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«Ü t l*k j Li Q . m ■v ; jj 'd *9 <3? x Entcrod tbe postofllce at Wilralngtof, Delaware. 18cconp>rla*B matter. NEW SEMES—V OL. NVII-NO. 38 hukhe ^m c " NA '- sffmisats ihe «>»»«., d**bd m WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1897. TO BE MURDERED Mrs. Mary Lewis of No. 2613 Eighth Avenue, New York City, the Victim. James M. Gordy Charged With the Terrible Crime. THE SUSPECT IN SUSSEX'S JAIL Good Work of the Delaware Officials. ie \V< Hint ii Wan Rubbed « Curprt« Will '—One of Her A Ui-Kfd HUS ilaiuiuor Co llu Indication!! and Kill« ii ii Concealed In Hr Ml—»yaterto and Jonrnal. Stiff Correspondence of G Georgetown, March 12.—Considerable excitement was created boro lust night by tho report thut tbo body of a young woman had been found floating in the Broudkilu river, obout one mile below the town of Milton. It whs thought at first that the body bad come in from the bay, Milton boat, floating was found and containing a hat, some buir pina and otner articles supposed to belong to tho dead wi having boon taken from Tho skull of tbo rushed in, but no other one in able to recognize it, but a where tho corpso , was identified Vaughan's wharf. corpso signs of violenco wero discovered. Georgetown, March 15.—Tbe body fouud in tbo Broadlcilu rivor which near the town of Milton,Sussex county, lust Thursday afternoou, has been almost positively identified as tbat of Mrs. Mary Lewis of No. 2613 Eighth avenue, New York City. At least that her name until a few weoks ago, when,according to a statement made by her to Station Agent Silos Reynold« at Milford last Wednesday night, sbo w married to Jarnos M. Gordy of noar Georgetown, who is locked up and cloHoly guarded at the Sussex, cqunty tho charge of"murdering The identification in about plate, and eircumstunces indicate that killed for her money. The body, which - jail here lies at the undertaking establishment of Samuel J.Wi'Bon, at Milton, indicates that the of tbo most brutal Delawaro. and •ul Whito and Detective murder thut ever occurred i Attoruoy-G Witsil who have boen working up the caao feel confident that they bavo made no mistuko in locking Gordy up. Gordy's uctione within the past throe fits and hin conflicting statements have furnished strong circumstantial evidence ugainst him, which portant uiacovery which w; Attorney General Whito. Undertaker i a representative of Tho Saturday night, has web around the man, 'ill be hard to breuk ith i made by Hatfield Gazotto late formed i strong which Later developments have also terjally. Saturday night discovered <1 < down. Htrongtboned tho case very Mr. White portions of tbe dead woman's clothing, which had b r.oucb t high and low, two bids at Gordy's house, >ar Georgetown. At tho aamo time u ado by iiarvy L. Mcb botws statement wi sick.Gorily's tonant. which strengthens the chain very materially. Gordy has Leon Hitting about from liu.o, but it is place to place lor believed that bo spout tho greater part of tho lust three weeks in Now York City. According to a telecram received Saturday afternoon from the janitor of the building No, 2613 Eighth avenue, New York City, Gordy and Mrs. Mary •ried few days lived nt tbat man nnd wife. Tbo telegram statod they left Now York last Wodnos duy, tbo woman stating that sho was coming to Delaware to live with hor husband, Mr. Gordy, on his farm. Tbni was the last seen of thou in New York. Tho next hoard of them ford. whe«e they alighted from the train arriving there ubout 7 o'clock,tho train which loaves Wilmington ut . An soon as they the town Lewis, who had lived tboro, w recently and for locution in Mil 4.27 in the aftor left tbe train Gordy went i of Milford and tho woman remained at tho station. Sbo hud boon there but u few minutes, when Assistant Station Agent Silas Reynolds struck up a con versation with her. ho having noticed that sho was a stranger ami 'desiring to mako her foel us comfortable as posai bio. Sbo informed him tbutske had como from New York with her husband, and tbat tho lutter had gone up town (in Milford) to procure a team with which they woro going to drive to his farm. This appeared tu bo rather odd, bh tiio film.was 11 miles from Milford and but four miles from Georgetown, and bad they como here tboy could have bad of his toums cotue tu the station to mo3t thorn. However, about 7.30 o'clock Gordy arrived at the station with a horse and carriugo, which he had hired from Wilbur Dickerson, who koops a livery stable in that town. Upon his arrival at the satiou the woman was put iu tue carriage ami tbo two drove off'. Tbat was tue last seen of them together. Uordy arrived nt his farm, ubout four miles from Georgetown, about 12 o'clock that night, llo wus met at the house by his tenant, llurvoy L. Mhb ■ick, who had lived at his house since the first of tho y«ar. Messick informed tho attorney-gen eral and The Gazette's representative on Saturday night that when Gordy reached home nt midnight Wednesday night be bad a utrango team, but tboro traces of her. Messick suspected nothing Unusual aud so did not make auy woman with him and inquiry about any woman, ns bo bad reason to do