The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-15
HON D()HNE WAS SHOT
Coroner's Inquest Held Over
This Strike Victim.
JURY CALLS IT HOMICIDE
Deputy Marsh is Found to
Have Fired the Shot.
JURY CALLS IT HOMICIDE


by a deputy sheriff in the course of some
trouble resulting from an attack on a
street car. was begun today by Coroner
Lloyd. The inquiry, commenced yester-
| day, TO determine the responsibility for
| the shooting in front of posse barracks
on Washington avenue, has been laid
| over until Friday. Today the proceedings
were delayed a couple of hours by the
| non-appearance of Deputy Sheriff Rob
| ert E. Marsh, who, it is charged. fired
| the shot that killed Mr.. Bohne. Finally,
after Intellectual attempts on the part of
| the coroner's deputies to ind Marsh, DR..
Lloyd proceeded without him.
The autopsy showed that Bohne had
| received four bullet wounds in the head.
Philip Bauer. the first witness, and one
Of the dead mans nedghbors, said: st saw
a crowd ieering at a car and a number
of deputies trying to dispense It. One
deputy stood oE on the pavement and
said if any one dared to come out he
would make an example of him and show
the crowd what the deputies were there
for" He said there were four deputies
standing in front of the gate through
which Bohne was pushed. One fired at
the gate. Witness did not see any weap-
on prou-uding from inside the gate, as
had been reported
Adolph Claussen, who lived at the
same number with Bohne. told how the
old man had been pushed through the
gate by a deputy with gun. Bohne, he
said, was stoop:rtg down in the act Of
locking the gate, when a shot fired
through it killed him. Bohne, witness
said, could neither understand nor speak
English; he had thrown no rocks nor
tried to make any demonstrations.
Michael Stack. police lieutenant, told
Of the disturbance and said the deputies
app cared excited. One of them shot
through door at 1928 North Tenth street
and then ran and jumped into a car.
Witness examined Bohne's body, but
found no gun on it, and from where he
stood could see no weapon protruding
from the door
Mrs Susie Bushert, a neighbor said
she saw a deputy push Bohne through
the gate. Afterwards she heard some
ore cry Don't shoot" and minute lat
or a man whom she could not identify
fired at the door Witness did not see
any revolver pushed through the door.
Mrs Alice Erbe, Mrs Mary Kenney.
philip W. Enrick Henry Molle. Philip
Refs ard John Erb. viii live in the neigh
gbolhood. testified about the shooting but
brought out nothing new.
George Norman, a special deputy sher-
if. said: I'VE were coming from dinner
on car. A woman alighted at Howard
street and a crowd followed her With
Deputy Strathern T pursued the crowd.
but the woman escaped and we returned.
When wa liking UP Tenth street I saw two
deputies struggling with two men near a
gate The men rushed in and closed the
gate I saw the barrel Of a nfckle-piated
revolver stitching through the opening in
the gate from the inside. A shot was
fired from the street. I do not know
who fired it"
George c. Strafhern. posseman corrob-
grated Kormans testimony as to the pur
suit by the crowd of a woman Contin-
uing. he said: ''HVhAn we walked back Up
Tenth street we found three men, dress
ed as bakers. standing in front of a
store One of these men fiourished a re-
volver and said: ct will shoot the first
- that comes near me-"
"Who was that man?" asked the cor
oner
He is in the witness ROOM" replied
Strathern.
Strathern was taken to the witness
room and identified Henry strechert,
son-in-law of Bohne, as the man who
flourished the revolver.
A f. Kerstein, posseman, gave testi-
mony which was fatty contradicted by
Police Lieutenant Stack After corrob-
Grating Strathern's testimony. as to the
man IN bakers dress who was fiourishing
a revolver. he said: while we were fac
ing the man with the revolver. Lieuten-
ant Stack gave the command to fire"
Stack was summoned before the coro-
ner and asked as to the accuracy of the |
witness statement. cit Is not so" he
said. Il gave no command to fire. What !
I said was Don't shoot These deputies |
were all acting like q lot of Comanche |
Indians"
R 7. Thompson. another posseman.
corroborated Kerstein's testimony as TO |
Lieutenant Stacks alleged command 10 |
fire He said: Il saw no one with a re- |
volver at the gate. did not know at |
the time who fred the shot through the |
gate. but I know now. It was Marsh |
he said so afterwards He said II was
either his life or the other mans life"
J. s. Feifer. 4 neiEhbor Of Bohne told !
O. the shooting and said he saw no one
with a revolver. nor did he see Henry
Strechert. the head baker. who IS said
TO have been armed. Other testimony q
2 similar nature was given by several
other witnesses.
Charles ". Atkinson. a special police
man. testified that he searched the body
OF Bohne. but found no weapons on IT,
Fe. with Thomas Dalton. a regular police
officer said they heard no order given By
Lieutenant Stack to FIRE
Mrs Martha Streclert- daughter os
Henry Bohae. declared her father had M
revolver ard said that Claussen she
baker, who was in the yard, was urarm-
ed. She did not know whether Henry. /
her husband, had revolver or not.
Henry Strechert, son-in-law OF Freier-
SEX Bohne said that he was in the yard
with %.aussen and Bohne and had sa old
rusty oliver. not loaded. that had not
been used for FIVE o. six years He sid:
4 wss inside the kitchen when the shot
was fred ! went into the house before /
the deputy shot. solemnly swear I ds5 !
not poke nv pistol through the gate.
could not have done tt
The case was given 70 the fury - /
o'clock ana 81 10 o'clock the verdict vas /
returned. as follows: The deceased came /
70 his death On the 10th of June. lsao. /
az about SIS o'clock ?. m. n IN North 1
Tenth street. from ru1shoe wound % I
head. said wound was caused By bullets |
fred from gun 81 the hands az Robert z. /
Marsh a. tire and place above zneuts7u- I
e.