The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-04
VERDICT IS SUICIDE
Coroner's Jury So Decides
After Autopsy Is Made,
In ADDIE WALTON CASE
Parents Say a Further lnves-
tigation May Be Made.

causes unknown to the jury was the YER
dict the coroners jury arrived at yester-
DAY, after an autopsy over the body OF
Addie Walton.
This finishes the first chapter to the mys-
ferrous death which occurred THURSDAY
might so far as the coroner is concerned
but not so with the dead girls family. VINO
bitterly protest against such hholhs-
When an Eagle reporter visited the s-rt
mother yesterday and informed her OF the
verdict she was shocked 10 hear OF H. ana
said that she would never believe It; that
there were no grounds for such decision.
and considered it an irreparaole injustice
10 the dead girl and her family.
Mrs Joseph Kirk, the dead girls sister,
who arrived yesterday morning from her
home in Kingman, was also present, and
said that the family would not allow the
case to rest there, as she was positive that
the thought Of suicide never entered her
sisters mind, for her home life and her
future prospects were Of the happiest and
brightest kind, and her disposition at all
times was TO be merry. only the morn
ing before she died she received a lengthy
letter from her fiancee, who lives in Pond
Creek, O. T., which caused her 10 -
more cheerful than ever, and she had
talked that morning Of different things she
was going TO do the following day. all of
which, her mother and sister say, goes to
prove that she was not contemplating
death or suicide
When asked, in her opinion. what was
oe Tvs
Walton replied that her daughter was al
ways subject TO heart trouble and she
thought that with the opiates which were
given her the girls heart was unusually
affected and caused her death. The cramps
she accounted for from the injury the girl
received in falling over the chair a few
days previous. But under no circum-
stances would she believe that her daugh-
ter met death by suicide. Mrs. Walton
said that her husband was expected to
arrive last night at 10 o'clock, and that he
will in all probability take steps toward
holding another autopsy and determine
more definitely than the coroner's verdict
gives what caused the girls death.
DR.. w. A Jordan, county physician, who
performed the autopsy, and was one of the
y
failed to state the primary cause of the
death, said that they could not describe it,
but the post-mortem revealed the fact that
in no other way could the death have re-
suited except as given in the verdict rem
dered; that while the jury returned the
Verdict Of suicide. that did not go to prove
that it was premeditated on the girls part.
for it might have been accidental. but that
would not alter the evidence Of seIf-de-
struction.
Dr. Hoskins, the physician who first at
kended the girl. was interviewed by the
reporter, and stated that he had admins
tered morphine to the patient but in very
limited proportions, and not over three
tourths of a grain altogether. He also
stated that the case from the first seemed
very peculiar to him, and did not care to
discuss IL further.
AT the inquest this morning witnesses
testified to the girls agony when she was
nrst stricken, and how she repeated
number Of times that she knew she would
not live; all of which evidence seemed to
strengthen the theory that the girl had
taken medicine for some ailment. unknown
10 anyone. and realized in her agony the
terrible mistake she had made.
Whhe the facts in the case. drawn from
witnesses and the post-mortem examina-
lion, go 10 prove that death was caused
from self-destruction the testimony of tho
Family and the girls preparations for her
marriage, which was TO he IN March
would stimulate the fact that death had
not been contemplated. but resulted from
an indiscreet use of properties which ma
been taken with other than suicidal intent
but which accomplished that end. If the
dead girls family conclude to have nm
other examination. interesting facts NAV
oe brought 10 light, and the mystery re-
Nealed.
FoHowing is the verdict verbatim as ar
rived at by the inquest:
State Of Kansas, Sedgwick County. 50
An inquisition holden at Wichita Sod,
wick county, Kansas, set at No OF r-,e+
Douglas avenue. on the Sd dav of Fen
Juar,. 1859, before A. A. Glenn ,.-i,-
coroner Of Sedgwick county. on tha de,5
BODY of Addie Walton. there living dad
by the jurors whose names are 5e-eup+o
subscribed. The said jurors. unon rbef~
oa'hs' 90 say that from the testimony
given the deceased came to her death IN,
her own hand. for causes TO the Jury I'M
known ana that her death was not caused
aeioniousiy SO far as disclosed 10y the ev.-
dence
Jury; W A Jordan. N n. J. s Shen-
9ard' D. y Donnelly, John T. Kelly. -.ana
Fisher. W. c. Klein
Attest; \ A. GLENN. Acting Coroner.
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