The daily gazette., 1875-06-11
SECOND EDITION
The Doyle Homicide,
Perdict Of the Coroner's J,sry,
oven ExOnerated from any Inten-
ton OF Shooting the dirl.


IlHE USE OF kiaE Au.is LI IN F,.-
. LICE, EXCERPT IN EXTREME CASES
DENOUNCED.
NoTR.-In our report of the shoot
Ing yesterday. the name of the girl was
given as German. This Is the name
given to our reporter by Sergeant o..
Neil, from whom the statement of the
affair published was also obtained.
Yesterday afternoon, Coroner Groves
iempaneled jury and proceeded to
hold an Inquest over the body of Sallie
Doyle, at her late residence 737 Church
street. F1Fr go =
The first witness called was Frank
Stewart, who testified that while stand.
ing at Taylor and Bennett streets, be
saw Sergeant O'Neil pursuing Wingate
also saw the officer fire his pistol; when
the shot was fired O'Neil and Wingate
were both on Church street, above the
Epworth Chapel.
Mrs. Annie Doyle, mother of the de-
ceased, testified that she left her daugh.
ter standing near the back gate sweep
ing out the yard; she went to the store,
and on her return, few minutes later,
found her daughter lying on her back,
just outside the gate; she carried the
girl into the house, where she died in a
few minutes.
X. ii. Cook, testified that while sit
ting on fence, on Eleventh street,
near Church, he saw Sergeant O'Neii
pursuing Wingate; Wingate was north
of the chapel, and was running across
to the west side of the street when the
Officer first fired OF him; witness
thought this shot could not reach the
girl as 1t would be likely to strike the
chapel fence.
! Miss Fannie Hickman testified to
| looking out of her window and seeing
Sallie Doyle lying on the ground. She
| thought the girl was In u fit, and alarm
ed the neighbors. VIM. X. Galloway,
testified to seeing the officers in pur-
suit of Wingate and to seeing the Ser
geant shoot; he thought the place
were the girl was shot was in line with
the officers pistol at the time he fired
the first shot; he must have been 150
Or $50 yards away from her at the time.
Geo. a. Holmes testified 10 assisting
TO carry the girl into the house after
she was shot; she was not then dead.
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Lewis Mason testified to seeing the
pursuit and the shooting.
Sam'l j. Bradford testified to wit.
Messing the shooting; O'Neill was on
the east side of Church street north of
the chapel when he first fired, and the
direction in which he fired was on a
line with the place where the girl
stood.
The jury here adjourned, and ex.
amined the spot from which the off,
Ger fred the first shot; they found it to
be on the East side of Church street,
near Eleventh, and from 225 to $50
yards from the spot where the girl was
killed. II Is marvellous how the ball
so directly reached the victim, as In
its course 1t passed houses. trees and
fences, and must have closely grazed
some OF these intervening objects, but
not however with sufficient force to
divert 1t from Its direct course.
Cpon reassembling two otherwitnes-
es were examined but their testimony
was not of importance. The testimony
of Drs. Wales and Grimshaw who ex-
amined the body of the deceased, was
then received as follows.
We examined the body of Sallie
Doyle and found an external wound
in the head two inches behind the low
part of the right ear. The wound was
circular and admitted the tip of the
little finger The skin around the
wound was tumified. We took Off the
skull cap, and took out the brain. Fol-
lowed up the wound, from the internal
table of the skull, and found il (the
table of the skulD broken up to the ex.
tent Of several inches. Traced the
wound in the brain, and while doing
so bullet and piece of bone fell out.
The bullet and the bone were then
produced and exhibited to the jury.)
The course of the bullet was directly
horizontal, tearing through the lower
brain, called the cerebellum, carving
with it two pieces of bone, and lodg-
ing exactly in the centre of the brain
Immediately above the medulla oblon-
gaia. In our opinion death was
instantaneous and resulted from q pis-
tol bullet.
The jury then adjourned until 8 o.
clock p. NJ. at the Delaware House, at
which time and place they again as
sembled.
John O'Byrnc ESQ.,, appeared for
Sergeant O'Neill. and Deput Attorney
General Hodgson for the State; but
objections being raised by some men,
bers of the jury they withdrew.
Officers Bernhard, Legg and Scully
were examined. and testified to the
circumstances of the pursuit of Win.
gate, and to his general bad character.
The jury then deliberated, and after
q long discussion, agreed upon, by
vote of II to 2, the following verdict:
THAT the shooting and death of
Miss Sallie Doyle, was occasioned by
the shot fired from the pistol of Ser
geant O'Neill. in attempting to arrest |
a notorious character by the name of
Albert Wingate; and while we do de.
nounce the use of fire arms in the ar
rest of any but criminals of great
crime, we exonerate the said Sergeant |
O'NeiU from onv infAntiou ~ tho