The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-02-14
MTEIpO KILLED By HIS BROTHER.
.,,,. terrible Fact Made Known nc the
Autopsy -yeung Sotcldo bears
n Rad Character.

" soicldo, who was SO badly wound
"A IN the late tragedy In the Republican Of
60 died on saturday night last. The au-
- an sunday revealed the terrible fact
re, tho deceased met his death al the hands
Lii. brother. The examination OF the
,.su o,,er is extraction proved cOnclusiyely
10, /, was from the same pistol that the
,'glct ,slon from Clarence Barton was fired
60, The shape. size, and weight OF both
h,,l',s. are exactly the same. with the eN-
ecn,lon II a slight difference in weight,
,h9t would naturally result from abrasion
in nas,ing through the ycrtebr9.
Tbc lall when extracted from Us bed
v,. Immediately weighed and found to be
ciobtv.,cyen grains in weight. subse-
,ne,,Iv. however. the coroner. DIR. Paiter-
.oD. piaced it upon another pair OF scales,
,,bci' /, was found TO weigh eighty-six and
one quarter graius-the difference probably
occ,,joned by matter adhering TO II when
taken fresh from the body.
me location Of the ball was found TO be
within half nm inch OF where II was placed
in the diagnosis of the attending physi-
e3ap>. DR.. Bliss and Sewers.
The section Of vertebr1 and spinal cora
were taken Sunday evening by the physi-
cilns 10 Or. Hartigan's Office, where care
iul examination was made.
The Pest says that young Soteldo, VINO
/, now held in prison, was visited on sun
dan by several persons. lie was told yes
icrlay morning, before anything certain
VA, known. that it was Barton's buiiet
which killed Soieldo, and Immediately
burst into tears.
The New York Tribune OF sunday pub
T,hcd The following: a. c. soteido, VINO
Il ip a
in ,bc National Republican office. and who
wa. charged with firing the fatal shot, has
q, noi;ro record i'm This city. Early IN the
morning II August Is. 1873, nc. WIN ihiee
other ,n,r. attacked and robbed lloratio I.
VV.ist nj Norrisania, i'm Third avenue,
mar Observation-Disclosures eighth street.
~olcllo. John Moore, and Peter Noonan
were arrested. hut the fourth man escaped.
II appears from the papers which are on
record I'm the Office Of the chief clerk OF
,hc Court OF General Sessions, that Welsh
,,a, walking on the avenue when the men
mf him. No0nan accosted him FIRST. hui
took no further part in the affair. The
man who was not arrested held Welsh
while Moore and Sotcldo searched his peck
cf-. S8teldO took the poCket-book ana ran
1waV. The a~>ailants were recognized as
member, u 'the og-llollOw gang and
their arrest was secured before daylight.
Poiico-Iusticc Kasmird committed them 70
await The action Of the grand jury, and they
vcrraiterward indicted for robbery. moore
vs, convicted i'm the Court OF General Ses-
ION, OF petit larceny from the person and
MA, sentenced 10 the State prison for four
vc.r,. SoteldO entered plea OF guilty %
assault with intent TO commit robbery, ana
asa. .cnt 10 the penitentary for one year
bv judge Sutherland. Noonan was ac-
g,Iittcd. Soteldo was convicted on Octo-
her a. 1878. The next day Welsh, the
rouulaiuant. wrote letter TO District-At-
,orncy Phelps. in which he said: Il in
close .nbpTna left at my residence yester-
dov too late for me to attend TO. | under
stand that Charles SOtcldo pleaded To SIM
plc assault. Ii was a clear case OF highway
robbery or nothing. as he put his hand IN
INV pocket and took the pOchei-bo0k.' So
tcido served out his sentence in the penn
ientigry. At that time he gave his age as
twenty and his occupation as that OF
clerk.
II j. now stated that Soteldo did not go
into the Republican Office to ask Barton 10
make rctraction, but TO show him some
letter, ~ a warning that il Barton persisted
in publishing personal articles his own
character might he aSsailed. These letters
are alleged to he written to the proprietor
of Sanderson's Hotel, and Of compro-
missing character 10 Mr.. Barton.
VERDICT or TIRE CORONER'sJURY.
WASHINGTON. February 13.-At the coro-
ncr'> inquest to-day the verdict rendered
was that the late \. NJ. SOteldo came to ms
death from a pistol-shot wound in The meek
hv "a bullet from the pistol held in the hand
Of nj, brother. \. &. Soteldo, at the Office OF
ihc National Republican, on the night Oh
February 9th.