The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1874, Page 3

The above isa fac-simile, so far as the chirog- Fapby 1s concerned, of a letter which, as is now flearly demonstrated by a careiu! comparison With a large number of specimens of Mosher’s Banawriting, was indited by the unfortunate yuMan who met his death at Bay Ridge on ‘Monday morning. The pages have been somewhat reduced In size in order to conform to the re- Quirements of our space; yet In this the utmost care has been exercised, in order that the charac- ter of the chirography shonld not suffer. The writing is all in pencil. The stamp or trade mark 4m each of the upper corners, which Indicates the mill where the paper was made or the year in which it was sent to market, Was in every instance torn of. Several! Botorious murders have been traced out by means of a clew furnished from the paper on which stray NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. THE ee Pp 4. Lf correspondence found at the scenes of the crime, were written, The torn portiona are indicated on the cuts above, the letter being represented as if spread out flat before the reader. This brings pages one and four and two and three together. The letter should, therefore, be read as pum- bered. A transcription of this letter appeared in yesterday’s HERALD, The document bears the stamp of Mosber’s ingenuity and cunning. Master of several trades beside that of boat- building, this epistle shows that the map was somewhat versed fn the formalities of a banking house. These indicatloais of a géfieral Knowledge regarding the theories of business point to other sources of information than that of “cracking” a safe with a ‘jimmy.’ With the exception of a@ lack of proper capitalization and punc- tuation the letter is in every way CHILD STEALER’S ay 5 th” eh ish. tare aH satisfactory as a plece of straightforward business correspondence, The easy swing of the pencil, which crops out despite the frequent efforts at disguised stiffness in the formation of the characters, distinguishes the ambitious, partially self-ecucated burglar from the commoner cut. throat. The proper use of the paren. thesis, as noticed on page 1, and the underscoring of the important words, are to ve noticed, Uniike the schoolgirl, who italicises every word On a page, in order that it may be carefully read, this man called sttention to the Very words wich fe desired to be perfectly un- derstood by the person to whom the letter was addressed. The name of the lawyer mentioned gn page 3 has been omitted in this fac-simile, as 1t was in the transcript of the letter already printed. The only real blunder in the let- ter, a8 was pointed on: yesterday, is the unrea- sonable conditions imposed upon the person who {g to surrender the money and to receive the chiia. This was necessitated, of course, jon of the kidnapper, by the terribie punishment which threatened the writer it captured and taken to Philadelphia, The tremendous excitement which followed the crime was fully realized by this desperate burglar, and, although entirely beyond anything which could have been anticipated, there 1s every rea- son to beileve that be and his companton were fully prepared to meet any such emergency. lt is now settied that many of the letters received by Mr, Rost and now io the possession of the pence Ws Philadelphia, wore written by o im the opin | ntl; repared j cong Beepare LETTER. third party, probably the wife of Mosher, | Toey are unmarked by either the terse ness or the business ‘tact which char- acterizes the episties Known to have been written by Mosher. They may have been dictated by Dougias, who could scarcely write, and whose grammar was worse than his chirography. It having been estabished by Detective Wood that Mosher and Douglas drove from Philadelphia through Trenton to Jersey City, and occupied the greater portion of three days in the journey, it mow becomes an interesting questiog as to the source from which the letters received on the second and waird days of the boy’s absence emanated. They were evi- givance, U the work of Mosier, and found their way into the Post Ofice eoaaeed boxes through the instrumentality of the writer's wife, who lanow known to have been in that city at the time, The clerk at the counting room of the newspaper which printed the persoual :o. Mr. Ross should have been abie to remember whether the advertisement was handed in bya manora woman. The great ma- jority of the letters received by the unfortunate parents of the aDducted boy were unmistakably the work of busybodies and meddlers, who always arise at such occasions. No evidence has yet come to light showing that the dead vargiar, scoufidrel as he was, indited any of the letters containing the calumnies against a poor, #ad, well-nigh heart-broken mother, This act was Teserved for the more respectable outlaws who are to be found in our modern society. 