so. But bo did ask Gordy bow he came by the strange team. Gordy informed him that he bad pur in Baltimore, bud tbo Chesapeake buy and had driven from the bay shore across to his homo. Ho also iuformed Messie!; that, be bad found a salo for the team and chased tho to brought it ae by ate; t'io landing and the 01 Bridgoville, the way du8irod to bo called early in tho morn ing so that ho could start off at G o'clock to deliver tne team to the pros-' peefeivo purchaser Messick thought this transaction a little odd but still did not question the veracity of his landlord, lie did ask, however, i ing tbo Ht Bridgoville. it was Gordy had made ly sale, nnd again Gordy told him that the salo bad been agreed upon und that endod tho conversation. Gordy tool; somo tbiugs from the ringe to the houso aud went to bis room and retired. Messick followed suit, Hfter tho horse aud carriage had been put away. Messick and Gordy up bright and ourly tho next morning, which was last Thursday, and at about 6 o'clock Gordy tool; Lia departure, saying that ho was off for Bridgoville to dispose of his team. Ho had driven scarcely two miles, when William Blizzard, who lives a farm along tho road called out io him nnd Asked where ho of sil at lie going. He stated that lio was going to Milford. Ho and Blizzard passed nothing wua dropped that would throw out any suspicion. So Gordy drove and w few words, but out of sight. Nothing was thought about him for sovorul hours. On that morning John Robi William Magee, two Milton fishermen, pulled out of one of tho wharves iu Milton and started on a fishing trip. When but a short distance down tbo stream they saw what tboy supposed to ho a buudlo of rags, ond as they were in a hurry paid but littlo attention to it. When they returned, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, however, they saw tho sumo mysterious object in a ebvo known uh tho Order Banks, about 300 yards below tho town wharves. They decided to investigate and found it was tho dead body of a woman, with the feet stuck in tbo mud about a foot (loop and tbo bead and shouldors floating on the top of the water, Tbo fishermen spread tho alarm nnd towed tho body to one of tho wharves, where a hasty examination was mado, after which it was taken to the undertaking establishment of Baumol J. Wilson, pud Coroner Wil H. Johnson, who resides at Mills boro, was notified. He wont over to Milton the next morning, which Friday, and summoned a jury, which was made up as follows: John Ponder, Charles H. Atkins, Henry C. Hudson, John Lewis, Capt. John F. Fisher, Isuac W. Naylor, Joseph E. Lank, Wesley Uoverdale, llenry B. Lingo, William H. Fosque, William G. F ing and John B. Welch. Tho j sworn in and, aftor viewing tbo adjourned tu meet at IU o'clock next d "I to be y was body. i b luroday. When tho received the body, it was uhoru of the bat, skirt aud the left glove. The skirt had been torn off while tbo fishormon wero towing the body to tbe wharf. Tho facts were known to Attorney-General who offered a rowan! of $10 recovered mado White, for the skirt, aud it Friday. After tbe finding of tho body Thursday afternoon cluos eagerly g ht, and a boat owned by Joseph Polk Bailey and a broken found adrift not tbe body When the )ry fur from whoro first seen. •oner came into possos of the body he hail Lira. Robert G. Hopkins and Robert Wilson make a post mortem examination. They found throe contusions of which n One was acr tho hem!, any ono ight have producod death, tho top of tbe forehead, tbu right uido of the bead and the back of the head, found lodged tbo othor while a clot of blood at tho huso of the brnic. Tbe internal organa and other parts of tho body normal. There w .'ator in the lungs, which showed that tue woman was not drowned. On Friday a the river Lank, about a iu town, there mage. Numerous footprints, ap parently mado by two sizes of shoos, better ado along i at Vaughn's wharf, ilo and u half below tho evidence of ireh •re plainly visible, and evidence thut the was a woman in than tho the nceosn; prosomo of several hairpins, which found on tüe wharf. There also carriugo tracks on tbo wharf, thus conveying the iiupieseion that two more persons, who had driron up in carriugo jumped out tboro, und tno presumption is that tbe murderer, find ing Joseph P. Bailey 's bout handy, cut it loose and put tno woman in and rowed off. Whether she was dead alive at that time is not known, but Attorney-General White ie of tho opinion that tho womun was either atupiliod by drugs or bad been stunned by a blow when eho loft tbo carriage, and ho inclines to tho bolief that Bhe rocoived bor death blow whilo iu the enrriuge nnd was dragged from it to tho boat eithor dead or half doad. Tho supposition is tbat the fiend rowed the boat up the stream until he came to u con von ion t cove, whoro ho throw her out. Tho wator was shallow and the foot stuck in tho mud, so that her head was above wator, whether she was doad or alivo. Howovor, it is altogether likely that tho man in tho boat struck bis victim over tho bond u couple of times to mako tho job com plete, and in doing so broke tbo unr, tho fragments of which worn afterward found. The