The San Francisco call., 1898-12-05
HIS HEARSE
 WAS HIS ONLY
 FUNERAL TRAIN Mentel Buried With
 out Ceremony. RELATIVES SHOW NO GRIEF MURDERESS' CLAIM OF SELF DEFENSE NOT JUSTIFIED. Autopsy Physicians State One of the Shots Was Fired After Mentel
RELATIVES SHOW NO GRIEF
MURDERESS' CLAIM OF SELF
 DEFENSE NOT JUSTIFIED.
Autopsy Physicians State One of the Shots Was Fired After Mentel Had Fallen With a Bullet
 in His Brain.

ALAMEDA, Dec 1.-The body of Will liam F. Mentel, the young man who was killed in this city by his bride of & month, was inferred to-day in the Masonic ceme- tery in San Francisco. No ceremonies preceded the burial and no mourner fol- lowed the body to it's last resting place. The remains were inferred in a plain redwood coffin. The only embellishments were four handles devoid of ornament and a nickel plate on which was en- graved the name and age of the deceased. This morning Mrs. James Kerwin of San Francisco and Miss Johanna Mentel, sis ters of the murdered man, took a final look at the corpse. the undertaken closed the coffin lid and his assistants carried 1t to the awaiting hearse.
 The relatives of the deceased will make no special effort to assist in the prosecu- tion of the woman who murdered the young man. Since the death of their parents. Mentel and his sisters have grad ually drifted apart, and at the time of the tragedy there was little in common between them. His brother-in-law, J. l.. testimony last night at the Coroner's in- quest. He said he presumed young Men tel had all he could do to attend to his own business, and that he (AnseD and his wife had found their time fully occu- pied doing the same. He knew nothing of the young mans affairs and was in QlH6T6nL as 10 ms late.
 The autopsy physicians were indignant at a statement published in a morning paper crediting them with the assertion that from the course of the bullets it was their opinion that the woman must have been lying down when she fired the shots. No such testimony was given at the inquest. Dr. E. M. Keys, one of the physicians, stated to-day to Call re- porter that all the doctors present at the autopsy agreed that the woman was standing when she fired.
 From the course of the bullets and the nature of the wounds any other the ory Is preposterous," said the doctor. Any assertion that we gave out the statement that the shots were fired by a person lying on the ground is absolutely false"
 The doctor said that the first shot to take effect was the one that passed through the head. He stated that the bullet that inflicted the flesh wound rang ing from the left nipple to the fieshy DOT tion of the right shoulder was fired af- ter deceased had fallen to the sidewalk He bases this assertion on the fact that the bullet was found imbedded just under the skin of the shoulder. He said it would have passed through the skin had 1t not come in contact with some hard surface. The deceased tel signtly on his right side, and the physicians claim that his shoulder was resting on the in its course. The leaden missile is flat tened on the point, but no other portion of 1t shows evidence of having come in con- tact with any hard substance. The au- topsy showed it had not struck any of the bones.