Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-29

NO FURTHER LIGHT THROWN On
THE CASE AT THE CORONER's
INQUEST LAST NIGHT-FoUR-
TEEN WITNESSES EXAMINED.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY MEY-
Frs CONDUCTED THE PRO-
CEEDINGS - THE TESTIMONY
BY WITNESSES.
The coroner's inquest In the Maggie
Bowers case was continued before Cor
oner Schultze last evening at 8 o'clock.
The following composed the jury: DR..
T. H. Meighen. foreman; William S.
McElroy, ]. Alexander BeboIt, Thomas
H. Doyle, Thomas Evans and Harry G..
Nolte. The proceedings were conduct
ed principally by Prosecuting Attorney
Meyers. Fourteen witnesses in all
were examined, the whole proceedings
taking up about three hours and a
halls time. A greater part Of the tes-
tfmony has already been published.
Mrs. Schlicher, an aunt Of the de-
ceased, was the first witness called.
She testified that she had been sum-
moned to Mrs. Jos. Bero's house about
II o'clock p. m. the same evening the
girl had died, by her nephew, Bernard,
a brother of the deceased. She had
helped undress the corpse. The only
thing peculiar she had noticed was the
fact that the waist and underclothing
were wet at the neck in front, and that
there were several blue spots on the
fieshy part Of the lower limbs at the
thighs.
What do you think it vas on the
garments?" was asked the witness.
Water" was the reply, "but. the
dampness on the Undertaking smelt
something like brandy"
Witness had seen the deceased two
weeks before her death She was then
in comparatively good health.
did the undertaking look like it
had been disturbed, taken off and put
on AGAIN." asked Squire Schultze.
Il couldn't say that. don't know
was the answer.
Witness had been assisted by Mrs
Frank Bero, another aunt Of the deceas-
ed. The witness was then dismissed.
Mrs. Frank Bero, the second witness,
was then called. Her testimony cor
roborated that given by Mrs. Schlicher
Mrs. Ferguson, the third witness, tes-
titled that she lived in the rear of 1923
EOff street, directly across the alley
from Mrs. McCurdy. She remembered
the death of Mrs. Bowers on the after
noon of March Goth. She had seen Mrs.
McCurdy say something to Mr.. Clark,
and Clark had hurried off down the al
ley, showing his bicycle before him.
Witness did not hear of Mrs. Bowers
death until noon of the next day.
. Mrs. Charles Young was the next
witness called. Witness said that she
was friend of Mrs. McCurdy's. In
response to questions put as to whether
she had ever at any time purchased
any chloroform or morphine for Mrs.
McCurdy, the witness answered: mo,
SIR
John Snyder, of 1884 Chapline street,
gave testimony, but his evidence was
of no importance.
Frank Mccormick, VINO keeps a
saloon at 1924 Chapline street, just
north Of the McCurdy house, was the
sixth witness called. He is acquainted
with Mrs. McCurdy. Witness knew
nothing of Mrs Bowers death until the
next day.
Sam Young was the seventh witness
He is half-brother of Mrs McCurdy S
and has boarded with her for eleven
years past. On March 30th he was
working at the pottery. He knew
nothing of Mrs. Bowers death at his
sisters house until he came home from
work at o'clock in the evening. Wit
ness knew the deceased. She had fire.
quently been to his sisters house.
Witness also testified that he had
never bought any morphine or chloro-
form for Mrs. McCurdy.
August Knoke, mail carrier, testi-
fled that he was on the same car COM
ing up with Harry Bowers on the
afternoon of March 30th. Bowers got
on the car at Caldwell's run. Witness
invited him to sit down. Bowers re-
fused, saying that he was going to get
off to see his girl. Bowers left the cal
at Twenty-sixth and Chapline streets.
Harry Bials, another mail clerk, tes-
titled that he had gone over the route
with Bowers on the afternoon of March
| 80. They had finished up at Thirty-firsi
street about ten minutes to three. Both
boarded a north-bound car, but Bowers
did not go all the way up to the Office
Witness did not know where Bowers
left the car.
Undertaken Cooey, who attended the
remains, testified that there was moth
| ing peculiar with the corpse at all, ex-