, 1874-09-04
A STRAY BULLET,
The Remarkable Death Of
Mrs. Mary Wagner.
4 Coronor's Jury Fails 10 Find Out
Who Fired tho Shot.
Tho investigation Postponed 10 Secure
tho Testimony Of Experts.

Mrs. Mary Wagner, Of No. SIT West Division
street, wl,o standing outside her son-fn-law's
boor-saloon, No. o27 West Division street,
Wednesday afternoon, received q gunslot
wound, from tho effects Of which
gnE DIED.
Mrs. Wagner was 68 years Of age, and had
boon resident Of Chicago for the last twcnty-
ayo yeara. She located on Wost Division atroot
about ton yoars ago, nnd has reBtdcl oyor since
OIL ono Of several lots OF ground which so p,,r-
ohasod. Throughout tho district sl,o was vol
known aud respected, and the news Of her death,
therefore, caused
sostE Rxo1TEnExT
among the reHl1onts. and cal1od forth OK
prcssions Of bttor feeling against tho alleged
Instruments. About fifteen minutoa after
o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Anton Eoiter was
standing In front Of 'his snloon, on Division
stroot, almost directly opposite to No. 327, whore
Mrs. Wagner stood. Ho beard tho report OF q
shot, and, looking across at Mrs. Wagner saw
her giVe n atart and hasten into the saloon.
Soon aftor, he lloRrd she waa tload. At dis
tanco Of noarly 300 feet westward from whore
Mrs. Wagner waa atanding,-that ia, at tho cor
nor of Robey and Dtvision Htroots,-two po-
lice officers OF tho Eighth polico Precinct
were at that timo engaged In testing The oilIofen
oy Of their rovolvors. Thoro isfa dtoh feet In
dapth ut thia point, aud ovor it Ia aulvort. BE-
ing ut the extro,ne westerly end Of Division
stroet, and fairly out the prairie, tho officers
thought that they might
p1sonAndE THEIR nEvoLvEna,
taking tho atrlug-pioco Of tho oulvcrt 1T tho Oh.
ono. It was inside fbo city limits, snd thoy.
know thoY wore committing breRch OF
tho law iu firing on thoIr plstols
thoro. Outlines they had arrested lads
ss3ea s sn ~ste iss deess Sss but ts sssg ss ts
Officers, and imagining tfa't no harm sS5uuid fol-
low their notion, which, from their position,
would bo in great part nnobaoryed, ~. they 10
aolyod to make the to4t IT, ThS oceEs t DO not
ono bullet. But l,o Says ho does not think that
t1at WOE the bullet which caused Mrs. Wagner's
DEATH. According to tho DOCTORS tossimony,
tho ball ...,
pAesgD THROUGH THE womAN'a popY.
It was not found. Tho question:. therefore,
which mniulY occupied tho attention ot tho
try y was, s,o,,s1 wnoter l .sr bsl %n fred from
Z o51s sae oysr TSyye xoad az af1 500 S ;oo .n 6sn
havo sufficient momentum to out through tho
woman's body in m alnost direct line. Tho
jury wera unable to aolvo tho question tor thoua~
aelyos, although many Expressed tho conviction
that dstauco II was therefore deonod advis-
able to adjourn until o'clock to-day, at tic
Chicngo avenue Police Station, whom tho Coroner
hopes to DO able to ay before tho jury tho teati-
! mony, Of experts as to tho carrying capnoity Of
on Wednesday night
A STORY WAS STARTED
to tho otYoct that Mrs. Waguer's death wAs con.
fosscd by aon1a relative who expects to bo bcne-
1tcd thereby; but 1t was aoou scou to bc
| malicious aud wholly without foundation. Four
bullets wero found in tho string -piece, aud, ao-
oordng to tho otieora ssatomonta, only throo Gu
sdsa up to o es ase %s s tnfs y Wen 1se IT,
dnak on Wednesday,. Who was Ii
put tho fourth bullet into tho atringpiooo This
ed the oml,tY onambers OF lis revolver before ho
| handed 1t to tho Sergeant in charge, 80 that 1t
was Impossible to toll how many bullets hs dis
charged. The impression prevailed that some
| drod tic fourth shot.
| Coroner John stephous hold an inquest yeB-
| terday at No. 327 West Division Btroot. Ho i'm
paneled the following nanod persons as jury: :
u. Gastfoldt {forexlan), G. NJ. Gloeaboch, =: +.
| Hanson, john 1T. Carrow, Thomas Walsh,
Thomas Ryan, A. os!ormnnn, John Kellor, Fl.
| deia, II. L. Gpannorberg, D. Jowarsh, @. Pasa-
| olman.
DR.. r. nesnorss, 5n.,
made post, mortem examination OF the body,
aud, at its conclusion. reportod the result Of his
investigation to tho jury. The Doctor said:
found thst Mary Wagner dtod from tho eteo.s Of
gunshot wound, evidently mndo by tnrge-sizcd
pis.olDall entering about half inch to tho etl
Of tho mctan Ino tho back opposite tho tlltrd RIB
aud erforasing tie third rib On tho right side, audi
from thcnce tulo the cheat, through tho right lung
1auselo, always about tho same ieval md iuoh to
tho loft OF tho boundary Of the ar-pit. The ghost or
rgl, siaS was !ed with h!e9d sna death mus,