Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-24
SHOWING SURPRISE
Authorities of Savanna Hold That
Killing of Daniel Berry
Provoked.
OUTSIDE DETECTIVES CALLED
Coroner's Jury Leaves Mystery Un-
solved - Suspect Proves
an Abb.

Savanna. Ill. May 24.-After seeking
vainly for Il hours TO secure some tan
gible evidence against the assassin of
former Representative Daniel s. Ber-
ry, the coroner's jury yesterday after
noon returned a verdict that the at
torney came TO his death from gunshot
wounds inflicted by person or per
sons 10 us unknown"
While the jury was unable to secure
evidence that would justify the arrest
of any person. it is believed generally
throughout Carroll county that Both
well Pulford. a prominent business
man of Savanna, did the shooting
wreaking vengeance upon one who had
wrecked his home
Give Approval to Deed.
While they are not expressing it
from the housetops. friends of the sus-
pected man do not hesitate to say when
gathered on the street corners that he
did nothing more than many of them
would have done. and they want him
to know they approve his action. The
jury perhaps gave the best illustration
of this feeling when Coroner Schreiter
sent for Mr.. Pulford and asked him
what he had to say. He produced three
witnesses besides himself who testified
positively that he was in his drug store
when the shooting took place.
The final scene of the tragedy will
be enacted tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock when the funeral of Mr. Berry
will take place from St Pauls Episco-
pal church under the direction of the
Masonic order.
While it is believed that the murder
never will be solved unless a confes-
sion is made by the guilty person, de
tectives have been set to work by order
of Mrs Berry, it is said. to make an in
vestigatiOn.
The inactivity of the local authori-
ties and their evident sympathy for the
perpetrator of the crime led to this
employment of outside talent which
has no acquaintance with either the
murdered man OF his assailant
Testimony at Inquest.
The testimony of a majority of the
Witnesses at the inquest dealt entirely
with events subsequent to the shoot
ing. Two telephone operators were
closer to the scene of the crime than
any other person, except the peTpetra-
tor, so far as known. They were I'M
able TO tell more than that they heard
the explosion of the weapon and has
tened to the window TO sound an
alarm. Yet within a half hour after
that alarm had been sounded the news
was telephoned over Carroll county
that Boutwell, Pulford had shot and
kyflt aa1
the witness stand they knew nothing
of how the crime was committed or
who had fired the fatal shot. Nor were
they any more communicative concern
ing the flashing of the news to the diff
ferent sections of the county.
Mr.. jerks told of having heard the
shot from his store across the street
and gone to the scene Lyman TAYLOR
and Ted" Bahwell we're in the drug
store Of Boutwell, Pulford with him.
Mrs John Benson and Frank Whistler
when the shooting occurred.
Tell of Finding Body.
These witnesses told how they had
hurried upstairs with other persons TO
the hallway and had found the body of
Berry lying at the doorway leading
into his office They knew nothing of
the assailant of the attorney
states Attorney Stransky said il
would have been impossible for the
jury To render any other verdict than
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