The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-15

burn and McCabe started over to Daven-
port to capture the rufhans. They tracked
them to Rockingham and then chased
them TO this side,' in skiff. being fire.
queHtly so near that they could hear
them plying the oars. Grogan and Me-
Cormick were in the skiff the oficers..were
chasing. They came to this side, tied up
their boat. left the oars in the skiff and
skipped. I his was the state of affairs
when Officers Blackburn and McCabe
reached the spot. They held consulta-
ton and concluded that Grogan and Nc
Cormick intended to return; that they had
gone home to get money and clothes and
would then try to make their escape in the
in wait for their game. and about 10 O.
clock, the criminals returned and were
met by Black burn and McCabe at the
point of revolvers and captured. They
were hand cuffed, taken to Jail and locked
in separate cells, where they now remain
Nobody is allowed to see them alone.
They are uncom Indicative and refuse to
say anything about the affair.
All of last night Wittick groaned 10
his agony, while his faithful wife stood by
him watching him closely, and eagerly
waiting to catch sign Of recognition or
word before he died During the nigh he
seemed 10 recognize his wife, by pres
sure of the hand, and some faint hope was
expressed that be would rally and be able
to make an auti-mortum statement-bqt
be only groaned, audiby,as if he wanted to
speak but could not. Thus he lay in
agony sill through the weary hours of the
night, life hanging OF tender thread. with
not a soul who could offer one ray of hope
to the heart broken wife aud mother.
There was strong language used during
the night and threats of lynching fire.
quentlS INDUCED.
This morning Wittick rallied a little at
times but not sufficiently to speak u word
TO bis wife or those around him. and at l |
clock it was evident he was fast sinking.
He breathed hard and seemed ta be spf-
feriog great pain. At II O'Clock he was
very weak and at few minutes past noon,
he breathed his last, and passed away.
Word was imm ediately sent to Coroner
Morris who came on the first car and the
work of empaneliDg jury began. ct
2:3O o'clock the inquest was begun at the
Armory Building, by the coroner, with the
following jury:
Henry Hayden foreman, Thomas Yates,
Jonathan Huntoon. Chris Metsch, John
l. Reed, AleE. Steel
A post-mortem examination ~as held
which resulted in clearly establishing the
| fact that the deceased died of the Injuries
received, aud not from other causes. As
! it is i'm portant we give it in full.
fHE DosT MoRTEM.
/ In making the post mortem examination
on the body of Conrad Wittick we find a
confused wound on the left temple about
one and half inches lang penetrating to
che bone. Under this wound we fad ex
travcated blood, betveep the scalp and the
bone.
| We find second wound transvsrsely
across the lower part of the occepital bone.
extending from near the centre outward
and forward to the left. This scalp
wound is about two aud one half inches
long through the scalp and through the
plautiman to the bone and the bone rough
ened on the track of this wound. We
also find third wound little TO the
right of the centre on the right side near
the front edge OF the occepital bone. This
wound was from above, and downwards,
and is almost two inches long and pene-
trating to the bone.
On opening of the Uranium a quantity
amounting to several ounces of blood es-
capped from between the membranes and
the brain, and from between the bone and
the membranes. Ga removing the brain,
q quantity of clotted blood, amounting to
black fluid blood was found. All the con-
volutioas of the brain were filled with
clotted blood.
We found the occepital bone fractured
as follows: One fracture from posterion
left side forearm magnum, outward to the
| left, about two inches long, and another
from near the middle of this extending
backward more than three inches in
length
We also found another fracture com
mencing on the opposite OF the forearm
magnum outward to the right and curviDg
backward. This fracture is from two and
half to three inches 10 length. Another
fracture starts from this about half an inch
from the large forearm and extends for
ward and inward. Its length is about q
inches.
1t is our opinion that he died from these
injuries, as they caused oppression of
the brain and death was the inevitable
result.
S. G. PLUMMER,
GEORGE g. CRAIG,
CALVIN TRUEsDALE,
CHARLES G. CARTER,
GEORGE Z. BARTH.
The witnesses examined were George FL
Cooke, Charles Steele. j NJ Kroger, Gee.
w. Hodgeman. Chrie Schaatz. Mary
Schaefer, Lizzie Brockman, John LaFranz
1t was clearly established that the right
parties had been secured; that Wittick