natural conclusion was tbat the urderod at somo woman had boon point along tho stream and the body thrown in, but u later investigation fixed tbo locality moro definitely, and tboro i body reuaon to believe that the below Vaughn's wharf above tbe Order Banks, which Black's shipyard, as right when •pso was found tboro wore newly tbe bank the if mado by hurriedly escaping. In made tracks somo place tbo foot had slipped backward down an iocliuo, which dug up tbo eartn at that point considerably ond showed tbot it was a fresh track. immediately after the finding of the body Attornoy-Goneral Whito notified Detectives Witsil and McVey and tho former came down from Wilmington Friday morning. Ho and Mr. White hare been working iikn Leavers since. It tool; them but a short time to strike a clue, which they ran down with lightning speed and io a short tirao bad tho suspoct behind prison bars. Passengnrson tbo evoning train down Wednesday sow Gordy on tbo train strange woman, which fuct im that it soon became with pressed thorn known in Georgetown and vicinity, and there was u general curiosity to know who the woman was. us those who had econ them together bad not the slightest idea who tbo woman was. seon to alight at Mil Tho couple ford, but at first evon this excited suspicion. But when Gordy was hero tho next day and nobody knew what bud bocome of the woman Daiuo Rumor began to wag her tongue. When it was learned on Friday morn ing thut the body of a strange woman bad bobn found tho previous afternoon near Milton, inquiry was naturally made concerning tho whereabouts of tbo woman who had left tho train Ht Milford with Gordy. However, Gordy did not appear to manifest much concern, and ho evidently did not know that he afternoon. uspected until Friday as the Milford ond of the story was learned by Attorney-General White and Detective Witsil they de cided to arroot Gordy if he could bo found. Ho ubout four and a half miles east of Georgetown, but was not there. His visited, but without Saturday morning tho officers located him at tho residence of bis mother, near Lowe's Cross Roads, in Gumboro hundred. Early in the morning Detective Wit sil and Constable Lynch of Georgetown started toward Lowe's Cross Roads. Tboy reached tho houso o'clock and knocked at tho same timo keeping watch on the remainder of the building. The knock evidently frigbtenod Gordy, for he dashed out of tho back door aod started otf down tho roud like a deer. Tho officers called to him. but be did not heed, and tboy wero compelled to pursue him with the toum. Tho offi ovortook the fleeing oiderud him to throw up his hands, lie complied und was handcuffed and put in tho carriage, in which ho hurriedly driven to tbo county jail here. He wanted tho officers to lot him stop at his mother's bouse, but they declined. Without solicitation Gordy exclaimed !" Nobody sought at bis houso. haunts wero avail. Finally, about 1J tho front door. Bud "I did not hurt tbe had accused him and tbe officers surprisod to hear this involuntary pression. Dotocfeivo Witsil questioned the prisoner, but bis statements ■.onllicting thut be finally found tbat king matters worse and closed his mouth. All tho while, howovor, he protested his inoocenco llo was taken to the county jail and turned , who locked him up Hnd stationed Deputy Suoriff Charles Jester at tbe cell as a spocial guard, extraordinary precaution being neces sary on account of tho insecure con dition of the jail. Gordy was soarched and a gold riug unci $8.60 wore found on him, but there uuto him. with him, but ho etill innocence and stated that he ran when the officer« aftor him, thought they wuDtod to arrest him for another offence. Gordy, soon after bis incarceration, retained Charles W. Cullon and Charles F. Richards as counsel to defend him. Nobody is permitted to see Gorily except the officers and bis counsel, and every precaution is being taken by tho latter to provent tboir client from Icing any assertions which may he •1 against him. On Thursday a con signment of valuable furnituro, which had anparontly boon used, arrived at Georgetown station consigned to Ja M. Uordy. It bad been shipped from New York, and when Gordy was ques tioned about it by a friend ho stated that he had bought it because it was cheap. It iu alleged that he said he paid $25 for the lot, when it i parmtly worth sovterul hundred dollars, Aftor suspicion in tbo murder caao pointed toward Gordy, Attorney-Goneral White mado u critical examination of the furniture ond on Suturday aitor found on ono pieco a card marked "James M. Gordy, c 2613 Eighth gave tho attorney-general a cluo, sent h dispatch to "Mrs. M. be to Sheriff Job nothing tbat would crimi Tbo officers also conversed intaiued his be In* Mrs. M. L is, , New York." Thi i ho at Lewis. 