The San Francisco call., 1897-04-24
COILS TIGHTENING
AROUND LOR|NG
Police Have More Evi-
dence Regarding the
Death of His Wife.
The Deceased's Aute.Mortem
Statement Corroboratad BY
Several Witnesses.
The Coroner Exhumed the Remains
but They Were Mutilated and the
Autopsy Was a Fai ure.

Captain Bohen of the detective depart.
ment is quite confident that he has woven
net of evidence around Robert Loring,
the tinsmith, that will send him to the
gallows for the murder of his wife,
In response to the request of the police.
Coroner Hawkins had the remains of Mrs.
Loring exhumed from Holy Cross Gene
terry yesterday and taken to the Morgue.
1t was the hope of the police the autopsy
would show that the peritonitis from
which the unfortunate woman died was
brought on by kicking and beating ad-
ministered by her husband. But in this
they were disappointed, for Drs. Gala.
CHER and Morgan, the autopsy surgeons,
found upon uncovering the body that .
post mortem examination had already
been performed by somebody and further
that the very organs they were expected
to scrutinize had been removed.
This state of affairs was something of a
su rprise and the Coroner at once notified
the detectives regarding what had been
disc overed.
Investigation developed the fact that
after Mrs. Loring died at the " aldeCk
Sanitarium DR.. ]. c. Stinson and Doctress
Nathalie Selling, who had attended her in
her illness. determined to make 9 post
mine the exact cause OF death. In other
words they wanted to know if Mrs. Lor-
ing's dying statement to the effect that
her condition was brought about By her
husbands violence. was true. They ex-
plain now, so the police say, that their
object in not notifying the Coroner of the
case was to avoid notoriety and to save
Loring's children. The latter would be
left helpless and homeless If the father
were sent to Jail.
DR.. Selling surrendered Mrs Loring's
ante-mortem statement to Detective Glib
son yesterday, and it is now to be used as
the strongest part of the evidence when
Loring is taken into court. 1t is as fol-
lows:
Dying statement of Mrs Mary Loring OF s
Gordon street:
1, Mary Loring, believing myself at the point
OF death, do wlIiingly and in my full senses
make the following affidavit: That my hus-
band, Robert Loring seven weeks ago last
Tuesday night, against my will, tried to kill
my unborn child. He said he would kill the
unborn babe, as he was tired of my bringing
children into the world. He was Intoxicated
al the time. He has always ma1treated me
and not supplied me with the necessities of
ie do solemniy swear this is rpe before
Witnesses-Mrs. NJ. Kipp, 5I1 Castro street.;
Nathalie Selling, S14 Suffer street
Captain Bohen has an important list of
witnesses who will give evidence against
the man who Is now sweltering in one of
the City Prison tanks"
Mrs. NJ. Kipp, who was one of the wit
nesses to the dying statement. says that
the deceased visited her about three weeks
and said she was suffering te r. BILE agony
as the result of the kicks she had received
in the abdomen. She was in delicate
condition at the time and feared serious
results. Mrs. Loring was taken violently
i'll before leaving the house, says Mrs.
Kipp, and had TO be sent home in coupe
She never recovered from that illness
Mrs. Kipp was also with her on the day OF
her death.
E"Mrs. Loring told me that her husband