Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-05
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
From ALI Quarters. .
WILL hold no AUTOPSY.
Cause of DR.. Graves Death
Not to be Known.
MILLS At HOMESTEAD START up.
Two Thousand Men Are
Given Employment.
new RECORD FOR The STATIONS.
Made by Directum at Fleet
wood Track.
new RECORD FOR THE STATIONS
WILL HOLD NO AUTOPSY

Such Is the Decision of the Authorl.
ties in the Case OF the suicide of DIR.
Graves-The Doctor Had Written a
Book Bearing the Title d" Under the
Shadow of the Gallows''-He Asked
That His Remains be Buried in
| This State.
| DENVER, Sep. THE attorneys and
personal friends of DR.. 7. Thatcher Graves,
who killed himself in his cell in the county
Jail yesterday. are opposing the effort to
hold an autopsy and inquest. It il limited
that DR.. Graves ended his own life with
some mysterious drug or combination of
drugs which could only have been pre-
pared by an expedt chemist, and those
who believe him guilty of the murder of
| Mrs. Barnaby are said to be contemplating
connecting the poison by which the doctor
ended his own troubles with that COZ
tanned in the mysterious bottle of whisky
sent to Mrs. Barnaby from cher friends in
the weods." It is limited that the strange
poison was very likely the same in both
casee.
Two leading physicians, who were to
have held an autopsy this morning, have
refused to do so until the county commits
sIoners will guarantee a fee commensurate
with the importance of the case. Mrs.
Graves, the doctors widow, is stoutly op-
posed to the autopsy and inquest. She
says that after the letters the doctor
left there is no need of an official investiga-
ton. Her husband was prosecuted to
death, she says, and that Is all there is to
it. She is not yet satisfied that the doctor
committed suicide, and does not believe
that his letters were written while in q
suicidal frame of mind.
During his confinement at Canon City
DR.. Graves spent a good deal of his time in
literary work. He was impressed with the
belief that sooner or later he would be free,
and his great idea was to give the public,
when that OCCASION arrived, a lucid account
of the troubles he had undergone. He
commenced to write book embracing the
details of his trial and incarceration.
1t included also many interesting in
cidents of prison life picked up
during his sojourn at Canon City. He
found catchy title for this book, calling 1t
"Under the Shadow of the Gallows and
in his letter to Mrs. Graves he asks her to
furnish 1t 10 the world believing that it will
find a ready sale among a sympathizing
public and provide her with sufficient
means to live comfortably for the remain
der of her days.
cdr. Graves left the following letter for
the board of county commissioner: Gen
tlemen, Will the county Of Arapahoe
please to defray my burial expenses to
Thompson, Conn.,, also the expenses of my
wife and mother and a female escort for
my wife. I would not ask this, but all my
available funds are exhausted and cannot
but feel that the county owes this to me
and mine for the trouble which they have
caused me. Ny wife is not strong enough
to travel alone, therefore have made the
request. Yours respectfully,
T. THATCHER GRAVES, M. D."
The commissioners discussed the above
request briefly this morning, but arrived
at no conclusion.
Later in the day District Attorney Steele,
accompanied by County Attorney Stevens,
called upon the county commissioners and
urged the necessity of holding an autopsy
and of having an analysis of the DOCTORS
stomach made. Chairman Nicholl said
the board would back up tho coroner in
anything he would do.
This afternoon Coroner Clivington and
District Attorney Steele held conference
at which it was de cided that there will be
no autopsy upon the remains of Dr..
Graves. Mr.. Steele says that it Is
conceded by Doctor Graves friends that
he died of suicide by poisoning and the
only advantage of an autopsy would be to
bring out the exact nature of the poison
used. The principal reason given by
Steele for not holding an autopsy was the
fact that 1t would cost $500, while the
state allowed 1855.
At 2 p. m. the inquest on the remains of
Doctor Graves was begun. Coroner Civ
ington summoned his jury and swore
them in. They adjourned to tomorrow
afternoon, as the day was holiday.