Year: 1873

hpNriNuIoN, IL. 10, august 81, 1873


The excitement regarding the Developments in
the Kelsey case is still unabated. To-day being
Sunday. the discussions and gossip are confined to
the houses OF the resoents-the public houses
being comparatively deserted. Many who had
heard but the outline OF the evidence taken be iore
Coroner Bayliss at oyster Bay yesterday read with
great interest the full accounts in this mornings
HERALD, for which there was an immense demand
at the depot. This apparent


LULL IN THE EXCITEMENT


Is regarded by wiseacres as a dangerous indication.
they maintaining that 1t will break out tomorrow
with the accumulated force OF two days and thus
cumnate in action as violent as the excitement
that will then direct it, This representation may
be true, but It's fulflment is not yet. Governing
the excitement which Is felt in the community
is the stronger excitement OF curiosity, and ii there
Is to be any disturbance 1t need not be looked
for until all the inquest evidence is taken.


Great impatience is felt by all to hear the testi-
mony of the physicians who examined the remains,
as this evidence will fix or remove the suspicion
Of more damnable crime than murder. l know
that the doctors have suspicious OF the nameless
ana unmanly outrage that Is accredited to Banks,
sammis Co., but they will give them the benefit
OF a doubt that exists in their minds to whether
1t was the lance or the water that left the marks
That engender the suspicion They say the marks
may have been made by the fishes but 1t would
seem that


THE BLOOD ON THE SHIRT,


found at Lloyd'S Beach, would be sufficient to dis
spatc this theory have spoken to DR.. vanzandt
on the subject, and he is OF opinion that one
theory is "a probable the other. In reference to
the shirt 1t is said that the marks were so pale
and indistinct to leave q doubt as to whether
they were blood or brick dust.


w rdav taA hot thn hrnth
Kelsey would bury the remains to-day. The report
spread all over the county, and many came here to
attend the funeral and were disappointed. called
on Mr. w. S. Kelsey to inquire about the funeral
and what arrangements he had made for the final
interment Of the remains. Mr.. Kelsey received me
kindly and said he had been In demand all day by
people, asking why the funeral was not coming of.
He said 1t was the intention OF the family to have
buried the remains to-day, saying that they want
to get them out of the way but they decided to let
them remain until all the testimony on the inquest
Is taken l spoke to him about his having said
nothing about his brother visiting the house OF
Miss Smith on the night OF the murder He said
the whole story was a fabrication. He didn't hear
Charles that night but knew he was in the house,
because he found


HIS WATCH IN HIS ROOM


smeared with tar. He told this yesterday to the
jury. lie COntinued-"l am confident that II iS my
brother Charley, and am anxious to have his body
buried with those OF the rest OF the family who
have died. would not offer insult to the memory
OF those who have gone before by the presence OF
what knew to be strange corpse" Mrs. Gould,
the lady who claims to have seen Kelsey on the
New Haven Railroad last spring. will, it is said, be
called before the jury on Tuesday. She is lady OF
high standing in the community and truthful. She
Is probably the victim of optical deluslon, but
firm In the belief that she saw him. Mr.. Scudder
will likely be recalled at the inquest on Tuesday.
He is the man who heard the wagon 90 down the
road towards LlOyds Dock on the morning of
November s. at two O'Clock. The remains are still
at Oyster Bay under the care OF the Coroner.


There Is high Indignation here against the sup
posed perpetrators of the crime.