4, ‘ 4 ROSS. The Police Authorities Baffled at Every Point. WALLING AND MOSHER. An Inside View of a Thief’s Household. THE DEAD ABDUCTORS Opening of the Inquest Over the Bodies. ‘The Ross case still remains shrouded in mystery. Up to an early hour yesterday morning the police ‘Were In great hopes they would be able to secure Dim; but as the day wore on, and news arrived from their different agents out on tne search, their expectations faded, and in the afternoon Superin- tendent Walling confessed all his plans had been fruitlessly worked out. “I don’t believe,” he said, “the child Is In the city. Idon’t think he ever ‘was, nor do I believe Mrs. Mosuer knows anything about him.” In answer tothe guestion whether he knew where Mrs. Mosher was the Superintend- ent said:—'1 sent word to the Philadephia poilce early last August of her presence in that city, and told them where she lived. She moved on here, and since that time has never been out of my sight. She was at my house the Bight before last, with her two oldest cnildren, while you were there, The youngest little one of the two began to cry while they were in the front room and you in the back one (addressing one of the parties present during the conversation), and it just strack me at the time the person who bad come in—of course | heard the door being opened and the person in the ball asking for M™me—would think 1 bad the boy, Mrs, Mosher said then, ‘I wish [ had nim! how quicaly he would bein your hands!’ When [ asked her if she knew anything of Bill’s connection with the case before she came on to New York, she sald, ‘No, I did not; the first [ knew of it was from some hints thrown ut by my brother. 1 had heard things from nim @nd others that made me suspect my husband had Something to do with it, Isaid to him one day, “Bill, can’t you trust me? You ought to know by this time whether I would betray youor not.' He said:— ‘vp TRUST YOU sooner than any one else, and I know you would do nothing to hurt me, But suppose | had any- thing todo with it—mina you I hada't—but sup- pose [had andi told you where the child was— Idon't know, but tf [did—what good would that do? Ifl got arrested for anything else what would be the first thing you'd do to get me out? Why run ‘to the police and tell where that child was, They'd bumbug you and pretend to make a bargain with You to let me out, As soon as you told where the child was—you'd tell in & minute to get me out of Jatl—and then where would we be—that is sup- posing I had anything to do with it; but i hadn't, and £ don’t know anything abont the child.’ Then Igaid to him, ‘If you telt me not to do that L woulan’t do it, and I think [ onght to be trusted as well as strangers,’ ‘Now, there you go again,’ he'd answer; ‘getting Jealous of strangers. They're telling you things on the out. side and you get believing them about me, when i'm telling you here to mind me and look after your children, Idon’t know anything about this case, nothing at all, and if f dia I’ve given you rtp enough why you should know nothing of “I don't think Douglas knew where the chiid ‘Was,’ said Superintendent Walling, “I don't think he ever knew where he was put, My idea {s that when they took the boy away'they put \Bim into the buggy and drove across coumry to ‘Raritan Bay. When they got to the Water's sido Mosher took the boy out of the buggy and put him into the boat waiting for them at tho poing where they alighted. Mosher and the person éprobabiy & woman) im charge of the boat chen rowed across the river with the boy and le/t Doug- jas to get rid of the horse and wagon, Where or how he managed this we have not yet been nbdle to ascertain, and now that he is dead it would not make ahy impression in the case. This theory, if | am correct, goes to show they were in the dark about the chiid’s place of concealment and kept him there, Of course he would share in the profits when they were realized, but Mosher was too clever a man n0t to understand if many peopie knew ‘e WHERE THAT CHILD WaS he would surely be discovered. Several other things that I cannot at present make public com- bine with what I have told you to make me arrive at this conclusion, but how they will turn re- mains yet to be seen. If it was a woman rowed that boat acrosa the water with Mosher sheis the one who has the child, and if it was @ man he was paid and sent about his business and the child carried by Mosher on landing on the other side to where he knew concealment was well covered, Now that Mosher is dead the reten- tion of the child takes a new feature, and Iam of the opinion he