Bridgeton pioneer., 1893-04-13
BRDGET0N, N ]. THURSDAY. APRIL l3 1893

Dy SpeclolTeQu6bCO Oh coroner sawyer
a PIONEER representative was present
as clerk of the inquisition.
There were numerous witnesses, and
the only matter disclosed, was the vari-
ance of the statements made by the
Coppoli family and others who have
some knowledge of the case.
The case indicated as it proceeded
that Thomas Basnet would have been
an important witness, but he was
lying In the house of Henry King,
blackened and burned. and suffering
from two bullet wounds in the head,
and of course did not raise his voice to
clear the mystery.
Louis Coppola, his son Tony, and his
daughter Mary, all told the same story.
They claimed that Trynor had desired
them to move because he wanted the
house for his daughter, Mrs. Rouse, of
Haddonfeld.
They were willing to go and made
no objection, simply going to house
on Main road, ,immedeatly after receiv-
ing the notice.
To each member of the Cappola
family, Trynor had always been as a
father, and they all loved and re-
spected him. Louis Cappola admitted
giving the old man bottle of beer,
but claimed that he was drinking a
portion of it with the old man on
Easter Sunday. and theywere not affec-
ted. They also gave a bottle to Bas-
net. but he suffered nothing from It,.
On the other hand Andrew Sailer
and Thomas Pitham declared that
while alive old man Trynor feared
these people and was extremely
anxious to eject chem forcibly. To
Sailer he had said last fall that he was
afraid of his life and wanted the
] Italians to move. He had told Sailer
that Tony Cappola had threatened to
cut him.
Thomas Pitham declared that
Trynor was afraid to order the Italians
from the house, fearing bodily injury.
Then DR.. Bidwell in his testimony
says that Trynor told him he did not
finish drinking the beer given him by
Cappola, until last Wednesday and on
Friday he declared he had taken some
thing he should not, and that it had
been given him.
Another point that serves to add
mystery to the affair is the fact
that the autopsy by County Physi-
clan Thompson and DR.. Bidwell did
not indicate death in any degree. DR..
Thompson said that he found slight
valvular trouble with the heart, but
nothing like as much usually found
with persons suffering as did Trynor
with rheumatism. The other organs
were normal The stomach was much
distended, the cause not known.
This is what the jury had to cogi-
tate over when they retired for delib-
Grafton. Unsatisfactory, too, it was,
in the extreme, and there was but one
conclusion to arrive at. This the jury
did. They resolved to adjourn to meet
at the call of the coroner, and in the
meantime the stomach could be an
alyzed.
DR.. Sawyer will Immediately take
the stomach to Philadelphia and have
1t analyzed, and then the case will be
decided by the jury, in accordance
with the results of the analysis.
Old man Basnet, who was shot at
his home near where Trynor lived,
was interviewed by many reporters,
but only told the same story as told
in the PIONEER Tuesday. He Is
improving, and his physician, DR.. Bid
well, says that he will probably re-
cover. He does not suffer greatly.
The case is still surrounded by the
greatest mystery, and while all sorts
of theories are advanced, the matter
does not seem to be unravelled at ALL