The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-03
CORONER MIX'S FINDING
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 Then comes one of the most import
 ant portions of the finding. The coro-
 ner finds that during the scutfie which
 ensued Turbert and Welch found that
 McKeon was wounded, and after they
 ascertained that they attempted to as-
 sist him. They carried him to the door and as they crossed the threshold and
 found themselves on the outer step of
 the doorway Laudano closed, bolted and
 barred the door behind them, prevent ing them from re-entering the house.
 The ambulance was sent for and Me
 Keon was taken to the hospital The
 coroner finds that he died before reach ing there. The coroner finds that short ly after the shooting occurred several other policemen, who had been sum
 moned to the scene, attempted to enter Laudano's house to arrest Laudano, but finding the door bolted and barred they broke it open.
 He finds that Laudano had in the meantime escaped, having cut off his mustache in the house and taken his money. He left the house by back door and went to the office of Dr. Nad- Ter on Olive street. He stated to the doctor that he had been shot and want ed his wound dressed. The wound was dressed by Dr. Nader and at Lauda- nos request the doctor gave him pair of dark pants. Laudano asked Dr. Mailer to keep him there a portion of the night, but this request was refused by the doctor and Laudano left the of flee and went to the New York, New Haven and Hartford freight yard where he was captured by Patrolman Ledwith. When arrested he wore a pair of striped jumpers, or overalls, which covered the dark pants which Dr. Nader had given to him.
 Concerning the autopsy the coroner in his finding states that three pistol shots struck McKeon. One struck him in the right cheek and passed down. ward in slanting direction nearly to the vertebrae and lodged. The second entered in the left breast, passed through the lungs and fractured the sixth rib. lodging in the back The third bullet struck the left forearm and nearly, but not quite, pierced the arm, lodging in the flesh.
 The warrant charging homicide was
 
 130 last night by Sergeant Cook at police headquarters. The charge con- rains three counts, one for each of the pistol shots which struck McKeon. It is charged in the warrant that each of the three shots produced a mortal wound, and it is set up that the shoot ing was done feloneously, wilfully and with malice aforethought," making the :1~ gree.
 One of the jams of the front door at Laudano's house has been secured by the police for use as evidence at the trial. The police also have the iron bar about an inch and half square, with which the door was barred, after the shooting as the coroner says. The | jam which the police have is somewhat | broken and contains one of the sockets | in which the bar fitted,
 The revolver with which Laudano did | the shooting has not yet been found. | A revolver was found in a trunk at | the house, but it is a smaller weapon | than the one with which McI<eon was killed.
 There is great mystery as to what Laudano did with his revolver after killing McKeon and fleeing the house. In the murderer's trunk, an oak chest which was taken to police headquarters three hours after the shooting, the off cers found a revolver of small calibre, evidently not the weapon which figured in the tragedy. Last night a man who knows a good deal about the events of Wednesday night advanced the theory that the murderer had thrown the re- volver into the truck yard of Smedley, & Co.,, opposite the lumber yard, off the corner of Brewery and Water streets. This spot was passed by Lau- dano in his flight and it might have seemed to him to be a good place to be rid of his pistol.
 The door at No. 12 Prindle alley is wide and heavy. It was barricaded by a solid bar of iron, which hung on hooks at either side. It was bar an inch thick and an inch and a half wide. It made a strong defence, and 1t is not to be wondered at that the po- lice and citizens found a railroad tie necessary as a battering ran before they could burst the fastenings.