kingsley
relatives The offer of the reward was made 10
any person giving information that would lead TO
the discovery OF his whereabouts or Information
that would lead to the conviction OF those re-
spousihla for his death The reward not offered
for the finding OF his BODY and this technicahty
AJeehan's claim to the reward may be contested
Young Meehan's father found the body OF Adolph
Openhyn. the wealthy silk merchant. and received
a big reward
Hugh H Baxter Of New-RocheIIe, cousin OF
Kingsley left town hurredlv Yesterday for Ru;-
land. VI. lie would not explain his haste out u
learned that he confer with othcr
relatives of the dead as he does not oeheFe
in the suicide accident theory OF his COUSIN
death
The body was positively identified yesterday as
that OF Henry Baxter Kingsley. who disappeared
from this city the night OF November ID The
body was at the Bellevue Mcrsue when 1t was seen
by Robert +. Gibbons OF No. 81 Sevench-ave- VINO
made positive Identification, and by kingsley's
shoemaker, who recognized the shoes as having
been made by him for Kingsley.
Before the body removed To Bellevue from
the Harlem Morgue two other men also positiNely
idendfed it. Neither would give his name. but ore
said he Il relative and the other said that ne
was connected with the District Attorneys office
They made their Identification certain by careful
measurements OF the body and by the peculiarly
bald head. The body then taken to Bellevue.
where the clothing was again searched, a carU
case that had been overlooked being found 1t
contained several personal cards of Kingsley'S.
BY direction OF Coroner Jackson. who has or
dered an investigation of the cause of kingsley's
death. Coroners Physician Schultze performed an
autopsy at the morgue. After the autopsy 1t
said that the man had died from asphyxiaton-
Because of the condition of the body ii was i'm
possible TO tell whether there had been any eX-
ternal marks Of violence 1t, but DR. Schultze re-
moved a part Of the vscera for determining
whether any traces OF poison are present.
After the autopsy Mr. Gibbons directed that the
body be taken to an East Thirtieth-st undertake
ing establishment to be prepared for removal to
Rutland. VI. The body was inclosed in metallic
coffin after being placed in plain black covered
coffin
Although no trace of foul play has been found
on the body the hypothesis that Kingsley was
murdered is still teuabe. The night of his disap-
pearance he with women whose men
companions would not scTuple to drop a man into
the river. one with whom Kingsley was
tho night OF his disappearance is said TO have
been the last with whom James McAuliffe, al
ged have been beaten 10 death. was seen
alive.
Captain Halpn, OF the West One-hunGred-and-
fifty -seCond-St. station where the body was first
taken, believes that unless Kingsleys body had
been weighted 1t would not have remained at the
bottom of the river for so long time, Mr.. Open
hym jumped into the river and deep into the mud,
but his body came the surface in few days
and was found close to where kingsley's body
was discovered one theory advanced is that not
finding such q rich haul they expected. Kings
ley's nurderers, 81 he murdered. probably
though It worth while to sacrifice the small sum
OF money and the jewelry make II appear that
Kingsley had committed suicide