The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-11
HELD AN INQUEST
AND JUDGE NESsLEY HAD TIE
REINs IN HIS BAND.
He Ran Things In True PopuIist Style and
fessionaI Wifnesses-HeE Even Put Him.
self on the Stand-It Was Kind OF
Free for all Affair aud and a Typical
Farce - How the Verdict Was Re-
turned-Fathsr of the Deceased Arrived
in Town.


turned-Fathsr of the Deceased Arrived
in Town.
The coroner's rquest yesterday held
that Myrtle Lindsay, the girl who died in
the Stem block. came TO her death from
morphine poison administered either by
her own hand or the hand OF some one
else. to the jury unknown. This, after
whole days de.iberat:oE: and the expendl-
ture of an immense amount Of mental
energy, was an important finding and
one that ought TO be thoroughly appreci-
ated by this community. Imagine the
acumer Of men who can discover that the
poison which caused the death OF this
poor girl was administered by her own
hand or the hand of somebody else. the
average man, doubtless, after investisa-
ton, would come to the conclusion that
while the poor girl was asleep the NOR
phine came into her room of itself and
dug its OWE way through the skin o. her
arm and into her blood
About the greatest farce that can posi-
bly, be imagined is a Sedgwick county in
quest. The one of yesterday was peach.
Tom Sullivan represented the county at
torney, and Tom, not knowing witnesses.
called to his aid Charley Nessley, the Old
enemy OF that venerable Populst, Coro-
ner Rose. DR.. Parr was appointed clerk
of the inquest, and il is safe TO say that
he did not get one out OF every ten words
spoken. 1t was rot his fault. for some
OF the witnesses spoke faster than a stem
ographer could take them down. Judge
NessIey being fond OF a romance, was
very liberal with witnesses and whenever
he took a notion he picked a mar out of
the audience 70 make him witness. If
Judge was county attorney he would
bankrupt Sedgwick county in year, in
witness fees. He even went 10 the ex-
tert OF putting himself on the stand and
thus made enough on the side TO buy the
necessary garden seed for the spring
planting.
Between Coroner Rose, Judge Nessley
and the others the inquest was a hot one.
Everybody asked questions ard every
body answered questions without much
regard for the rules OF examinations. 1t
was free-for-all. and Judge Nessley as
a newspaper reporter was in his cement.
He was manufacturing news. playing
county attorney, acting witness and do
ing newspaper work all a the same time
and doing them ir manner that ought
20 give him a great deal of self satisfac-
ton.
If the coroner had taken yesterday
mornings issue of the Eagle and submit
ted it to the jury they would have had
better knowledge of the case then than
they did after having ter or dazen dol
lar day witnesses on the stand. Moth
ing new was told, and the result was the
following verdict. which is as intelligent
as any other feature of the inquest:
State Of Kansas. SIS.
AZ inquestion holden at my office in the
court house, state and county aforesaid,
on the 10th day OF April, 1897, before me,
W. L. Rose, coroner of Sedgwick coun-
", on the dead body of Myrtle Lindsay,
there lying dead, by the jurors whose
names are hereunto subscribed. The said
jurors, upon their oaths. do say that
from the testimony given the deceased
came TO her death from morphine poison
administered either by her own hand or
that of some other person TO this jury
unknown.
A. 3. Calverte, A. A. Jones. A. II. Nc
Kee, J. C. Foster, T. J. Phipps, NJ. NJ.
Suckey, jury
In testimony whereof the said Jurors
have hereunto set their hands the day
and year above writer.
--LATEST: W. L. Rose, Coroner.
Her father, Chief of Police Lindsay Of
Oklahoma City, arrived on a late train
last night and will take charge OF the
body which is now a Undertaken Dun
bars. Mr.. Lindsay is poor man and
the expense will fall heavily on him. The
officers here have extended him every
courtesy.