2613 Eighth avenue, New York," asking whether Mme. Gruuort ami James M. Gordy wore known at that address: also us to whether they arried, and stating that ho was under arrest charged with murdering her. Mr. Whito bad discovered tho name Grunert machine Tboro woro two kinds of cards and the inscriptions wore us follows: a sowing •uwer in the lot of furniture. somo cards i Mme. Grunert, 052 Herkimer street. A thoroughly reliable and first-class modeste. Makes faultless chic evening, stnge, wed ding und walking gowns, wraps, jackets, etc. MineGrunnette.etCir, robes, et manteaux, 23 West Forty-second street, New York. Mr. Whito naturally supposed from tho cards that tho murdered woman was Mtno. Grunert, and bo inquired about hor, but later developments proved that eho wus tho dead woman's sister. Mr. White received tbo following re ply to his telegram to No. 2613 Eighth . New York City : is and the wife of James M. Gordy ure probably the same woman. Mrs. Lewis lived here, No. 2U13 Eighth avenue, until Wednesday last. She told friends when she left that she had married J. Gordy, and was going to Delaware to live with him. Ho lived here with her a few days. The description of tho murdered womun tallies with that of Mrs. Lewis. i Mrs. M. L Thomas B. Thorndyke, Janitor. Upon receipt of the telegram Mr. White sent a message back to Janitor Thorndyke, asking hi of tbo woman's friends come down. The janitor evidently wont to work right away to look up Mrs. Lewis' friends, lowing tologram from him last evoning: Now York City. March 14.—It. C. White. Attorney-general: Kindly send your see me on Monday und bring Mrs. Lewis' bicture to me. I nave in mv possession the K ' iece of paper that James M. Gordy wrote is address on while he was in the flat ut 2013 Eighth av ntilktnut). Mrs. Lowis' sister is M , 652 Herkimer street, Brooklyn. T. B. Thorndyke. Yesterday afternoon Constable Gove sent to Gordy's motbor's tbo valises, it having to huve somo Mr. White received the fol to . New York City, for the . Gru Lynch house to recov boen reported tbat he had loft there a small valise of his own and a smaller pposed to have been tho property of *hc dead woman. Tbe constable when be arrived ut tbe house was in formed that Gordy had not left any valises there but had taken some papers there and burned them. The ofilcors are still searching for the valieos which it is hoped may reveal something. When the body was found the right band was gloved but the left bund glove was nowhere to be found. On Saturday night Attorney-General White Levy Courtman Gorirge Hatfield and Tho Gazette's representative drovo out to Gordy 's farm and >wera admitted to tho bouse by tho tonant Harvey L. Messick. Before entering the^ house Messick turned claw hammer which ho had found concealed in the oaves of tho porch on Thursday morning. Messick had nover the hammer before and supposed Gordy had left it there when ho on Wednesday night, entered the*building shown to Gordy's room, made high and low for to Mr. White a reached n When tho they search anything that might givo a ciue. Noth ing of importance,excepting a woman's curling iron, was found, until the top mattress was lifted from the lower mat tress, and from between tho two bods Mr Weite took out a woman's glove, night robo and handbag. Mr. White tool; chargo of them and also the trousors which Gordjl had discarded on Wodnemlny night. I The articles were tokeu by Mr. White io Milton yesterday. ,Tbe glove, which was for the loft band, which woman's right hard. On close amination a hair which wan found on of the eamo color as a bead. No special the mate to found on * the the the ham that Bignficanco has yet been attached to th hieb w mer, was o tho woman' found in the bed, the property of a hand bug, except that it woman. The town of Miltjon was thronged with people all day yesterday, nod from early morning until late at night Undertaker Wilson had his hands full showing people tho body. The corpse was in the back room 1 and Bide of the building alongside the door dortaker had tho following sign tbe out the tacked up: Those who wish hero. Look und leave. th® corpse enter body bad been embalmod and of visitors in an ice T; was in full vi box. The clothing, which was on bor when she was found, was in the socond story of tbe building. Many people also visited tbe the river whoro the woman was and John Robinson who bud discovered tho body, did a thriving business row ing people betwoen tbe town und tho point in the river, which he had marked post, which had been driven in spot on found, by the mud. Indignation ran high among tbo poopio who visited {he undertaker's establishment, and it was openly stated that if Gordy should; be taken to tho inqueRt on Thursday he would bo lynched. Last night Coronal' Johnson and At torney General White) hnd a conference, at tbe conclusion of which Mr. Whito told the coronor not to take Garriy to tho inquest, as ihero would bo no necessity for doing itjÇ.Mr. White has fear of lynching, howovor. Tho attorney-general hns received in formation that Gordy is wanted in Washington, D. C., where Lizzie L. Bowen of that city bus sworn out n warrant for his arrests The warrant,it is understood, is in tbe bunds of Mar sbHl Lannan of Wilmington. Tbo de tails of the Washington trouble have not been ascertained, but it is believed tbat ho is charged with swindling a woman out of about $300. Borne of Gordy'a friends are inclined to question his sanity, which may bo used as a point in his favor. Mrs. Sallie C. Gordy, wife of tbe prisoner, diod on