Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-11-19

Wh! Doctors Assert That the Young
Club,nan Was Murdered.
BASE CLAIl-S ON AUTOPSY,
placements Credited to Pennsylyania
surgeon" and nacteriOlOgists who
Conducted Examination of
Dead Mans Skull.

New York. Nov. ia special dis
patch to TIE Journal from Williams
port, Pa. says:
Dr. Ferd Weddigen. specialist in
meteorological and microscopic re-
search and one of three physicians
who made the autopsy upon the body
OF Robert Reading Remington. who
was engaged to Miss May Van Allen,
ana upon which Edward Pym Reming-
ton now asserts. the belief that his
brother did not commit suicide i'm the
Newport reading rooms. where he was
found dead last August. but was muir
dered, has made The following state
ment concerning the case:
"S1nce making the autopsy we have
not been permitted to talk. Mr.. Ed
ward Remington desiring that nothing
should he said Since he has said him
self, however. that he does not believe
that his brother was suicide l will
say that from the facts that were de-
veloped at the autopsy it is simply i'm
possible that Mr. Remington committed
suicide. We base this belief on several
facts.
I'm the first place, the caliber Of the
revolver found at the side of the dead
man was 81. Now. in the discharge of
a ~ caliber revolver the powder will
imbed itself in an object fully twelve
feet away. 1t will burn hair at that
distance. In shot at close range the
powder would easily burn itself into
the flesh in such quantities as to be
very easily seen. The autopsy devel
oped the fact that there was no powder
in the dead manis face. Not trace of
it could be found. Robert Remington
could not have held the revolver him.
self and fred the shots that killed him
and not have the powder show.
Three Distinct Wounds.
I'm the second place, there were three
distinct wounds. One was across the
forehead, another directly over the
temple and the third in the mouth. The
wounds in the temple and in the mouth
were severe; that on the forehead was
not so deep. Either one of the wounds
in the mouth or temple was such that
had Remington fired it he would have
been unable to fire the revolver sec.
Ond time. The wound in the mouth wat
the one that caused death. 1t was fired
while Remington was unconscious. Ri
th1r' Of the other two wounds would
have caused Inconsistencies for long
time, particularly the one in the TEN
pie.
Prom appearances of the dead mar
the lighter wounds were made first anG
caused the man to fall to the floor. The
third shot, which was the one in tho
mouth, was fired at close range while
the man was unconscious"
DR.. Weddigen intimated that much
more might be told if he were at full
liberty to talk.
DR.. McCOrmick's Statement.
DR.. II. G. Mccormick. another of the
physicians who conducted the autopsy
gave out the following signed state
ment:
1.-The wounds as found at the post
mortem cannot be reconciled with thu
theory of suicide"
Dr. mccormick was very cautious
about saying anything further ano
seemed very anxious to know what
Mr. Remington had said. He said that
all the physicians had signed a state
ment for Mr.. Remington at the clost
Of the postmortem and that he wished
now that he had kept copy of the
statement.
Asked if there were marks of powder
on the face and In the mouth of thu
dead man, he said that powder marks
were very hard to distinguish for @
certainty and that the whole question
of powder marks was very delicate
one. He evaded any further questions
along this line. He said that the au
topsy had revealed great many things
which he was not at liberty to talk
about.
Or. G. D. Mutt, the third physician
said he was still sworn to secrecy; that
Mr.. Remington and his attorney, Mr.
Mccormick had the statements of the
doctors and unless they gave permits
sion he did not feel at liberty to talk.