will be turned out into the streets, For that reason { am expecting every moment to hear he has been found tn the streets by a police oMcer, There is no reward, you understand, for the chtld, but a large amount ts offered for the re- covery of the boy and the arrest and conviction of the thieves: That does away—l mean the death of tnese men, for there is no longer any doubt abont their being the men—littie Walter Ross identified both of them, so did the gardener and so did two otner persons—with the chances of making money out ofit, Iknew they were the men from very early in the case, and if I had only been fortunate enough to get them into my hands 1 would have proved that to the entire satisiaction of the pub- lic, Lam asked by some of the newspapers why I was not able tocatch them. I may answer that by saying probably because they were clever enough to be able to keep out of the way. Now, & Man does not spend @ lifetime, and a@ long life- ume, at thieving without learning @ good many tricks In the way of avoiding the police, more par- Weularly if he 1s a smart sort of fellow like Mosber, And even ti 1did get them just under my finger [ don’t think I would have arrested them. I wanted more 10 watch thelr movements, and see whether they did anything that would lead me to the child than anything else at first. A thief like that can’’ go a iong time with any such load on bis bands as this child without taking & look now and then to see if everything t3 all right, They watch the news- papers; and just see how many Charley Rosses have been discovered for the last six montus, Why, [have had my attention callea to A DOZEN OF THEM here in the city, and I can’t tell you how many hundreds of letters [ have received from persous in the country who could tel) me exactly where the boy was. Now, you see, that’s where the boat came in handy. Mosher had been accustomed to boats all his life, and could handle one well. He knew the river almost as well asIdo, andi am pretty thoroughly acquainted with it. He could slip in and out when he liked, and he had quite a Dumber Of little dark corners \o slip into that few Would suspect. There was nothing to prevent nis leaving Douglas here tn town to look alter some other matter and running along himsel to see how the child was getting on He might take Douglas along with lim, for that matter, and leave him in charge of the water side willie he Nimseif was ap the country at the house, or rit, where the boy was, What was to prevent bim taking Douglas to a conven- lent place for him to land at and then send him out into the stream to wait until he (Mosher) signalled him to come ashore for him, so long he knew I was not close upon him? Nothing at all, He could do all this and more under the cir- cumstances, aud Was quite equal to tne work. These were among the reasons I went to Keyport fora littie launch. Mosher was well posted on all the crait on the river here, but I got one he never saw, or, if he had, be did not know, and if I could have got after him { would have kept there some time before he would have suspected me, They say he was captured the night of the Long Island burglary; that some of the men from the shore put olf and followed him out, capturing him in mid stream. That’s a mista’ He Was not taken for weeks after, and the property was not found tn his boat, as was stated, but in an old waterai store long afver. her never brought his goo to town for @ considerable time after he them, and the production of this robbery I ou buried in the sand down .!. He ieft them there tor two we e~ touched them and then he moved them in ary goods boxes to the store where they were found, From ten o’ciock last night anti t to-day Ihved IN HOURLY EXPECTATION of receiving word trom one of the numerous men Thaa out that the boy had been found, but Ihave had news trom ail of them and we are at this mo- ment without 4," direct trace of him. Iam not disheartened at that, you know, for ] am going to work again just as fresd ag ever,” “,Cavtain lrving was of muck the same vpinion as his chief, put that he thought Mosher had a confidential friend here in the city who looked after the matter for him. This man, who ts supposed to. have been in the secrets of the dead burglar, has been watched Jor weeks pat by Captain Irving 10 person and his detectives, but he has done nothing that would help them to a knowledge of the child's where- abouts. Captain arving said:—‘*1 think that but for this burglary accident something would have been developed in the matter beiore long. They were moving toward an arrangement to return the boy; of that I think we have sufficient proof. Not long ago two personals appeared in the HER- ALD that [think I may say nad a close connection with that part of the case; one of those read, Saul of Tarsus. Nothing further can be done unless a general concession is made,’ or something to thateffect, There were two or three of these personals all addressed to ‘Saul of Tarsus.’ One of them was on a Sunday. I forget the date, but that was the one that went to show the stage that had been arrived at in the negotia- tions. I think the thieves would have given ap the child at any time for the $20,000 reward, but the difMiculty was tn the getting the money with- out putting themselves into jeopardy. In arrang. ing for @ transier of that Kind great care would be taken to keep the thieves in the background, and the people who would present themselves would be very many degrees removed from the child stealers, it is evident from the persona! to sSaul’ a general mistrust existed, and if that could only uave been settled the boy would soon have been returned to his parents. hen ne was taken MR. ROSS WAS WEALTHY, or Suphcees to be; he suddenty soon after was re- duced to slender Rene and the thieves could not expect much from him. We are not bamiea yet; no, We ao not feel that way, but we have followed up indications that have led to nothing, That does not show that every avenue to the loat boy Is closed, and aby moment may open ap @ new one.’ inthe Central Office of Police the general subject of conversation was the Ife and history of “Bul? Mosher, All the old officers were hunt- ing up reminiscences of nim in their memories, and everything that could help to unravel the tangled skeid of his eventful career was passea {rom one to the other. REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD GANG, Inspector ‘Frank’ Speight, standing by the rotund inspector Thorne, yesterday said, rubping bis forenead reflectively, “Thorne, I see they say that tne Mosher family came from New Haven thirty years ago. Now I can remember the Moshers forty years back.’ ‘‘Yes,’! said laspector Thorne, ‘they must have been here so long ago. Ihave heard of them in connection with Dennis McCabe's gang In the Thirteenth ward.” “Now,'? responded . Speight, “{ recohect 1 rememover Mosher's father, who was also athief. Two ot his sons, this one who has been killed and an- other, younger than him, were, I know, members of the gang of Denny McCabe. All. the Party, Peleg Wanshy, ‘Harm’ Swift, ‘Conk’ Nat Seeley and the Mushers were SNEAK THIEVES, who took in everything that came handy. Whe! hogs used to run in the streets ghey, carried 0: many ‘squealers,’ and the butter that farmers prongat, +0 market never slipped through their gers, “Well, Inspector,” said a reporter, who had been quietly listening, ‘did this party never en- gage in Any more ambitious undertaking 1” “Yes,” he replied; ‘thirty-seven years Ago, just before | went On the po,ice, this party broke into Peck's hat store, on Grand street, and there was hin a few days alter a wonderfu) uniformity in all the smart young fellows of the Thirteenth ward, They all wore fur caps that Would be worth now from $15 to $25 apiece, Later on this gang in the Thirteept ward was broken up. Dennis McCabe moved up town, on the cast side, and 800 Daécame a member of the Assemd: Bis men who had run his peddling wagons were dispersed. Some followed him up town, amon; them ‘Conk’ Pearsall, whose son, young ‘Conk, Was arrested the other day as one of the carriage. robe thieves who had their headquarters in Huiet Odell’s stables, on Twenty-fourth sirect, “What became of old Mosher and the boys?” “Why, they stuck to the Thirteenth ward and took to thieving along the rivers. One of the boys, however, I think, continued to peddie on his own account. Bill Mosher and the old man prelerred the river thieving. When Commissioner Matsell was Chief of Police | remember ti we found @ thieves’ storehouse and hiding Pi fe ander a dock in the vicinity of Forty-second street, North River. Old man Mosher and Bill were doth cou- cerned tu that place and in the robberies that helped to stock it with goods. Por a number of pido dy heard anything of the Moshers; t I supposed, of course, that Bill was at his old Prot jon.'