Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1879 — The New Seymour Tragedy. [ARTICLE]

The New Seymour Tragedy.

An intimate member of Bishop Seymour’s family said yesterday: “The whole affair is how out of our hands, aud is being conducted by the detectives from Police Meadquarters. We in the house have no theories Low Mr. Seymour came to his death, but of course we are very anxious Tor a speedy solution of the matter. There appears to have been no motive for a murder,except on the supposition that Mr. Seymour, en going out, found an intruder who, fur some reason or other, became suddenly angry and fired the fatal shot. ■ Certainly robbery was not the motive, for nothing was missing from the body. It is true Mr. Seymour left his vest in the house, and so was without his watch: but aside from this there is little satisfaction in such a theory. As regards the reported contradictions as to the position in which Mrs. Seymour and Bishon Seytapur found the body, I can say that they agree that he was found on his back. The slight bruise on the nose between the eyes seems at first to have escaped our observation. But the Coroner or the detectives may have noticed it at the post-mortem examination, and may nave been working with that fact in his mind. Mr. Seymour wore a tall, stiff hat, and the front of the rim was found to be bent in. This might have been caused by the fall that bruised his nose, and in fact 4he stiff edge of the hat itself might have made the bruise by being crushed against Jiis no e. For this to have been the case, however, he would have had to fall on his face, whereas he was found lying on his back. It is possible that he was struck by something that crushed the front of his hat and knocked him to the ground. He might then have received the shot as he was rising to resist his aassfiant. It is very probable, however, that the shot was a chapee one from some early eelebrator of the Fourth. Whatever the cause of his death, a solution of the mystery will be a great relief to us.”— [New York Tribune.