June lltb. 1895, and buried on tho 13th. Bbo was 28 years of age and Gordy is alleged to bavo realized considerable money from her life insurance. A child, Arthur, died on July 17tb, 1895,and was buriod the following day. It is said thut two houtios, which were owned by Gordy, were burned some time ago and raoro irpnoy was realized from them in tbo sbapo of insur; Gordy is about 35 year of ago and is of excellent parentage, and tboro is n great deal of sympathy for his aged mother, who is boart-broken. The murdered woman is apparently 33 yeur of ago, ond but little is known of her. It is thought she had boen possessed of considerable means. A great many people believe that two bad a hand in killing tho woman and tbat uftor she was dead she robbod of ull her valuables. It is also thought that ono of her assailants pulled tbo glove off the loft hand iu order to take a ring from one of the fingers. The theory that there was more than implicated is strengthened by tho fact that two strangers spent Thurs day night in Georgetown, and while hero acted in a suspicious manuor. They loft Wednesday morning and have t been sonn here since. Tho next term of oyer and terminer will begin at Georgetown on April 5th, aud Attorney-General White will deuvor to have tho cose placed before the grand jury at that time. There is a probability, however, that Gordy's eouusel will ask for a continuance, und if it is granted a special torm may bo called. There is a rumor here that the murdered woman is tbo wife of u wealthy Boston ink manufacturer, but Attorney-General White puts littlo credence in the etory. tbr nne AUTOPSY. The official report of tbe autopsy of tho body, held by Dr. R. H. C. Wilson and Dr. R. B. Hopkins of Milton, is as follows: No bruises on body; Blight bruise over left eye at murgin of hair; ono cut measuring three inches, penetrating to bone on right side of bead, over parietel bone, severing postorior tom peral artery. Ono cut, half-moon sbapo, measuring four inches, pene trating to bone, over region of occipitol bone, severing branches of the occipitol artery. Still another cut, immediately below and smaller than the last one mentioned, measuring two inches in longtb, penotrating to bone, severing also branches of tbo occipitol artery. Condition of skull: The bone ut no place was fractured. Condition of brain: Blood clot was found ou loft side beneath the coronal sutures, measuring 1 by 1)-^ inches. Brain weighed 38j/4 ounces. Heart normal. Lungs contained air and floated on top of wator. Stomach con tained small amount of fluid. Intestines and liver normal in appearance. A BLOOD-STAINED IIANUKEUCIIIKF. Georgetown, Maroh 15.—Constable Lynch found, last evening, at the resi * rifriil/iifr'i -j^ÀftiirïT denen of Gordy 's mother two handker chiefs. one of which is supposed to be stained with blood. T1JB MURDERED WOMAN WAS NOT MRS. BALDWIN. Coronor Johnson of Sussox county statoa last evening in the presence of The Gazette's staff correspondent at Georgetown, that there proHsion among some people in the vicinity of Georgetown that tho dead woman was tho daughter of Steph Lewis, who lives near that place. Mr. said he had been informed that two of Mr. Lewis' daugbtora had left home some years ago, and that of them, whose description tally with that of the dead woman, had married Gooigo Baldwin, u Wilmington According to the coronor's informant Mrs. Baldwin bad lived at No. 222 Jefferson street, this city, and was supposed to have removed to New York about three yeura ago. The rumor that the murdered woman Mrs. Baldwin was investigated by Tho Gazette reporter Monday morn ing. Tbo house, No. 222 Jefferson street, is occupied by R. S. Lovell and family, and there it was learned that Mrs. George Baldwin bad worked there, and about two years ago had kept a broom store on Parrish stroet. Luter she married a Mr. Ahrens. The porter found tbai Harry Ahrens lived at No. *110 West" Second street, and upon calling tboro was greeted nt toe door by his wife, Mrs. Mary Ahrens, who was formerly Mrs. Baldwin. The pres* a sufficient an n -I"':. a said to butcher. once of the woman denial or the report that she w murdered woman. She was surprised when informed of the report, and having seen tho picture of tbo dead woman in a paper remarked that it. did not look like her. Mro. Ahrens said her maiden s Lewis, nod sbo had a sister, the name named Mrs. Allen at Georgetown. She visited Georgetown about, four j ugo, but said she did not. remember having seen Uordy. Coroner Johnson Gordy w Lowis family, and this may bavo had something to do with tho report. A member of the Georgetown family con sented to go to Milton to eeo if ho could identify the body. waa informed that u distant relative of the MAJOR SMITH'S STATEMENT. A reporter of Tho Gazotto bad interview Monday morning with Major Smith,proprietor of Smith's restaurant on Fronch street, near Front. Gordy is reported to have said tbat ho had first mot the woman seon in his Wodnesduy week tho train puny at Smith's restaurant about Christmas. Major Smith stutod tbat ho re uiomherod seeing tho man twice about six months ago and later about six not at bis place weeks ago. Ho