The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-08-31

Thos. W. Mckinley. of Windsor,
Pound Dead n tho Ilgen
House 10 day.

fritz for . room. Who showed him up To
room ten, and left him.
Will l!e~niri,z then vent ont OF the city.
and the other per-ons shont the house did
not know who occupied the room, a. the
house h-ing one which only lets rooms. and
does not prepare mesl.. keep. no register.
The room where the stranger lodged
consists Of sleeping and q sitiing room,
the entrance being through the sitting
room. The CHAMBER niAid> when on their
rounds Of cleaning up the yooms each morn
ing, they having pass keys To all rooms.
looked into room ten an Mcndsy and Tues-
day mornings, but seeing a
MANS CLOTHING LYING on A CHAIR
in tue sitting rooW, supposed he Was in bed
and skipped the chamber work in that
room. Abou; eight n. m. today Linn II.
1 &c nfriiz knocked on the door II room ten
and isi!ing TO hear any response, spoke TO
Lon W-ig.rt Who occupies the adjoining
room. aud who Wa walking along the
hallway. saying, 4 can't w1ken the oscu-
pant OF No 10
After considerable Knocking, and hear
ing so re<pon-e. they oI~ned the door and
found man's clothing piled on chair in
the sIfting room. On entering the slerpibg
nom the stranger wss found in bed, dead,
and the terrible oior arising from the re-.
msin- disclosed the fact, the; he had dem
DEAD FOR rwo DAYS
at least. Deceased lay ia bed with his
arms aud legs half drawn up as il he had
died ia coGvulsions, or Al least in great
agony. The pillows wer- covered with
blood from his mouth and no-e, which had
bled Profuse!y. and looked from its loca-
ton On the bed, n il il had heen coughed
mp and the result of hemorrhAge. Lying
on the he'd b~-ide him w.s a paper sack
half filled with peaches. On . chair near
the tel sat ,hr-- b"itl~--. one partially I'LL
.d nv hyi.sie sc choral. an"'L-r with sm-
mons, AMI the third. n h.lfp ini b,'t'~.
about hall filled with whisky.
L. hut very few minutes after the body
had been discovered several men identified
decea-.d "a
THOMAS ". MCKINLEY
. wealthy and we'll known farmer and
stock raise, and dealer residing near Wind
sor. ia Henry county.
No money WA found on hi- p-s-on.
Coroner JONES ws- nj once notified, wh"
took charge of the remains.
Various opinions sre entertained ~ Z"
the cause oi death. The RAzoo will leave
the question ~ Ia whether deceased came
TO ms death by poisoning. suiri'ie "r s"u,e
kind IL hemorrhsge which had ie~n thor
onsiIlv --xIe,i IN hi- .y-'-m. 'o the inne
m~nr "i the eorcner's jury. The following
sKfr'H 90 Dk-EA-EB
Was gathered mp lay . RAzco rep"rt-r. from
the many scquainiances and friends Of de-
ces--si in this CITY. lie removed tn Henry
county, Iron P,rker.bnrg, West Virginia,
sh"rily alter the war. bringing with him
great deal of money Al Ihsf time he vas
Republican, bni afterwards ieesm- n
democrat and took an -r'iv. interest in
io.s; politics.
He purchased . farm 81 .s'o acres. one
mile wesi oi Windsor, f-.isies cniiivaiing |
which, he dealt heavily in raising and
shipping -iocs, and trading IN Texas cat !
tie. This farm he siiIl owned ai the time /.
ri his death. snd ws- widely known in
business circles through Pe'ti-, Henry. Ben- |
ton and Johnson couaiies.
He was A married m en- when he frat re- J
moved 10 Henry county. hat his wife died /
AEON after their arrival in this stale. Some |
lime afterwards he was married io Miss /
S,ringer of Park-rsbnrg, West Va. . eous. I
in OF Henry u. S,ringer, formerly a'weli
known land agent OF :hi- city.
There appears to have been -ome dOmes-
tic trouble. rs dece a-ei i.,: for come time
prior to his death. ab-anted himself from
home aluo-, continually. He was form
erIy strict member OF the Baptist church, .
hut ~ss % latter years addicted tn gaming /
ate MAJ
TIE CokoSER- INQCkST
H. being held this afternoon The inquest
ard ,ps rort.s examination held Inder !;
direction oi the coroner. are both b~inr !
held in secret -es-ion. All newspaper re- I
porter have been barred oI;. The BAzoo ,
is informed that no verdict will he reached
TO-DAY. The cause ri this secrecy - un 7
known.
McKini~y had hi- life insured for
Sl2,OO-S2! 900 in the 4. %. u. ". and
$4,000 in some New York company.
LATER
The c"roners inquest over the body oil
the late Thomas ". Mckinley is not vet
completed. The proceedings are all strict F!
ly secret. R.rorters especially are barred
from hearing the investigation.
A bAzoO reporter called on Coroner
Jones to-day, and in response 10 inquiries
in regard to the case The gentleman said:
The theory ;aai deceased pD'soued MIN.
self is an untenable one
We found bottle Of cloral in the room,
bu: II wss but three oInce bottle. | snslys-
sd il and there Was bot ten grains TO the
ounce aud there vas sill two ounces in the
bottle
Had he taken the entire bottle full oil
cloral, Of only ihst strength. 1t would not
have taken his life.
The druggist Whose label vss on the
choral hottie said that he hsd mol used
that kind Of label for the Last three months
and that he had no doubt but that the
choral Wa purchased Al his -iosr, but that
he remembered nothing about il. The
coroner would not give the reporter the
name Of the druegist) The room in which
the deceasrsi Vas found Was occupied By
trsn-ienis, and the hottie may have been
I,ugs "a. a.. roru, Zoe .ook. dn moi