Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-13
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
THB FATAL BULLET.
DEATH OF SOTELD0 FROM HIS
WOUND.
AN AUTOPSY ON THE REMAINS.
More Damaging Evidence
Against His Brother.
REPORTS FROM AMERICAN CONSULS
Subjects That Interest Our
Foreign Ministers,
AN AUTOPSY ON THE REMAINS.
More Damaging Evidence
Against His Brother.
REPORTS FROM AMERICAN CONSULS
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

SoteIdo Dead-A Stormy Career Ended in
Vio1ence-The Autopsy ON the Remain
-Evfdence That the Fatal Bullet Came
From His Brothers. Pistol.
WASHINGTON, Feb. PA NJ Soteldo, who
was shot in the ARRAY at the Republican
Office Thursday evening, died at the Provi-
dence hospital at twenty-five minutes past
ten o'clock last night. Mr.. Clements, of
Saratoga, N. Y, brother in-law of the late
A. M. Soteldo, is in the city for the purpose
of securing able and competent counsel to
defend A. G. Soteldo, who was committed to
Jail without bail upon the charge OF shooting
his brother. Mr.. Clements has requested
Colonel Charles H. Reed, of Chicago, to take
charge of the Defense and the latter gentle
man now has the matter under consideration.
A preliminary hearing will probably be given
Soteldo early next week.
Antonio Maria Soteldo, though only thirty
three years of age, had stormy experience
of the world His father held a ministerial
count of political upheaval. He came to
this country, bringing with him his family,
and he sent Antonio to ST. Johns College,
Fordham, who after graduating began to prac-
tice law. He also wrote for the San, and
was for a time Albany correspondent of chat
journal. Allying himself rather closely with
Tweed and his gang his connection with the
San ceased, and he started journal here
callen the Free Lance, which was remarkable
for its bitter attacks upon private persons
and public officials and the brevity of its ex-
istence. In 1872 he was made special treas
ury agent at Key West, Fla, and in 1876
was made managing editor of the Washington
National Republican, then owned by Mr.. w.
j. Murtagh. That position he held until the
paper changed hands in 1877. He then
represented various western pa
pers at the national capital
and also speculated considerably. He
was appointed clerk to the Senate Committee
session of Congress, when the Senate COM
mittees were organized. In person he was
TALL finely formed and dark veritable
Spaniard. His address was polished and
easy. He was noted equally for his generos-
ity, which often amounted to rashness, and
his vindictive temperament, which generally
brewed trouble wherever he was situated.
Several years ago he married the daughter OF
Mr.. W. III. Clements, rich railroad operator
of Cincinnati, who was once president of the
Cincinnati Southern railroad His wife and
two little daughters reside at Washington.
The autopsy ON the remains of A. M. So
teldo was made at II a. nj. to-day by DR.. J.
f. Hartigan, assisted by Drs. D. W. Bliss
and L. 4. Somers, who had attended Soteldc
since he was shot, and in presence of many
other local surgeons. An elaborate report OF
the autopsy in technical phraseol
egy has been made substantially as al
ready told in the newspapers. The surgeons
ay:-"After traversing the soft parts, the
ball entered the canal in its course fractur
ing the lamina of the forth vertebrate little
to the left of the spinous process, driving
before it several small spicula and penetra
ting the dura matter, slightly decorating the
cord and depositing in its substance a small
spiculum of bone, imbedding itself in the in
tervertibral foramen formed by the fourth
and fifth vertibrae." The report is made tc
the District attorney and signed by Doctors
Bliss, Sewers and Hartigan. The bal
weighed Sc IA grains, fraction of o grair
less than the one taken from Barton's neck
The fact that the balls in Barton's pistol were
fiat at the base, while these two are hollow
at the base, Minnie pattern, fixes thu
fatal shot as coming from the pistol OF
the younger Soteldo. A jury was impanelled
by the coroner and after viewing the BODY
adjourned to meet at police headquarters at
| a. m. Monday. The funeral takes place from
the deceaseds house on Wednesday. The re
| mains will be placed in a receiving vault fol
the present and removed West as soon as the
family decide as to the final resting place
Mr.. G. Clements says he has not engaged
counsel for the defense of young Soteldt
and does not intend to do so,