about Christmas accompanied by a woman. Hid he been Bmitb said he would have reinem borod the occasion, as ho has an excellent memory and can readily coil to mind faces seen. Bo far as ho knew tho woman was never there. THIS WOMAN'S I.TFK IN NEW YORK. New York Ilorald Mrs. Mary Lowis lived in a fiai house No. 2613 Eighth avenue, this city. She loft there last Tuesday, after saying tbat she had married John Gordy, a Delaware farmer, who bad boen a' horse dealer and that she going to his farm near George town, Del. Very little was known of tho woman in the neighborhood of the flat house. Tho janitor, Thorndyke, told mo sbo moved iuto tho houso a month ago. Shu said bor husband bad boon dead six months; that bo bad loft an ink manufactory that she still conductod and that she likod tho business, as it profitable. Sbo mado a goad impression among her neighbors. She dressed well, bad handsome furniture, and appeared to bo in comfortable circumstances. Soon after she movod into tbe bouse ho, it is bolievud, was Gordy, called tboro. lie is described as a typical farmer,'about 5 foot 10 inches tall, with drooping dark brown mous tache and black eyop. He called frequently and often oscortod tbo widow when sbo went out. Two weeks ago ho went to Eugene Becker's drug store, No. 2584 Eigiith avenue, ond asked the drug gist if he had any quart bottles to soil. 1-Ie explained that ho was about to going into the ink business and could bottles that bad been used before. Id sell, largely to persons who would rebottle the ink. Mrs. Lewis told Thorndyke, the janitor, a week ago Inst Wednesday that ehe was to be married to Mr. Gordy tbat day, and would be away her wedding tour for two weeks» Sbo left tbe flat and tbe janitor saw nothing of her for two days, when sbo called down tho speaking tubo to hie apart ments and asked him to turn on the heat. "I thought you had gone off on your wedding tour, " he suid, iu astonish ment. Sue laughed nnd repliod: "Come, now, don't be foolish. I have been to Bridgeport on a visit." Thorndyke wont up to hor rooms. IIo says ho judged from appearance there that sbo had not been away. Ilf. spoke to her about this, and she re plied : "I have boon away with ray bus band. lie had to go back to our home in Delawaro. lie will return in a few h • days. ' Tbo woman's furniture was carried away last Tuesday morning She left the fiat later that day and said she was going to Delà wore. Sho purchased a postal card in Becker's drug store, ami wrote to her sister in Brooklyn, directing hor to go to the fiat and get some things tbat she bad loft there. Tho siator called last Wednesday night aud was told by Thorndyke that she must call in busi bours to got into the rooms. Tbe janitor did not know Just night whether sho bud returned or not. Nor could ho toll where sbo hud lived be foro locatod. Thorndyke received this telegram signed by Attorney-General whore her ink business yesterday, White, of Dolaware: "Did you know Mrao. Grunert and James M. Gordy? Ho is arrested for murdering bis wife. Answer at my expense. " lio authorized an acquaintance to arried i a.I reply that Mrs. Lewi Gordy ; that she bad gone to Delawaro ith bitn, and that the descrip tion sont to Now York of the murdered woman tallied with tbHt of Mr«. Lewis. Smith, a colored boy, who is employed io the flat house, told that Mrs. Lewis appeared to be very happy when sho went away and that to II Ju she said to bim: "I wont have to work any more. 1 am tired of business. My new husband is rich and owns a large farm and many houses. " All her former neighbors speak well of Mrs. Lewis, as they still call her. able to tell me None of them where she lived before she moved to the fiBt house. The janitor has her former address and the names of per sons she referred to when she rented tho flat, but he could not give them to last night, as they are in a book then locked in a safe, the that combination of which be did not huve. GOKDY IN BOSTON. Boston, Mass. «March 14.—Mrs. Gordy, the victim of the Milton murder, lived in Boston, but her stay here was a short one. She came hero April 4th, 1892, with her first husband, Roger M. Lewis, and they took rooms at Brig ham's Hotel. Mr. Lewis said ho was from New York and represented concern in that city, very retiring and bad few acquaint ances and no intimate friends among her fellow boarders. July 26tb, 1892, they loft the Brigham and moved into an apartment they had furnished on the fourth floor of No. 65 Dover street. One of tbo occupants of the house to night said: "Mrs. Gordy, then Lewis, seemed to her neighbors bore rather eccentric. She wsb very anxious to avoid observation. Her blinds always closed, and when sbo went out she wore such a thick veil that no could recognize her. She did not to know any one. "About six weeks after tboy come to Dover street Mr. Lewis suddenly dropped out of sight. The wife waited a week or so loDger in the very evident distress of mind,and we concluded that her husband had deserted her. She left orniug, saying she ink ! i I wife was the bouse going to Now York, and that last tbe of her in Boston. A few days luter the firm who furnished the apart ment came and took away tbo effects.'' It is said that Mr. Lewis was seen in tho street hero about a year and a half ago. Georgetown, March 16.