New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-19
ADJOURNING THE INQUEST.


HEARING-TESTIMONY TO DE TAKEN TO-DAY
NO FRESH DISCOVERIES.
The proceedings in the Coroner's inquest on
the murder of Mrs. Hull were brought to a
sudden pause yesterday, owing to the unfit
ness of the room in which inquests are usually
held for the hearing in this case. The inquest
will go on at 10 a. m. to-day in the trial-room
of the Police Central Office. The efforts of the
police TO obtain additional evidence have not
been relaxed, but up to an early hour this
morning they were said by leading officials to
have been rewarded by no fresh discoveries.
WORK OF THE CORONER'S JURY.
VISITING THE SCENE OF THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ING THE EVIDENCE UNTIL To-DAY-sUPERIS-
TENDENT wALLING SAYS TIE PUBLIC MUST BE
PATIENT.
Although the hour at which the inquest was to
be continued was announced by Coroner Woltman
as II n. IN. yesterday, and the place the CoronePs
office at Mulberry and llOuston-sts., he and the
members of the jury met at the scene Of the muI-
der, No. 40 West Forty-seCond-st., an hour
earlier for the purpose Of examining the house in
all ITS parts and of becoming familiar with every
thing about it as to understand closely the testi-
mony They assembled in the back parton, into
which the small bedroom in which the fearful
crime was committed opens. Coroner Woltman
stated to the jurors tine purpose for
which he had called them together there.
lie then called upon Nancy Francs. tue
colored cook tell the jury how she had discovered
tho body of her mistress, and t. give all the details
OF the events of the morning Immediately following
the discovery. She described how she had come up
the stairs from the kitchen and found the door lead
ing INTO the back parlor from the hall closed. She
H. nd he doors
leading thence into the back parlor and into Mrs.
HulPs bedroom open. Some of the clothing that
Mrs Hull had taken off the night before was
thrown down in the parlors. She looked into the
bedroom, and at first thought her mistress was
asleep; she tried 70 waken her and found she was
dead She then rushed into the hall and up the
stars toward DR.. HulPs room, crying out: Doc
tor Mrs. Hull is murdered
The inrors then visited the basement, and the
cook showed them how she was in the habit Of
locking and barring the doors and windows
at night and as she said she had locked
and barred them on the night of the murder. She
locked tic door at the head of the cellar stairs and
the doors mt the front of the basement ball, and
said she had found them undisturbed on rising at
4 o'ciock-her usual hour-On the morning of tho
murder She showed how the windows in the Doc
tors office fastened, tho fastening not haY-
ing been disturbed the night of the muir
der. She also pointed out to the jurors
the rooms of the different occupants OF
the house on the three upper floors. Nellie
West the housemad, showed how she had found
the street doors upon coming down stairs few min
utes before O'Clock on the morning of Juno IL.
Placing the westward half OF the inner and outer
double doors about half OPEN she said that that was
their position when she first noticed them. The
door leading into the front parlor was also about
half open.
Police Captain williams said that the windows of
the back parlor and of the bedroom We're found by
him about half open. but the dust them had
| not been disturbed. They are what Is known as
| French windows, each half opening inwardly, and
extending to within short distance of floor aud
| ceiling. After every part of the house had become
thoroughly familiar to the jurors they proceeded
70 the Coroners Office at Mulberry and Houston-sts.
| ASSEMBLING IN The CORONER's OFFICE.
curious crowd began to gather around the Cor
oncr's office long before the hour at which anything
of interest could be expected. A few persons were
seated in the courtroom on the second floor as
| early as 10 A. m. This is a narrow room extending
the length of the building, having windows in
| each end through which when they arc
| opened for the admission of air, the noise
| of vehicles of all kinds passing over the rough
| pavements of Houston and MulberTy-sts., comes
| with a distinctness which browns the human voice
| within The ceiling is so low that with the room
| crowded and the windows closed the air would
| soon become too much vitlated to be endUTablc.
| This was apparent when only few persons had
Assistant District-Attorney Rollins entered few
minutes before he WAS followed llttlc later by
| Commissioner John ]. Davenport, and the two
| seated themselves in "A window at the rear Of the
coroners desk and engaged in an earnest conyer7a-
ton. with plan of the house, No. 40 West Forty
second-st, spread out before them. They were
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| Phelps and the conversation became more earnest.
John D. Townsend appeared as counsel for the fam
GER who has been engaged in the tgatono OF the
| case, to arrive. tie had With him box containing
the bandages etc., with which the murdered
In the meantime the witnesses who had been
subpGnaed had arrived and bad been taken to a
| room above; for 1t was the intention OF TIE Cor
oucr that each should be examined separately from
| the rest The witnesses were: DIR. Alonzo ;. Hull,
George T. Hyde, John Ii. Coleman. Carroll Coleman,
Mr. aud Mrs Ral9rd X W francis ana NeI nc
| Robert A. Fuller, of No. 1876, aud Dr.. Edward Il.
| Henschel, of No. 12G, in the same street; Martin
| Charles Prince of No 233 East rty-thirl-st.,
and Peter Tuly, of No. 90 East Forty-seycntl-st.
At lilo Coroner Woltman entered with the jury.
He took his seat behind the desk wlth Deputy Cor
| oner McWhinnle by his side, and me jurors were
placed on his right. After consultation an effort
was made To the trial room at the Ponce Cen
tral Office for the proceeding, but as police trlals
| were going on this was impractoable. Coroner
| Woltman said stO the jury that lt was
| Intended to make the Investigation rs
thorough as possible and better acconmodatlon55
were needed. The police trial-room codig be had
after that day, and he Therefore adjourned TINS IN
1ucst 10 10 e. M. to-day. Dr. Hull left she building
last of the witnesses. He came down the steps
and along Houston-st supporting himself WIN a
cane, ana with his eyes bent on the GROUND. ne
seemed worn and sad and one crushed
by a great horror, but not timid or fearful.
| Ayoung man, apparently Trend, walk DS ms sue
! There are doubts now whether, after all, the re-
sulfs of tue inquest will he of startling nature IL
il asserted that 1t Is not known that anything VIII
| he drawn from the witnesses other tnan what they
are already known generally believed to have
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