The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-29

is, included in the .coroner,s. oflciul. district.
The district eYtgnds from Minsoia ~ to sSSp 6rn
S Snsst Z N %%HSstHYR oTt ISs tSsESS IN th &S SllBIasss &.
Hyde Park. kast Winston, and Rosiyn.. All day
i2ne the residents OF these villages Kept up
9o1S,S6i4 PosBISIll and County sqgerIntsnSdj;
dozen copper slugs and pieces OF brass from ne
s SSSE and ,bdv leg; Cd After tm heSS s T Esd the Dnv G sSSm n
pr. Skinner said he did not haye an enemy IN
M ,wU world that he knew or he ~ aa al lived Gdv Ct
Upon earning that TIE assassin had mem
TONED farmer TaPPsn's pane as Q Sdecoy to get
TafppaR's home at East Winston ~ Farmer Tap.
kousS on WednesdhaJy' night The town ofioialS
questioned the farmers housekeepar She said
Sss S SR%S f RSt ,b lS1 SS4po. s6 b d Hny SRS had Sor SSSs
Skinner into q trap. She had not been sick.
NeitheE Farmer Tsppan nor his housekeeper
one in Farmer Tappan's household had retired
early on Wednesday night. and al OF the farm
been at home at the time Coroner skinner was
shot The two town o%ficiSls Continued to work
Of some person who had a grievance against
Coroner Skinner.
In the afternoon Detective Downing, Of Long
rived at Mineola. They came to the opinion
that the shooting was done by some ono bent
two men concerned in q plot to Kill Coroner
Skinner, Their theory was that the robbers
would probably have done 80 only Tor the ar
rival of Allen, the railroad man. who appeared
on the premises Immediately after the shoot
twas a well-known fact that Coroner Skinner
often Kept large sums OF money in his house,
lived in North Hampstead and who knew the
coroner to be a man Of wealth decided to kill
4 theory advanced 6y the Country sleuths
was that Coroner skinner had been shot by a
negro who had been in his employ up o. few
months ago. This negro had been discharged
,by d.. skinner. The detectives will try to find
MIR, Henry w. Skinner. the doctors eldest
son. believes that his father was shot by an in
"0n Wednesday afternoon" said Mr.. Skin
house, to see father and said that he had In
Iured his hand on one of the cars Of the Long
theirs office. and finding other persons there
besides M, father the visitor appeared very
mIaEfed:
with your hand you su'i must HB6 be insane SsG to think
that your band Is injured
been that this same fellow fred the shot. At
acted like an Insane man. It WINS simply a case
sSa . man pa n BELIEVING 4 or pSetsptdinE to Realie tSs;
vi GOf sSinn SINNERS a1iS tx yEppRn m sss son y, 0 NJ; +, P Par,
"SssPt Ss! Eve ,R l%ef tRs fsli S?SR %fko dig the shoot,
g y %o obje sP IN ms Sl %1na sad 50 On yo %g aa Sr' s kim 4 S1
tiive, at Glen, Cove, AMI. was out riding my
s siIeHSl' ON Th' %e the tTaIn b l Has to take hSa '3 9nss
66icyole ride; and wanted to catch tie
my home. Consequentfy I ddiHdr not have have time time to
pun over to the house to tell the folks good
form waiting to board the train heard a com
nStion ABOUT the depot and learned that my
stable PosPiSil ont Of bed and we sea rched the
PEI 5SeniSSsss fh but Ih could And ID no trace Of the man
am Of the Opinion, as I said before, that
She man who did the shooting had some grudge
coroner Skinner vas elected, Coroner in No
t SnISs 1888, 10 on the I ReP2vHh6liGSssP t ticket For
the Queens County Medical Society. AtpFesent
road and visiting physician to the Temporary
tR% sfsS an a RetIRee psrt l., iSr p ssR ssabbs Being eo as aas
g Si1 msm Sith + re 1b aeGBT neaGa cp party R snd heinz
port, L. L., In, 1893. and, when he was 20 years
old he graduated from the Berkshire Medical
in dispensing charity In the town Of Hemp
stead. where he is a member Of the Board Of
Trustees Of the Hampstead Baptist Church., OF
the ,Hempetead Lodge. F. and A. NJ. and OF
PEotectiye Lodge, ]. o, OF.
Drs. Finn and Bogart. who are attending him,
said last night that they believed they would
succeed, in bringing him around all right.
unless blood poisoning set In as q result of the
wounds made by the copper and brass slugs.