—The feeling against James M. Gordy the is locked up in tho Sussex tho charge of murdering Mrs. Mary Lewis of Now York, is intense, but tbore is no indication that tb people will intorforo with tho authori ties in tho admietration of justice. Attorney-General White, Detect! d Constable Lynch mendHtion tbo neat manner in which they have worked up the case and the general course they ore pursuing in their offorts to ferret out tbe torrihle ori which was committed last Wednesday night in tho vicinity of Milton. The attorney-general has engineered tbo whole affair with a coolness which has olicited admiration. His assistants, tbo Stato deteetivos, and Constable Lynch have followed the same plan,and tho result is gratifying. Gordy is as silent as an oyster and is watched constantly by a special guard. and sullen yesterday ml ate but little. During tbe after he asked Koeper Benjamin Wil for a razor thut ho might shave himself. But tho keepor declined to grant the request, and Gordy will not got his shave until the authorities see lit to admit a barber. It bus been learned tbat Gordy's incarceration two of his broth called and wero admitted, and s< they who ty jail hero are roceiv evory hand for Witsil au lie was after tbe prisoner broke down ond cried. The lattor Î3 alleged to have given his brothers words of encourage ment and told them not to worry that hr. would only be locked up a day or two. As far as is known his relatives have not been to see him s found to be untrue, Attorney.Genoral White natur ally supposed that hie telegram to Janitor Thorndyke of tbo fiat No. 2613 Eighth avenue, Now York, asking him to request Mrs. Lewis' sister to como down would bring the answer, and be was surprised last night to receive the following letter from Mme. Urunert, Mrs. Lewis' sister: New York, March 14.—Hon. Robert C. White. Attorney-general of Delaw Sir—My widowed sister. Mrs. Mary Lewis, enue, sent me tho following Mardi 8th: married anil am going to George* can get some things where I lived last, flat at 2618Eighth avenue, corner Thirty-ninth street. Y letter to tho above address, general de livery." I huve When tho rumor : l)e 2013 Eighth av postal curd town. Del., to live, i . I don't know bis name. Her furniture was sent there. 8he was also in possession of diamond rings, gold watch, etc., and hud some money, the amount of which I don't know, I have a photograph fr< about tiie same in a position delicate health to come thereat present. I would be very much obliged to get particu lars, and if you will kindly inform wliat disposition is to be made of her body lier burial lias been made. A newspaper culled last night with your dispatch, doubt Imt that it ' sister, Mary. Very respectfully. the dfich sho looks when last seen. Not being being able, account of rep d there is my poof . Grunert, 652 Herkimer street, Brooklyn. immediate reply M Mr. White made to tho letter. Stephen Lewis of near Georgetown, who had been led to believe that tbe murdered woman was his daughter, went to Milton yesterday and body, but of course was unable to identify it, and when Every Evening reached town in tbo ovening the whole report coucurniug his daughtor, who is in Wilmington, was exploded. trunks arrived at Georgetown from New York by express yesterday. They were both billed to "James H. Gordy," there being, evidently u mis take in tbe middle lotter, which should be "M. " One trunk was larger tbau the other, and it was apparent tbat was intended for Gordy and the other for tbo woman. In tho absence of Attorney-General White, who was in Wilmington, tho taken charge of by De tective Witsil, who opened them and made a search. One trunk contained and a tho •i trunks wearing apparel for a numbor of cabinet pbotograpbs, which was one of Gordy. Thi conveyed the impression that Gordy bad beeu in somo sort of a photograph business, although nothing was dis covered that would throw much light the matter. The other trunk con tained women's clothing, several fine rugs and a quantity of spool silk, which indicated that tho articles property of a woman who tailoress or a dressmakur. But nothing found in either trunk that would After tho repaziceil , and to-day were taken of by Attorney*General White. There were some peculiar marks oo •Ml. *IM s find •e the either a give a cluo to the murder, examination tbe trunks and fastened both trunks. The tags on which Gordy'a name was written "Puritan Auction House, Nos. 124and 126 West Ono Hundred and Twenty aeventh street, New York City," and there wore labels pasted on the exterior the trunks marked "Storage Room, February ICth, 1897." While no special significance can yet bo attached to the labels, an additional stune has boon found stand. Why the trunks were billed from an auation room, if they were, is mystery, the solution of which may bo interesting. The natural inquiry was, "How is it that the trunks did not arrive be fore?'' Inquiry was made, and it was learned, although not directly from Gordy, that Gordy had sent for them last Friday, and if this be