Year: 1874




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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ARRESTS
The Brooklyn Morgue, where lay the bodies
~ ,he two rate criminals the circumstances Of
whose sudden and violent had brought them and
their lives into the foremost place In public at
tention was yesterday resorted to by throngs
OF curious aud excilementloving persons. Tho
corpse OF the elder, MOsier, was placed In box
upon the elevator which is used TO raise lower
burdens between the rooms OF the Morgue and the
vaults beneath. while the body OF Douglass lay In
plain box IN the vault. most minute and diligent
Of all the articles OF clothing upon the wretches
perchance any Glow might be found which wOuld Roe
the search after the boy whom they had stoen was
made the nniogs being away and the collars OF
the coats opened, and every part or their coarse
attire subjected to the most unsparing mVos-
tgation, but nothing Of Importance rewarded
tho search. The appearance OF the two Dodies
was repusive In tho Tie look OF wicKed cum
ning ana bold brutality on MOsiers face was Sharply
Defined while swift horror of his fate stamped an
expression of sharp agony on the evil features The
1ps were parted cry out and the eyeds OF the
,unken eyes we're haffted. His hair matted with
blood and little pool of gore slowly wideued on the
iOor OF the which he lay, che wound In his
head SIN gave out little blood His other
wound had "a single or1ce at the back, and its
bleeding mainly internal and the front OF his BODY
gave indication of the presence Of the fatal bullet





distorted fOrefDger left hand sure mark OF his
Identity was curouslv examined by all who were ad-
utted TO look upon him. and the broad depressed nos
trs middle cartilage Of the nose having been taken
away disease made another unmistakabie PROOF oi
the personality OF the hardened ruffln His under
clothing grny with Nth. and all his raiment
showed tokens Of the hard and wretched hfS he had
been leading, every mans hand against him. and he
only escaping pursuit OF justice by iurtve and
precariOus life tue water aud the shore.


On the Of the younger burglar was hxed an
expression Of keenost sun ng of sarm and the horror
Of death terrible with anguish and despair The hands
we're black with couyusive cutchngs at the chilli wet
ground, which be writhed long before death came
with the dreaded yet desired release from
agony and his face stained with the
his struggles on the earth. The hair
sose stGly above his forehead. and the blood
under gave TO tue belief that he had been
hurt thore. Bat this all came from his body wounds,
which were 50 ghastly that 1t seemed marvel how his
conscious agouy lasted oug after they received
The full muscular development shown upon the limbs
and chest aud stalwart vigor which appeared in
line OF the figure indicated the reason why death
was so long delayed. The skin was singulary smooth
and white where blood and shot wounds had not dscol
ored IT, aud compared strangely with the mud and In
grained uncleanlness OF his garments On the LETT leg
and the trout Of tie body many black spots where
shot mad struck and the center OF the abdomen
the mortal INJURY, gunshot-wound. an inch and
half in diameter. breaking In the abdominal wall and
allowing the inteStiues to gush out Tho shot had
plainly given such close quarters that the body
Of the charge did scatter. and made this gaping
wound, while the scattered marks on the body were
caused by previous shot,


In the latter part OF the forenoon the County Physi
can A W. Sheppard, came to the Morgue and made an
informal examination OF the wounds as they appeared
on the outside OF the bodies.


At 4 O'Clock In the afternoon DR.. Sheppard made a


rho ohnAfa Earo u1lnnH
before a policeman detailed from the Fourth Pre-
cnct in which the Morgue is situated, guarded
the door, relieving the keeper from part OF
bs heavy task, and Keeping out all but those
who had a right to enter. The pOst.mOrtem examina
tiou was witnessed by few physicians, police cap
tam, large number OF reporters and few other
spectators. Tue examination Of MOsier's body
made first. The wound In the back OF his head
found have from stray shot which did not
penetrate the skull aud the injury from it was not
serious. The only other wound except deep mark on
one finger OF each hand, that made by the fatal
bullet which entered the back inside of the
lower border OF the left shOulderblsdc, about
four inches the left OF the spinal column cut the ef1
pulmonary artery and the OF the point where they
leave the heart and passed between the fifth and sixth
about three inches TO the right OF the medion liDe
and taken out just beneath the skin in front It
made perforation within the percardum. Death
came from pressure the heart by extravasation OF



healthy condition. showing that he did not use intOx
eating liquors largely There evidence OF his hay
Ing had severe attack Of pleuTisy some time ago.


In the pOst-mOrtem examination OF Douglass no
wound about the head found, as had been
peced The front OF his left Leg from be'ow the knee
nearly to the hip dotted with round black depres
slons where many shot had struck But these shot did
not penetrate deeply, and must have come from
gun fired at little distance; and these wounds
undoubtedly caused first shot the gun OF tho
elder Van Brunt wide space the front OF the body
showed the effects OF the fatal second shot from the
gun OF the hired man, Herman Frank There
were deep blacKened spots all the front OF the
abdomen, and to the right Of the navel and little
above it, was tho ragged hole made by the body Of the
charge very close the body and evidently from
the direction OF the wound aimed from the front. This
wound was II inches In diameter, and the torn and
manged intestiDes p7Otruded from in swelling heap
This was only Injury the body sufficient TO
death.


Coroner Jones OF Brooklyn took measures to hold an
inquest the bodies IL O'Clock to-day. and by
his orders Bay Ridge constable made merely formal
arrest OF ]. Holmes Van Rrunt Albert II. Van Brunt,
William Scott, aud Herman Frank, through whom Mo
ser aud Douglass to their DEATH TO insure their
attendance inquest and their readiness to
In any proceedings that might take place.


The Jurors in the inquest on the bodies Of William
Moser and James Douglass to be held before Coroner
Jones to-day are as follows:


Gen. Slocum, President Crosstown Railroad d.
Chauncey, President Mechanics Bank; Samuel Powell,
ex-MayOr; TuOthy Desmond merchant; William NJ.
Little, Collector Tax Arrears j. f. James. commission
merchant; Abraham Burbenk. gentleman; Chas Teae.
merchant VIM b. DAYTON, merchant; Samuel Booth,
ex-Mayor; Assemblyman Eugene Berr. merchant ].
N. Hopper, merchant


THE BODIES UNDER HOSTILE EYES.
TIE BROTHER OF CHARLEY ROSS RECOGNIZES


MosIER's RACE-THE IDENTIFICATION sATIsFAC-


TORY TO TILE PoIICE-A NEw-JERsEY BURGLARY


RECALLED.


The crowd which found a morbid satisfac-
ton In gazing long as possible on the bodies OF the