Year: 1879

be made in ell the houses in the neighborhood to
whether any such shooting has been done lately.


That the shooting probably happened during an an
relatives and friends. well by some OF the
ighbors, and certain facts which they cite
bear them out in the assumption. Mrs. Seymours
story. learned through the Bishop is that at about
eleven o'clock-not at ten O'Clock has been
ported-she with her husband in what is called
the trunk room in the northwest corner of the east
erly seminary building. He there called her at
tention to man aud woman in the
Tor men. with women or alone. to be the
grounds late at night and they feit surprise at
the sight. Mrs Seymour Is nearsighted and at first
thought her husband was mistaken. but she got her
opera glass and then the intruders plainly. The
woman was dressed in white and was sitting on the
grass. The man walking back and forth near
her. They not hiding behind trees or bushes,
but were in plain sight of the neighbors. few
minutes later mot immediately Mr. Seymour said
to his wife that he would go out and take
walk in the grounds. He said nothing
about the persons they had seen outside. but Mr..
Sey mour understood that he intended to send them
away. 1t not his habit to walk through tho
grounds to clear them OF 'ntruders. that duty de-
volvinG upon the colored janitor but that evening
the janitor had goue to a church committee meeting
and had left word that he would be out late Mr..
Seymour accordingly Geo went out and the carcu%-
discovery Of his body have been told already.


POSSIBLY cLEw.


His friends are inclined to place great stress
these points in connection with q circumstance
stated by certain neighbor who lives in West
Twentieth street. opposite the seminary buildings.
-
sister-in-aw on his front stoop up to ten O'Clock
Thursday evening. At that hour he went up stairs,
leaving the ladies' on the stoop and little while
afterward the ladies' . and q woman coming
out of one OF the gates to the seminary grounds.
The woman dressed in white She came first
and hurried toward Ninth avenue. The man fol-
lowed her, carrying shawl his arm. and he hur-
ried along also. They respectfully dressed. and
the ladies who saw them say that they could not
identify them except by the clothing.


The probability Is, say Mr.. Seymour's friends,
that he ordered this man and woman away, and that
dispute of some kind followed, ending in Mr. Sey-
mours death. and that the couple then fed.


Inspector Dfks. however processes to think little
of this theory. He says that it not earlier than
eleven O'Clock when Mrs. Seymour the woman
in white with her attendant in the grounds and that
it was not much after ten when the other woman in
white hurried away with her escort. Allowing for
the difficulty in fixing the time of past event when
the hour is noted especially. 1T likely
that there only couple than that there were
two.


Whether either Of the three theories will prove
correct cannot of course. be foretod but fourth
reasonable explanation OF the homicide has been yet
found. 1t seems certain, from what is known of Mr.
Seymour. that he had enemies. and that he should
have been wantonly shot without motive is not
sOnable


His funeral will take place at two P. M to-day, at
the Little Church Around the Corner. The inquest
will be continued on Tuesday next.