? ere Inspector Thorne, who had been listening to his more ancient comrade, chimed [n, saying :— “T know agate 4 of the Moshers iater than you, Frank; for] arrested one of them, and took him to Connecticut, on @ charge of horse stealing, about sixteen years ago,’ During the day the rumors about the chiid were numerous apd wonderiully various, At one time It was said that Superintendent Walling’s agents had found him at Shrewsbury, N. J., on Lads ¢ and had sent him on to Phliadelphia, ‘This story, like most of the otners, was undeniably ab- sord. Arumor that had some foundation tn fact was circulated later tn the afternoon. It reported shat some of the detectives of the New York police had been lea by @ clew which Superintendent Wal ling had beted Ped] on Tuesday i @ small tsiand im Long Isiand Sound, near Westport, Conn. nd had there iound little “Onarley” in the charge of & horrid old couple, the only inhabitants of the ter- ritory, When this rumor wag referred to Super- intendent Walling for explanation he said that the yore. who told the story had only learned part of he true facts and had trusted to their tmagina- tions for the rest, He then told the entire true Story, For several months, he said, an old couple, an and Wile, nave lived in retiremert on an island pear Westport, Qonn. They have been upsocia! and have no one to land on the island, The people of Westport at Mrst locked upon them 4s olisan- Pearsail, \bropes, vangnea at, and never interfered with them, Lately, however, they became suspicious of the poor old couple, and waen the Ross case was again excited they became convinced that the two reclusea were tn some way connected with the burglars Mosher and Douglas. They conveyed their conviction to Superintendent Walling, and, as that official believed that the idea_of the Westport people mignt be correct, since Mosher and Douglas used often to operate along the shores of the Sound, he determined to have the house and the island occu. ee by the ola couple searched. He detailed De- ective Doyié,and other officers to make the search, The Started on Tuesday night and reached Westport, where they engaged @ deputy snerif to go with them to the tslaud, Yesterday morning early they went to the territory of the ancient and unsociabie couple, which they over- looked thoroughly. They also searched the houses on the island, but founa nothing tnat indicated the two old people to be otherwise than honest. The officers returned to this city immediately and reported the result of their mission. Detective Doyle also reported that while he and Detective Silleck were with the Philadelphia officers cruis- ing on the steam launch they stopped at and Lda oy the island of the two hermits thor- oughly. + the Morgue in Brooklyn the same scene: were enacted as were witnessed there the firs day the bodies were piaced in the deadhouse, Curiosity seekers wero there in large numbers, and miany others who might be supposed to have better business to attend to, Ladies were of course in the large majority, and many people would be astonished to see bow large that surplus was, large, stout woman, deeply veiled, who left the Morgue about eleven o'clock, was supposed to be the wiie of Mosher, She was evidently much affected as she went ont of the place after probably looking upon the last of her husband she 1s ever going to see. No arrapgements have yet been made for the funeral, and (tts likely the bodies will be kept in the dead- house until alter the inquest, They are generally buried in such cases as soon a8 the Corover’s jury has seen them, but probably for some police rea- Sons these bodies are retained. THE INQUEST. The Jurors impanelled by Coroner Jones to hold the inquest on the bodies of Mosher ana Douglas went to the Morgue, the foot of Willouzhoy treet, io Brooklyn, half-past ten yesterday morning, and viewed the remains, They assem. bled at the Coroner’s office at eleven o'clock, and at Once set to work at the business of the inquest, Samuel Booth, William Mayo Little, Daniel m. Chauncy, Genera) Slocum, Timothy Desmond, J. P, James, Abraham Burbank, Charles Teale, 'W. B. Dayton, Engene Berri, J. M. Hobper and ex-Mayor Powell composed the jury and took seats at the desks |b front of the Coroner, Upon opening the proceedivgs the Coroner said he proposed to-commence the inquest with refer- ence to the death of the men whose bodies they had just viewed, and he trusted the jury would conduct the inquiry with reference to them the ae were't any other pore. ri! ‘ped neen bere were two persons deg and ey Dad seen bvidentes on aa Boaie jat Wool a lead them to judge as to the direct cause of their death, They wanted to know to what manner, when and where those boaies came to their death He trusted the Jary would banish from their minds whatever they might have heard or read in the newspapers On this subject, so that they could render a verdict yr in accordance with the evidence that would be there laid before them. As far as he could, Be progosed to commence at the beginning. He had frst proposed that Judge Van brunt, the owner of the house, should be placed on the stand, but that the acne la busy in New York, He then read the following deposition of who, being aut worn, depo ed. and jald:—T ‘orn, deposed and sald:—T re- Hide at Bay Ridge, In the town ot New Utrecht; on Monday morning, the 14th inst, a+ about two