The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-04-20


The windows Of the room IN whicl
the explosion occurred were completed,
shattered BY the force of the conciission
Where the hand grenade struck, the car
pet was torn and the floor ripped M
The upper pOrtionof the desk 81 JOSEPH
a. lean was complete wreck. Just
back Of u, ragged piece Of the missile
had torn its way through the wairacot.
ing. The door 10 the closet was pierced
through in three places, and around the
wall were marks where Jagged pieces a
the iron had struck. A portion u Mr..
George w. Deans desk was ripped. and
just above Il piece of walnut rail
ing was imbedded IN the wall The ear
pet waS saturated with blood and be-
sineared with SCOT One Of the pistols
found was navy revolver, with one
chamber discharged and the caps on II
Two others. The reporter inserted his
finger in one II the discharged cham
beers and found il still wet, showing that
u had but recently been fired The
other pistol was a small iyory-handled
Sharp's fonr-shooter, all the chambers
loaded. The fragments Of the hand
grenade picked up in the room Indicate
that il was a tweve-pounder.
The Chambers Street Hospital. 10
which Orvile ID. .Iewctf was taken IN an
ambulance. soon after I he explosion. was
thronged all the forenoon BY kinsmen
and intimate friends Of the diving man.
The hospital assistants found three
wounds ia the abdomen. The left hand
and wrist We're very badly lacerated, and
the flesh gone, leaving the muscles and
arteries bare The surgeon dressed the
wound, but made no examination Ia a.
certain how they had been inflicted
.jcwcti fingered ID great distress until
quarter 10 y o'clock, when he died.
The Tunes furnishes the following ac-
count Of how Mr.. .Icwctt met his death
Dryille .Iewett, when last noticed by any
one, Mr.. Taintor. was standing with his
hands under his coat-tail,. In front Of
the CRATE fire. The wife Of the ianitor
said. Yesterday. that when she and her
husband We're startled by the first eNplo-
sion they sprang up from their breakfast
table and ran rapidly down stairs. She
had got but hall way down when she
heard four sharp reports III quick sue
ces-lon. bui attached np Importance 10
the circumstance until the finding Of the
bullets aud their connection with the
empty chambers Of the small pistol were
pointed ont 70 her She also afterward
heard the small explosion spoken II \
~ assistant foreman Cook and sew
eral others ~ occurring: il must
have been nearly q minute subsequent 10
the great one Ii seems evident that
after throwing the grenade, and finding
himself comparatively uninjured, Orr
vile. carrying out his precon-
ccived plan for which he had amply pro-
yidcd himself. drew the small revolver
and discharged AL four barrels al his
breast Three remained in him. and
the fourth went out through the right
hand pane Of thick ground glass form
ing one ~ the panels Of the hall door,
and buried itself 10 about the depth of
a sixteenth Of an inch i'm the soft wood
a the hall wall. Subsequently Orville
drew large revolver and put
he finishing touch to his ghasf-
N work This theory is the
most probable one from every point Of
rev That Orville possessed the neces-
AIRY strength % accomplish the shooting
: proved by the fact that more than five
minutes after receiving his wounds he
VA able 70 raise himself from the floor.
larry glass Of brandy TO his lips, and
'walow il unaidcd. Ills waistcoat, over
he points a the entrance Of the bullets.
yas set on fire. while his overcoai and
We're unmarked, showing both
he deliberaiion and the clo-eness AT
which the pistols were fired. The di-
eciion III all the wounds was such a.
night easily have been caused by HIM
elf holding the pistols in his right hand
md such also a. q preclude the notion
hat he was fired At BY another person.