The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15

decided to hold the service at II O'Clock in
the morning and allow the body to lie in
state in the City Hall here tomorrow after
noon.
Monday a special train bearing the Pres
ident, Cabinet, Mrs. Mckinley, the family
and the distinguished personages associated
with the Mckinley administration will con-
vey the body to Washington. Mrs. McKin-
ley, feeble and broken-hearted as she is,
bears up under her great sorrow with re-
markable forttude, and DR.. Rixey says he
believes she will be able to go through the
trying ordeal of a state funeral.
A death mask was made by Washington
atives and friends agreed that it was desr-
able that the features of the martyred
President should be preserved for the sake
of history.
No coroner's inquest was held. Pursuing
the precedent laid down in the case of Gar
field, the coroner simply viewed the body
NAiS ilOlilliiS gave a III
accordance with the result of the autopsy,
which declared that death was unavoidable
by any surgical or medical treatment and
was the direct result of bullet wound The
wretch who plunged the world into sorrow,
will, therefore, pay the penalty of his crime
by death in the electrocution chair. Muir
Jar in 4bo fret Mill
WANTED TO MAKE DEATH SURE.
The report of the autopsy has again
given rise TO a theory hinted at a day or
two after the President was shot that
Czolgocz, in order to secure the accom-
plishment of his purpose, poisoned the bull
let's which he fired. The gangrene found
in the path of the bullet, is thought to be
strong evidence in support of this view by
DR.. Wasdin, one of the consulting physi-
clans. DR.. Wasdin is considered an expert
of high standing in the Marine Hospital
Service.
a chemical and meteorological examina-
tion of the remaining bullets in the pistol
WILL however. confirm or demolish this
theory and such an examination will un-
doubtedly be made at once by the authori-
ties. But whether this theory is established
or not it seems probable that the result of
the autopsy will give rise to a medical
controversy. The gangrened condition of
the interior wounds which the physicians
thought were healed and the fact that the
physicians announced positively that the
kidney which the bullet tore in its passage
through the abdomen was uninjured. were
so contrary to what was expected by the
public after the statement of the physicians
during the progress of the case that dis
cussion seems inevitable. The poisoned bull
let theory. might of course. account for
the sudden and puzzling reversal of Presi-
dent McKinley's condition just when the
physicians laid such great stress upon his
improved condition and gave such strong
hope OF his recovery. The bullet itself was
not found. although an hours search was
made for it, The X-ray appliances were
not at hand for the use of the physicians.
and the location of the bullet is still un-
known.
BODY NOT YET LAID OUT.
1t was decided not to lay out the body
of the President tonight, and it remained
throughout the night in the upper cham
ber where death had occurred A detail
of noncommissioned officers from the Ma
rine Hospital Corps was assigned to remain
with the corpse during the night. and the
watchers were divided so that two men
were always on duty. Not until tomorrow
morning will the body be committed TO
the casket.
Up to this time no one outside OF those
engaged in the autopsy and the care of the.
body have looked upon the face of the dead
chieftain. even the nurses and relatives
being asked TO wait until the casket was
brought down to the drawing room to-
morrow morning. At that time the rela
tives and those who have been nearest the
President including Senator Hanna and