o'clock, I heard tne ringing of thé alarm bell in my house, which is connected wito wires with the nouse of my brother, Judge Van Brunt, ad- joining my house; I immediately told By, daughter to get Up and cail my gon Albert and tell him the alarm was ene to the other house; he soon dressed nimself and came downstairs, and I told him there must be a blind or a door open at tie other house and he had better go over and see he said ne would wake up Wiliam Scott, the bir f my brotaer, who lives in one of the houses i he took @ lantern and went over awoke him, and tn alittle time after. came to me and toid me there was at the other house, and asked me to get ¢ I supplied him with a@ double barrelled gun an 8130 @ single barrel one, and he went down stairs with them; in afew minutes he came running back @nd asked for another gun, saying there were two or three burglars and I nad better dress my- sell ang come over; I did 80 and went over wit nin} told ym to take me right to where the other men, Scott and Herman Frank were watcn- ing, 1c (albert then started for Scott's house to ge Nis gun; when he returned we ali squatted on he grass—that is Albert and Scott and Frank and myself—about twenty feet from the cellar door, all together; then I gave directions to ail of them what todo; I toid Albert to go round by the littie gate in front ot the house and not to leave it on any consideration; then I toid Frank to go with Albert and ordered him to stay there. ai all bagards; at this time lights could ve seen moving through the house; we waited ior them to come out for over bau an edt 1? WAS RAINING andI was getting coid, it being the first time 1 had been out of the house for avout two weeks; the burglars came through the dining room so the room known asthe butier’s pantry; } then went up wo the window in the dining room, next to the butler’s pantry ; they came out in the dinin, room to go toward the entry; I was not two lees from their feet, and coula see their bodies ve z plainiy; the older man, Willi josher, was walking a ilt- tie In front, Carrying something in bis hands; the other was carryin light; they went to the entry; I stepped back a litle on to the sod, just Opposite the window; they then came back waras invo the putier’s pantry, and 80 into the kitchen, where ther remained put a very short time, and from there went up stairs into the wing of the building; toid William Scott if we waited much longer that I would not be good for anything; I asked him if he had the keys of the kitchen aoor; he sald, yes; I told Lim to go up aud unlock it £0 ag to start them; he went up and made a rattling noise at the door; aera? the ght was ex. tinguished in the house; Scott said, “They are coming down stairs;’’ I could hear myself a poise as if they were coming down in the dark; he stepped down off the stoop behind the vuller's pantry and | observed a faint light, as of a match moving over from the butler’s pantry toward the hail; 1 whispered to Scott, “There is some one goimmg across the hall, come here; he took a position a ittle behind me to my right; about toree minutes after this little light was put out I beard @ noise, as of some person comiug up the cellar steps, which led up to out of doors; one door only was open, the other was down; the side of the building being so dark there and the night being very dark 1 COULD NOT SER ANY ONE COMING UP THOSE STEPS, and could Only judge of the movements from what littie I could bear; Icalled out “Stand,” I had the word scarcely out of my mouth when two pistol snots were fired at us, the blaze of one apparently about ‘wo fect from the other; I had my gun at my shoulder all the time, but could not see how tt was,pointed until the flashing of these pistols, and then I alscovered that I was covering the inside one of the two men, at his breast; I immediately pulled, and at the same time lowered the gun, which 1 supposed must have struck him, as he ered ou Uliam Scott fired immediately as the ailooing; from the appearance of the entering the house, (¢ appeared aif they missed him, or that they vook effect in his hat; the outside man appeared to start to ran; the neide one appeared to stumbie on the cellar door and was groaning ali the time; they then both ran together and | fred at them both as they were in a range, and [ could see them on account of having the white fence tn front of them; I then called out, “They are coming, give it to them; at this time tney were going around toward thé front of the house; [ remained where | was, calling out, “Give it to them, give it to them ;” go that our party might know I was not following them; when I fired that time one hal- loed, “Oh!” and then right away [ heard reports of guns and pistols in very rapid