true they arrived on time. Detective Witsil returned yest from Wilmington and resumed the of hunting up evidence. He was busy until late Bet night and covered con siderable ground during the day. The detective and Constable Lynch drove to Lowe's Cross Roads in the afternoon Rnd made a thorough search of the residence of Gordy 's mother, with the hope of finding the misniDg satchels and possibly other articles which at the inquest on Thursday. But the satchels were not there, and neither that would be of Gordy' miles from town, which is tenautod by Harvey L. Messick was also visited and searched, but the oniy thing found a letter which had been sent by Gordy from New York City ary 26th. Gordy was expected homo the following day, but iu the letter he statea that he would not be down the following day. lie was going to Hartford, Conn., instead and stated that ho was having a good time. Ho aln-i wrolo that a letter addressed to Hartford, general dolivory, would roach him. Further he Btated that he pected to return to New York in a few days and that a lettor addressed to No. 2613 Eighth avenue, would reaah I ; i ' I ] which to ight be of anything else to the officers, residence, four and a half Febru* also learned at Messick's bouse tbat Gordy met Mrs.Lewis about three months ago through the medium of a matrimonial paper. He is alleged to have informed bis acquaintances of the meeting and also tbat she was worth about $30,000. It is also stated that he is thought to have formed woman worth about $80,000. Concerning Gordy's movements after Thurs day ufternoon, the day the body was found, Gordy and Joseph Folk Bailey creation in the vicinity of . That night he It acquRint of tho murder, it is said that held a Gordy's ho away from home the greater part of the ovening, and tbe next day be mani fested considerable uneasiness. On that day he came to Georgetown and obtained two valises, which were taken to tho house, and that evening Gordy . wont off with tho grips, and tbat was tho last seen of him until he was arrested. MARSHAL LANNAN IIAB A. WARRANT FOR GORDY. United States Marshal H. E. Lannan of the district of Delawaro, has had a warrant for the arrest of Gordy in bis poeaesRioD for warrant is based upon an indictment found by the grand jury of tbe supreme court of the District of Columbia at the October term last year. The in dictment charges him with the grand larceny of $195, the property of Lizzie August 15th, 1896. Miss Jives at No. 2016 G street, Amherst Court , and was eeuk •oral months. T! - T. Brown, Brow N. W. She came fr Uou3o,Va., last ing employment in Washington. About August 1st sho auswerod advertisement and went to No. 628 Penney 1 vania avenue N. W., where "et James M. Gordy. Ho repre sented to her that ho wanted a partner in tue business of teaching otb int photographs. Mi $195, all sho had,to become a half . On tho follow ing day when she called to be installed as partner Miss Brown found that Gorily had suddenly left town. A certified copy of the indictment received at the United fcJtatea Dis Cuurt office here Novo and since thou Marshal Lannan the lookout for Gordy. He 5th, unnblo to approheud him then he lias stayed out of she la Brown cava E" iu his busi 3d, : has boon went aftor Gordy November 4th but w afterwards, the State most of the time. His last trip away from Dolaware has been obout a month long. fourth page.] [Continued MAIL WEIGHERS APPOINTED. The Government Will Obtain Carrying Contracta. The postofllce department has ap pointed Alfrod H. Goodnqw, Morris Webb and George Sasse to be weighers of mail matter. At tbe beginning of each weighed for a period of about a month in order to furnish a basis under which tho government can close contracts with the railroads for carrying them. appointed from this city will have charge of tbe weighing of mails to and from Wilmington. Mr. Goodnow will ho located ut tho P., W. & B. station to weigh incoming and out going mails, Mr. Webb, who is a il cleric in the local Wltit'li to Cio*« î administration the mails are Tho substitute office, will run on the Now York and Washington route, and Mr. Basse, a substitute lettor-carrior in the local office will lako tbe Philadelphia and Crisfield route. Tbe mails will be weighed both by tho weigher mail car,nnd tho weigher at tho station. William Moreland will keep an account of the mails leaving the postofllce. The penBation of the special weighers will be about 82.50, and they wil begin work on Wednesday. The weigh* ing of tbo mails on the Wilmington & Laudenberg, Wilmington & Northern and through tbo B. & O. stations in this city will probably be arranged for by the local postoflico. thu Cook-Uuoker Nuptials. Dr. Thomas D. Cook and MBs Mary Eva Booker were married Monday afternoon at No. 1213 West Second street, the Rev. J. R. Milligan officiating. Dr. and Mrs. Cook left adding trip to Baltimore and Washington. They will reside at No, 532 East Tenth street. The Uanbont Wilininsfon. Secretary Long bos issued orders for the official acceptance trial of tbe gun boats Wilmington and Helena in Long Island Sound over tbo 27-knot measured course of Now London on next Monday and Tuesday, o n