Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-12-09

"u Portions OF heao, Dut found none, Found
portion OF coat. Thinks McCullum exam,ned
pockets; found rim Of hat; aesh looked red; came
PACK to look at body and discovered that the feet
had been taken of.
=, Jacob Levy. (the landlord Of the Delaware
House adjoining Vests office OH the sast) tssti-
assisted Mr.: Benn to burnt open door. and others
70 put out fire-saw the body-thinks box was
on body; thinks spot Of blood in back room vas
rom cut IN his foot made while engaged in put.
u. W. Benn testified that hs xas .;t.;nv hv hi,
stove warming his feet preparatory to ooins to bad
wnsn hrs wife called, saying She heard
great noise in next door; he replied that he
guessed 1t was nothing more than she had heard
lor severa! nghts-there had, been good deal of
sstsd ~ ,hot s. oiies late at night lately; she
s,airs anu heard noise like that Of u sewing ma.
cnine got out ON window cap and crept along to
VESTS window; saw that the place wxs on 6re:
sot oacK quickly and gave the alarm Of fire: got
some son wafer ana assisted in putting out fre In
..p'y 10 question by one of the jurors Mr.. Benn
slat'u that when he looked in the window the box
was ieahng over, the side towards his houa. an
pear,h9 to be raised up. The noise his wife heard
was as II something heavy had fallen. This time
was about half-past H. The gas holder vas IN
Its tank when he first noticed It. '
george W. Baker testified that he heard In,
noon u, carriage shop bell ring; when he came up
10 VESTS office the fire was nearly ont Nj
Cadmus brought in light. Had his attention
uaa.ea M 70 the body portion Of q coat was hang
quarter OF pound of gunpowdsr under Hoor :
saw portion OF hat, all burned except brim
III door. ~' "a ''0''
~, DR.; Robert p. Jump testified that he examined
VESTS apparatus for making gas about a v.sI
ago; did not know the exact ositionIamr r,ovsd
The gas was about the same as that used ~ dan.
lists. S
Thomas NJ. Battel testified that DR.. West bor.
rowed brace and bit from him for the purpose Of
boring hole IN the floor; West came 10 witness
last evening to get some money he had ENGAGED
to collect for HIM from Professor Jones. on nc.
coant OF blackboard belonging to West.
Charies Cuibreth. clerk at the Capital Hotel.
testiheu tnat ". w est left the house at about
haiI-pas u o'clock. He came in and asked me
now long was going to remain up; said he was
going to his Office to tix his gas Said he would
be III by IL o'clock. Waited for him Til hea 81
tho alarm OF fire. He had on black coat Ia
ma not stay long in reading room-not more than
hve minutes Mr. Culbreth produced Vests
valice for examination before the iury.
). q. Laws testites that he was sitting in ot.;ca
OF Capital Hotel with others about half.past
eleven O'Clock Wednesday night. West came in
seemed to be in good spirits; had on wool hat and
shoit oVHreoat; remarked to him. you look as II
you were on a raid Jocularly asked INN some
questions about his gas whether 1t was n secret
Sc.; West said he would 60 and turn off gas he
seemed TO be inpatient made a remark that tba
time seemed slow. Witness believed body before
inquest was body of West
Inc inquest then adjourned until Monday morn.
ing. next, at 10 o'clock. post mortem examin-
n,ion OF the body was subsequently made by Drs.
Robert Jump and Edwin y. Shakespeare. with
What result We have not learned at this Writing.
There are great many theories in circulation In
regard to the manner in which the BODY came 10
Its DEATH but We prefer not advancing any of them
until the investigation before the Coroner 8 J urv
has been concluded The circumstance that n
man ns~ering somewhat the description of West
got on tho cars at Dover, at So'clock IN the morn
ing is' In manner. connected with the affair, but
the testimony of the conductor will be necessary
to corroborate it. The ticket Office was not open
AZ % that hour The Coroner telegraphsd to Nor
iolkana to Baltimore for the police to be on the
look out for this man,
lhe return OF DIR. West, to Dover On Friday
evening. and his confession that he had killed
.oooh Turner, induced the rs.asssmblins of the
Coroner jury that night, Instead of on Monday Y,
70 wh.eh time they he'd adjourned. 1t was at
TINS time he made the confession. and narrated
lne circumstances connected with the horrible
ahA'r, which appeared in the GAZETTE of Satur.
day AFTERNOON.