succession, and daring this time I heard Alvert call repeatedly upon them to stop; in all THERE WERE THIRTEEN SHOTS PIRED, all, I should judge, within a minute; of these four were red by the burgiars and nine by our party; 3 soon as the firing ceased ana I heard our party say “they had them,’ then Iran around there; Frank was standing by Dougias; 1 said, “Look ut for them; he hag a pistoi; i¢ was so dark I could not see which was his head or which the feet as he lay there; I toid Frank to see if he could Qind the pistol; he soon said, Yes, here ts one,’ and he handed it to me; then Tran’ to the other man, where Albert was standing over him with a pistol, and he cautioned me to look out, as he might be Vicia. hvac by that time Scott had gone to bis house and got o lantern and came there; in hoiding to look in Mosher’s iace { saw somethin; under his left side sere ig 1 gat “The ras bie vag Scott reached down and handed it to Me} thei 1 went back to the other man (Dongias), and when I got there Frank said, “Let me go see that other man,’ and | watched Dougias; Douglas said something about Obarley Rosa; I told him be was dying, and if he had any- Sane to say he had better say it and teil the troth; I ed him where he was from; he re- ied from New York; I asked bim how he got here; he answered by joop which was an- chored off in the stream, and he came ashore in a small boat; just then my servant girl came and looked in bis iace; he made @ remark to her that ho had been A VERY BAD MAN} by that time some of the neighbors came, and 1, feeling completely exhausted, brought the two guns and the two pistuls over to the house, where have remained ever since ; when I was looking in the window at the two men I could have shot them very easily, but I did not want to do that, 1 wanted to have them come out and surrende they did not do so and seemed 80 desperate I found myself compe! fire for self-protection jm the form of two men | judged at the that it was Douglas that load struck and learnea afterward that Vougias had received shot in the stomach; the Oring waa commeneed by the burglars, as already state THE FIRST WITNESS called was Albert H. V Brunt, After being sworn be testified as follows :— llive at Bay Ridge, Long Istand, snd am & far- Ter; on las} Monday morning, about two o’ciock, my sister called me up and told me the alarm wa: sounded and peering was the matter; I dresse myself and started out of the room to go down stairs; I forgot my hat and went back aiter tt; 1 then picked up a mall revolver which laid on tne mantelpiece and put it in my pocket; went dowo stairs Bnd lit a lantern; went over to Scott's hou: \d Called him, telling uim that there was something over at the Judge’s bouse, to bring the key and come along; we voth went out to Judge Yan Brunt'a house, about 300 yards distant from Scott's; we went to the kitchea win- dow, near vhe_ butier’s pantry, oy the back stoop; aa Soows raised ap bia lantern \t shone on the cellar door, and he said, “Look the celiar door is open; said 1, "Guess sou lest it open iast night,” ne said, ‘No, I didn't; I locked it and took the key home with ” Juss then f a & light going 4 e@ ba. airway in the hot . and ra , ‘Look Tiere and Soott 8 a ts commenced to move me back; I said, “Go home aud get the guns;’ Fence Scott my pistol and be put the lagiern behind the tcehouse; | then went nd told herman Frank to get ap, aa there was some one in tie Judge’s house; he gave me double barrelled and @ single barrelled gun; q gave the lavier to Frank and took iin with me to wuere Scott was; i gave Scott the double barielled gun buat 1) had apd Scott banded me my revolver back and said, “Go over and call your father; I said, “lt won’t do for him to come out,” but he , “We must have tim,’ so I went over and called him, and be said he didn’t think 16 would do for him to'go out on the damp ground; L said I wouldn't be but @ minute and wanted him to come out, so ne dressed himself and banded me bis double barrelled gun, and be told me to take It to where Scott and Herman Frank were; { then handed him my double barrelled gan and went up to Scott's house after Scott’s gun, and when I came back to where they were father toid me ana Frank to go to the tront ot the house; he and Scott stald in the rear of the house; tatuer told ug not to run under any consideration; we walted there about half an hour, and ali this ‘ime saw we LIGHTS GOING UP AND DOWN through the house} we made a noise, then, like some person knocking against the door; about three or four minutes after that we heard some small reports; [said to Herman “What does thas mean?’ { hardiy had the words out of my nouth when we heard three loud reports, one right after the other; two sounded like a pis:ol shot and three louder, like gun shots; then my father said, “THERE THEY COME! GIVE IT TO THEM!” 1 heard feet then coming toward me; I said, “Stand |’? then I saw the outline of a man gpd towaid me in the dark; I eaid “Stans” again, anc Ored ;by the fash Isaw anotier man coming toward me, and I gaid, “Frank, give it to bim!” be ana I shot both together at that man; alter this shot the second man staggered against the fence, and I sald, “Frank, hold him,” and with that there came a bullet right past my head from bebtnd; I turned round and got another fash in my face; the powder just toucued my face; L could see. by that fash, only about two Jeet of, a man; 1took up my gun, and as 1 did that he put te pistol right up Within a oot of my face; 1 BIT HIM ON THE ARM WITH THE GUN and bis arm he guo broke in two halves; the map Pew “You —— 3” a8 soon asl hit him with the gun | dropped it, put my hand tn mv pocket and drew out my revolver, and4 fired as gue aa I could raise it; the man started to run; told him to stop, and went ater him, right behind him; I fred again for the second time at him, but he did not bear? stop!” ts met him from the other way and “I'll give one ;’’ the burglar said then, up just turned round and, falling in his tracks, never spoke again; it was the younger man who ataggered against the fence first, andthe elder mau was the one who said, “J give up;” the men came from the east side of the nouse and went round toward tbe south side; fatner said to Frank, “Look out for that man, be has got a pistol;” it was the younger man he meant; Frank said, “Here it is,” and handed it to my father; father came over to where I was standing by the side of the older man, and | told father to “Stand back— he might be playing possum,” in the meautime Scott had gone after a light, but when he came back the older man was dead; Scott unen picked up the older man’s revoiver, which was lying at his left side; by that time the two Mr. Bergens Rt there, Theodore V. and George Van Brunt; ‘heodore and J went after the Coroner; the two Men Were lying about fifty feet apart; he said he eoeet act het) on Lely Noe sei wereres, set able on my Way back, an joctor ino absresisecy Whart ry homé; after I came back from the Coroner! went up to where Douglas was lying and he said he wanted a drink of Water, al me one gave it to him; heard him say some- ont Onarley Ross, but can’t remember the ) 28 he spoke in an undertone; he said this $0 nobody 1p particular; bet y Bergen said he had i written all down; was gone pos- sibly nalf an hour after the Coroner; the Doctor arrived about @ minute or before Douglas died; I ha two miles and @ half after the doctor; connection between the burglar alarm 1m the Judge's house and my father’s room; ar uncle's house was placed tn charge of my father; m, uncle’s house was unoccupied, and the burg.ar: haa broken the locks leading from o! in and doors had been pried open inside; ras my knowledge exteuds my uncle did not send these Men to that house at that or any Other time, for be bad never seen the men; when I examined the house I found everything turned over, but there seemed to be notiing packed for removal; ob- served beds thrown on the floors, furniture dis- turbed and papers torn (rom off the bronze clocks, Have you ever had anything stolen from house or vicinity before? A, Our house an vicinity has been {requently visited by burglars, but not very recenti, last year and tLe year visited Our: neighborhood. wedidatanttey Guat forces pleauey a ection to keep fr a mr. Van Brant? %Y at re dO. Coroner—Have you, gentlemen of the jury, any questions to ask the witness A juror—Who fred the last shot? Witness—I did; [fired one shot with shri ith a pistol at the man who q it Was the older man who fi could not say whose burgiar’s alarm we had; there was no buckshot ased; it was No, 5 snot. Witness here identified the vol found by the side of Mosher. The name of itis ‘“Governer.” He also identified the pistol found with Douglas. The former weapon, @ seven shooter, nad ive bullets in it, two baving been discharged. The other pistol bad four barrels discharged. The ey caustic, money and other, articies found on she bodies were ldentifed by Mr. Van runt, The dail the body Mosher and of remaining tm Albers Van bran reyolv were then passed round among the jurors for ex+ amination, to enadie them to Judge as to the simi. larity of the balls. Witm gaid the impression before that he hj ‘or ‘ots from the pistol; oow be found, on ex. Amining the weapon, tnat be had fred dat two dais issed fire. NCR OF DR, SHRTARD, 5 ard, sworn, deposed:—f am @ Toguiar practising puysician and surgeon; | made w Post-mortem examinauon of the body of & maa wold (0 .be Damed Mosher. at the Morrae, Decemp