Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-20

The coroners' jury empanelled to en-.
quire into the death of Edward Smith
met again Thursday for the purpose OF
taking testimony. A great many wit
nesses were called and much of the
same story of the case as previously re-
lated in these columns was adduced,
Geo. S. Smith, father of the murdered
boy, was the first witness called and re-
lated the facts about his son leaving
home and going to Athens, of receiving
letter announcing his return, OF his
failure to come home and of other
events leading up to a search for the
missing man. He identified the sele-
scope grip found in Young's room as
belonging to Eddie After coming here
he held two conversations with the
prisoner in both of which he was an
successful in getting the information be
sopght-that of learning where the
body was secreted. Young at the first
meeting had treated the matter with
levity, and evidenced little or no con-
cern. On the Friday preceding the
finding of the body he again visited
him. This time Mr. Smith begged of
Young to tell him where the corpse was
hidden and quoted to him the scriptural
injunction, Unless ye repent ye shall
(alD likewise perish" This time Young
broke into tears and walked away from
him. Thos. Armstrong, MIR. Smiths
neighbor, who assisted him in the
search, substantiated the old mans s
statements and told by what reasons he
had identified the corpse as being that
of Edward. The physicians who ex-
amined the body, clothes, ETC., stated
that in their opinion the fracture
of the skull in itself was sufficient 20
cause death but that death might not
take place Immediately, the subject
would, however, bein an unconscious
state after receiving the blow.
The Athens tailor, Hugo Reltz, who
sold Edward a suit of clothes, under
wear, hat, cuff buttons, etc., identified
the articles taken from the body of the
dead man as the ones he had sold him
on Aug 27. The hat which Young was
wearing at the time of his arrest he
identified as the one he had sold to
Smith
Jos. Bauman, who conducts a livery
stable at Athens, and his man, Joe Cur
den, testified that Young had engaged
a rig of them Aug. 81 at 2:30 in the
afternoon returning at $50, the horses
appearing as if they had been going
some," as Bauman put it. They also
told of finding the telescope grip in the
buggy. Curiosity had prompted thea2
to make an examination of it and they
found a number of articles of clothing
in it all folded and clean, with a new
black hat on top. The hat was the one
Young afterwards wore.
Mat. Umanski, farmer living not
far from where the body was found, is
an important witness and his testimony
was corroborated in every detail by his
sons, Peter and Max. These parties
were working in field the latter part
of August harvesting rye VIXEN two
men drove by going towards Edgar.
The larger man was driving, the small
er one leaning back, his head reclining
to one side as if asleep. A short time
the trio heard two shots
fired and the remark was passed be-
tween them that someone had gone
hunting already" it being before the
open season About fifteen minutes
later they saw the larger man return
alone, driving towards Athens at very
rapid gait A few days afterward Mr.
Urmanski had occasion to go to Edgar